Top 15 Songs of 2008: 13! Top 15 Songs of 2008: 13!
SANTOGOLD - SAY AHA You know, some of these are much easier than others. When I’m talking about something like yesterday’s selection, I have to spend a lot of time thinking about why the song works on both a lyrical and a musical level. Say Aha doesn’t have lyrics that mean a damn...
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Top 15 Songs of 2008: 14! Top 15 Songs of 2008: 14!
Before we get started today, I’d just like to take a second to lament how unbelievably difficult this has proven to be. It was easy to create a top 5 list, but everything beyond that has proven just murderous to make it feel like the “right” list. Oh well. THE HOLD STEADY - CONSTRUCTIVE...
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Top 15 Songs of 2008: 15! Top 15 Songs of 2008: 15!
Welcome to what I believe to be the formal kick-off to our blog project of trivializing the year 2008 by encapsulating it in a series of lists that don’t reflect any particular expertise on the subject matter at hand! I’ll be doing songs!!! 15: Mates Of State - The Re-Arranger The Mates...
Top 15 Songs of 2008: 15! »
In order to defeat him, I must become him [Legends of the Fall] In order to defeat him, I must become him [Legends of the Fall]
It is generally, though not universally, acknowledged that I am better looking than Brad Pitt. For years, he and I have sparred with one another, constantly trying to outflank the other in handsomeness-innovations. Recently, Mr. Pitt debuted a new look in public. Damn that canny bastard! Not only...
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Five songs that, while quite good, were not good enough to make my list of top songs for the year. Five songs that, while quite good, were not good enough to make my list of top songs for the year.
So, I’m culling my favorite songs of the year down to the final 15 (or so), and while it’s tough to order the great ones, it’s probably tougher to decide which songs don’t deserve inclusion. How do you measure Kanye West against The Hold Steady, you know? It’s not as though...
Five songs that, while quite good, were not good enough to make my list of top songs for the year. »
You Will Not Find a Funnier Image All Day You Will Not Find a Funnier Image All Day
I don’t know what Airwolf was about, but I can only imagine that every episode involved someone who desperately needed a guy with one eye dressed like Tom Wolfe and a senile-looking guy to team up with either a helicopter or a guy wearing an unreasonably large helicopter-shaped hat to accomplish...
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Dating advice! Dating advice!
No big earrings? SO CONFUSED!!! So, there’s a story making the rounds in the blogosphere (and yes, I love using that word) about a 9-year old that wrote a book on dating. Let’s steal the story from Neatorama: “It is easy to spot pretty girls because they have big earrings, fancy dresses...
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This is the best Christmas song of the year This is the best Christmas song of the year
Powered by Lala Look, I know how it is. We all get tired of hearing the same Christmas music every year, and that’s one-hundred percent understandable. Personally, I have a supernatural tolerance for Christmas music - I even still enjoy Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You. ...
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Speaking of year-end lists… Speaking of year-end lists…
My guilty secret when it comes to buying books is that I often do so based on how cool the cover looks. So, when The Book Design Review posted its favorite covers of 2008, I was immediately drawn to the list. Unsurprisingly, many of the books listed don’t just have great covers, but are great...
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My Year-End List My Year-End List
Since E has revealed our plans for posting a whole bunch of year-end lists, I figure I might as well come out and talk about what I’m going to be posting up here. I listened to less music with less passion in 2008 than I have in years, which naturally made me think: “Hey, maybe I should make...
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