so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]

i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]

i’ve finalized volume two of my top 100 albums list at last! check out the opening tracks of my top ten albums below and then check out the full list… plain text here… and/or a graphic version here (pdf, 3.8mb).

1) the natural bridge (1996) — [buy it]
mp3: silver jews – how [...]

mp3: fiona apple – angelmp3: joanna newsom – angel
being that these are probably my 2 favorite female artists of all time, you might expect me to prattle on about the magnificence of their respective covers… but honestly, i prefer hendrix’s original. fiona’s is a close second though.
and rod’s not bad either.
video: rod stewart – angel

i saw the movie across the universe over the weekend. i don’t really know why. i wasn’t expecting it to be good… but it far exceeded my expectations of how bad it could really be. even though she agreed it was one of the stupidest movies she has ever seen, my girlfriend likes to finish [...]