augurus

Happy Holidays from Michigan.

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Oh and the best game for the DS is Animal Crossing.

You are my hero. For a year, I was gardening, shooting down UFOs, fishing, and spelunking. Oh, and I was also well known for introducing some odd vocabulary to my citizens so that they would greet me with "Siegheil!" The patterns I laid down on the floor looked much more offensive. Eventually, I offended anyone that entered my town. That is how you deter people from cutting down your apple trees.

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If you're not picky, wait until march 2011 to get the new Nintendo 3DS which is basically better graphics, some 3d capabilities, more games, and etc. You'll also have a new set of games to choose from that the DS could not play. The DS is NOT limited nor is it specifically geared to adult games. It just so happens that the adult market is popular for the DS. There's plenty of games to choose from like Mario Kart (not a platformer may I add), Nintendogs, Animal Crossing, Disgaea, and Meteos.

If you plan to buy an xbox 360, I would highly suggest perhaps placing it on top of an extra large egg carton to keep the air flowing and prevent red ring of death.

Caribou Vibration Ensemble featuring Marshall Allen - Live At ATP New York 2009

Caribou - Swim

California Stars is playing on NPR's 24 hour music channel as I type this.

I believe that is Bob Boilen's favorite song currently.

Planet Of Sound and U-Mass are excellent as well.

West, Kanye - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Trying not to oversaturate this awesome album, really really hard.

The National - High Violet | Expanded Edition

 

Guy at work just gave me this one.

Much better than their last two albums, but not better than their first: sorry, music cliche about first albums win.

Here we go. It should be noted that my #1 is head and shoulders above everything else.

 

1. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

It's really good! It's not my favorite of the year, but I was quite shocked by what I heard and the beauty of it. I hope to see more VCers pick this up, so there goes my bump.

VLC Media Player

Winamp

I'm glad to see them get a little bit of love on here. The album's good, not great, but I hate seeing it get dismissed as just a benefactor of its producer.

Wait, Chris Taylor produced this? Sweet.

np: Spencer Tweedy - Single Digits

Most important song of the year, ammmmirite?

I'm not sure I understand your point here. He's called himself a Christian (or maybe a small c christian) for years. He certainly wasn't hiding it on Seven Swans.

"I don't think music media is the real forum for theological discussions,... ...I think I've said things and sung about things that probably weren't appropriate for this kind of forum. And I just feel like it's not my work or my place to be making claims and statements, because I often think it's misunderstood."

~Sufjan

Top 35?? Of 2010

35 Morning Benders, The - Big Echo

34 Vampire Weekend - Contra

33 Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing

32 Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer

31 Menomena - Mines

30 Avey Tare - Down There

29 Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks

28 Weekend - Coma

27 Sade - Soldier Of Love

26 Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

25 Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms

24 Four Tet - There Is Love In You

23 Sufjan Stevens - Age Of Adz

22 Liars - Sisterworld

21 Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

20 Eno, Brian - Small Craft On A Milk Sea

19 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son Of Chico Dusty

18 Hot Chip - One Life Stand

17 Newsom, Joanna - Have One On Me

16 Walkmen, The - Lisbon

15 Ariel Pink - Before Today

14 Beach House - Teen Dream

13 Gainsbourg, Charlotte - IRM

12 No Age - Everything In Between

11 Scott-Heron, Gil - I'm New Here

10 Caribou - Swim

09 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

08 Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

07 National, The - High Violet

06 Sleigh Bells - Treats

05 Janelle Monáe - The Archandroid

04 Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

03 West, Kanye - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

02 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

01 LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

The Promise gains honorable mention, because it's awesome; unfortunately it's not a new album, but rather a compilation set, which disqualifies it from my list.

I have a feeling we're going to see a lot of magazines name Fantasy the best album of the year.

I would rank Age Of Adz higher once Sufjan Stevens takes action on his "accidental" preachiness: just come out of the closet and call yourself a Christian or stop preaching and keep it a private conversation as you intended.

