A little late, from this past Halloween. Before we went on our parade, we had some fun drawing labels for this pale ale I had just brewed. I wanted to document them before I scraped them off the bottles. Most of these were drawn by David Mack, Aaron Fu, or the lovely Eleanor Davis.
My cell phone is broken, and now I’m trying to decide its fate. I barely use this thing a couple of times a week. Maybe one of those pay as you go phones? Do you get to keep your number with those?
A week or two back I was reading the AV Club’s “Best Music of the Decade” list and it brought on the dismaying notion that maybe there had been no good music for the last decade! But I couldn’t believe that, so I sorted through my music “library” and made a list of the 25 albums I enjoyed the most these last ten years, in rough order:
25. Joanna Newsom – Ys
24. The Black Mages (self-titled)
23. New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
22. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
21. The Blow – Paper Television
20. The Knife – Deep Cuts
19. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
18. MIA – Arular
17. Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
16. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
15. Outkast – Stankonia
14. The Advantage – Elf Titled
13. Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain
12. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
11. Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
10. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
9. Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
8. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Greatest Palace Music
7. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
6. The Decemberists – Picaresque
5. Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
4. The White Stripes – Elephant
3. Deltron 3030 (self-titled)
2. Of Montreal – The Sunlandic Twins
1. Madvillian – Madvillainy
I tripped over a headphone cord that was plugged into our laptop yesterday, and the tip snapped off inside! I’m debating over whether or not I should risk trying to get it out with a toothpick and a bit of superglue.
