December 2010
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Top 20 Artists of 2010 - #1: The National
Also known as the number one sultry voice of 2010, The National really stole my heart this year. I’ve been a fan of The National’s far a while now, but I don’t know that I’d call myself a die hard fan. I started following them to an extent after The Boxer came out. I fell in love with their single “Mistaken for Strangers” which I think is a misleading song of...
I am so excited about our feast!
So we are bored as shit at work and I’m working with my buddy Nicole. We decided to be complete pigs. Not that I needed any help in that department. I swear we are not high at work by the way. But Nicole is currently on the way to mcdonalds to get us cheeseburgers with pickles, a 10 piece nugget to share and hot fudge sundaes \o/ this is fantastic news.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Tori Amos (84)
Owen Pallett (32)
Joanna Newsom (19)
Broken Social Scene (15)
Sia (9)
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Top 20 Artists of 2010: #2 Best Coast
Best Coast is easily my favorite discovery of 2010….I really don’t know what I did without a little bit of Best Coast in my life. I’ve become obsessed with them….really, I have. Crazy for You is my favorite album to come out in a long time and I’m giving it my top nod for 2010. Is it the best technical album to come out in 2010? No….but as far as from...
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
heh…ha..HA! Best thing ever…
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OMG, the soundtrack to A Single Man is one of the most incredible things I have EVER heard!!! I just watched the movie last night and I am totally enamored by it. It was absolutely brilliant. I was going to post the trailer here, but I’m not going to. Because the trailer fucking sucks. While I think the trailer was done brilliantly (film wise), both it and the poster for the film makes the...
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Top 20 Artists of 2010: #3 - Tori Amos
We’ve all had rough times in our life. I’m not special when it comes to that. I’m guessing I’m also not special in that Tori Amos has been there for me during so many of my rough times. I discovered Tori Amos when I was 15 years old. That would be in 1996. And I haven’t let go of her since. I’ve bordered on being obsessed with her since. I’ve collected...
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Bon Iver - Blood Bank
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Top 20 Artists of 2010: #4 - Bon Iver
Bon Iver is where music meets poetry for me. Where music just spills pure emotion. It’s a place where I can just get swept away into a place of pure melancholy…where I can bask in whatever mood I happen to be in at the time. And that’s the reason that he’s number four on my list. I tend to listen to Bon Iver whenever I’m feeling pensive. Whenever I’m in a...
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A Few Of My Favorite Things
Some of my favorite Christmas gifts this year:
my scrapbook documenting my trip to New York in August
my little stuffed cat handmade by Max that’s so very huggable
my little bee ornament
cinnamon spiced tea
gorgeous leather fleur de lis journal
little handmade clay marie laveau
limited edition Sandman sandglobe
fingerless gloves
4 month gym membership
farmer’s hat
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Download JJ's New "Kills" Mixtape →
I’m totally loving it! Samples a lot of current hip-hop with the wonderful JJ sound on top of it….merry christmas from JJ!!
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Ah, Christmas...
I’ve been a little slow getting in the Christmas spirit this year. It just hasn’t wanted to come. This year has been weird, reflecting on it. I realized the other night that I’ve been in just one big funk for the whole year. A pretty deep one that’s been hard to lift. I don’t think I realized that I was in it really until this past month when I suddenly became...
“You know when I first started covering this song, Joanna Newsom was like some...”
– Owen Pallett on Joanna Newsom during a performance of “Peach, Plum, Pear”
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Top 20 Artists of 2010 - #5: Joanna Newsom
I almost find it funny that Joanna Newsom is my top 5 artist of 2010. A year ago, you wouldn’t have found her in my top 100. I had an AVERSION to Joanna Newsom. And then Have One On Me came out this year. And I heard Good Intentions Paving Co….and then I heard ‘81….and then I heard Go Long….and then I listened to the whole album. And then everything she’s ever...
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Armless Maiden Review
I don’t normally link to my book blog from over here, but I finally got a review up for Terri Windling’s collection The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors up and it’s one of the most amazing collections I’ve ever read…I seriously just want to tell everyone about it..so if you’re interested in reading my thoughts on it, you can click...
New Sufjan Christmas Songs →
nymeth:
I LOVE THE TWINS FOREVER.
Watchsofapizza:
fuckyeahalbuquerque:
Click to make circles… .then listen!!!
Space Bar clears the screen
i suck at this instrument. :P
This is fantastic :)
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I Want This Degree!! →
Only In New Orleans
On my way home from work just now I saw a couple jogging. It’s 11 o’clock at night on December 21st and the guy is jogging in just shorts…no shirt…and the girl is jogging in shorts and a sports bra. On December 21st…at 11 o’clock at night. Because it is warm. On December 21st. Hmmm…and I’ve been wondering why it doesn’t feel like...
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Top 20 Artists of 2010: #6 - Arcade Fire
I don’t think I was more excited about an album coming out in 2010 as I was about Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. And I certainly haven’t been disappointed in it….I think it may just be my favorite album of theirs to date *ducks the haters*…yes even more so than Funeral. There’s just something about this album that I love so much. It’s so tight, so...
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“Once you’ve been shut down, once you’ve constructed the armor and gone into hiding, how do you open up again? If you’re lucky, you cross paths with someone who hands you a key. Despite the fact that we live in an age where a popular “truth” insists “you create your own reality,” another truth is that sometimes you can’t get out alone....
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Some Favorite Song Titles
I’m in bed with a headache…I have a massage scheduled for 9pm tonight that will hopefully get RID of said headache…but until then I’m bored…so I thought I’d give myself a funfilled Saturday activity and post a few of my favorite song titles :p And this time of the year (the end) just generally puts me in the mood for list making :p Enjoy:
My Body Is A Cage -...
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