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 [...]

so i’ve done two volumes of this “songs featuring felines” thing, but i’ve never actually had a feline of any sort. well… tomorrow that will change. we’re getting a kitten! i wasn’t too keen on the idea at first, but i guess i’m starting to come around. i don’t know what we’re gonna call it [...]

mp3: belle and sebastian – here comes the sun ………… [buy the bbc sessions]
belle and sebastian released a collection of their bbc sessions this past tuesday and accompanying those sessions is a bonus disc containing a live performance recorded on 12/21/2001 in belfast. that live set kicks off with a cover of “here comes [...]

mp3: the beatles – the end (take 7)……………..of…………………mp3: aesop rock – daylight (instrumental)…………savings……………..mp3: david bowie – time
i’m close… there are so many “time” songs… but i can’t think of a single one called “savings”… can you?

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 [...]

there are some pretty lucky people out there. they’re the people who will be in ny this friday and managed to reserve a free ticket before they were all given away last month. they’re the people who will be seeing sonic youth in battery park (for free). they’re the people who will be seeing the [...]

mp3: super furry animals – father father 1 [link expired]
mp3: the beatles – rocky raccoon (mono remix 1) [link expired]
today is my dad’s birthday… if i were to make a list of my dad’s top 10 favorite songs, i would put “rocky raccoon” on there. i’ve never asked him to make such a list, so [...]

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 [...]

how about st vincent doing another cool cover? this one is a cover of the beatles’ “dig a pony” from let it be. annie played it a bunch during her 2007 tour and even recorded the song for a black cab session. but she played through a mini marshall stack during the cab [...]