Yes, One Million Times

doooooooooooood

Cult of the Boognish

If you want a good appraisal of the 90's just youtube Ween videos that aired on televison shows, i just need to a figure out a way to dub these to vhs and Ill be set

schemin on one

pervert americana

fuggit go krayzay

Why Knot?

Sure it's February, but Ive blown classes all morning so why not a recap on 2009? Best-of lists are impossible for me, I can barely remember what came out last year, plus I usually give shit a year or two of "maturing" time till I give it a proper listen...so this is in no way definitive, only indicative of this particular day.

Tame One-Acid Tab Vocab

This was probably my favorite thing released this year. At first his flow got on my nerves, but after a minute it all makes sense, and you realize he's just a mush-brained genius. But the absolute deal sealer on this one is the BEATS whoa doggy! Where in the hell did these come from?
Highlight tracks-Molly, Ooops, and Suede Adidas. Still haven't picked up the Tame/Del release from last year, but if it's half as good as their collaboration on this, then it's gonna be a doozy.Get Wet

El Perro Del Mar-S/T

Every once and a while Starbucks will turn me on to a band that ends up being one of my favorites at the time. El Perro Del Mar was that band last year. We play that song "Coming Down The Hill" and I would always wonder to myself who the hell it was. After a couple of weeks I checked her out. She has a new ep out, and an album after this one, but for me this album just straight does it. One of the best breakup albums ever. Her voice is super haunting and full of emotion. She is what I hoped Bat For Lashes would sound like.


Vivian Girls-Everything Goes Wrong

What's worse than when an undeserving band get's over-hyped? When a fully deserving band gets slighted for not meeting an impossible mark. Case in point: The Vivian Girls. In 2008 they couldn't be touched, people treated them like The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were chicks. But when they dropped this album everyone was like, "eh, it's good" it's nothing mind blowing. Well they were never mind blowing to begin with. They are a minimalist outfit who deliver a very specific product. And they delivered the goods goddamn it! Everyone digs how Ramones albums all have a different angle. That's what sets "albums" apart from "a good collection of songs". Albums in some way have a cohesiveness, and they created a singular album, while maintaining their identity.....and besides it fucking rocks!Everything Goes Wrong

Prefuse 73-Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian

Guilermo Scott-Herren is one of my picks for musician of the decade(Im not the only one who thinks so). More so than any other artist I think he represents what music should sound like in the future. That's why it took me a minute to get on the Flying Loutus train. Prefuse has been doing him better than himself for waaaay longer. This isn't my favorite Prefuse record, that would be Sercuirity Screenings. But it is pretty damn far up there on the list. Any of his albums are perfect starting off points, but I might even say this would be the best to start out with just because all of his styles are on display here, fully realized. Although it would have been nice to have a collaboration like the one with Kazu from Blonde Redhead, or his work with School of Seven Bells. But I'll live.
Touch Midas

Broadcast & The Focus Group-Investigates Witchcults of the Radio Age

When I first heard the title to the new Broadcast record I thought to myself, "these dudes must be taking the same shit i'm taking....Ive been meaning to investigate witch cults for a minute now....maybe this cd will help." I don't have any pertinent information to share on the subject, but I will say that this album is the shit. I love to watch bands grow and become whole other beasts than they were before. Broadcast had retro-hip, synth-pop, electro-joy, whatever-hyphen down on lock. And then they say to themselves, "let's totally alienate all our too cool for schooler's and drop some occult drenched seance shit. with totally relevant allusions to the current state of Consciousness expansion." Effectual music for the Unaffected.Wee G'z Bored

Herbie Hancock-Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage was probably the first jazz song I could pick out and distinguish from the rest. And over the years this album just doesn't lose any punch, you've got some of the most important jazz musicians ever laying it down for Blue Note, with that signature Blue Note sound. Surely music to quell the tempest.


Band of the Year
Best Coast!!!!!!

Lazy westcoast potheads. Yup, sums it up right there. Simply put, the absolute crystallization of the coolest chick ever, and the coolest band. So good I went back and gave Pocahaunted another try. So good, im going to see them twice next week.....once at a Creperie(is it a word? a place to get crepes). All year they would just hit you with a tape here, seven inch there. Made the year fulfilling. A lil' taste
ThereSpace

Favorite Movie of the Year


I can't really think of a movie that has impacted me this hard. It just tore my head off as far as making a movie that could stand up next to Rembrandt's as far as artistic weight. I don't know the words to describe this movie....maybe they are in French, anyways this is the only movie that even crosses my mind anymore. Well this and Gummo, but that's a given.

