In Between Days

Wow. It's been a while. I should have kept this blog up. One of the problems I had was the lack of time. I will try to keep up. I do want to talk about some books, music, films, and art that has been on my mind the last year.

• Daft Punk's 2007 Alive was my favorite album of last year. And it beat out some good albums (GaGaGaGaGa, The Reminder, and Boxer to name a few).
  
• I became seriously obsessed with Sufjan Stevens since my last post. There are only two other bands that I felt that way about in my life -- The Cure and The Replacements. And like them, I don't get tired of his music.
  
• 4 of the best picture nominees were great films. I really thought Micheal Clayton was the best of them. But Atonement? Seriously? What a waste of acting talent. Everything seemed forced. I truly hated that film.
  
• My favorite movie of the summer is Ironman.
  
• The reissues of the first 4 Replacements cd's by Rhino are a gift from god. I'm reading The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History. I will not post a review of the book. I will post what I discovered while reading the book. But here is the teaser: I've learned more about me then I did the replacements.
  
• Still haven't bought Zen Arcade
  

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Now playing: Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
via FoxyTunes

Wishlist

I sample music from other peoples blogs. But I don't believe in downloading whole albums. Not anymore anyways. I mean I know what it's like to struggle to make a living. Hell, I'm a teacher and that's the best paying job I've ever had. So here are twenty or so cd's I want to buy, in no particular order:

1. Spoon -- GaGaGaGa
   
2. Feist -- The Reminder
   
3. The Mars Volta -- Amputechture
   
4. Daft Punk -- Musique, Vol. 1: 1993-2005
   
5. Daft Punk -- Daft Club
   
6. Minus the Bear -- Planet of Ice
   
7. The National -- Boxer
   
8. Phoenix -- It's Never Been Like That
   
9. Rufus Wainwright -- Want One
   
10. Rufus Wainwright -- Want Two
    
11. Rufus Wainwright -- Release the Stars
    
12. Moonbabies -- Moonbabies at the Ballroom
    
13. Moonbabies -- The Orange Billboard
    
14. Feist -- Let it Die
    
15. Lucinda Williams -- West
    
16. Snow Patrol -- Eyes Open
    
17. Whiskeytown -- Stranger's Alamanac
    
18. Husker Du -- Zen Arcade How do I not own this!!!
    
19. Tori Amos -- American Doll Posse
    
20. The new Radiohead cd (maybe this year)
    
21. New Cure cd (should have one since they are going on tour but not to New Orleans)
    

There are more. But I have to give thanks for MP3 blogs. Radio doesn't play music that has anything to do with my life. A good number of those artists I had read about in magazines or had friends discuss, but through the mp3 blogs, I could actually listen and discover them.