YEAR END LISTS part three: Best Albums Of The Year

1. Papercuts You Can Have What You Want
2. Built To Spill There Is No Enemy
3. Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall
4. The Clientele Bonfires On The Heath
5. The Bats The Guilty Office
6. The Clean Mister Pop
7. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs
8. Robyn Hitchcock Goodnight Oslo
9. Liechtenstein Survival Strategies in a Modern World
10. Outrageous Cherry Universal Malcontents
11. Those Darlins s/t
12. Rhett Miller s/t
13. The King Khan & BBQ Show Invisible Girl
14. Wilco Wilco (The Album)
15. Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career

I Also Enjoyed: Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard's 'Em Are I, Elvis Costello's Secrets, Profane, & Sugarcane, Atlas Sound's Logos, The xx's xx, Echo & The Bunnymen's The Fountain, Telekinesis!'s s/t, Bad Lieutenant's Never Cry Another Tear, & Justin Townes Earle's Midnight at the Movies

My Favorite Reissues Were:
1. The Feelies Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth
2. Stones Roses s/t
3. R.E.M. Reckoning

& My Favorite EP Was:
1. Superchunk Leaves in the Gutter

YEAR END LISTS part two: Best Shows Of The Year

1. BLOODSHOT BBQ with WACO BROTHERS (best live band ever), SILOS, Rosie Flores, etc. @ The Sail Inn in Tempe, AZ
2. Vic Chesnutt & Elf Power @ 40 Watt Club in Athens, GA
3. Jay Reatard @ AMB in Mobile, AL
4. Music Tapes & Nana Grizol @ The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
5. Rhett Miller @ Wine Loft in Mobile, AL
6. Cats On Fire & Liechtenstein during NY POPFEST @ Don Hill's in NY, NY
7. Heartless Bastards & Jenny Lewis @ AMB in Mobile, AL
8. Pine Hill Haints @ AMB in Mobile, AL
9. Blue Mountain @ Moe's in Daphne, AL
10. My Teenage Stride & Folklore & Still Flyin' @ Cake Shop in NY, NY
11. Those Darlins @ Modified in Phoenix, AZ
12. Starlight Mints @ AMB in Mobile, AL
13. The Metric Mile & The Ballet & MTS & Knight School during NY POPFEST @ Cake Shop in NY, NY
14. Camera Obscura @ The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
15. Pants Yell! @ Dead Herring in Brooklyn, NY

YEAR END LISTS part one: Best Songs Of The Year

1. Walkabout by Atlas Sound
2. Before I Was Caught by Jay Reatard (Bradford Cox & Jay had my top 2 songs of last year too!)
3. Future Primitive by Papercuts
4. Slogans by Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard
5. Castle Lights by The Bats
6. Red Light Love by Those Darlins
7. Coast of Carolina by Telekinesis!
8. Planting Seeds by Built To Spill
9. If It's True by Yo La Tengo
10. Learned To Surf by Superchunk
11. In The Dream Life You Need a Rubber Soul by The Clean
12. Can't Hardly Wait by Justin Townes Earle
13. Aisle 13 by Built To Spill
14. Dictator's Lament by Papercuts
15. I'll Fight by Wilco
16. Rotten Mind by Jay Reatard
17. Dreams Come True Girl by Cass McCombs
18. French Navy by Camera Obscura
19. Your Head Here by Robyn Hitchcock
20. VCR by The xx
21. Sink Or Swim by Bad Lieutenant
22. Factory Man by The Clean
23. Sheila by Atlas Sound
24. Tomorrow by Built To Spill
25. Hidden Shame by Elvis Costello
26. Jennifer & Julia by The Clientele
27. More Stars Than There Are In Heaven by Yo La Tengo
28. Broken Broken Broken Heart by Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard
29. I'm Falling by Robyn Hitchcock
30. It Ain't Gonna Save Me by Jay Reatard
31. Caroline by Rhett Miller
32. You Never Know by Wilco
33. Walking In The Park by The Clientele
34. Hung Up On Me by Those Darlins
35. Lisztomania by Phoenix
36. It's Not Rock'n'Roll (and I Don't Like It) by Outrageous Cherry
37. Nothing To Hide by Yo La Tengo
38. The Wolf by Papercuts
39. Roses In The Park by Liechtenstein
40. Steppin' Out by The Bats
41. January Wedding by The Avett Brothers
42. I've Got It All (Most) by Modest Mouse
43. If It's Not Love by Rhett Miller
44. By Staying Here by Liechtenstein
45. I Wonder Who We Are by The Clientele
46. Slight Figure Of Speech by The Avett Brothers
47. 1901 by Phoenix
48. Once We Walked In The Sunlight by Papercuts
49. Another Girlfriend by Rhett Miller
50. No Place To Fall by Steve Earle

The Gravity Of The Situation

one year ago my friend gave me this picture that he took in athens of Vic Chesnutt. i always loved it.




"flirted with you all my life"



bye Vic. <3

Lost Highway

Heard Museum

----> ancient to contemporary Native art from all over the world. i love the minimalism and how that minimalism is so un-contrived & organic, unlike so much Western ultra-modern minimalist & abstract art (which i love too). and it is astounding how modern some of the stuff from like the 1100's is. i can't stand most Western art pre-18th century; this was all so much more exciting. they had it right.






a "fence" (looks sort of like drug paraphanalia to me...uh...)
















made with felt-tip markers








feather necklace


punk bracelet!




Europeans HAHA




"like a fat child..."

i went to PHX, AZ

Funny the cat






Feelies, The New Yorker, brogues


ate breakfast at the famous & delicious Over Easy

shopped at Stinkweeds where i purchased: Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures on vinyl & Robyn Hitchcock's Respect, The The's Infected, Jesus & Mary Chain singles collection, & Superchunk's new EP Leaves In The Gutter on cd.

iced coffee from LUX


went to a wine/beer/sweet-tea-vodka tasting where we bought some Dogfish Head Punkin Ale...


...and to a bar that had PBR on the bathroom door


went to the Heard Museum






rode the Light Rail




saw Those Darlins, who are on the fantastically named Oh Wow Dang Records


and best of all was the Bloodshot Records BBQ, which ended up being one of the greatest things ever. saw The Silos & talked to the wonderful Walter Salas-Humara about my favorite band ever, Vulgar Boatmen, saw the Waco Brothers, who are MINDBLOWING live, & met Jon Langford (from Wacos & MEKONSSS). also saw Exene Cervanka from X and other good people & met/hung out with lots of super dudes.

"RESERVED"


The Silos




Jon Langford playing with Rosie Flores


WACO BROS


their rendition of George Jones' "White Lightning" was FREAKING INSANEly amazing.


Jon is my new BFF. also note my dad's sweet Pavement t.