Favorite Weed Strain of the Year

This ones hard cuz I didn't really pay too much attention, plus if it's really good then you definitely can't remember. I think we smoked a lot of Trainwreck? But who really knows? It's still a purdy picture.


ps-I pilfered all of the links used above.....SQUATTER'S RIGHTS!

they just dont like em

The Ballad of Colton Harris-Moore

NPR
A teen bandit from the small Washington island of Camano has been on the run for 20 months and is being touted as a modern-day Jesse James. Police say the young outlaw is an amateur criminal — but a master escape artist.

The last time authorities had Colton Harris-Moore in custody was in April 2008. At that point, he was serving time in a halfway house for youth offenders, just south of Seattle. He'd been convicted of theft and possession of stolen property.

It was bed-check and he was in his pajamas. But soon after the nightly routine, he climbed out a second-story window and into the night.

Since then, the now-18-year-old fugitive has eluded police in Washington, Idaho and Canada, repeatedly vanishing into the woods. Police suspect he's stolen at least two planes, two boats and several cars, plus broken into more than 50 homes. Yet the only thing growing faster than Harris-Moore's alleged rap sheet is his legend.

Lawless But Loved

"I don't understand it, myself," says county sheriff Mark Brown. He bristles at the mention of Harris-Moore's exploding popularity.

"Reasonable people would not want to idolize somebody or sensationalize somebody who's a thief," he says.

Harris-Moore is wanted in five counties on multiple charges. But 10 of those charges are in Harris-Moore's hometown of Camano Island — Brown's jurisdiction.

Over the years, police say Harris-Moore has evolved from a petty thief stealing food and blankets, to what he is today — a convicted felon on the run.

During a recent appearance on a local Seattle radio show, Harris-Moore's mother, Pamela Kohler, said she has no idea where her son is hiding.

"And I like it like that, because that way I don't have any information to give to the police," she said.

Kohler says she's writing a book about her son's exploits. She plans to use the profits to open an animal shelter for abused pets, something she says her son had dreamed of doing. Kohler also claims he's a genius.

"He took an IQ test a few years ago and he's three points below Einstein," she says. "And if he flew those planes without lessons. I am very, very proud."
But he's not a boy only a mother can love. He has a growing legion of fans — and not just locally. Harris-Moore's fame reaches far beyond the small Puget Sound community where he is accused of invading homes and stealing credit cards. Feelings about Harris-Moore run the gamut from locals who are tired of the story — and of answering reporters' questions — to fierce fans enamored with the growing myth.

People have even written songs. The lyrics to "The Ballad of Barefoot Harris" read, "But he'd never hurt a fly, and he'd never kill a man, and he never will be found."

Fans as far away as Greece, Italy and Australia extend open-door invitations through the magic of Facebook. To date, there are more than 16,000 members of a fan page for Harris-Moore.

Girls, taken by his almond-shaped blue eyes, beg him to visit their homes and offer to be his girlfriend. Guys mock the law enforcement agencies who have failed to capture the 6-foot-5, 210-pound teen.

Aidin Stephens is also rooting for the runaway. And not just because Stephens sells T-shirts bearing Harris-Moore's picture for $15 each.

"Being good doesn't really get you very far," Stephens says. "It's a kind of a sucker's swindle."

"There's haves and have-nots in the world, and whether he's a mastermind or not, he obviously was never going to have the kind of opportunities that some people might have to have a Mercedes or to be a pilot," Stephens says. "I mean, it's an expensive hobby to have an airplane."

Legend's End Still Up In The Air

Nobody knows that better than Bob Rivers, whose plane was worth $150,000. That was before Harris-Moore allegedly stole it — then then totaled, it.

It took police almost a year to link Rivers' 4-seater Cessna to the wanted teen. But despite their assertions, Rivers, a Seattle host for CBS Radio, is not entirely convinced Harris-Moore is really responsible. And he's reluctant to add to the fugitive's growing legend.

"There's a saying in aviation: There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots," Rivers says. "Colton has clearly done some bold things, but could he learn to fly on the Internet and then crash-land several planes in a row, in rugged terrain, and walk away each time without a scratch?"

The story — if true — is what makes Harris-Moore's life the stuff movies are made of. Just last month, a documentary film crew landed on Camano Island to interview locals. A slew of production companies are courting Kohler for access to her son.

Of course, this isn't a movie. With each new crime that's attributed to the teen, the stakes get higher and the potential for a dangerous confrontation increases. Authorities and Harris-Moore's mother are hoping for the least cinematic ending — the one where the 18-year-old quietly turns himself in.

and remember maurice clemmons