Also, where's all the love for Janelle Monáe, Caribou, and Flying Lotus?

C'mon, bros.

Last submission candidate to possible best of 2010?

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's

3 December 2010

*(Hanukkah, night 3)*

Elysian Charter School of Hoboken Chorus, Jeff Tweedy, and Eugene Mirman opened.

benefit for Elysian Charter School of Hoboken.

 

Elysian Charter School of Hoboken Chorus:

Stockholm Syndrome

Sugarcube

Mr. Tough

 

Mix disc by Brian Turner.

 

Eight Day Weekend ("Seven Day Weekend" by Doc Pomus, performed by Gary "U.S." Bonds) (with Jeff Tweedy on guitar and vocals)

From A Motel 6 (with JT)

Jesus Etc. (Wilco) (with JT)

Can't Forget (with JT)

Chords of Fame (Phil Ochs) (with JT)

The Race Is On Again (with JT)

One Of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (Bob Dylan) (with JT)

Shoppin' For Clothes (Doc Pomus, performed by the Coasters) (with JT)

I Should Have Known Better (with JT)

Tom Courtenay (Georgia version)

Watch Out For Me, Ronnie

Big Day Coming (fast)

Today Is The Day

Nothing To Hide

Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind

 

*(encore)*

Windows Hotel (Alex Chilton)

Strychnine (The Sonics) (with Kid Congo Powers of the Cramps)

Drug Train (The Cramps) (with KCP)

I'm Cramped (The Cramps) (with KCP)

For the Love Of Ivy (Jeffrey Lee Pierce) (with KCP)

I saw it on another blog, Brooklyn Vegan: I'm kind of surprised no one else is even talking about this; then again, who else even cares about YLT on this forum?

Someone's gotta be recording, right?

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Blame Game is quite a mind-frak.

Girl Talk - All Day

Loose Fur - Loose Fur

I watch Burn Notice sometimes. I really liked Jeffrey Donovan's acting on Touching Evil, but the show did not last long.

 

Last night, I caught some of Lennon Naked on PBS. I thought it was terrible.

Jeffrey Donovan isn't really an actor: there's as much acting in him as there is orange juice in Sunny Delight. Burn Notice is entertaining to watch due to the amount of detail and logic placed into the show. However, I wouldn't watch it for character development and arcs.

Fringe is one of the best shows on TV.

I think that's a little too far. I thought they kind of dragged the end of the first season and the beginning of the second season. But season 3 has moved along very well and the parallels have worked out wonderfully.

I'm disappointed that Lonestar and Caprica got the boot.

The actress who plays Clarice on Caprica, she is just amazing when she says, "I just want to have a talk with her."

This House season has disappointed me. Not only did Fox advertise it like Grey's Anatomy and killed its ratings, the writing has fallen off the compass. There's still a few great moments like when Amber Tamblyn asks if Hugh Laruie believes in himself. Most of the cases were getting bad by the 5th season, but now they're getting much worse.

The other shows I'm still watching like Community, Burn Notice, and Venture Brothers are doing pretty damn well.

Is it okay if I listen to this every time I get bummed out by an evening?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPvhKV3Yg2k

Somebody's gotta be brave enough to do it without getting branded by Billy Corgan. No one sane would walk near Billy Corgan.

/ducks

I would call them during the DDR marathons and ask them to stop, if it was past 1am or so. If they didn't, then the next morning I would call them at 6am or so, when I was getting up, and ask them how they liked it. If I was particularly pissy, I'd call before AND after my shower.

 

ETA: They were total gems. They left their TV/DVD on one day with the Lion King in the player, on menu. Did the same thing with Law & Order SVU once. In both instances, twenty seconds of the opening song, overandoverandover again. They were friends with the girls in the room next to me too, and would sing musicals well after 2am.

Unfortunately, most DDR players (especially the competitive ones) are douchebags. Seriously, who buys SVU on DVD? What the hell? They better be watching that as a comedy and getting high.