December 2008
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If there’s any one defining characteristic...
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I normally dislike Bill Simmons constantly writing... →
The real question here is:
Does any of this matter if Patrick Ewing isn’t around anymore to kill the karma?
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If this is for real, then... →
…is Sigur Ros going to be the new Parliament?
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Another indication that I probably don't like new...
Thanks to my boys over at last.fm, I’ve determined that I’ve listened to 262 different tracks 10 or more times in 2008. Only 39 of these tracks came out in 2008. 15% is poor. If there was a plethora of new music that I was interested in, I would expect to see that at number at least 40%.
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Obligatory Chart #2: Top 25 Tracks of 2008
jayson:
The way I did this was essentially sort my playlist down to my 50 most played songs (to give me some room for subjectivity; just because I played it a lot doesn’t necessarily mean I thought it was the best of the year, and vice versa). From there I whittled it down manually to my top 25. So… here we go!
1) MGMT - “Electric Feel” (Justice Remix)
2) Cut Copy - “Out There On the Ice”
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Yea, have fun with that, Cleveland. →
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Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 →
Brush up on this one. You’ll be hearing a lot about it in the next few weeks.
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To recap...
Here is this year’s Top 10 Albums list so far:
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
9. The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues
8. Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s - Animal!
7. The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun
6. Protest the Hero - Fortress
5. Lydia - Illuminate
4. IKE - Where to Begin
3. Forgive Durden - Razia’s Shadow: A Musical
2. The Reign of Kindo...
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iWhat?
I am posting this from my new work iPhone. Couldn’t even get me a 3G. Beats the Treo with 13 functional keys though.
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We’re almost down to the home stretch...
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Some lawyer up in Milwaukee is about to get... →
The real question here is:
Is Blago trying to make the Democratic Senate Caucus look like racists when Burris gets rejected?
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#3 Album of 2008:
Forgive Durden - Razia’s...
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The following conversation proceeded to take place... →
Me: Huh. The Sharks actually signed Claude Lemieux.
Jeff: To their actual team?
Exactly.
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Coming from Russian investigators, this may or may... →
Responds Cam Hope, “Does this mean we’re still eligible for a compensatory draft pick?”
(Not really.)
(I hope.)
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Rutgers picks Mulcahy's temporary replacement →
And ESPN reports this by saying that he’s a Spanish professor.
Which, of course, he is, but it sounds a hell of a lot different than saying that they selected the dean.
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“Saw my ex-wife across at one of the $50 tables before. Looks like she was...”
– Some guy to one of his buddies, overheard at about 2 AM in the Trump Taj Mahal bathroom last night.
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This is several hours late, but... →
I’m pretty impressed that they did it the next day. I thought that that kind of treatment was reserved for Rod Marinelli and Romeo Crenell, the two most recent purveyors of pure, unmitigated suck, but it was indeed recognized by upper management that the alleged Man-genius was just as bad.
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Something happened in Atlantic City that I never...
…which I guess is rare, because I anticipate that mostly anything can happen in Atlantic City, but:
Ben split Kings. And hit tens on both of them. And then the dealer busted.
The two guys in the lead positions at the table suddenly didn’t want to kill him anymore.
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Topical
artistspaid:
brilliantlydifferent:
1. Music will always continue, but the parasitical 20th Century music industry is dead.
2. Music does not rely on technology or distribution. It simply requires people. It did not begin with vinyl, the CD, the electric guitar or the synthesizer.
3. If piracy is able to damage your ivory castles, you should seek to understand it and learn from it. Piracy...
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#4 Album of 2008:
IKE - Where to Begin (2008,...
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The Music They Made - The New York Times →
artistspaid:
(via whatevernevermind)
I didn’t know that some of these people passed, particularly Buddy Miles, John Rutsey and Danny Federici.
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An additional note on the Houses of the Holy...
Earlier this morning, I introduced the concept of the Houses of the Holly Illusion, which specifically refers to a song that lacks a true chorus but the atypical structure is not readily apparent to the listener. This is an important concept to me largely because of the way Gatsbys American Dream was treated by labels at the various points in their career when they were shopping around - they were...
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#5 Album of 2008:
Lydia - Illuminate (2008,...
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Some people are already thinking about what the... →
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“On July 2, if you told people, fans and media, that we’d have the record we have...”
– Chris Drury, apparently believing that there’s something to feel good about in winning 2 games in regulation since November 12th
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#6 Album of 2008:
Protest the Hero - Fortress...
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#7 Album of 2008:
The Sound of Animals Fighting...
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WatchAn absolute classic. Merry Christmas, Rabinomas, Festivus or Chinese Food Day to everyone!
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More proof that Live Nation is the living... →
Last month, concert promoter giant Live Nation reported third-quarter profit more than tripled to $139.9 million.
Really? When every other company on the planet put up a large FAIL in Q3 and Q4, Live Nation’s profit tripled? Really, Live Nation?
God bless monopolies.
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The real question is, did they all have to do it... →
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#8 Album of 2008:
Margot and the Nuclear So and...
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#9 Album of 2008:
The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues...
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Suck on this, PETA! →
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“Hopefully individuals passionately expressing opinions from the left and the...”
– Rick Warren, explaining to all the activists in the land that there is a literal meaning to the word “compromise”
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This is slightly more optimistic than the last... →
Robert Plant has said that the chances of a full Led Zeppelin tour are still slim, despite the fact he still remains in regular contact with Jimmy Page.
To me, “slim” is better than “There is no chance in hell of me doing this”. I’ll take what I can get.
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More on the Sidney Crosby nut-punching... →
Yahoo’s Puck Daddy blog is usually pretty on point, and this write-up from earlier this afternoon is no exception.
Again, just to reset the scene: The biggest star in the National Hockey League was caught on video going Jack Dempsey on another player’s groin … from behind. I know it’s not a fashion magazine intern making a sex joke in the locker room, but doesn’t...
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“If he had punched him in the face, would he have gotten five minutes? A punch to...”
– John Anderson, Thrashers head coach, succumbing to the slow realization that, much like me, he wasn’t in the meeting where Bettman told the officials to let the Penguins get away with whatever they want to.