Andrew Fowler Year-End Blowout Woooo!!!
So 2007 had some good and some bad, most of which I really don't feel like talking about in any kind of retrospective fashion.
TOP 10 WHOA:
1. Deerhunter-- Cryptograms
2. Sally Shapiro-- Disco Romance
3. A Sunny Day in Glasgow-- Scribble Mural Comic Journal
4. Dan Deacon-- Spiderman of the Rings
5. Liars-- s/t
6. Mirah & Spectratone International-- Share This Place
7. The Arcade Fire-- Neon Bible
8. Deerhoof-- Friend Opportunity
9. Justice-- (cross)
10. No Age-- Weirdo Rippers
OTHER STUFF I LIKED, OLD AND NEW:
Flosstradamus-- "Act a Fool (Lil John vs. Zombie Nation)"
The Smiths-- "Panic"
The Klaxons-- Myths of the Near Future
Ryan Paris-- "Dolce Vita"
Joni Mitchell-- Blue
The Band-- Music from Big Pink
The Pop Group-- Y
Purple Crush-- "Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover)"
Chromatics-- "Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover)"
Kate Bush-- "Running Up That Hill"
Glass Candy-- Iko Iko EP
Nico-- The Marble Index
Brightblack Morning Light-- s/t
The Replacements-- Tim
Blondie-- "Atomic"
Anything Valerie Dore touches
OTHER NON-MUSIC THINGS I LIKED IN GENERAL:
Murderapolis, making video stills, pamphlets, Luis Bunuel, using Deleuze and various Deleuzean theorists (Soja, Negri, etc.) to cure fascist malaise, Yasujiro Ozu, Salman Rushdie, walking down Ashland Avenue in Chicago a long ways, Par Lagerkvist, bocce and trivia at the Nomad Pub, rare sourdoughs, the word "cuntquistador," Pedro Almodovar, Umberto Eco, whiskey and Sprite, Flemish giant rabbits, the London Necropolis Railway, Kenzaburo Oe, hella foosball, chipotle-mustard-honey sauce, pseudobaptism in the Mississippi at Sabula, Iowa, Saint Louis karaoke adventures, maps vs. images, DJ hangings, studies in sedimentology, mime makeup, Chicago spring geospatial imagination intensive, Tahar ben Jelloun, anomie of various flavors...
So 2008, let's drink & dance & screw because there's nothing else to do!
TOP 10 WHOA:
1. Deerhunter-- Cryptograms
2. Sally Shapiro-- Disco Romance
3. A Sunny Day in Glasgow-- Scribble Mural Comic Journal
4. Dan Deacon-- Spiderman of the Rings
5. Liars-- s/t
6. Mirah & Spectratone International-- Share This Place
7. The Arcade Fire-- Neon Bible
8. Deerhoof-- Friend Opportunity
9. Justice-- (cross)
10. No Age-- Weirdo Rippers
OTHER STUFF I LIKED, OLD AND NEW:
Flosstradamus-- "Act a Fool (Lil John vs. Zombie Nation)"
The Smiths-- "Panic"
The Klaxons-- Myths of the Near Future
Ryan Paris-- "Dolce Vita"
Joni Mitchell-- Blue
The Band-- Music from Big Pink
The Pop Group-- Y
Purple Crush-- "Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover)"
Chromatics-- "Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover)"
Kate Bush-- "Running Up That Hill"
Glass Candy-- Iko Iko EP
Nico-- The Marble Index
Brightblack Morning Light-- s/t
The Replacements-- Tim
Blondie-- "Atomic"
Anything Valerie Dore touches
OTHER NON-MUSIC THINGS I LIKED IN GENERAL:
Murderapolis, making video stills, pamphlets, Luis Bunuel, using Deleuze and various Deleuzean theorists (Soja, Negri, etc.) to cure fascist malaise, Yasujiro Ozu, Salman Rushdie, walking down Ashland Avenue in Chicago a long ways, Par Lagerkvist, bocce and trivia at the Nomad Pub, rare sourdoughs, the word "cuntquistador," Pedro Almodovar, Umberto Eco, whiskey and Sprite, Flemish giant rabbits, the London Necropolis Railway, Kenzaburo Oe, hella foosball, chipotle-mustard-honey sauce, pseudobaptism in the Mississippi at Sabula, Iowa, Saint Louis karaoke adventures, maps vs. images, DJ hangings, studies in sedimentology, mime makeup, Chicago spring geospatial imagination intensive, Tahar ben Jelloun, anomie of various flavors...
So 2008, let's drink & dance & screw because there's nothing else to do!