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copied and pasted from my list for atease's 2008 album list.

[01] The Wrens | The Meadowlands

[02] The National | Alligator

[03] Radiohead | Kid A

[04] Elliott Smith | XO

[05] Modest Mouse | The Moon & Antarctica

[06] Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

[07] Built to Spill | Perfect From Now On

[08] Modest Mouse | The Lonesome Crowded West

[09] Okkervil River | Black Sheep Boy

[10] Wolf Parade | Apologies to the Queen Mary

[11] Pavement | Slanted & Enchanted

[12] Broken Social Scene | You Forgot It In People

[13] The National | Boxer

[14] The Hold Steady | Separation Sunday

[15] Ryan Adams | Cold Roses

[16] Elliott Smith | Elliott Smith

[17] Death From Above 1979 | You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

[18] Ryan Adams | Heartbreaker

[19] Modest Mouse | Building Nothing Out of Something

[20] Dinosaur Jr. | You're Living All Over Me

I also noticed in the episode where Hurley stumbles on the cabin and looks through the window, he sees Christian (not Jacob) sitting there - suddenly Hurley sees an eye looking back at him, and after rewatching this scene, I'm pretty sure it's Locke's eye. I think this is a hint that we will see Locke inhabiting the cabin in future episodes. Charlie's warning to Jack (via Hurley) - "You're not supposed to raise him", I don't think refers to Aaron, but to Locke.

I haven't seen that since I first watched the episode but if you go back and look you could tell if it was Locke or not because his eyes are green; Jacob's are brown and Christian's are blue.

I also think Desmond and Penny will return to the island and could be the bodies in the cave in Season 1. Ben tells Widmore that he is going to kill Penny, Widmore's reply is "You have to find her first". We know that the person who moves the island can "never come back", according to Ben, so the one place for Penny to be safe is the island. Didn't Penny first find the island when Desmond turned the failsafe key and the sky turned purple? I think that the island moved at that point - and there was a little bloop on the screen in Antarctica or wherever and Penny got a phone call? So maybe when Ben moves the island and the sky turns colors there's another bloop on the screen that locates the island. Anyway, however they find it, Desmond and Penny go back to the island and live in the caves.

Wait so why are they dead when 815 crashes?

Things I've listened to today:

Lil Wayne - The Carter III: Glad to see Wayne's still crazy and that the official stuff lives up to the bootlegs. Prolly a few more slower jams on here than I'd like but that's ok cause he can pull it off. On first listen I'd say Mr. Carter, Dr. Carter, Let The Beat Build, and Comfortable are faves.

Deerhunter - Microcastle: Hot damn is this a good one. Poppier than Cryptograms, Cox seems like he went in the direction of the Flourescent Grey EP. Lots of great stuff here, my fave right now is Nothing Ever Happened.

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer: A better rip has surfaced and after my umpteenth listen I'd say this is still one of (if not #1) my favorite albums this year. I am a WP fanboy so of course I love it.

Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends: The title track is pretty overblown but I like it as a pop song. I just hate that damn itunes commercial. From there on out there doesn't seem to be much to like, but I'm no Coldplay fan to begin with. The shoegaze jam at the end of Yes is pretty awesome though and Death and All His Friends is alright.

I don't need to listen to it to figure that out. Just look at that fucking cover.

lol.

So far sitting at my computer writing papers all day I've listened to:

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer. Probably my AOTY thus far, I love this baby.

Ryan Adams - Cold Roses. I can never decide if this or Heartbreaker are my favorite RA.

Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing. This album is amazing to zone out and get some work done to and I mean that in the best possible way, a noisy band with a great sense for melody.

Shearwater - Rook. Only first listen so I need many more but sounded great, beautifully produced.

Kanye West - The Graduate Mixtape. Fun collection of odds and ends and pretty good versions of the album songs. I love the song with The Knife beat.

Death Cab for Cutie - I actually really like the single but the rest of this on second listen doesn't even sound as good as Plans.

I listened to this a few times now and I'm really loving it, which is weird because I totally figured it was not my thing. I was not very keen on Icky Thump (some really good songs, but also some weak moments and production kills it) or Broken Boy Soldiers (I liked about 3 songs but the rest seemed like b-side material). Get Behind Me Satan is probably my favorite overall JW album.

Anyway, they sound so much more urgent on this album. It seems more off-the-cuff and like they are having fun. Plus it's full of great songs bursting with hooks. What a fun guitar rock pop record - can't wait to hear it in the summer.

I saw them on the Gimme Fiction tour. They were ok, pretty lackluster though and I left feeling pretty disappointed since I love Spoon so much. The glowing reviews make me think I caught them on an off-night. Jim Eno was a nice dude to talk to though.

The economy is spiraling downward and probably headed towards the biggest collapse since the Great Depression yet the focus on our presidential candidates is about a former pastor. Only in America folks.

Apparently the full title is "Viva la Vida Or Death And All His Friends." Wow.

roughly in order of my enjoyment so far this year

Why? - Alopecia

Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride

Constantines - Kensington Heights

Fleet Foxes - S/T and Sun Giant

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash

Animal Collective - Water Curses

Vampire Weekend - S/T

Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell

Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams

Hot Chip - Made in the Dark

Jamie Lidell - Jim

Magnetic Fields - Distortion

Need to listen to more:

Sun Kil Moon - April

Man Man - Rabbit Hats

Boris - Smile

M83 - Saturdays = Youth

Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (although after 2 listens I am feeling a little let down save for Suffering Jukebox and SV, SD)

Beach House - Devotion

Hercules & Love Affair

She & Him

Atlas Sound

Haven't gotten to yet:

Gnarls Barkley - Odd Couple

Ruby Suns - Sea Lion

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing

So far I'd say Why?, Mountain Goats, and Constantines have been the heroes of the year for me. Malkmus and Fleet Foxes are also hitting my sweet spot with the stuff they've released and I'm sure Kozelek's April will find it's way into heavy rotation.

