Day 29: Previous Top Albums of the Year (2008)

These next few days are definitely a cop out blogs, because I'm including some previous top albums of the year. This will be here for those looking for them at a later date for comparison once I've finished my top Albums of 2009 post.

Anyway here we go:

Top Albums of 2008:
25. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint that Shit Gold


24. Constantines - Kensington Heights


23. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals


22. Black Keys - Attack & Release


21. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III


20. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours


19. The Roots - Rising Down



18. Beck - Modern Guilt


17. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular


16. No Age - Nouns



15. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark


14. Kings of Leon - Only By Night


13. Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely



12. Santogold - Santogold


11. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E


10. TV on the Radio - Dear Science


9. Los Campesinos! - We are Beautiful, We are Doomed


8. Coldplay - Viva La Vida


7. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic


6. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes


5. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs


4. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins


3. Sigur Ros - Me su eyrum vi spilum endalaust


2. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive


1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Day 28: Previous Top Albums of the Year (2007)

Top Albums of 2007:
20. Brother Ali - Undisputed Truth

19. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

18. The National - Boxer

17. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

16. Jay-Z - American Gangster

15. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin

14. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

13. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

12. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

11. Against Me! - New Wave

10. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

09. Feist - The Reminder

08. Kanye West - Graduation

07. The White Stripes - Icky Thump

06. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

05. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

04. Okkervil River - Stage Names

03. Radiohead - In Rainbows

02. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

01. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Day 27 - Previous Top Albums of The Year (2006)

This is a repost, but back in these days I didn't rank the albums I just grouped them...Good enough still...Although looking back it might just be Thom Yorke's - The Eraser as the best album of the year, but 20/20 hindsight makes everything easy.

The Flaming Lips | At War With the Mystics

P.O.S. | Audition

Muse | Black Holes And Revelations

The Raconteurs | Broken Boy Soldiers

The Hold Steady | Boys And Girls In America

The Decemberists | The Crane Wife

Eagles of Death Metal | Death By Sexy

Destroyer | Destroyer's Rubies

Thom Yorke | The Eraser

Jurassic 5 | Feedback

The Strokes | First Impressions of Earth

Belle & Sebastian | The Life Pursuit

The Gleam | Lookout for Evils

The Black Keys | Magic Potion

Bob Dylan | Modern Times

Bright Eyes | Noise Floor

TV On The Radio | Return To Cookie Mountain

Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere

Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Show Your Bones

Arctic Monkeys | Whatever People Say I Am...

Day 26 - Blogging About not Blogging

Here we are, its been about two week since my last post. I think the main reason being is I got out of my routine and now am no longer sure what to write about. Another reason was the rumored guest blogger was supposed to have a blog for me to post, and then he never did. Damn you "mystery" guest blogger, damn you to hell. Anyway, so here we are back to square one basically. This is my 25th post of the blog, for better or for worse I've made it to the quarter century club, not bad, certainly not great though, in fact I should be able to do much better.

In the absence of this blog I've not had much of an outlet to write which is perhaps the worst side effect. The other is probably that I've killed all my traffic by not actually posting anything new; which is really unfortunate given that I had a modest amount of traffic (both new visitors and repeat visitors). SO its time to reawaken the best and get back on the saddle.

I had said previously that I would restrict this blog to non-sports, politics, movies, etc. basically all of the things I'm interested in, but guess what? I lied, its time to open Pandora's box and just see what comes out. Why would I lie to you? Well probably because I don't respect you or really care, that and its the only way I'm going to get this blog back on its feet. This does not mean that I won't be revisiting the drunken stories or adventures as I've done previously here, those will most definitely still be featured, instead they will now compliment the other content here.

I hope you readers (if there are any) will appreciate the change that this blog will be taking for better or worse. Please let me know your thoughts/suggestions on this sea change.

Some topics of discussion for the future will include (but will not be restricted to):

-Movie Reviews
-Music and Album Reviews
-Sports Recaps/Predictions/Opinions
-Drunken Adventure Storytelling
-Political Diatribe
-Cool or Interesting Internet Finds
-Other...?

Like I said please feel free to weigh in and suggest other topics of discussion as I'd like this to be an open forum for ideas and opinions without being weighed down by trolling or flame wars.

Here's to starting over!

Day 25 - Who Gives a Blog About America?

Well its official, I've obviously not kept up on my 30 days straight of blogging. Oh well, I figure I can do it whenever I feel like it rather than forcing myself to put up something everyday. In theory that should prevent my "content" from diluting....right? Right.

I've stated before that I want to keep this blog a politics free area, and I've done that so far...pretty much. Though today's blog might seem to be a political rant, I don't actually think it is. I think its more of a WTF is wrong with these people type post...but obviously that's for you to decide.

Recently President Obama visited Stockholm, Sweden to persuade the International Olympic Committee to bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to Chicago, his hometown. The committee had narrowed the choices down to the final four cities: Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. President Obama had spoken a few different times about how bringing the Olympics to the US would be a great stimulus to the local economy of the host city. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people would flock to Chicago from all over the world and spend money. In turn, Chicago would build and/or renovate stadiums to host the various events in, which creates jobs, etc. All in all, pretty simply put, it would be a terrific boon to the economy.

Well during President Obama's return trip from Stockholm it was announced that Chicago was to be eliminated from hosting contention. Naturally everyone should be at least somewhat disappointed in this. I mean after all it is something that would most definitely help both the economy and the image of America. As it would turn out, that very day there was a gathering of the conservative think tank Americans for Prosperity had their annual meeting in Virginia that morning. As you would imagine, being a conservative republican organization they must have been broken up about the IOC's decision to not take Chicago.



Wait...what!?

For those of you who don't have sound:

Girl in the background: If anyone cares, Chicago is out.
Crowd Cheers
Girl in the background: (Clearly Excited) On the very first vote!
Crowd Cheers

WHAT THE FUCK!? Really? The Americans for Prosperity are CHEERING at the fact that America just lost the Olympics to Brazil? Really!? Are you fucking kidding me? Remember when Michelle Bachmann (R-etarded) accused Democratic senators of being unpatriotic (only a mere 8 months ago) for not wearing flag lapel pins at all times? Are you kidding? This must have just been an isolated incident, right? I mean do Republicans really hate Obama more than they love America? Or was it a fucking ploy the whole time (as myself and many others have always believed) that they in fact don't like or even love the country they so vehemently defend?

As quoted from the Huffington Post:

"Fox News' Glenn Beck adopted a pained Italian accent to paint the Windy City as ruled by mob control. Beck's colleague, Sean Hannity, meanwhile, asked rhetorically if Chicago was really where 'we want the Olympics taking place.' On September 29, The Drudge Report ran a headline linking to an article about the death of a 16-year-old honor student in a gang fight: 'OLYMPIC SPIRIT: VIDEO SHOWS BRUTAL GANG MURDER IN CHICAGO.'"

Really? Repubs are now resorting to putting not just party ahead of country but hatred of the president above country. What world are these whackjobs living in? Pretty fucking pathetic if you ask me.