Tidings

Well folks, I will be posting this week soon enough(I was in the Carribean all last week on this.)

Gimme some time to get my bearings back and I will post soon enough...


Thew

2008 Best of.... MUSIC

Alright folks here is my simple list for the best albums of 2008. Hope you enjoy!

P.S. These are in no particular order. Some of these came out before 08 but I found them in 08 so that's what it do.





Kate Nash - Made of Bricks

M.I.A. - Kala

Kings of Leon - Only By the Night

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

Portishead - Third

My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine

The Decemberists - Always The Bridesmaid E.P.

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

I will try to write something about each/feature them in the music section over the next posts. If you've got your own put them in the comments.

Now I'm off to the carribean.

Cruisin',
thew

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- Implosion!
- Sounds about right.
- This kid is hysterical.
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the funniest show on TV.
- Way to promote love, Pope-inator.
- That's creepy.
- Nice animation.
- That's awful that we voted like that. Bad form, America.
- I want to go skiing there.
- Can you believe this came out in 2008?!

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The Decemberists
Days of Elaine
Okay so I'll start with The Decemberists. This E.P. (Means a half-album) is amazing. All the hooks are perfect. The vocals are just as inspired and storytold as we can expect from Colin Meloy. The song "Valerie Plame" is a fantasy trip with a misunderstood figure from our recent past and its ending is just ear-butter. Check it out, if you can find it.

Merry Chanukwanzistmas

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- Pretty neat online music player.
- The 50 best albums of the year, according to Pitchfork.com.
- Yeah that doesn't jive.
- Mr. T makes everything better. You know I met someone this weekend who had no idea what the A-Team was?!
- Listen up, Republicans.
- Jamie Moyer!
- Cool cat.
- This show is probably my favorite ever. He better not screw it up.
- Whoa.
- How to beat carnival games.
- Way to go, jerks.
- This is baaaaaad.
- Nerd cakes/gingabread houses.
- Now I'm never going to help anyone.
- Hope this comes out soon. Hooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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WAAAAAAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHH!

Too bad

I know I've been once-a-weeking it lately but too bad! It's mine to do with as I please. What? You got a problem with that. Maybe I'll shut the whole thing down....what do you think of that?

Jerkstore!

'thew

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- Weird but mesmerizing.
- The Top Ten of Everything 2008.
- Anyone remember this?
- Is this racist?
- The Wolverine movie trailer.....GAMBIT!
- Lets make it easier to kill.
- Meat smell.
- Aurora Borealis from space. Amazing.
- This is atrocious, America.
- Why Philly booed Santa....makes sense.


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Rage Against the Machine
Pocketful of Shells
Go wid it now....

Year end!

Okay year end is coming up and with that and all the Chrismissy festivites happening I eventually manage to squeeze in my "10 Best New Albums of the Year" list, which many people pretend to like.

So I am working on it now and if you have any submissions, I'd love to hear from ya....put em in the comments.

'thew

P.S. Water Tower BBall makes me sore as hell.

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- Wonderful news!
- A revival for the White Russian.
- Geek hotels.
- How we should bail out these companies.
- Ben Stein is dumb dumb dumb. Roger Ebert's still got it.
- Cool!
- 10 best books of 08 - NYT
- "You ain't the Dukes of Hazard!"
- Cool!
- We'll miss you too!
- This guy has it right. These companies don't care about their stakeholders.

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Mr. Gnome
"Night of the Crickets"
JUST found this band

Networking!

Hey all.

Here is the website of a local Philadelphia photographer who is very good. Please go check out his sxtuff and let him know what you think if you like it!

Wil Concepcion

'thew.


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- Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
- He's really, really, sorry.
- That's awesome!
- Silly.
- Amazing collection I should never own.
- Amazing lamp everyone should own.
- TOO UNBELIEVABLY GOOD TO BE TRUE. I bet someone punched her right in the face.
- If you voted for Obama you don't get communion. Very christian.
- Amazing alarm clock I'm glad I don't own.
- Not real but still cool looking.
- Venice looks like a Dali painting.
- How Star Wars changed the world.
- Micheal Jordan looses a one-on-one game at his own camp.

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Jenny Lewis
Acid Tongue

Ugh...everything goes wrong.

I am a doctor.

All my patients are computers.

Their loved ones are my users.

My scalpel is a network cable.


thew

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- The Benny Hill music should be playing.
- This is unREAL. Look at the guy in the back suprised that they were going to continue...then he does. WARNING, this is where turkeys go to die. Oh and it has Sarah Palin in it.
- Bush was a good president. You guys were right. Im sorry I ever doubted him.
- This poll is dumb.....FOXnews?! Trustworthy?!
- WMD's FOUND!
- Did you guys see the video of the huge meteor?
- Jeff Bridges is awesome.
- New definition of kitty carrier.

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The Decemberists
Valerie Plame
Just listen. I like the tuba.