I recently started with Face the Truth and I think it's great. I then moved on to Real Emotional Trash. I think it's good as well (still getting into it). I can't wait to hear the other two solo albums. My rambling point is, I also bought Crooked Rain and Wowie Zowie based on the strength of Face the Truth and am not as impressed. Is Pavement a " guess you had to be there " band? Malkmus's solo stuff blows me away. Pavement, not so much.

Yeah, I've tried to listen to Pavement and I just can't get into it at all. But I do enjoy Real Emotional Trash.

You guys are weirdos.

NP: Animal Collective - Water Curses

 

I don't like Animal Collective too much outside of a few songs, but this is gold straight through. Sounds like they all looked at Panda Bear and asked him to take the helm.

Really? It strikes me as much more of an Avey collection of songs. Either way, they are all just from the SJ sessions.

I'm really excited for this. I haven't listened to any RHP yet or Tiny Cities but Ghosts of the Great Highway is sooo good.

And once you start distinguishing between the laws you agree with, and the laws you don't agree with, you are sliding down a very slippery slope.

What? Why shouldn't I do this? I break plenty of laws that I feel comfortable with breaking.

water curses.

Street Flash =

As far as I'm concerned, Spitzer's ethical transgressions dwarf in comparison to the ethical transgressions of half a million innocent people killed in Iraq, thousands of our soldiers killed and wounded (and then not caring for them on their return), handing out billions to KBR for a colonization project, plunging our financial future down the toilet, leaving future generations with a shit environment, not providing our citizens with adequate health care - not to name the countless other political failings of our current government.

But of course Spitzer is sooo unmoral and basically the devil. I'm sure if all the members of Congress or high political office who had slept with a prostitute were outed and forced to resign there'd be a lot of jobs up for grabs.

SSB Brawl ftw. This game is awesome, continues a great line of games.

I have played a little SSBB on my friend's Wii and it seems my man is Lucas. But until tomorrow when I get my own mitts to playing my own copy I cannot say for sure.

 

ps the Gamecube controllers work sooooo much better, especially since I've played a fair share of SSBM already.

 

In addition from what I can tell the characters are well balanced...not the whole Fox/Falco/Sheik unbalanced shenanigans.

Really? Lucas comes off as a poor man's Ness but I haven't played around with him enough. It is nice that everyone does seem pretty well balanced though.

I have to say though that I will always like the original the best. I still play it all the time. There's so much depth in the moves and strategies whereas Melee or Brawl sometimes devolve into button-mashing. Anyone else think the N64 version will always be superior?

I really liked Idols on Exile but to be honest I was pretty disappointed by this.

Whoever mentioned that warm production, they are right on.

Put me in the camp that was initially wooed and is now doubtful about Nels's contribution to Wilco. I like some of the stuff he added live, but for me Jeff is more evocative and emotional with his guitar playing. I doubt Nels could ever pull off something like "At Least That's What You Said."

The soundscaping that this guy can produce with his guitar and toys surpasses the sampling of YHF. I get giddy just thinking about what this lineup can produce, seriously think about it.

Then they produced SBS, my least favorite album besides AM. Nels's playing on that album is too weather channely and sounds like everything else he does. At the risk of calling him one-dimensional, he seems to have a pretty distinctive guitar tone that can add to songs like Muzzle of Bees or Ashes but over the course of the album/live show it grates on me. Granted he's also good with the noise things for the drone-y parts of songs, I'd just prefer to hear Jeff rocking the guitar.

Whatever though. Just saying in my dream world Jeff would be Wilco's lead guitarist. But I can live with Nels.

Due to her glorious backing vocals and amazing drumming, I hereby declare Janet Weiss the MVP of this album.

Elephant Shell is now out in the world. I listened to it once so far and it sounded freakin awesome.

After learning his economic advisors were Chicago school people, I've definitely cooled off on Obama. I still like him because he seems the most electable over McCain and a tad more liberal than Hillary. I just don't think people should really expect Obama's presidency to be radically different from Clinton's - neither would know a new idea if it walked up and hit them in the head.

I agree with this 100%. There is some warming going on with the earth, but I don't believe it's all because of man. Maybe man contributes a tiny percentage of this, but the earth goes through warming and cooling cycles. Hell, some even say that we could be heading into a small ice age.. The earth is 4.5 billion years old.. Mans existence is only a tiny blip in that period, so do you honestly think scientists and Al Gore have it all figured out? There's just not enough evidence and facts yet to convince me..

Right. Maybe just a tiny bit.

On topic:

I've changed my mind about getting a minor in Economics. Although I'd have to suffer through some awful math classes, I think it'd be worth it.

Kensington Heights

i love this band

Oh come on, playing an entire 60 minutes of football to the best of your abilities is one of the lowest moments in NFL history? Why is that more humiliating or degrading than intentionally throttling back, which is sort of the equivalent of saying,