Top 15 Favourite Albums
1- Kaputt - Destroyer
2- Apocalypse - Bill Callahan
3- Peer Amid - Skull Defekts
4- Burst Apart - The Antlers
5- S/T - K-Holes
6- S/T - Apache Dropout
7- Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Girls
8- Through Donkey Jaw - Amen Dunes
9- Goodbye Bread - Ty Segall
10- C'Mon - Low
11- Underneath the Pines - Toro Y Moi
12- Strange Mercy - St. Vincent
13- S/T - Life Partners
14- No Witch - The Cave Singers
15- S/T - The Soft Moon
Top 10 Favourite Reissues/Remasters
1- 20 Jazz Funk Greats - The Throbbing Gristle
2- The SMiLE Sessions - The Beach Boys
3- 1982-89 - Tara Cross
4- Sessions 1981-83 - Void
5- Who's Gonna Save the World - Father's Children
6- Reflections - Chalk Circle
7- Looks Like Rain - Mickey Newbury
8- 1977-1983 - Kleenex/Liliput
9- Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina
10- Meçhul - Erkin Koray
Top 10 Favourite Various Artist Compilations
1- Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love : Motown's Mowest Story 1971-1973
2- The Hidden Tapes : A Compilation of Minimal Wave from Around the World '79-85
3- Titan : It's All Pop! (originally released in 2008 but finally released on vinyl in 2011)
4- Local Customs : Lone Star Lowlands
5- Those Shocking Shaking Days : Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 70-78
6- Eccentric Soul: The Nickel and Penny Labels
7- Said I Had a Vision : Songs and Labels of David Lee
8- The Sound of Siam : Leftfield Luk thung, Jazz & Molam in Thailand 1964-1975
9- Peruvian Funk
10- Tobacco A-Go-Go : North Carolina Rock and Roll in the 60s
Top 10 Favourite Songs
1- Video Games - Lana Del Rey
2- Music is Hard - Life Partners
3- Vomit - Girls
4- After the Moment - Craft Spells
5- Witches - Low
6- Blue Jeans - Lana Del Rey
7- When You Cut - Moon Duo
8- Psychic Driving - Soft Metals
9- Surf & Turf/Math Tags - Mazes
10- On the Corner - Twilight Singers
Top 10 Favourite Record Labels
1- Numero Group
2- Captured Tracks
3- 4AD
4- Sacred Bones
5- Minimal Wave
6- Merge
7- Sub Pop
8- Vinyl On Demand
9- Mexican Summer
10- Siltbreeze
Top 10 Favourite Live Shows
None because I didn't see any live shows this year.
I normally see between 50 and 60 live shows a year but the music promoters in this city are scum-sucking, scene-killing assholes (yes I'm talking to you BSTB and others of your ilk) who book shows in horrible venues, with late start times and too many opening bands (3 openers on a week night when doors open at 10, fuck you) so I am choosing to no longer support live music in this city.
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FEB 19, 2012 11:13 AM
i really enjoyed that book of irving layton's poetry. i definitely see the similarities to bukowski (especially in the poem "the convertible"!). there were a few poems in the beginning that turned me off because i am not personally a fan of rhyming but other than that i loved it and will probably check out some more of his work. thank you so much for recommending him to me!! it is always refreshing to read new (to me) poems that actually evoke feeing and raise goosebumps on my arms. hope life is swell! 
FEB 19, 2012 12:27 PM
aww thanks doubt i'll shoot again to be fair... It seems SG is loving the fresh teen meat at the moment and as I am rapidly approaching my 24th I do not think I am close enough to teen to get away with it lol. Would rather not become one of those hopezillas that all the girls laugh at because i'm old and they are not :p
FEB 25, 2012 09:07 PM
FEB 26, 2012 10:20 AM
And may your entire day be grand as well!
MAR 09, 2012 12:31 AM
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MAR 14, 2012 09:46 AM
Thanks for the Bday wishes!
MAR 14, 2012 10:39 PM
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MAR 24, 2012 12:42 PM
Aw shucks 
I'm kind of on the fence about Lana Del Rey. I don't have venom for her like a lot of people here, I find her transformation fascinating actually, kind of old studio system Hollywood in a way - but I also find something terribly off-putting about her as well.
MAR 27, 2012 06:17 PM
MAR 28, 2012 12:43 PM
Merci beaucoup c'est adorable
MAR 30, 2012 04:01 AM
Thanks It's great being back.
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