Best Albums of 2010

Odd Blood - Yeasayer
We Built a Fire - Seabear
High Violet - The National
Total Life Forever - Foals
G.O.O.D. Friday Releases - Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

Duds
Come Around Sundown - Kings of Leon
Flamingo - Brandon Flowers
The Boxer - Kele
Congratulations - MGMT
Interpol - Interpol
Man on the Moon II - Kid Cudi
Danger Days - My Chemical Romance
Last Train to Paris - Diddy + Dirty Money

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

An excellent, excellent album. It got a perfect 10 from Pitchfork. I don't know if it's worth that much, but it definitely is one of the best albums of the year.

My only problem is that half of the songs were released waaaaay before the album (Power, Runaway, Monster, and Devil in a New Dress). Most of the other songs were previewed in the Runaway film, so there was really nothing new left. Great, coherent album.

The weakest songs are Monster and See Me Now. The worst decision of the album was to include Nikki Minaj... she is so annoying.

Slime Cuttlers

These are sick.
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Update: Blades finally got their shipment, a month late; however, their biggest size is 12... thanks guys.

Filson Jacket

Filson Black Label jacket. I don't even like olive green but this jacket is fly.

On Thankfulness

I would like to be more thankful, specially about having food pretty much whenever I desire it. More specifically, I want to be thankful when eating meat. I think every animal has a right to live. Obviously, my consuming their flesh means they have to be killed. I should say some sort of grace for their sacrifice. The Bushmen/San of the Kalahari got it right - the clip is from the Planet Earth series narrated by Sir David Attenborough:

Uncrate's Garb

Uncrate has a great section called Garb where they put together different looks. Some of their looks are great:


Weekend Rider


Opening Day



Gunmetal

Unfortunately, a lot of the featured products can be somewhat expensive. All the looks here.

Roger Waters - The Wall

I was so excited to see Roger Waters live. I don't like arena concerts, but this was superb; it is definitely the best concert to which I have been. Roger Waters is a true musical genius.


The Wall


Follow the Worms


The Trial

Devendra Banhart - Baby + Foolin'

What the fuck, how did I never pay attention to Devendra Banhart?


Baby



Foolin'

Halloween

Halloween is my favorite day of the year. I love dressing up and being a character all night. However, I usually wait until the week before to decide what I will be.

Our plan was to go to a Danger after-life themed warehouse party called Within the Land of Ash on Saturday and the the Village Halloween parade on Sunday.



On Saturday, we dressed as zombies. I ripped up a suit from the Salvation Army, painted my face, and sprayed lots of blood. We looked great. On our walk through the city, I dragged my foot and yelled 'braaainsss!' at passersby. Brittany was dying of laughter. The Danger party was fun, but way crowded. Part of it was also shut down by the fire marshall, so though we had fun, the night ended early.

On Sunday, we were going to dress up for the parade.Since Brittany didn't like any of my suggestions for couples costumes for the parade, I decided to go as The Dude aka Jeffrey Lebowski from The Big Lebowski. I got a wig, beard, white pants and shirt, a bathrobe, a plastic glass for my white Russians, and a bag of severed finger, which I cut to toe size, painted the nails lime green, put in gauze, and put fake blood on them. "But what about the toe?!" I would yell as I handed out severed toes. Unfortunately, we did not go to the parade because were exhausted and it was freezing.

On My Yet to be Published Book

I just had an interesting series of three dreams.

In all of them, I was recognized for a best-selling novel I had published. I was even approached by Dennis Haskins, better known as Mr. Belding from 'Saved by the Bell.'

Unfortunately, I cannot recall what the title of the book was even though I heard it three times. I do remember that it had 'Coke' or 'Coca Cola' in the title... like 'The American Coke' or something like that. I'm sure it will come to me.

Everyone kept asking about the pudding and why the quarter waters company was suing them.

Well, time to start working on my novel.

N.E.R.D. - Hypnotize U

On Small Government

As the polls are closing, it is becoming clear that there a new Republican resurgence washing over the country in an awesome wave. Among the most important issues is the desire for a smaller government. The idea that a weak government leads to the best of all possible lives is a joke. The truth is that if government just got out of our way, we would be back in the Dark Ages. This country would be controlled by multinational corporations sending every job to a remote location on the globe, keeping wages artificially low, giving people no health insurance or any other type of benefit, while receiving no education.

Leaf Commercial

This commercial breaks my heart. We are not doing nearly enough to stop the damage that we are doing to the planet.

On Politics as Usual

The midterm elections are today; I was not surprised that a few days beforehand, Obama's National Security team came out with a foiled terrorist plot. Fear works and will always be used.

Democrats are expected to suffer heavy losses - I hope that whoever is voted in is willing to act to improve this country.