Top Ten Purchases of 2009:
Soul Step Dance Studio Multiple Class Card
Clothes from UNIQLO in New York City
Bed mattresses from Woman's Resource Center
Plane Tickets to New York City
1 terabyte external hard drive for my computer
Vegan Boots from Mooshoes in New York City
Compass from Back Country Outfitters in Traverse City
Headphones for my IPod
Synthetic Down Northface Jacket that can bunch-up into its own pocket
Fair Trade Tapestries to cover the windows in my bedroom.
Top 10 concerts I went to in 2009:
Devandra Banhart at the Ark in Ann Arbor
Binary Star at Union Street Station in Traverse City
Warp20 (Flying Lotus, !!!, Battles) at Terminal 5 in New York City
Detroit Electronic Music Fest (RJD2, Z-Trip, Afrika Bambaata, Flying Lotus, Busy P)
Burning Fight (Unbroken, Converge, Betrayed, Bane, Trial) at the Metro in Chicago
Bane/Have Heart at the Static Age in Detroit
Cool Kids/Clipse at the Intersection in Grand Rapids
Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars at the Opera House in Traverse City
Forfeit at the Inside Out Gallery in Traverse City
Flaming Lips at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Traverse City
Top 25 Concerts I went to in the past Decade:
The Advantage/Tanooki Suit at the DAAC in Grand Rapids
Planes Mistaken For Stars at the American Legion Hall in Traverse City
31 Knots/The Planet The at the American Legion Hall in Travers City
Dillinger Escape Plan/the Locust at the Intersection in Grand Rapids
Battles at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor
Tool/Tomahawk at Cobo Arena in Detroit
Cursive/the Blood Brothers at the Majestic Theater in Detroit
Girl Talk at the Eagle Theater in Pontiac, MI.
Make Believe at the DAAC in Grand Rapids
Russian Circles/These Arms Are Snakes at the Apollo in Barcelona, Spain
Sigur Ros at Calvin College in Grand Rapids
Thunderbirds Are Now/The Locust/Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Magic Stick in Detroit
Have Heart/Verse at the Inside Out Gallery Traverse City
Animal Collective/Wolf Eyes at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor
Dakota/Dakota at the DAAC in Grand Rapids
TV on the Radio/The Faint at the Majestic Theater in Detroit
The Building Press/Tanooki Suit in a garage in Traverse City
Nine Inch Nails at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit
Verse/Ceremony/Anchor/I Rise in Rosswien, Germany
Krazyfest in Louisville, Kentucky
Animal Collective in Lansing
Russian Circles/Maps and Atlases at the DAAC in Grand Rapids
Airborne or Aquatic at the State Hospital in Traverse City
Breath Owl Breath / Akron/Family at the DAAC in Grand Rapids
Bear Vs. Shark at the DAAC in Grand Rapids
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Top Ten What Ev's.
Top 10 Things that I ate at Restaurants in 2009:
Chicken Teriyaki: Soy and Sake in New York City
Steak Dinner: Chicago Diner in Chicago
Eggs Benedict: Pick Me Up Cafe in Chicago
Ravioli: Atlas Cafe in New York City
Crazy Pizza: Vinnie's Pizza in Brooklyn, New York
Burrito: Chipolte in East Lansing
Mint Chocolate Cookie: Atlas Cafe in New York City
French Toast and Scrambled Tofu: Counter in New York City
Indian Food: Wellington St. Market In Traverse City
Sweet and Sour Chicken: Soy and Sake in New York City
*Please note that all foods were vegan.
Chicken Teriyaki: Soy and Sake in New York City
Steak Dinner: Chicago Diner in Chicago
Eggs Benedict: Pick Me Up Cafe in Chicago
Ravioli: Atlas Cafe in New York City
Crazy Pizza: Vinnie's Pizza in Brooklyn, New York
Burrito: Chipolte in East Lansing
Mint Chocolate Cookie: Atlas Cafe in New York City
French Toast and Scrambled Tofu: Counter in New York City
Indian Food: Wellington St. Market In Traverse City
Sweet and Sour Chicken: Soy and Sake in New York City
*Please note that all foods were vegan.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Top what ev's of the past decade...
so the year 2009 is almost done, that means the year 2010 is about to start. And what does the number 10 represent when speaking in the matter of years? The end of a decade and begining of a new decade...or something. Well this one is pretty significant cause its the end of the first decade of the 2000's, the 21st century. So what comes with the end of a decade? Lists...lots of lists. Top 10, top 20, top this, top that, blah blah blah. A whole bunch of lists.
For me, this list making was started when my good friend Arron asked me to do a top 10 albums of 2009 or top 10 albums of the past decade, cause she owns the best record shop in Traverse City, Mi. that i frequently visit. And she wanted to put my lists up on their websit...awesome................
So, now i will begin to create lists:
My first one will be the lists i submitted to Arron:
top 10 of 2009:
Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy
Nosaj Thing - Drift
Converge - Axe To Fall
Trapped Under Ice - Secret Of the World
Benoit - Demo '09
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Finale - A Pipe Dream And A Promise
Hudson Mohawk - Polyfolk Dance EP
Soul Control - Cycles
Set Your Goals - This Will Be the Death Of Us
If you were to ask me, the year 2009 was a pretty weak year for music, in an indefinate limbo between all the different formats and media acceptance of music. Some of the best independent artist being signed to huge major labels, some of the best independent labels trying to act like they are a major label, major label artists dropping back to independent labels. Downloading, Itunes, Digital Radio, Podcasts, Videos, blah blah blah....but with all the crap and mediocre music being released it just made the good releases EVEN BETTER! So when you listened to it, within the first song you were like "Wow, this is so much better then everything else right now, already!"
