01.15.10
thoughts and prayers to the people of haiti
01.04.10
my top hot jams of 2009
[or a slightly audited and seasonally adjusted list of heavily played (iPod) songs]
in some particular order
25| beyonce | halo
24| lady gaga | paparazzi
23| straylight run | your name here (sunrise highway)
22| ratatat | seventeen years
21| matisyahu | i will be light
20| kelly clarkson | already gone
19| takagi masakatsu | j.f.p.
18| mum | we have a map of the piano
17| sigur ros | all alright
16| bob marley | three little birds
15| typical cats | take a number
14| mgmt | time to pretend
13| the specials | a message to you rudy
12| bedouin soundclash | 12:59 lullaby
11| the jackson five | i want you back
10| miley cyrus | party in the usa
09| souls of mischief | step to my girl
08| john mayer | slow dancing in a burning room
07| kings of leon | use somebody
06| black eyed peas | i gotta feeling
05| jay-z | empire state of mind
04| matthew good band | apparitions
03| our lady peace | paper moon
02| saves the day | my sweet fracture
01| third eye blind | water landing
01.03.10
best of the aughts in music [songs]
the top 4 songs of each year from 2000 to 2009
00
- Radiohead – “Idioteque”
- Modest Mouse – “3rd Planet”
- New Found Glory – “Hit or Miss”
- Eminem – “Stan”
01
- System of a Down – “Chop Suey”
- Saves the Day – “Freakish”
- Abandoned Pools – “The Remedy”
- Gorillaz – “Clint Eastwood”
02
- Our Lady Peace – “Innocent”
- All-American Rejects – “Swing, Swing”
- The Flaming Lips – “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part I”
- Sigur Rós – “Untitled 4″
03
- Outkast – “Hey Ya”
- E-Town Concrete – “So Many Nights”
- The Postal Service – “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight”
- Something Corporate – “Konstantine”
04
- Green Day – “Whatsername”
- The Killers – “Mr Brightside”
- Kelly Clarkson – “Since U Been Gone”
- Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers – “¡Americano!”
05
- Saves the Day – “Ups & Downs”
- Death Cab For Cutie – “Summer Skin”
- Mars Volta – “The Widow”
- Jack’s Mannequin – “Dark Blue”
06
- Less Than Jake – “The Rest of My Life”
- Muse – “Starlight”
- John Mayer – “Slow Dancing in A Burning Room”
- Gnarles Barkley – “Crazy”
07
- Rihanna – “Umbrella”
- M.I.A. – “Paper Planes”
- Mika – “Grace Kelly”
- Radiohead – “Reckoner”
08
- The Airborne Toxic Event – “Sometime Around Midnight”
- Pink – “So What”
- Okkervil River – “Lost Coastlines”
- Ten Feet – “I’m Yours”
09
- Jay-Z – “Empire State of Mind”
- Third Eye Blind – “Bonfire”
- Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody”
- Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling”
some honorable mentions (in no particular order):
- Third Eye Blind – “Forget Myself”, “Water Landing”
- Wilco – “Jesus, etc”
- Our Lady Peace – “Paper Moon”, “In Repair”
- Regina Spektor – “On The Radio”, “Fidelity”
- Dashboard Confessional – “Again I Go Unnoticed”, “Remember to Breathe”
- Big Pun – “It’s So Hard”
- Blink 182 – “Feeling This”
- Brand New – “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows”
- Coheed and Cambria – “33″
- Fountains of Wayne – “Mexican Wine”
- Linkin Park – “The End”
- Damian Rice – “Delicate”
- Matchbox Twenty – “How Far We’ve Come”
- Bedouin Soundclash – “When The Night Feels My Song”, “12:59 Lullabye”
- MGMT – “Time To Pretend”
- Phantom Planet – “Anthem”, “Always On My Mind”
- Smashing Pumpkins – “With Every Light”, “Starz”
- The Streets – “Dry Your Eyes”, “Blinded By The Lights”, “All Goes Out the Window”
- Sugarcult – “Pretty Girl (The Way)”
- Toby Keith – “I Love This Bar”
- Down AKA Kilo – “Lean Like a Cholo”
- The Tragically Hip – “The Darkest One”
- Kelly Clarkson – “Already Gone”
- Ratatat – “Seventeen Years”
- Telepopmusik – “Breathe”
- Miley Cyrus – “Party in the USA”
- Matisyahu – “Jeruselem”
- Takagi Masakatsu – “J.F.P.”
