Friday, December 31, 2010

BEST OF THE YEAR: Albums

#1: Pernice Brothers Goodbye, Killer

#2: Allo Darlin' s/t


#3: Teenage Fanclub Shadows
#4: Old 97's The Grand Theatre Volume One
#5: Wild Nothing Gemini
#6: Wavves King of the Beach
#7: Belle & Sebastian Write About Love
#8: The Vaselines Sex With An X
#9: Tender Trap Dansette Dansette
#10: The Clientele Minotaur (EP)
#11: Magnetic Fields Realism
#12: Love Language Libraries
#13: Crocodiles Sleep Forever
#14: Best Coast Crazy For You
#15: Elf Power s/t

#16: Let's Wrestle In the Court of Wrestling Let's
#17: Sonny & The Sunsets Tomorrow is Alright
#18: Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern Essex Arms
#19: Math and Physics Club I Shouldn't Look As Good As I Do
#20: Outrageous Cherry Seemingly Solid Reality
#21: Gorillaz Plastic Beach
#22: Dean & Britta 13 Most Beautiful
#23: Elvis Costello National Ransom
#24: Jonathan Richman O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth
#25: Smith Westerns s/t
#26: Harlem Hippies
#27: Stornoway Beachcombers Windowsill
#28: Robyn Hitchcock Propellor Time
#29: Superchunk Majesty Shredding
#30: Surfer Blood Astro Coast

Also worth mentioning are the records put out by The Walkmen, The Thermals, Ty Segall, Deer Tick, Beach House, Miles Kurosky, Deerhunter, Tracey Thorn, and The Black Angels. ETC.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

BEST OF THE YEAR: Songs

#1: Someday Soon by Harlem
#2: Horophones by Love Language
#3: I Didn't See It Coming by Belle & Sebastian
#4: The Great Depression by Pernice Brothers
#5: You Must Be Out of Your Mind by Magnetic Fields
#6: Baby Lee by Teenage Fanclub
#7: Champaign, Illinois by Old 97's
#8: Twenty Miles by Deer Tick
#9: Watching Birds by Stornoway
#10: Something For You by Pernice Brothers

#11: Green Eyes by Wavves
#12: Too Young To Burn by Sonny & The Sunsets
#13: I'll Keep It With Mine by Dean & Britta
#14: Kiss Your Lips by Allo Darlin'
#15: On Melancholy Hill by Gorillaz
#16: Suddenly by Tender Trap
#17: Stranger in the Window by Elf Power
#18: When I'm With You by Best Coast
#19: Hearts of Love by Crocodiles
#20: Live in Dreams by Wild Nothing
#21: Sex with an X by The Vaselines
#22: If Loneliness Was Art by Allo Darlin'
#23: Five Small Words by Elvis Costello
#24: These Bodies That Came To Cavort by Jonathan Richman
#25: Learned To Surf by Superchunk

#26: Down On Loving by The Soft Pack
#27: Brittany's Back by Love Language
#28: When I Still Have Thee by Teenage Fanclub
#29: I Saw You Blink by Stornoway
#30: Dog In The Burning Building by Miles Kurosky
#31: Post Acid by Wavves
#32: Chinatown by Wild Nothing
#33: Giving Up On Love by Slow Club
#34: Jimmy Had a Polaroid by Math & Physics Club
#35: Rhinestone Eyes by Gorillaz
#36: Nothing's Changed by Outrageous Cherry
#37: Catholic Pagans by Surfer Blood
#38: Sleep Forever by Crocodiles
#39: 2 to the N by Tender Trap
#40: Angela Surf City by The Walkmen
#41: Such a Fool by The Vaselines
#42: My Arms Don't Bend That Way, Damn It! by Let's Wrestle
#43: My Heart by Smith Westerns
#44: Nothing You Can Do About It by Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern
#45: Paul Verlaine by The Clientele
#46: The Afterlight by Robyn Hitchcock
#47: He Would Have Laughed by Deerhunter
#48: Telephone by The Black Angels
#49: Hormones by Tracey Thorn
#50: Highlife by Southern Culture on the Skids

