I have to state again, emphatically and with unwavering conviction, that 2009 was one of the single best years of music I have experienced personally in my 27 years of being musically active. For the first time in recent memory, my Top 25 can be filled entirely with music released in 2009. That speaks volumes about how amazing this year was.

Songs ( Read more... )

The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
This song sets up the entire story.  We learn right away that a young lady - who we will later love as our heroine Margaret - goes horseriding out past the fields, far from home.  She crosses into the forest, as she often does, and comes upon a young deer at the edge ( Read more... )

I can remember three absolutely transcending concert moments from this year:

1. Goodbye Sky Harbor - Jimmy Eat World, Club Nokia:  Hearing the seminal soundtrack from what is perhaps the most emotional and confusing and distressing and dramatic era of my life live in it's entirety with my bestest friend of all time at a tiny theater was one of the ( Read more... )

I bought another wave of posters from Poster Cabaret today.  Ten total, about $250 worth.  I was slightly stunned by that figure after I hit 'purchase' but when I rationalize it, I am basically buying unique, high quality art for a steal.  I mean, an average of $25/piece is incredible.  Originally I wanted to frame them all, but that's when the ( Read more... )

And here I dreamt I was a soldier
And I marched the streets of Birkenau
And I recall in spring
The perfume that the air would bring
To the indolent town
Where the barkers call the moon down
The carnival was ringing loudly now
And just to lay with you
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
Save lay my rifle down
And try one, and try two ( Read more... )