Favorite Tracks of 2007

The lists just don't stop...

1.) Handsome Furs - What We Had
2.) Andrew Bird - Plasticities
3.) The Avalanches - Ray of Zdarlight
4.) Feist - My Moon My Man
5.) Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Tell Me
6.) Radiohead - Reckoner
7.) Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
8.) Kanye West - I Wonder
9.) Neko Case - Live from Austin City Limits - Buckets of Rain
10.) Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
11.) Mark Ronson - Oh My God ft. Lily Allen
12.) Wilco - Impossible Germany
13.) Rougue Wave - Like I Needed
14.) Arctic Monkeys - Do Me A Favour
15.) Jens Lekman - I'm Leaving You / If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
16.) Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance

Currently Listening To:
Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate - Chicago x 12

Favorite Tracks of 2007-12-07

• Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Tell Me
• The Black Kids - The Wizard of Ahhhs EP - Hurricane Jane
• Vampire Weekend - Blue CD-R - A-Punk

Currently Listening To:
Feist - The Reminder - My moon, my man

Overhyping the End of Facebook

After reading various articles about the so called end of facebook, I thought I would weigh in and give my 2 cents. For those who don't know about Facegate, here's a quick rundown.

• Facebook auctions off a percentage of shares, which turns into a bid war between MS and Google.
• Google loses the bid war, but no matter, they announce OpenSocial a week later.
• To keep up with the internet monster, Facebook announces it's new ad plan which is powered by Beacon
• MoveOn publicly criticizes Facebook for privacy concerns, the internets blows it's top.
• The back lash begins, and Facebook starts losing advertisers, namely Coke, everyone gets cold feet.
• Finally, today Facebook apologizes and makes it possible to opt-out globally.

I've read a few articles saying that Facebook is done, it's declining, etc. But the thing is, probably only 3% of the populations knows this story. Of that, probably %2 use Facebook, and of that, probably %1 actually care. So, I don't think this will really do anything to Facebook's audience. The reason that Facebook got so popular is because of security and stupid, pointless applications. Yes, MySpace killed Friendster, and Facebook killed MySpace, but I feel it will be a while before Facebook sees a decline in it's audience.

Best Albums of 2007

01.) Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
02.) National, The - Boxer
03.) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
04.) Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse
05.) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
06.) Radiohead - In Rainbows
07.) Kanye West - Graduation
08.) Field, The - From Here We Go Sublime
09.) White Stripes - Icky Thump
10.) Clientele - God Save the Clientele
11.) Talib Kweli - Eardrum
12.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is EP
13.) Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
14.) Feist - The Reminder
15.) Neko Case - Live from Austin City Limits
16.) Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate
17.) The Black Kids - Wizard Of Ahhhs EP
18.) Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
19.) Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
20.) Shins - Wincing the Night Away
21.) Good, the Bad, and the Queen, The The Good, the Bad, and the Queen
22.) Deerhunter - Cryptograms
23.) Handsome Furs - Plague Park
24.) Talib Kweli and Madlib - Liberation
25.) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
26.) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
27.) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
28.) Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
29.) Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
30.) Maxïmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
31.) Kevin Drew - Spirit If...
32.) Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
33.) Ted Leo & the Pharmacists Living With the Living
34.) Menomena Friend or Foe
35.) Common - Finding Forever
36.) Mark Ronson - Version
37.) Pharoahe Monch - Desire
38.) Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
39.) Jay Z - American Gangster
40.) Prodigy - Return of the Mac
41.) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
42.) El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
43.) Bird and the Bee - Bird and the Bee
44.) Grinderman - Grinderman
45.) Hives - The Black and White Album
46.) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
47.) A Sunny Say in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
48.) Justice - Cross
49.) Caribou - Andorra
50.) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam


Worst album of the year: Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings

Currently Listening To:
Roots - The Tipping Point - Don't Say Nothin'

2008 Presidential Candicy Match Quiz

I just took this quiz to roughly find out what candidate best fits with my views, as I am not surprised my results showed that I was a 85% match with Kucinich. However, I feel if the primary was held tomorrow I would still vote for Edwards, he seems to be the best feasible candidate that I agree with.

2006 Best of List... a year late

I can't believe it's already November. I have been working on putting together my best albums of 2007 list for the WOXY Boards. In addition, I think I might post my movies best of list. However, it will have to favor movies that are released on DVD since, I'm not able to see movies in the theater anymore.

After editing this post I realized that I never got around to posting my 2006 Best of List. Anyway, here it is, a year later.

01. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
02. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
03. The Roots - Game Theory
04. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
05. Tapes n' Tapes - The Loon
06. Guillemots - Through the Windowpane
07. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
08. Forget Cassettes - Salt
09. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
10. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
11. Radio 4 - Enemies Like You
12. Ladyhawk - Ladyhawk
13. Cat Power - The Greatest
14. Justin Timberlake - Future Sex/Lovesounds
15. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
16. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Élan Vital
17. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
18. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
19. Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
20. J Dilla - Donuts
21. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
22. Herbert - Scale
23. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
24. Sunset Rubdown
25. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
26. Silversun Pickups - Carnavan
27. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
28. Califone - Roots and Crowns
29. Figurines - Skeleton
30. Rhymefest - Blue Collar
31. DJ Shadow - The Outsider
32. Grizzly Bear - Yellowhouse
33. Various Artists - Tropicalia: A Brazillian Revolution in Sound
34. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
35. Hot Chip - The Warning
36. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
37. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
38. Essex Green - Cannibal Sea

Listened to, but not included:
Howie Gelb - Sno Angel


Favorite Singles for 2007-11-05

• Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam - Fireworks
• Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs EP - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You
• Los Campesinos - You!Me!Dancing!
• Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela- Ixtapa
  

Currently Listening To:

The Good, the Bad, and the Queen - The Good, the Bad, and the Queen - Northern Whale

Crazy Weekend

Last Thursday I got a call from daycare saying that Arden had a fever of 100 and that I had to pick her up. This was her second fever in a week and the doctor said to bring her back in if she got another one. So after visiting the doctor and giving her a blood and urine sample, we had to wait until the next morning to see if she had anything. Unfortunately, on Friday morning we found out that Arden had to be admitted to the hospital to be put on an IV. The doctor that since she is so young that she should be put on antibiotics. After many tests, it was discovered that she had strep throat and was released last Sunday around noon. She is fine now and back at daycare after being given a clean bill of health by the doctor.

Currently Listening To:
Caribou - Andorra - She's the One