"Remember when you procrastinate you choose last" - Incubus

Trying to figure out a Top 25 list from 2009 is nearly impossible. 12 months is a freaking long time. Had my ipod not been stolen some time in August, I think the task may have been easier. Regardless, I'm going to give you my top 25 songs that I still listen to regularly. (My post titles will be helping me a lot.)
Drum roll please.
In no particular order:

1. MGMT - Kids
2. Phoenix - Lisztomania
3. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
4. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
5. Passion Pit - Cuddle Fuddle
6. *Loudon Wainwright III - Pretty Little Martha
7. Lupe Fiasco - Switch
8. *Dave Alvin - King of California
9. Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief
10. Ting Tings - Be the One
11. Incubus - Certain Shade of Green (Acoustic)
12. Chairlift - Bruises
13. Vetiver - Everyday
14. Rogue Wave - Eyes
15. Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
16. Mates of State - My Only Offer
17. Bloc Party - Banquet
18. Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
19. *Timber Timbre - No Bold Villain
20. Iron and Wine - Flightless Bird
21. Nelly Furtado - All Good Things
22. Colbie Caillat - Fallin' For You
23. Robert Plant - All the Kings Horses
24. *These United States - I Want You to Keep Everything
25. *Them Crooked Vultures - No One Loves Me and Neither Do I

Honorable mentions:
Thom Yorke - Hearing Damage
Lykke Li - Possibility
Paper Route - Are We All Forgotten
El Perro Del Mar - Change of Heart

*not found on playlist.com
Special thanks to Paige for giving me this idea <3

"I know how to be lost in lust" - Them Crooked Vultures

Drum roll please.

...The Top 50 Blogged Artists of 2009 is finally out! Brought to you by your neighborhood music blog search engine, The Hype Machine.

And, they're streaming the Top 50 Albums at this site. 

Eat all the music you can at this instrumental smorgasbord.



I think I shall put together my own list of top 2009 finds soon. These boys will be on there for sure:
Them Crooked Vultures - No one loves me and neither do I

Stay tuned.

"Do me a favor, call me jerk one more time" - New Boyz

Apologies for the lack of blogging in my life, reading and publishing alike. The holidays were kind of a rush with work, and I've been more social lately, I guess...?
In any case I have a story, a song, AND a video for you, entitled punks.

So I'm reading a friend's paper. A friend I respect, mostly because of his vocabulary and the IQ score that it alludes to. So imagine my surprise when I came across a GRE vocab word that he uses incorrectly. I had to do a mental double take because at first I wasn't sure.  
Wait...does that word fit? No, I must have the wrong definition...no...no it definitely is used wrong in this sentence.
I tried to think of how many words he's used incorrectly that I haven't noticed. How many smiles and nods have I given while the dictionary pages flip helplessly in my head, searching for that crucial definition that ultimately changes the meaning of the entire conversation? How many times has he knowingly used a word incorrectly and watched me nod and smile like a fool pretending to know what he's talking about?
I wasn't sure if I should pay more attention to the embarrassment I was feeling of not catching possible mis-usage of words, or the satisfaction that I caught him in his perhaps too cocky use of big words.
In either case, I wanted to call him out on his mistake. How dare he use an English word improperly. I mean, anyone with less of a reputation I would dismiss the mistake as a result of flawed education or foul breeding...but he holds himself in such a way that even his extended circle, including myself, considers him a Gentleman and a Scholar.

So what did I do?

I kept my mouth shut and kept reading.
After all, he is a Gentleman.

Also, this song has grown on me over the months. I think I'm officially back into the hiphop phase of my music taste.


After you love the song, watch the video. Next time you're at a dance party and this song comes on, you'll be the center of attention instead of that nerd in the corner sipping away at your drink.



My favorite? The Reject.