2008 sound + vision
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chouchootanother year, another tradition of media and miscellany. late as heck but better than not at all.
top 3 concerts/shows of 2008:
1. (tie) nick cave @ crystal ballroom & antony @ arlene schnitzer hall
2. jens lekman @ berbati's
3. beach house @ holocene
runner up: misfats @ slabtown
top 3 songs of 2008:
1. okkerivil river - lost coastlines
2. free blood - royal family
3. the national - daughter of the soho riots
4. kings of leon - sex on fire
top 5 albums of 2008:
1. jens lekman - night falls over kortedala
2. hercules and love affair - self titled
3. grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill
4. okkervil river - the stand ins
5. calexico - carried to dust
top 5 films of 2008:
(i saw approximately 2 films in the theatre this year so this is going to be a list of 1 of those + 4 favorites from netflix)
1. turtles can fly
2. the diving bell and the butterfly
3. there will be blood
4. into the wild
5. 20 centimeters
top 3 obsessions of 2008:
1. DJing (promoting/new gigs/learning traktor/new music)
2. biking
3. project 365
3 "good things" of 2008:
1. SELLING MY HOUSE
2. my job
3. living car-free
3 "bad things" of 2008:
1. financial instability for months 1-10 (mortgage payment, unemployment until march, plethora of "house issues" like the water bill, repairs, taking a horrible offer and paying a gazillion dollars to close)
2. body issues: flu from hell, gallbladder, door prize
trips of 2008:
1) seattle WA (x2)
2) milwaukee WI and chicago IL
3) new orleans LA
4) vancouver, BC canada
local wanderings: oregon coast, ecola state park, mt. st. helens, mt. hood, the grotto, sauvie island, powell butte (x2), multnomah falls (x2), mt. tabor, forest park, cathedral park, alberta park, various wineries
2008 booklist
1) winkie - clifford chase
2) lolita* - vladamir nabakov
3) sweet machine - mark doty
4) queen of the oddballs - hillary carlip
5) pulp - charles bukowski
6) extremely loud and incredibly close* - jonathan safran foer
7) wuthering heights - emily bronte
8) accordian crimes - annie proulx
9) water for elephants - sara gruen
10) under the volcano - malcolm lowry
11) the powerbook - jeanette winterson
12) sleeping with a famous poet - cathleen calbert
13) bad behavior - mary gaitskill
14) the ethical slut - dossie easton and catherine a liszt
15) ham on rye - charles bukowski
16) love alone - paul monette
17) through the flower: my struggle as a woman artist - judy chicago
18) the stories of breece d'j pancake - breece d'j pancake
19) adverbs* - daniel handler
20) skinny legs and all - tom robbins
21) pale fire - vladamir nabakov
22) you shall know our velocity!* - dave eggers
23) the book of courtesans - susan griffin
24) i am america (and so can you) - stephen colbert (audiobook)
25) birds of america - lorrie moore
26) lies my teacher told me: everything your american history textbook got wrong - james w. loewen
27) wonder boys - michael chambon
28) everything i ate: a year in the life of my mouth - tucker shaw
29) perpetual care: stories - james nolan
30) dog years - mark doty
31) the chainbreaker bike book: a rough guide to bicycle maintenance - shelley lynn jackson & ethan clark
32) turn of the screw - henry james
*favorites
unfinished:
the lolita effect - m. gigi durham
last night a DJ saved my life
top 3 concerts/shows of 2008:
1. (tie) nick cave @ crystal ballroom & antony @ arlene schnitzer hall
2. jens lekman @ berbati's
3. beach house @ holocene
runner up: misfats @ slabtown
top 3 songs of 2008:
1. okkerivil river - lost coastlines
2. free blood - royal family
3. the national - daughter of the soho riots
4. kings of leon - sex on fire
top 5 albums of 2008:
1. jens lekman - night falls over kortedala
2. hercules and love affair - self titled
3. grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill
4. okkervil river - the stand ins
5. calexico - carried to dust
top 5 films of 2008:
(i saw approximately 2 films in the theatre this year so this is going to be a list of 1 of those + 4 favorites from netflix)
1. turtles can fly
2. the diving bell and the butterfly
3. there will be blood
4. into the wild
5. 20 centimeters
top 3 obsessions of 2008:
1. DJing (promoting/new gigs/learning traktor/new music)
2. biking
3. project 365
3 "good things" of 2008:
1. SELLING MY HOUSE
2. my job
3. living car-free
3 "bad things" of 2008:
1. financial instability for months 1-10 (mortgage payment, unemployment until march, plethora of "house issues" like the water bill, repairs, taking a horrible offer and paying a gazillion dollars to close)
2. body issues: flu from hell, gallbladder, door prize
trips of 2008:
1) seattle WA (x2)
2) milwaukee WI and chicago IL
3) new orleans LA
4) vancouver, BC canada
local wanderings: oregon coast, ecola state park, mt. st. helens, mt. hood, the grotto, sauvie island, powell butte (x2), multnomah falls (x2), mt. tabor, forest park, cathedral park, alberta park, various wineries
2008 booklist
1) winkie - clifford chase
2) lolita* - vladamir nabakov
3) sweet machine - mark doty
4) queen of the oddballs - hillary carlip
5) pulp - charles bukowski
6) extremely loud and incredibly close* - jonathan safran foer
7) wuthering heights - emily bronte
8) accordian crimes - annie proulx
9) water for elephants - sara gruen
10) under the volcano - malcolm lowry
11) the powerbook - jeanette winterson
12) sleeping with a famous poet - cathleen calbert
13) bad behavior - mary gaitskill
14) the ethical slut - dossie easton and catherine a liszt
15) ham on rye - charles bukowski
16) love alone - paul monette
17) through the flower: my struggle as a woman artist - judy chicago
18) the stories of breece d'j pancake - breece d'j pancake
19) adverbs* - daniel handler
20) skinny legs and all - tom robbins
21) pale fire - vladamir nabakov
22) you shall know our velocity!* - dave eggers
23) the book of courtesans - susan griffin
24) i am america (and so can you) - stephen colbert (audiobook)
25) birds of america - lorrie moore
26) lies my teacher told me: everything your american history textbook got wrong - james w. loewen
27) wonder boys - michael chambon
28) everything i ate: a year in the life of my mouth - tucker shaw
29) perpetual care: stories - james nolan
30) dog years - mark doty
31) the chainbreaker bike book: a rough guide to bicycle maintenance - shelley lynn jackson & ethan clark
32) turn of the screw - henry james
*favorites
unfinished:
the lolita effect - m. gigi durham
last night a DJ saved my life
