Top 10
Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services, Black Mill Tapes Vol. 1
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Anything Ghost Box
Kaossilator Whistle and I’ll Come to You “Best of” season (lots of good recommendations always emerge out of those artificial lists)
Pizza!
Cataclysm Emeralds, Does It Look Like I’m Here
Sleep
Bottom 3
Republicans
Any team I support (Seahawks, UCLA, Angels, even LA Kings lately–they all sucked this year)
Plagiarism
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Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services, Black Mill Tapes Vol. 1
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (for the rally that makes me hope that the US isn’t entirely filled with morons and suicide bombers)
Darkstar, North
The Walking Dead (awesome premiere–can’t wait for the rest)Candy
Snorri Sturlson Shain Erin Everything released by Belbury Poly
Kanye West’s 808s & Hearbreak (only hypnagogic pop anyone’s every actually heard of)
Artificial Owl
Bottom 3
Republicans
The idiots who canceled Caprica
The lack of campaign finance reform
Top 10
The Tomorrow People Found Objects & Between Channels (visual hauntology overload)Amiina’s Puzzle
Broadcast & the Focus Group, Study Series 04: Familiar Shapes and Noises EP
Belbury Poly, Farmer’s Angle (Revised Edition)
Venture Bros . new season (going strong)UCLA football (big win vs Texas)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (just discovering this awesome show)D. D. Denham, Electronic Music in the Classroom
Camel Audio’s Alchemy
Bottom 3
Stupid colds preventing me from going to awesome soccer game
100 degree temperatures in October
Republicans
Top 10
New Venture Bros !!
Hamburger Time Arcade Fire
Chuck (finally catching up on this nerdy and fun show)
Soniccouture Olde English Spelling Bee The IT Crowd Louie American Taliban Sleep
Bottom 3
Sarah Palin
Meg Whitman
Carly Fiorina
Top 10
Mad Men (oh yeah, it’s back)The IT Crowd (4th season starts Aug 10)Broadcast (seem to have the clearest sense of what Hauntology should SOUND like: warped, fragmented, discarded sonic impressions of the past)Louie (an amazingly good show)Patton Oswalt (finally saw him in concert–in San Diego during ComiCon, where he reigns as king [with Felicia Day as queen, of course])The Guild (speaking of Felicia)Ableton Live (am taking the advanced course on this program from Berklee College–it’s a great course, and I’m constantly amazed how deep and how fascinating Live is)Inception (the rare big-budget action film based around an original idea)Barak Obama (sorry all you conservatives out there–he’s saving the country and you’re trying to ruin it. In 2 years, that’ll be crystal clear; right now, it’s not.)LiveControl (controlling Ableton Live with my iPad is awesome–exactly what I was hoping for when I bought the pad)
Bottom 3
Angels (not every year can be a playoff year)
Meg Whitman (if she just gave California the money she is spending on her campaign, the state wouldn’t have to lay off all those teachers)All other Republicans
This is the wonderful writer Elizabeth Gilbert talking about the nature and danger of creativity. From Ted :
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
Top 10–New York Trip Edition
Coney Island
Hot dogs at Nathan’s
Other Music
Strand bookstore
Pizza in Penn Station
Black & white cookies
New York Public Library’s original Winnie-the-Pooh collection
Breakfasts at Holiday Inn Express
Not having to sit through US men’s world cup loss because I was at a wedding reception
The Cloisters
Bottom 3
Coney Island Museum (just plain sucked, even if admission was only 99 cents)
Humidity
Forbidden Planet New York (big letdown after the London store)
Top 10
iPad (software still iffy but device is amazing. Watching Netflix in my office between classes is awesome)
M.I.A. (new album should be interesting)
Sly and the Family Stone’s Fresh (have been listening to this a lot–forgot how awesome it is)
Wind (hey, in the desert, when the wind goes away, the heat arrives–and stays)
Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky (even better 2nd time around)
Emeralds, Does It Look Like I’m Here?
Mutek 2010 (damn–I’ve been wanting to go to this for 10 years, and I haven’t made it yet. Perhaps next year…)
BBC America (has replaced Comedy Central as my default channel)Steak (mmmmm)
John Scalzi’s Whatever
Bottom 3
Lost finale (massive cop-out to turn the flash-sideways into purgatory. I never thought I’d say this, but Star Trek: The Next Generation kicked this show’s ass as far as complex, intelligent finales)Angels (Kowbell’s broken leg encapsulation of the season)
Oil
Top 10
iPad (waited for the 3g version–it didn’t disappoint)
Flying Lotus, Cosmogramma
Treme Rangers, Suburban Tours (so 80s, it’s only out on vinyl)
Incredible String Band reissues
Parks and Recreation (welcome back!)Fantastic Mr. Fox (Rushmore meets Harryhausen)Teaching Scalzi’s Old Man’s War
Joker, “Tron”
Lost (will finale be greatest thing ever or worst? Seems destined to be one or other)
Bottom 3
Arizona
Angels
Heat
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