BEST OF THE YEAR: Shows

#1: 14 ICED BEARS!!! at Popfest New England in November in Northampton, Mass

#2: Elvis Costello in April in Scottsdale, AZ
#3: Dean Wareham doing Galaxie 500 in September in Atlanta, GA
#4: Old 97's in December in Oxford, MS
#5: Jonathan Richman in January in Pensacola, FL
#6: ATHENS POPFEST (especially Wedding Present, Oh-OK, Raymilland, & Mission of Burma) in August in Athens, GA
#7: Drive-By Truckers in January in Mobile, AL

Also:

Skip Heller/Tallulah Records release show in May in Mobile, AL
Wavves in October in Oxford, MS
Woven Bones and The Fresh & Onlys in March in Mobile, AL
Paul Collins in July in Mobile, AL
Heartless Bastards in July in Mobile, AL
Tennis and Dent May in September in Oxford, MS

Friday, December 24, 2010

happy christmas

1. christmas song- aislers set
2. christmas eve- gorky's zygotic mynci
3. baby please come home- darlene love
4. snowstorm- galaxie 500
5. christmas at the zoo- flaming lips
6. jesus christ- big star
7. if you believe in christmas trees- cardinal
8. everything is one big christmas tree- magnetic fields
9. walk out to winter- aztec camera
10. december- teenage fanclub
11. she bangs the drum- stone roses
12. christmas is coming- the payolas
13. skiing in the snow- the invitations
14. when i get home for christmas- snow patrol
15. waking for winter- gorky's zygotic mynci
16. summer snow- lou christie
17. i saw mommy kissing santa claus- the ronettes
18. merry christmas (i don't want to fight)- ramones
19. happy xmas (war is over)- john lennon
20. amazing grace- jonathan richman
21. just like christmas- low
22. come on santa- the raveonettes
23. listening to otis redding at home during christmas- okkervil river
24. winter wooskie- belle & sebastian
25. fairytale of new york- the pogues
26. snowbound- the razorcuts
27. bad cover version- pulp
28. christmas downer- departure lounge
29. sally cinnamon- stone roses
30. gift x-change- calexico

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

obsessed some more

tommy roe "dizzy"


dick and dee dee "mountain high"


trini lopez "if i had a hammer"


erasure "a little respect"


stone roses "going down"


pulp "something changed"


the grass roots "let's live for today"


harlem "someday soon"


love language "horophones"


stornoway "watching birds"

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Grad School: Part Two

Batesville









writing on the wall at the also very famous Taylor Grocery



Halloween!

dressed as a beatnik and hangin' with some dawgs (photo credited to my friend Amy)


Pontotoc









14 Iced Bears weekend in Northampton, Mass





(photo credited to Graham from the 14 Iced Bears)








spent lots of time at this amazing haunted (by dolls) mansion




best brunch ever




snakeskin boots


about 10 sizes too big

Puritans & Primitives pre-Thanksgiving party (much more noteworthy things went on than this, but sadly no one was in a sharp enough state to capture any of the fun!)



two night ago OLD 97's played here. it was my 11th time to see them. i saw them for the first time when i was in the 8th grade. it seems pretty special to still be seeing them in Grad School!










Grad School: Part One

this is what my 1st semester of grad school looked like...

new apartment!





hey, it's Ms. Jenny!




Fat Possum offices





Dean Wareham playing Galaxie 500 in Atlanta <3 <3 <3






chicken & waffles



birthday festivities







(last 2 photos credited to my friend Mary Beth)


a Saturday afternoon in the Square



Jesse in a telephone booth!


balcony of the very famous Square Books




art museum on campus





Holly Springs on a Sunday afternoon



Graceland Too!- museum/home of self-proclaimed world's biggest Elvis Presley fan. oh boy.






holly springs is the "antebellum capital of the mid-south" apparently