drum roll, please ...
top 10 records of 2006
1 - m. ward - post-war - strangely familiar, folksy singalongs. easily the best thing i heard all year.
2 - yo la tengo - i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass - musically, it's all over the place, and that's a good thing. their best since i can hear the heart beating as one. and the best album title of the year to boot.
3 - tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain - the most challenging record of the year. i bought it last week and it's already up to 3. think what it could have done had i bought it last month.
4 - sparklehorse - dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain - the comeback record of the year. 5 years is way too long.
5 - gob iron - death songs for the living - jay farrar's quietly on a roll. the best folk record of the year.
6 - the hold steady - boys and girls in america - i have to admit it's the best rock n' roll record of the year. it beats lucero's rebels, rogues & sworn brothers and the dram's jubilee dive hands down.
7 - hank iii - straight to hell - kicks my ass every time i listen to it. the best (anti-) country record of the year.
8 - robert pollard - from a compound eye - the best robert pollard record of the year! love is stronger than witchcraft!
9 - jenny lewis with the watson twins - rabbit fur coat - sorry neko, this is the best female indie country record of the year.
10 - the raconteurs - broken boy soliders - the best supergroup record of the year. doesn't it seem like jack white makes the top 10 every year?
top 10 songs of 2006
1 - m. ward - post-war - chinese translation
2 - the flaming lips - at war with the mystics - free radicals
3 - gob iron - death songs for the living - hard times
4 - tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain - wolf like me
5 - jenny lewis (featuring ben gibbard, conor oberst and m.ward) - rabbit fur coat - handle with care (traveling wilburys cover)
6 - paul westerberg - open season soundtrack - love you in the fall
7 - yo la tengo - i am not afraid of you ... - mr. tough
8 - hank iii - straight to hell - pills i took
9 - robert pollard - ... compound eye - dancing girls & dancing men
10 - grant lee phillips - nineteeneighties - age of consent (new order cover)
top 5 movies of 2006
1 - borat: cultural learnings of america for make benefit of glorious nation of kazahkstan
2 - casino royale
3 - the departed
4 - little miss sunshine
5 - rocky balboa (i haven't seen it yet, but it's gotta be in the top 5)
top 5 tv shows of 2006
1 - the office
2 - heroes
3 - big love
4 - entourage
5 - how i met your mother
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
men at work
we've received a lot of holiday cards in the mail lately. pictures, letters, seasons greetings, etc, etc. we thought about sending out one of our own, you know, with chompers sitting on santa's lap, but we couldn't get it out fast enough. nope. iwannabeyourblog will have to do. but anyway, i was opening the mail a couple of days ago, sifting through the bills and holiday cards, when i stumbled upon one i didn't recognize.
it read: "Wishing you a joyous Christmas. Gene, DeWayne and Huggy at Defenbaugh."
"honey," i shouted, "who are the defenbaughs?"
my wife hollered, from downstairs, "they're our trash men."
our trash men? our trash men! that's when it hit me. defenbaugh ... i get it ... they want a tip.
so here's my holiday dilemma: do i tip the trash men? if so, how do i do it? and how much do i tip them? do i tip them at the same time that i set out lots of crap that they wouldn't normally take, you know, like lattis work from the deck, my old barbecue grill, etc, etc, or do i wait until the week after i tip them? if i don't tip them, will they be even more strict about what i set out and when i set it out? i mean, i've had my share of rejected trash items the past few months. tree limbs that weren't bundled. a cheezit box from costco? shards of glass. was all that because the people i bought the house from refused to tip? or maybe they didn't tip enough? do i put a little note with my tip telling them that there's more where that came from if they help me out with the big ticket items?
any and all comments would be much appreciated.
it read: "Wishing you a joyous Christmas. Gene, DeWayne and Huggy at Defenbaugh."
"honey," i shouted, "who are the defenbaughs?"
my wife hollered, from downstairs, "they're our trash men."
our trash men? our trash men! that's when it hit me. defenbaugh ... i get it ... they want a tip.
so here's my holiday dilemma: do i tip the trash men? if so, how do i do it? and how much do i tip them? do i tip them at the same time that i set out lots of crap that they wouldn't normally take, you know, like lattis work from the deck, my old barbecue grill, etc, etc, or do i wait until the week after i tip them? if i don't tip them, will they be even more strict about what i set out and when i set it out? i mean, i've had my share of rejected trash items the past few months. tree limbs that weren't bundled. a cheezit box from costco? shards of glass. was all that because the people i bought the house from refused to tip? or maybe they didn't tip enough? do i put a little note with my tip telling them that there's more where that came from if they help me out with the big ticket items?
any and all comments would be much appreciated.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
death to pink bear
yes, it's been a while since my last post. and yes, chompers is definitely the reason. i've cut back on just about everything - eating, sleeping, working, blogging, even personal hygiene - to spend more time with my sweet girl, chompy chomps, or mrs. chompersworth, as my wife likes to call her.
i think chompers is really adjusting to her new home. she sleeps through the night on her new bed. she stays in her kennel, playing with pink bear and chewing on her everlasting bone, during the day. we go on long walks every night. and then she snuggles up with us on the couch as we watch real world denver before we go to bed.
things haven't been perfect, though. chompers has had her ups and downs of late.
she's been waking us up more and more in the middle of the night, wanting to go potty-potty. i think it's because she doesn't like cold or snow and doesn't want to go potty-potty before bed even though she knows it's a good idea.
chompers has been eating a little bit of food off of the kitchen counter too. we can't prove it yet, but we know it's happening.
she also got into a fight with my stepsister's dog. of course, chompers easily won the contest. the other dog was crying, even though he was twice as big as she was, although i think she bit him in the ear. i don't know if that's a cheap shot for dogs or not? anyway, my wife made me take her home right away and put her in the kennel and act angry, but secretly, inside, i was a proud papa.
and yes, today i got a frantic call from my wife. she said i needed to come home right away. chompers had somehow banged her head against the kennel so hard that she wedged the door shut and couldn't get out. and, even worse, she tore her beloved pink bear to shreds.
i think chompers is really adjusting to her new home. she sleeps through the night on her new bed. she stays in her kennel, playing with pink bear and chewing on her everlasting bone, during the day. we go on long walks every night. and then she snuggles up with us on the couch as we watch real world denver before we go to bed.
things haven't been perfect, though. chompers has had her ups and downs of late.
she's been waking us up more and more in the middle of the night, wanting to go potty-potty. i think it's because she doesn't like cold or snow and doesn't want to go potty-potty before bed even though she knows it's a good idea.
chompers has been eating a little bit of food off of the kitchen counter too. we can't prove it yet, but we know it's happening.
she also got into a fight with my stepsister's dog. of course, chompers easily won the contest. the other dog was crying, even though he was twice as big as she was, although i think she bit him in the ear. i don't know if that's a cheap shot for dogs or not? anyway, my wife made me take her home right away and put her in the kennel and act angry, but secretly, inside, i was a proud papa.
and yes, today i got a frantic call from my wife. she said i needed to come home right away. chompers had somehow banged her head against the kennel so hard that she wedged the door shut and couldn't get out. and, even worse, she tore her beloved pink bear to shreds.
i don't know what got into her, but we still love her.
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