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Albums of 2009

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:34:31 -0500

Better late than never, here it is. Overall, a bit weak on (non-instrumental / non-mixtape) hip-hop in 2009:

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Animal Collective - Merriwhether Post Pavilion
Bitte Orca - The Dirty Projectors
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Sleigh Bells - Sleigh Bells (not a “real” album, but strong enough)
The xx - xx
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Nosaj Thing - Drift
St. Vincent - Actor
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz
Major Lazer - Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do
2562 - Unbalance
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Oh No - Dr No’s Ethiopium
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
DM Stith - Heavy Ghost
The Dead Weather - Horehound
DOOM - Born Like This

Mixes & Mixtapes of note:

Jay Electronica - ElectroChemicals
Justice - Cool Cats
Kid Cudi - Dat Kid from Cleveland
Hercules & Love Affair - Sidetracked
DJ Sega - Live at the Bowery Ballroom
Danny! - Where Is Danny?
Pill - 4180: The Prescription
Freddie Gibbs – midwestgangstaboxframecadillilacmuzik
Joker - Purple Wow Sound

Flight of the Conchords: We’re Both In Love With a Sexy...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:50:00 -0400

Flight of the Conchords: We’re Both In Love With a Sexy Lady

Bret: Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Jermaine: No, I’m thinking what I’m thinking. Bret: So you’re not thinking what I’m thinking? Jermaine: No, cause you’re thinking I’m thinking what you’re thinking!

Sydney’s got some crazy dust storms today.

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:36:24 -0400

Sydney’s got some crazy dust storms today.

Timelapse: 365 days of working out. Discipline or steroids?

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:47:00 -0400

Timelapse: 365 days of working out. Discipline or steroids?

The Kanye West meme begins. See also.

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:07:30 -0400

The Kanye West meme begins. See also.

I need some dude's. - m4m - 22 (Facebook)

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:31:48 -0400

I need some dude's. - m4m - 22 (Facebook):

Here’s the deal: My girlfriend makes a fuss about how I’ve got more girl friends than I have guy friends. It is juvenile and stupid and it’s… basically it’s about Facebook. Having lightly checked she’s right, Whoop-dee-do. I have about 3:2 ratio girl to guy friends on facebook. (HOLY CRAP! BAD PERSON!). She worries about this. She thinks I need more guy friends. And I’ve asked her if she thinks I need more guy friends or if she just wants me to have less friends that are girls so that she doesn’t feel threatened all the time.

“I just think you could use more guy friends.”

Which is stupid. I have 400 million guy friends. The fact that I have 600 million girl friends is what’s getting her. Has nothing to do with how many guys, obviously, it has everything to do with how many girls.

She begs to differ though, so here’s what we’re going to do. You’re going to add me as a friend on facebook. www.facebook.com/calebroy

That’s me. Add me, and at least once a week for… what a month? Please make a comment on my wall about how awesome it is to be a guy and be friends. That’s it.

Example: “Whatssup Caleb! Just being my guy self here! Great to be your friend man!”

This chick monitors my facebook like hell on wheels because she’s paranoid as they get. I just want to even the ratio out, even if it’s meaningless, so that she can get off my back about it. I don’t even hardly talk to half those people anyway.

So hey, add me, like I said I really don’t care who you are, I’ll approve you. And I’ll tell you that you’re awesome too. And maybe… together we can win this war.

The Onion: Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:25:00 -0400

The Onion: Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids. Make sure you read the screen captures.

by Jeroom. Another weird one, .

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:53:30 -0400

by Jeroom. Another weird one, .

Transformed poodles, via juliakaganskiy.

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:15:00 -0400

Transformed poodles, via juliakaganskiy.

Beatboxing with pencils.

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:51:46 -0400

Beatboxing with pencils.

Never gonna give up your teen spirit

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:30:36 -0400

Never gonna give up your teen spirit

Wu-Tang’s “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’” in Lego....

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:05:28 -0400

Wu-Tang’s “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’” in Lego. (via SF/J)

Weird Al - Skipper Dan. Follow your dreams! (via waxy)

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:28:35 -0400

Weird Al - Skipper Dan. Follow your dreams! (via waxy)

World’s Fastest Everything, the Compilation. The fastest...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:38:10 -0400

World’s Fastest Everything, the Compilation. The fastest undresser is my favorite. (via kottke)

New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:53:56 -0400

New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time

More Context on the Obama checkout

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:27:00 -0400

More Context on the Obama checkout:

Video footage around the time of the infamous photo casts doubt as to whether Obama was checking the girl out. Either way, it’s pretty much the most important news ever, so I hope the press continues to investigate this further.

Michael Lewis: The Man Who Crashed the World (AIG)

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:03:20 -0400

Michael Lewis: The Man Who Crashed the World (AIG)

Tell Americans What They're Really Paying for Their Food

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:22:00 -0400

Tell Americans What They're Really Paying for Their Food:

Spread over tens of millions of consumers, [subsidy] costs seem small: the average American taxpayer, for example, pays only $322 each year to fund subsidies. But for some of the thousands of farmers who get such payments, the benefits are huge: from 1995 to 2005, roughly 75 percent of subsidy payments went to just 10 percent of the subsidy recipients, who took in an average of $91,000 a year; and 55 farmers received more than $1 million each.

Farm (and tobacco) subsidies, depressingly, are just one of those things that I don’t think will ever change in America.

I have finally made a time machine

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:14:24 -0400

I have finally made a time machine

Maddow on Obama’s Hypocrisy: I didn’t take long at...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:33:03 -0400

Maddow on Obama’s Hypocrisy: I didn’t take long at all for Obama to become Bush-like. Disappointing, albeit not unpredictable.