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Top 10/Bottom 3: September 2011

Sep 02 2011 Published by under Film/TV, Food, Hauntology, Internet/Media, Literature, Music, Personal, Politics, Sports, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Top 10

  1. Grendel Drone Commander
  2. Louie
  3. Leyland Kirby’s Eager to tear apart the Stars
  4. Into the Labyrinth
  5. The return of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  6. Presonus Firestudio Pro
  7. Carne asada
  8. The Clock of the Long Now
  9. Raxxess rack for my music equipment
  10. A long weekend of sitting on my ass watching TV

Bottom 3

  1. The horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE Doctor Who specials running on BBC America featuring US celebrities narrating and commenting on Doctor Who (a la I Love the 80s, etc…).  It’s blatantly obvious that these idiots couldn’t name a doctor other than Matt Smith.  I love Doctor Who, but those specials make me want to hate it.  Way to go, BBC America–you’re ruining the only hit you have.
  2. The new Amy-narrated opening to this season of Doctor Who that foregrounds the show as about THIS doctor and these companions in the exact way those horrible specials do.  I wonder if they’re showing that opening in the UK.  Please FSM, tell me no!
  3. Republicans (of course)

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Top 10/Bottom 1: August 2011

Aug 03 2011 Published by under Film/TV, Hauntology, Humor, Internet/Media, Literature, Music, Personal, Politics, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Top 10

  1.  The Great White Silence (unbelievable film of Scott’s Antarctic expedition, newly restored with a soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner)
  2. OTO Biscuit (yummy!)
  3. David Bowie (for being awesome)
  4. Advisory Circle’s As the Crow Flies
  5. A Dance with Dragons (great continuation of epic fantasy series)
  6. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
  7. Boomkat (still best place to get great music)
  8. The Guild (another season!)
  9. The Shadow Line
  10. Jon Stewart and Stewart Colbert (still best thing about the USA)

Bottom 1

Only one bottom this month–the debt limit debate, summarized perfectly in Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s Team America:

To use the poetry of this brief scene, the tea party (and the other Republicans) are assholes.  Obama is acting too much like a pussy.  He needs to be more of a dick so those assholes don’t turn the whole country into shit.  Oh, and if he needs lessons, then he should ask his Sec. of State and her husband, don’t you think?  How’s that for a 50 word summary of the whole crisis?

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Top 10/Bottom 3: July 2011

Jul 06 2011 Published by under Music, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Jammy Dub

Top 10 (All Musical Edition)

  1. Prince Jammy, Evolution of Dub Vol 6: Was Prince Jammy an Astronaut?
  2. Biosphere, N-Plants
  3. Augustus Pablo, El Rocker’s
  4. Bon Iver
  5. Autechre, EPs 1991-2002
  6. Leyland Kirby, Sadly, the future is no longer what it was (2 CD edition that I recently got and love as much as original 3 CD edition)
  7. PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
  8. Teenage Engineering’s OP-1
  9. Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972
  10. Vashti Bunyan, Just Another Diamond Day

Bottom 3

  1. Republicans’ attempts at celebrities (Ted Nugent?)
  2. Singing contest TV shows of all stripes (deaden and pacify music for everyone)
  3. Getting a cold in the middle of the summer

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Top 10/Bottom 3: May 2011

May 14 2011 Published by under Film/TV, Hauntology, Humor, Internet/Media, Literature, Music, Personal, Politics, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Jedward

A little late this month.  Oh well.  On we go…

Top 10

  1. Parks & Recreation–Amazingly, the coolest show on TV go 100 times cooler this month when Aubrey Plaza’s character April came out as a huge Neutral Milk Hotel (and Jeff Magnum) fan in the season finale.  Nice one, show!
  2. Pye Corner Audio, Black Mill Tapes Vo. 2
  3. Vermona DRM1 mkIII–my new best friend
  4. Barak Obama (see?  First three are pretty awesome to put Barak at #4 after taking out Bin Laden)
  5. Moon Wiring Club, Somewhere a Fox is Getting Married
  6. Mark McGuire, A Young Person’s Guide to Mark McGuire
  7. George R.R. Martin’s Songs of Ice and Fire series–am on book 3
  8. Doctor Who
  9. Meeblip
  10. Stewart Brand’s The Clock of the Long Now

Bottom 3

  1. Fox News
  2. Republicans
  3. Eurovision voters (seriously, Azerbaijan?)

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Top 10/Bottom 3: April 2011

Apr 01 2011 Published by under Humor, Internet/Media, Literature, Music, Personal, Politics, Random, Sports, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Meeblip

Top 10

  1. Angels baseball is back!
  2. Burial’s Street Halo EP
  3. Rob Young’s Electric Eden
  4. Meeblip
  5. Firefox 4
  6. iPhone 4 (finally got my upgrade)
  7. Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day (how did I miss this one? Thanks, Rob Young!)
  8. Ancient Methods’ First Method
  9. Boomkat
  10. Mutek 2012 (because I might be able to go to that one!)

