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: August 2010

Aug 02 2010 Published by under Film/TV, Humor, Internet/Media, Music, Politics, Random, Sports, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Live Control and iPad

Top 10

  1. Mad Men (oh yeah, it’s back)
  2. The IT Crowd (4th season starts Aug 10)
  3. Broadcast (seem to have the clearest sense of what Hauntology should SOUND like: warped, fragmented, discarded sonic impressions of the past)
  4. Louie (an amazingly good show)
  5. Patton Oswalt (finally saw him in concert–in San Diego during ComiCon, where he reigns as king [with Felicia Day as queen, of course])
  6. The Guild (speaking of Felicia)
  7. 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)
  8. Inception (the rare big-budget action film based around an original idea)
  9. 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.)
  10. LiveControl (controlling Ableton Live with my iPad is awesome–exactly what I was hoping for when I bought the pad)

Bottom 3

  1. Angels (not every year can be a playoff year)
  2. 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)
  3. All other Republicans

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Top 10/Bottom 3: April 2010

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

Steve Jobs and iPad

Top 10

  1. Barak Obama (finally, health care!)
  2. Opening Day (Go Angels!)
  3. iPad (though since I ordered a 3G model, I won’t be getting mine until late April)
  4. Joanna Newsom (yes, I will review Have One on Me–when I have a spare second)
  5. Lost
  6. Parks & Recreation
  7. Caprica
  8. Ableton Live
  9. Top Gear
  10. Ham

Bottom 3

  1. Fox “news”
  2. Teabaggers (the crazy kind, not the John Waters kind)
  3. Spring (where I live, spring is the gateway to the hell that is summer)

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A New Version of Pot Calling Kettle Black

Jun 16 2009 Published by under Humor, Politics

Here’s James Dobson, founder of the ultraconservative religious group Focus on the Family, talking about Barak Obama: “I think he’s deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology,” Dobson said.  “… He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.”

Originally published 6/24/08

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