Best Albums of 2008 – So Far (UPDATED)

01.) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

02.) Sun Kil Moon – April

03.) Dodos – Visiter

04.) M83 – Saturdays=Youth

05.) Cat Power – Jukebox

06.) Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours

07.) No Age – Nouns

08.) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

09.) Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules & Love Affair

10.) Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

11.) MGMT – Oracular Spectacular

12.) Black Keys – Attack & Release

13.) Mates of State – Re-Arrange Us

14.) Roots – Rising Down

15.) Wolf Parade – Mount Zoomer

16.) Portishead – Third

17.) Times New Viking – Rip It Off

Currently Listening To:

No Age – Nouns – Sleeper Hold

Best Albums of 2008 – So Far

01.) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

02.) M83 – Saturdays=Youth

03.) Sun Kil Moon – April

04.) Dodos – Visiter

05.) Cat Power – Jukebox

06.) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

07.) Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules & Love Affair

08.) Black Keys – Attack & Release

09.) Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

10.) Portishead – Third

11.) Roots – Rising Down

Currently Listening To:

De La Soul – Stakes Is High – Dog Eat Dog

Why You Should Download The Black Kids – Wizard of Ahhhs EP

* It’s Free
* It made one of my top albums of 2007
* It’s fun dance rock
* Four new songs are easy to digest
* One of it’s songs, “I’m Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance” made mine and Pitchfork’s (if my opinion isn’t enough) top singles of 2007 list.
* Did I mention it’s free?

Download the Black Kids – Wizard of Ahhhs EP NOW!!!

Currently Listening To:
Glen Hansard and Markets Irglova – Once Soundtrack – When Your Mind’s Made Up

Favorite Tracks of 1/1/2008

A week late…

* Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass – None Shall Pass

* UGK – Int’l Player’s Anthem (I Choose You) feat. Outkast

* Michael Cera and Ellen Page – Juno Soundtrack – I Choose You

* The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters – Cold Days From the Birdhouse

Currently Listening To:
DJ Muggs vs. GZA/Genius – Grandmasters – General Principles

iTunes is the bane of my existance

It all started when I decided to get Kelly an mp3 player for her birthday in November. Being such a huge advocate of my Rio Karma, which has been discontinued, I decided to research into something that could live up to such a device. After much research, I found that the Trekstor Vibez 12GB mp3 player was a great device that could live up to the greatness of the Rio Karma.

What was great about the Rio Karma? Better sound quality, an equalizer (that was not available in the iPod at the time of purchase in 2004), support of ogg, flac, aac, and non-stop playback, and not to mention cheaper than the iPod by about $100.

The case was still true for the Trekstor, sans equalizer, so I found a place online to purchase from. Unfortunately, since the product is designed and manufactured in Germany, there was only one or two places that would import it. After shipment I eagerly tried it out, but to my dismay, it didn’t work, at all. Unfortunately the importer provided a poor return policy and for audio devices would not repair them, I decided to return the item for a refund.

After this fiasco, along with other birthday present failures, I decided to go with the fail-safe iPod Touch. If it broke, at least I could take it somewhere to get fixed.

I had installed iTunes a couple of times before, just to play around with it and didn’t care for the software. I didn’t care for its bundling of Quicktime and a few other features I didn’t care for, but I thought I would take it all in strides to own this cool little device.

48 hours after installation, my computer ground to a halt. No response was able to be made, a total reboot had to be made. 5 minutes later after reboot, the same thing. I then rebooted again and tried uninstalling the last apps that were installed, namely iTunes. Problem solved.

Until MediaMonkey or the iPod Winamp plugin supports the iPod touch I unfortunately have to live with the uninstalling/installing of iTunes just to connect to the iPod.

As far as the iPod Touch, it’s freaking awesome, a very cool little toy.

Currently Listening To:

LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver – All My Friends

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.

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.

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