Bottom 3

  1. Republicans
  2. Republicans
  3. Republicans

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Top 10/Bottom 3: February 2011

Feb 03 2011 Published by under Film/TV, Food, Humor, Internet/Media, Music, Personal, Politics, Sports, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

ravedeath-1972

Top 10

  1. New Tim Hecker album!!!!
  2. Parks & Recreation is back
  3. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
  4. Egypt
  5. The Omega Factor
  6. M-Audio Fast Track Ultra
  7. Mixcloud
  8. Pitchers & Catchers reporting…
  9. Grape Vines
  10. Cats

Bottom 3

  1. Trish Keening’s passing.  RIP
  2. Republicans
  3. Budgets

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Top 10/Bottom 3: January 2011

Dec 31 2010 Published by under Film/TV, Food, Humor, Internet/Media, Music, Personal, Politics, Sports, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Paddy's Pub

Top 10

  1. Free time
  2. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  3. Rewatching Babylon 5 on Netflix
  4. Altered Zones
  5. Moog Filtatron
  6. Mika Vainio, “It’s a Muthang”
  7. Mixcloud
  8. Beatles boxed set (got it for Xmas)
  9. Ham sandwiches (Honeybaked Ham!)
  10. Democrats getting stuff done

Bottom 3

  1. Republicans/Fox News (tie)
  2. Wasting free time on crap
  3. UCLA sports (what the hell, guys?  Can’t anyone win?)

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Top 10/Bottom 3: December 2010

Dec 01 2010 Published by under Film/TV, Food, Humor, Internet/Media, Music, Personal, Politics, Sports, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Festive Car Top 10

  1. Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services, Black Mill Tapes Vol. 1
  2. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  3. Anything Ghost Box
  4. Kaossilator
  5. Whistle and I’ll Come to You
  6. “Best of” season (lots of good recommendations always emerge out of those artificial lists)
  7. Pizza!
  8. Cataclysm
  9. Emeralds, Does It Look Like I’m Here
  10. Sleep

Bottom 3

  1. Republicans
  2. Any team I support (Seahawks, UCLA, Angels, even LA Kings lately–they all sucked this year)
  3. Plagiarism

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Top 10/Bottom 3: November 2010

Nov 01 2010 Published by under Film/TV, Food, Humor, Internet/Media, Music, Personal, Politics, Random, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Pye Corner

Top 10

  1. Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services, Black Mill Tapes Vol. 1
  2. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (for the rally that makes me hope that the US isn’t entirely filled with morons and suicide bombers)
  3. Darkstar, North
  4. The Walking Dead (awesome premiere–can’t wait for the rest)
  5. Candy
  6. Snorri Sturlson
  7. Shain Erin
  8. Everything released by Belbury Poly
  9. Kanye West’s 808s & Hearbreak (only hypnagogic pop anyone’s every actually heard of)
  10. Artificial Owl

Bottom 3

  1. Republicans
  2. The idiots who canceled Caprica
  3. The lack of campaign finance reform

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Top 10/Bottom 3: October 2010

Oct 01 2010 Published by under Film/TV, Humor, Internet/Media, Music, Personal, Politics, Random, Sports, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

The Tomorrow People

Top 10

  1. The Tomorrow People (new discovery for me–cheesy British sci-fi from 70s with a BBC Radiophonic Workshop soundtrack.  Wow!)
  2. Found Objects & Between Channels (visual hauntology overload)
  3. Amiina’s Puzzle
  4. Broadcast & the Focus Group, Study Series 04: Familiar Shapes and Noises EP
  5. Belbury Poly, Farmer’s Angle (Revised Edition)
  6. Venture Bros. new season (going strong)
  7. UCLA football (big win vs Texas)
  8. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (just discovering this awesome show)
  9. D. D. Denham, Electronic Music in the Classroom
  10. Camel Audio’s Alchemy

Bottom 3

  1. Stupid colds preventing me from going to awesome soccer game
  2. 100 degree temperatures in October
  3. Republicans

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