- Vampire Weekend – “Walcott”
- Elliott Smith – “Wouldn’t Mama Be Proud”
- Coldplay – “Yellow”
- Cypress Hill – “Rap Superstar”
- New Found Glory – “Eyesore”
- American Hi-Fi – “Flavor of the Week”
- Nine Inch Nails – “The Great Destroyer”
- The Killers – “When You Were Young”
- Rick Barry – “Stupid American Song”
- Foo Fighters – “Best of You”
- Taking Back Sunday – “You’re So Last Summer”
- Outkast – “The Whole World”
12.24.09
for the geekers:
apparently the 12 days of christmas cost just over $20k
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where are all the people?
someone once noted, quite a few years back, that most of the photographs that i had taken did not contain any people within the frame.
i just happened upon this link [via UrbanTick]:
it’s pictures of l.a., landscapes and such, mostly from early in the morning, that are (as the name of the site goes) empty of people.
kudos to matt logue, the photographer
11.16.09
a fall rerun
original post a bit of time ago Let me get a grip on this day before Six thousand crunches underfoot each leaf is a different day in time, Faded like painted lines of a soccer field
I give up.
Because the leaves (of hues impossible)
Are fallen, a revelation of
Truth in branches bare,
Multiplied in their
Outward,
Upward
Skyward
Spread
And a smell almost metallic
Urgent like a last drive
(post pattern, seven Mississippi –
Hurry-up offense while snot dries in the wind that picks up while muted colors
Blue
Brown
Green
blend into early evening
as dinnertime smells drift aloft
that has finally come to rest
in unbound collage
random misrememberances misplaced by the wind
soon, they decompose and one unbecomes one and
returns,
as the boundaries disappear
like
gray trees
against gray sky
over gray men
whose gray dog’s grandfather stood watch
fifty-seven Novembers ago
Regret,
As I
Regress,
Idyllic disconnect
Lament is every leaf upon my car
(I cannot clear the strays upon my seat –
So I take them with me
In my intraplanetary travels
But it’s no use
Their crunch not never-ending
Orange, bygone
11.04.09
some autumnal std
Saves The Day “My Sweet Fracture” 11/05/06 @ the stone pony
f-in awesome autumn song
09.24.09
just ask jeeves . . .
so today i go to ask.com – they ditched the british butler guy, or rather,
he left and got paid and is back on askjeeves.com all fancy schmancy and mr. charcoal gray business suit and such [who knew?]
this is certainly not my searcher of choice as i was rather insulted back in the day with the whole “just ask jeeves a question and you’ll find everything you ever wanted to know out” schtick, but the seven letter input into my address bar brought me there.
i start typing in “when . . .” because the question was asked in my office of when, exactly, mr jeeves [or was jeeves his first name?] and ask went their separate ways.
below are the 8 search suggestions that followed “when” [try it at home kids!]:
- when will the world end
- when does twilight come out on dvd
- when will i get my stimulus check
- when is the best time to get pregnant
- when is the world going to end
- when is my due date
- when do women ovulate
- when do i ovulate
“why” gives us:
- why is a four leaf clover lucky
- why is the sky blue
- why do men cheat
- why do dogs eat grass
- why are gas prices so high
- why is my computer so slow
- why did chris brown beat up rihanna
- why am i so tired
. . . america! fuck yeah?