Top 10 of the Decade
2000 up to 2004
Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep (2000)
North Of America - Brothers and Sisters (2003)
7 Angels 7 Plagues - Jahzmynes Lullaby (2001)
the Locust - Plague Soundscapes (2003)
Planes Mistaken For Stars - Up in Them Guts (2004)
Sigur Ros - ( ) (2002)
Dilute - Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape (2002)
Converge - Jane Doe (2001)
Tortoise - Its All Around You (2004)
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind (2004)
2005 up to 2010
Flying Lotus - Los Angelas (2008)
Modern Life Is War - Witness (2005)
Converge - No Heroes (2006)
Battles - Mirrored (2007)
Daft Punk - Human After All (2005)
Animal Collective - Feels (2005)
Burial - Untrue (2007)
the Cool Kids - Bake Sale EP (2008)
Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You (2008)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
So, i started making a top 10 list of the decade, i had it all ready and good...and then i started thinking about the FULL 10 years. I mean, i went through almost all of junior high and all of high school through the first part of this past decade and those are filled with huge musical expiriances, loads of discovery and finding new music and everything. I worked in a record store for almost 4 years for pete' sake! I discovered so much new music that i am in fact, STILL laughing about it. So i had to split it up, early half of decade and late half of decade. And still then, they are all personal preferances. Now if you were to ask me about the more political side of these lists and have me make a lists of music that i feel benefited and expanded the entire music culture, bands and albums who pushed boundries, created new levels, and who really taught the listeners the TRUE meaning of music, then i can do that too. But what you see up there, are simply the albums that i feel benefited me. When i think back on a special time of my life, what was i listening to most? Or how can i leave an album out of the "Top whatever" lists that i listened to every single day for two years straight? You might not have listened to that album as much as me, you might not even like it, but for me...Its in my top 10 lists...But even then, if i were to sit here and make a lists of groups and bands who pushed boundries its still personal preferance, its still my opinion, your opinion probably differs from mine.
So thats the first of the music top 10 lists. Oh, and i guess i will tell you now that they are not in any particular order, there is no #1 or anything.
For me, this list making was started when my good friend Arron asked me to do a top 10 albums of 2009 or top 10 albums of the past decade, cause she owns the best record shop in Traverse City, Mi. that i frequently visit. And she wanted to put my lists up on their websit...awesome................
So, now i will begin to create lists:
My first one will be the lists i submitted to Arron:
top 10 of 2009:
Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy
Nosaj Thing - Drift
Converge - Axe To Fall
Trapped Under Ice - Secret Of the World
Benoit - Demo '09
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Finale - A Pipe Dream And A Promise
Hudson Mohawk - Polyfolk Dance EP
Soul Control - Cycles
Set Your Goals - This Will Be the Death Of Us
If you were to ask me, the year 2009 was a pretty weak year for music, in an indefinate limbo between all the different formats and media acceptance of music. Some of the best independent artist being signed to huge major labels, some of the best independent labels trying to act like they are a major label, major label artists dropping back to independent labels. Downloading, Itunes, Digital Radio, Podcasts, Videos, blah blah blah....but with all the crap and mediocre music being released it just made the good releases EVEN BETTER! So when you listened to it, within the first song you were like "Wow, this is so much better then everything else right now, already!"
Top 10 of the Decade
2000 up to 2004
Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep (2000)
North Of America - Brothers and Sisters (2003)
7 Angels 7 Plagues - Jahzmynes Lullaby (2001)
the Locust - Plague Soundscapes (2003)
Planes Mistaken For Stars - Up in Them Guts (2004)
Sigur Ros - ( ) (2002)
Dilute - Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape (2002)
Converge - Jane Doe (2001)
Tortoise - Its All Around You (2004)
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind (2004)
2005 up to 2010
Flying Lotus - Los Angelas (2008)
Modern Life Is War - Witness (2005)
Converge - No Heroes (2006)
Battles - Mirrored (2007)
Daft Punk - Human After All (2005)
Animal Collective - Feels (2005)
Burial - Untrue (2007)
the Cool Kids - Bake Sale EP (2008)
Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You (2008)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
So, i started making a top 10 list of the decade, i had it all ready and good...and then i started thinking about the FULL 10 years. I mean, i went through almost all of junior high and all of high school through the first part of this past decade and those are filled with huge musical expiriances, loads of discovery and finding new music and everything. I worked in a record store for almost 4 years for pete' sake! I discovered so much new music that i am in fact, STILL laughing about it. So i had to split it up, early half of decade and late half of decade. And still then, they are all personal preferances. Now if you were to ask me about the more political side of these lists and have me make a lists of music that i feel benefited and expanded the entire music culture, bands and albums who pushed boundries, created new levels, and who really taught the listeners the TRUE meaning of music, then i can do that too. But what you see up there, are simply the albums that i feel benefited me. When i think back on a special time of my life, what was i listening to most? Or how can i leave an album out of the "Top whatever" lists that i listened to every single day for two years straight? You might not have listened to that album as much as me, you might not even like it, but for me...Its in my top 10 lists...But even then, if i were to sit here and make a lists of groups and bands who pushed boundries its still personal preferance, its still my opinion, your opinion probably differs from mine.
So thats the first of the music top 10 lists. Oh, and i guess i will tell you now that they are not in any particular order, there is no #1 or anything.
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