First real post, a name change, and a video, too!

[There used to be a video here. Unfortunately, I can’t afford a Wordpress video upgrade right now. You can view the original video at my old Tumblr…

end-of-year shenanigans, part I of ?

This is the classic survey that originated somewhere on the internet.
(Sorry, the “read more” link doesn’t seem to be working, and I’m not sure how to fix it. So this is scroll-a-rific.)

2010 album purchases (2010 releases only)

[these are not clickable. I Amazon’d the photos, downloaded them, re-uploaded them, and re-sized them. That was enough. Also, Winterpills refuse to sit next to Vampire Weekend. I don’t know why.]

addenda

Some last-minute additions to the 2010 albums list:

hey, where’s the top 10 list?

Not done, that’s where. As if you needed more evidence that I am not a Legit Music Critic and could never be one, my issue this year — more so than in past years, even — is that I latched onto a few favorite albums and listened to them over and over and over, instead of giving…

happy periwinkle days and post-Rhett swett

This stunner of a cake dates from April 2008, when I embarked on CONCERT BINGE 08, a…

what the other people said

Stereogum’s top 50 albums of 2010.

I only bought… SIX of these**. My hipster cred just plummeted 5,000 points.

**and really, really can’t get into Arcade Fire, no matter how much I’ve tried over the years, ever since Funeral was…

blathering recaps — Sept. and Oct. 2010

Some recent shows, in all their rambling glory:

Sept. 13: I went to see Vampire Weekend in the gorgeous outdoor setting of Mountain Park on a just-beginning-to-get-cool fall evening. Dum Dum Girls and Beach House opened. In the course…