I don’t usually do lists but I thought i would put one together this year. Follow the links!.
Not in any order.
MUSIC:
These are records I found myself going back to over and over, sometimes for just one song.
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Clint Mansell - Moon O.S.T.
Coliseum – Demos Oct 2009
Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive
Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye
Naam – Naam
Om – God Is Good
Guano Padano – Guano Padano
Reigning Sound – Love And Curses
Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak Of Araby
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Converge – Axe To Fall
The Beatles – Stereo/Mono Box Sets
Masshysteri – Var Del Av Stan
Satanic Threat – In To Hell
Tweak Bird – Reservations
Wardruna – Gap Var Ginnunga
Wolves In The Throne Room – Malevolent Grain
Keelhaul – Triumphant Return To Obscurity
Alex Goose – The Blueprint 3 Outtakes
Dave Rawlings Machine – A Friend of a Friend
Animal Hospital – Memory
Dinosaur Jr – Farm
Almost made the list:
Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
Baroness – Blue Record
Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
Church Of Misery – Houses Of The Unholy
Crippled Black Phoenix – The Resurrectionists / Night Raider
Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist
Rise And Fall – Our Circle Is Vicious
PJ Harvey And John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
Russian Circles – Geneva
Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder
YOB – The Great Cessation
STUFF:
It’s been a good year and a weird year with plenty of highs and lows. here are some of the highs.
Still being SELF -employed. 5 years in!
JZ (my life buddy) being self-employed.
People asking me to be in art shows.
People buying art from me.
Cashew the kitten. (In the photo above in her Cat & Box nap unit).
BOSCH 1590EVSK Jigsaw.
Bosch EXTRA CLEAN FOR WOOD Jigsaw Blades.
Williamson Bros Chipotle BBQ Sauce.
Being in MATT and DANIELLE’S wedding.
Starting a love affair with BRUSSELS SPROUTS .
After giving tons of yellcouragement, to him to see MATT’S photo career take off this year has been awesome…..but now I am jealous of his success.
The DEKALB FARMERS MARKET .
OBAMA being inaugurated in Jan. A vote against crazy.
WEBSITES:
Some of my favorite bookmarks.
DANGEROUS MINDS
KOTTKE
NEATORAMA
OMG POSTERS
BOING BOING
CREEP MACHINE
POPULAR SCIENCE
GOOD THINGS INTERNATIONAL
HOWLING PRINT
DOUBLE CROSS
SELVEDGE YARD
WE LOVE YOU SO
MIKE SHINE
GLEN E FRIEDMAN
JEREMY FISH