Best of 09

Best Albums of 2009

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. The xx - xx
3. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Nosaj Thing - Drift
5. Sunn O)) - Monoliths & Dimensions
6. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
7. Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt. II
8. Health - Get Color
9. JJ - JJ No2
10. The-Dream - Love vs Money

Mixtapes

1. Gucci Mane - Cold War Series
2. Pill - 4075: The Refill
3. Freddie Gibbs - Midwestgangstaboxframecadillac
4. Wale - Back to the Feature
5. Drake - So Far Gone

Overall good year for tapes and albums. Maybe I will get deeper into later.

Musical Abyss - 10/3

Here is last nights show:

Dominos - The Big Pink
Plays John Cassavettes Pt. 2: Ekkehard Ehlers - DJ Rupture*
Island, IS - Volcano Choir
Crystalised - The xx
Shady Lane/J Vs. S - Pavement
Handshake Drugs - Wilco
Aquarium - Nosaj Thing*
Ben Kweller
Autumn Sweater - Yo La Tengo
Passion Pit - The Reeling
1901 - Phoenix
Ecstacy - JJ
Sandy - Caribou
Hornets! Hornets! - The Hold Steady
Secret Meeting - The National
T.I.M.E. In - Odd Nosdam*
Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel

*Talk Break Songs

New Comp

I got a new comp this week. It is an incredibly cool 15'' macbook pro. It looks amazing and seems to run like a dream. The biggest problem is that with my old comp dying on me, I currently don't have most of my music and have lost all of my old playlists and things. All of the old (feel my heat)'s from Ohio are gone. So are old mixes I made for Shareen. Oh well, so it goes.

Greetings from Boston

And back to school. Hard to believe summer is already over. This summer was a lot of fun and it was great to go back home. Too many highlights to list really.

In less than a week of being back at school my computer stopped working. I had to remove my last.fm so I could open itunes. I am not happy about this since I am OCD about itunes/last.

At the moment there is not much going on. My schedule this year appears to be pretty easy with the exception of Wednesdays. I like my Environmental Law and Geo classes, not a huge fan of my stats course, and was told that I am my Swahili teachers favorite student.

Otherwise all quiet on the eastern front.

Random Jolts of Noise

Greetings from planet swagamore

Swagamore

-One part Gin

-One part Tonic

-One part Cranberry Juice

Just got back from NY.  Always fun to go upstate with the fam.

Hard to believe that the summer is already over.  I found out the best way to make the summer pass isn't anything I listed.  The summer goes the fastest when you are working.

Anyway, I will blog later.  In the mean time go check out Squeeze - Another Nail in My Heart.

Mos Def - The Ecstatic

You all should pick up the new Mos Def disc.  A nice return to form from the actor/rapper.  The beats are provided by my favorite producers: Madlib and Oh No.  The beats evoke various regions of the world: Middle East, India, New York, Euro-Club.  The lyrics are pretty good. Not quite the lyrical purity that was Black Star, but better than past couple albums and most of Kweli's stuff.  A very solid album.

Tiki Bar

Another post about my summer boredom.  To relieve boredom, I suggest you all watch Tiki Bar.  It is a video podcast available on itunes.  Imagine Venture Brothers coming to life.  Only instead of mysteries and Brock killing people, they sailed on a pirate ship and made drinks to cure all problems.  Needless to say it is fantastic.