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 Ribcap
Hitting your head while skiing can put a real damper on your vacation. That's what the creators behind Swiss-based Ribcap thought too. So they designed a new hat to protect their noggins. Yours too. In addition to being really cool, super stylish and hip, the secret behind Ribcap's push into the marketplace is what's inside the woolen cap: d3o.
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 Best of 2008
MUSIC
Best Records:
1. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Lie Down in the Light (Drag City)
2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – DIG!!! LAZARUS DIG!!! (Mute/ANTI-)
3. Anathallo – Canopy Glow (Anticon)
4. Wovenhand – Ten Stones (Sounds Familyre)
5. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes and Sun Giant EP (Sub Pop)
6. WHY? – Alopecia (Anticon)
7. Arthur Russell – Love is Overtaking Me (Audika)
8. John Spalding’s LoveLand – The Beautiful Truth (self-released)
9. David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (self-released)
10. TV on the Radio – Dear Science (4AD/Interscope)
Honorable Mentions:
- Various Artists – Awake, My Soul: The Original Soundtrack / Help Me to Sing: Songs of the Sacred Harp (Awake Productions)
- Wale – The Mixtape About Nothing (self-released)
- DeVotchKa – A Mad and Faithful Telling (ANTI-)
- Lil’ Wayne – The Carter III (Cash Money/Universal/Young Money)
- GZA/Genius – Pro Tools (Babygrande)
- Wesley Mathais Wilson – No One on My Mind (self-released)
Disasters:
- Guns ‘n’ Roses – Chinese Democracy
- Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak
- Scarlett Johansson – Anywhere I Lay My Head
Songs:
Anathallo – "John J. Audubon"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – "Jesus of the Moon"
Fleet Foxes – "White Winter Hymnal"
Mr. Williams – “Cooley at Bay”
WHY? – "Fatalist Palmistry"
Wovenhand – "Horsetail"
Nas featuring Stic Man (Dead Prez) – "Association"
Damien Jurado – "Gillian is a Horse"
Frank Lenz – "Hot Licks Hoolahan"
The Out_Circuit – "Come Out Shooting"
Lil' Wayne – "A Milli"
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death – "RC and Whiskey"
GZA/Genius – "Paper Plate"
Starflyer 59 – "Minor Keys"
Arthur Russell – “The Letter”
SHOWS
Music:
Wovenhand, The Dodos - The Note
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Black Diamond Heavies - Vic Theatre
Anathallo, Cale Parks - Schubas
WHY? - Abbey Pub
Damien Jurado, Jeremy Enigk - Abbey Pub
Public Enemy - Pitchfork Fest
Jarvis Cocker, Fleet Foxes - Pitchfork Fest
Wesley Mathais Wilson - Uncommon Ground
WHY?, Anni Rossi - The Bottom Lounge
Comedy/Spoken Word:
Derrick C. Brown Poetry Slam and others - Durty Nellies
Paul Mooney - Carolines on Broadway
Leo Allen, Jessi Klein, Eric Drysdale, Arj Barker, etc. - Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (NYC)
Todd Barry - Lakeshore
Kevin Nealon - Zanies
Jeffrey Ross - Zanies
David Alan Grier - The Improv
BOOKS
Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me – Anthology, edited by Ben Karlin
Death By Love – Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears
The Last American Valentine – Anthology, edited by Derrick C. Brown
Yes, You’re Pregnant, But What About Me? – Kevin Nealon
FILMS
The Dark Knight
Burn After Reading
Call + Response
Wild Combination
Religulous
RADIO/PODCASTS
Mars Hill Bible Church (Seattle)
The Sound of Young America
TV
- Weeds (Showtime)
- The Daily Show – Indecision 2008 (Comedy Central)
- Childrens’ Hospital (WB – Web series)
- Louis CK: Chewed Up (Showtime Special)
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 Back In The Game
Hello to the four people that read my blog months and months ago, I have returned from my treasure hunt in South America that was filled with machete fights to the death, hours upon hours of vine swinging, and the exhilaration of finding ancient riches while nearly escaping capture from dart-spitting locals. Well, that’s not entirely true, I didn’t have enough free time to truly appreciate the soothing pastime that is vine swinging. Read more... |
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 COUNTRY THUNDER 2008
In 5 straight days if you did not sit in your own beer at least once, you did something wrong.
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 Booze, bowling, and Bolexes
I've had my share of strange nights, most of them involving talking cops out of giving me DUIs or arguing politics with ex-GI's or hitting on drunken frat boys'girlfriends just too see their facial expressions change. Friday wasn't like that at all. Strange? Absolutely. Dangerous? To a very minimal degree. But it was only strange enough to remind me that the perfect friday night could well be the mix of business and pleasure split straight down the middle. the dangerous part? i might tell you that one a little later.
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