1. Blackbird Blackbird - Pure 2. Small Black - Despicable Dogs 3. Hazy Mountains - Regret 4. Teen Daze - Gone For The Summer 5. DyE - Fantasy 6. Hammock – Parkers Chapel 7. Teen Daze - Driving Home From The Beach (The Feeling Of) 8. Toro Y Moi - Blessa 9. Millionyoung - Sunndreamm 10. Sigur Rós – Lúppulagið 11. Slow Magic - Feel Flows 12. Small Black – Light Curse 13. Small Black - Camouflage (Millionyoung Remix) 14. Washed Out – Soft 15. Sigur Ros - Varúð 16. Wet Wings - Feeeel It 17. Slow Magic - Corvette Cassette 18. Mint Julep - Aviary 19. Radiohead - The Daily Mail 20. Small Black – Photojournalist 21. Washed Out - Eyes Be Closed (SposhRock Remix) 22. Slow Magic - Feel Flows (Giraffage Remix) 23. Small Black - Pleasant Experience 24. Slow Magic - O 25. Atoms For Peace - Cymbal Rush (Live) 26. Neon Indian – Halogen 27. M83 – Raconte-Moi Une Histoire 28. Neon Indian – Polish Girl 29. Hazy Mountains - All Gone Away 30. Washed Out - #4 31. Blackbird Blackbird - Avalanche 32. Millionyoung - Local Joke (Neon Indian Cover) 33. Small Black - Lady in the Wires 34. The Antlers - Kettering 35. Helios - For Years And Years
12 Best Songs of the Past 12 Months
Blackbird Blackbird - Pure
Millionyoung - Sunndreamm
Radiohead - The Daily Mail
Small Black - Despicable Dogs
Hammock – Parkers Chapel
Toro Y Moi - Blessa
Wet Wings - Feeeel It
Teen Daze - Driving Home From The Beach (The Feeling Of)
DyE - Fantasy
Hazy Mountains - Regret
Slow Magic - Feel Flows
Teen Daze - Gone For The Summer
I went to the rodeo (technically Professional Bull Riding) at Madison Square Garden with my friends last night. The best part about planning a trip to the rodeo, we learned, is that even the most mundane statements sound like folksy expressions with a deeper meaning — just by having the word…
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Radiohead - Cogs (Last Flowers Till the Hospital)
My favorite new albums of 2011 so far
1. Washed Out - Within and Without
2. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
3. Mint Julep - Adorn EP
4. Moby - Destroyed
5. Apparat - The Devil’s Walk *
6. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
7. Sin Fang - Summer Echoes
8. The Radio Dept. - Passive Aggressive
9. Phil Selway - Running Blind EP
10. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
11. A Lily - Thunder Ate The Iron Tree
Still looking forward to:
New Bjork album
New Mint Julep Album (which will likely be the best album of the year)
New M83 album
Maybe:
New Ulrich Schnauss album
New Sigur Ros album??
New Helios album
New Eluvium album
Haters gon hate my plants
Top 25 Video Games.
I applied an algorithm that I used for ranking albums to the 2000+ video games I’ve played since I was 3. Here are the top 25:
1) Final Fantasy VII (PSX 1997)
2) Tecmo Super Bowl (NES 1991)
3) Final Fantasy X (PS2 2001)
4) Resident Evil 4 (PS2 2005)
5) Pokemon Red (GB 1998)
6) Dragon Quest IX (DS 2010)
7) Ace Combat 5 (PS2 2004)
8) Portal 2 (PS3 2011)
9) Grand Theft Auto 4 (360 2008)
10) Braid (PC 2008)
11) Doom (PC 1993)
12) Limbo (PC 2011)
13) Mario Kart 64 (N64 1997)
14) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360 2007)
15) Passage (PC 2007)
16) Bumpy Road (iPhone 2011)
17) Portal (360 2007)
18) Peggle (PC 2007)
19) Unreal Tournament (PC 1999)
20) Gradius 3 (NES 1990)
21) SSX 3 (PS2 2003)
22) God Of War (PS2 2005)
23) Galaga (Arcade 1981)
24) Bioshock (360 2007)
25) Donkey Kong Country (SNES 1994)
My favorite lyric.
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„Það besta sem Guð hefur skapað er nýr dagur”
“The best that God has created is a a new day” by Sigur Rós
Notice that quotation marks in Iceland start at the bottom and end up high.
Dancing in the morning
The soundtrack to my Summer 2011
Lots of Chillwave, but alas is summer.
MillionYoung - Sunndreamm
Monster Movie - Beautiful Arctic Star
Radiohead - The Daily Mail
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Sigur Rós – Óskabörn Þjóðarinnar
Apparat – Ash/Black Veil
The Radio Dept. – Bus
Sigur Rós – Byrgið
Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed
The Radio Dept. – Bachelor Kisses
The Radio Dept. – Strange Things Will Happen
Mint Julep – Invisible Waves
Washed Out - Amor Fati
Washed Out - Soft
Washed Out - You and I
Arcade Fire - Speaking in Tongues
Ulrich Schnauss – Ships will sail
I was listening to this song when I heard the Radiohead -SNL announcement. Fit my mood like nothing else.
