Wednesday, December 24, 2008

My Favorite 25 Albums of 2008

1. Steve Reich- Daniel Variations (Originally Performed in 2006 released this year)
2. Grouper-Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
3. Tobacco-Fucked Up Friends
4. Ponytail-Ice Cream Spiritual
5. Pivot- Soundtrack O Soundtrack My Heart
6. Nat Baldwin-MVP
7. School of Seven Bells- Alpinisms
8. Matmos- Supreme Balloon
9. Max Tundra- Parallax Error Beheads You
10. Why?- Alopecia
11. High Places- High Places
12. Department of Eagles- In Ear Park
13. El Guincho- Alegranza!
14. M83- Saturdays=Youth
15. Alan Scheurman- Old Patterns
16. Silent Years- The Globe
17. Atlas Sound- Let the Blind Lead those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
18. Deerhunter- Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
19. Animal Collective-Water Curses
20. Beach House-Devotion
21- Benoit Piolard- Temper
22. Cryptacize- Dig That Treasure
23. Fleet Foxes-Ragged Wood
24. Foals- Antidotes
25. Lucky Dragons- Dream Island Laughing Language

Monday, December 22, 2008

A Poem by Wendell Berry!

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.

And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.

When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.

Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.

Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.

Listen to carrion -- put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.

Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?

Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.

As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go.

Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

CHOOSE LOVE!

Cool Website!

http://www.realitysandwich.com/