Top 10
- Angels baseball is back!
- Burial’s Street Halo EP
- Rob Young’s Electric Eden
- Meeblip
- Firefox 4
- iPhone 4 (finally got my upgrade)
- Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day (how did I miss this one? Thanks, Rob Young!)
- Ancient Methods’ First Method
- Boomkat
- Mutek 2012 (because I might be able to go to that one!)
Bottom 3
- Republicans
- Republicans
- Republicans
Top 10
- New Tim Hecker album!!!!
- Parks & Recreation is back
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
- Egypt
- The Omega Factor
- M-Audio Fast Track Ultra
- Mixcloud
- Pitchers & Catchers reporting…
- Grape Vines
- Cats
Bottom 3
- Trish Keening’s passing. RIP
- Republicans
- Budgets
Top 10
- Free time
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Rewatching Babylon 5 on Netflix
- Altered Zones
- Moog Filtatron
- Mika Vainio, “It’s a Muthang”
- Mixcloud
- Beatles boxed set (got it for Xmas)
- Ham sandwiches (Honeybaked Ham!)
- Democrats getting stuff done
Bottom 3
- Republicans/Fox News (tie)
- Wasting free time on crap
- UCLA sports (what the hell, guys? Can’t anyone win?)
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
Top 10
- 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 (new discovery for me–cheesy British sci-fi from 70s with a BBC Radiophonic Workshop soundtrack. Wow!)
- 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
- 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
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
Top 10
- Barak Obama (finally, health care!)
- Opening Day (Go Angels!)
- iPad (though since I ordered a 3G model, I won’t be getting mine until late April)
- Joanna Newsom (yes, I will review Have One on Me–when I have a spare second)
- Lost
- Parks & Recreation
- Caprica
- Ableton Live
- Top Gear
- Ham
Bottom 3
- Fox “news”
- Teabaggers (the crazy kind, not the John Waters kind)
- Spring (where I live, spring is the gateway to the hell that is summer)