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it's december 2005, time for another FUCKING TEN!

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1) my ipod isn't toast after all (i was dreading taking it in to the apple store)
2) going out tonight for peruvian and wanting EVERYTHING on the menu
3) bookcourt (my favorite place to browse through all that local author/nonfiction/art book crap i'm never gonna buy)
4) warm blankets
5) space heater
6) feeling less irritable and frazzled than i have in a few months
7) big star, "motel blues (demo)" ("i'll buy you breakfast / they'll think you're my wife...")
8-10) TK

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

1) FINALLY MAKING ENOUGH MONEY AT MY FREELANCE WORK THAT I ONLY HAVE TO WORK SATURDAYS AT MY DAY JOB. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

2) Depeche Mode at the Air Canada Center this past Thursday night, which FUCKING RULED even though we were up in the nosebleeds (apologies to Noodles, Grimstitch, and MIR).

3) Sleeping in all this past week due to item 1).

4) Rediscovering home cooking this week, also due to item 1).

5) LADY SOVEREIGN TONIGHT! HUH-FUCKING-ZZAH! I have purchased a new hoodie in anticipation.

6) Nice new bed. Yes, it's an Ikea, but it's our first forreallyrealgrownup's bed with a metal frame and all.

7) Stars' "Reunion". Best bass-and-drums interplay I've heard in forever, and with a slinkiness that you don't always hear in this kind of indie-pop/rock. At least, I don't, but I don't know shit about this kind of music.

8) Finally seeing my father when he crashed at our place a few weeks back. I barely had more than an hour at a time for the man (he was only in town for 5 days), but holy shit, so good to catch up after three years. Dad, I'm really hoping it won't be another three years before I see you again.

9) 'Tings a g'wan: big plans, both musical & non-musical, for the year ahead.

10) Narnia movie forthcoming!!! 'Nuff said.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Ha, Jody, I just went in Book Court a few hours ago with the elletes, but I couldn't really maneuver today so I turned right back around without really looking at anything, never mind getting anything. I would have liked to have gone to that Paula Fox reading earlier this week, though.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

i was also in book court a few hours ago! we probably just missed each other.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

6) Nice new bed. Yes, it's an Ikea, but it's our first forreallyrealgrownup's bed with a metal frame and all.

i would love a real bed again. i'm through with junky futons.

'Tings a g'wan:

night of the a g'wana

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Now I am seeing Grayson Hall saying "seducer" in the bear's dream on the other thread.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

hey Ian DO NOT WORRY ABOUT IT. i was happyhappyhappy.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

http://home.comcast.net/~flickhead/gams.jpg

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

1- "One Kiss Can Lead To Another: The Girl Group Sound, Lost & Found"
2- "D.E.B.S." DVD
3- Local kebap place, a hit with friends and colleagues.
4- The Archers
5- "Narnia"'s coming to town next week!
6- Curtis Mayfield
7- Surfin' Stevens and The Hold Steady actually being pretty great albums (I was HYPE-WARY)
8- E.T.A. Hoffman
9- I'm getting payed for my writing again, huzzah!
10- Lego.

Pretty popcult centric, but really uni and social life haven't given me much to celebrate recently.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Kim!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

haha daniel_rf i have that comp on my computer! i love it because it has "only to other people" by the cookies!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

i looked at the track listing of that and realized i owned like 80 percent of it already. :-P

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

do you want a medal?

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

YES

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

i just mean, ya know, these songs have been anthologized in many places for a long time now... why are people acting like this set is a big deal?

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

uh because i got it for free on the internet

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

I love "Motel Blues."

― youn, Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

uh because i got it for free on the internet

just like you can get all the other sets free on the internet!

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

why does this matter? i was just sharing the joy. i'm not saying it's like the best compilation i've ever heard in my life. stop raining on my parade

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

fair enough

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

it's just the "lost and found" part of the title that bothers me, because the bulk of this stuff hasn't been "lost" for a long time, and the anthologizers aren't the ones that "found" it.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

haha daniel_rf i have that comp on my computer! i love it because it has "only to other people" by the cookies!

That's a great tune. They're all great tunes! Right now I'm crazy about "When You're Young And In Love".

You do realise, tho, that by only owning it on yer comp, you're missing out on this packaging?

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000B5KRV6.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

it's just the "lost and found" part of the title that bothers me, because the bulk of this stuff hasn't been "lost" for a long time, and the anthologizers aren't the ones that "found" it.

Rhino box sets have always been digest versions of other compiler's efforts tho, no? I mean, surely Freakbeat collectors were just as blasé about "Nuggets 2", Rockabilly fanatics about that 50's box, etc.?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

a "fanatic" will hunt down the original singles on 45.

a "fan" will have some compilations.

i never said i was a fanatic.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

the packaging's ok, but if i go to the goodwill i can find a hat box that looks like that and it'll only be $3.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

I mean mostly I think it's always a good thing when there's one big high-profile box set for newcomers to test out whether they like the sub-genre or not. I mean, they can always purchase the other comps afterwards if they want more. And while those singles maybe weren't "lost" to serious Girl Group fans, they surely were to a much larger, more casual fanbase.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

remove one stick from ass

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

eh, i've always been somewhat distrustful of the "digest version" approach to life, and i'm not even a super-trainspotter or anything. it's not like i'm being pissy because i found all the original pressings in a box on the side of the road when i was in kindergarten and THESE NEWBIES WANT TO TAKE MY "I WAS THERE" MOMENT AWAY FROM ME.

oh dabnis, you're one to talk.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

anyway i gotta go now, or something.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Bessie Banks, right? Although for a long time, I only knew the Denny Laine version.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

I am getting that box set in three days!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

if i go to the goodwill i can find a hat box that looks like that
In keeping with the Downtown Brooklyn Appreciation Meme, I was going to suggest you look no further than the St. Chas Jubilee Thrift Store, but I don't know if that place is open to the general public.

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

1) dayquil
2) apple crisp
3) stockpiling xmas songs on the hard drive (60-some and only growing)
4) XO on hester st.
5) friend's birthday party in a bit
6) national wholesale liquidators
7) hot spiced grapple juice from the farmers market
8) christiane f. - "wunderbar"
9) anticipating berlin in the spring
10) my office christmas party next week, which i'm fully expecting to be a blast

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 4 December 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

oh crap

11) brokeback mountain

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 4 December 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

2) Depeche Mode at the Air Canada Center this past Thursday night, which FUCKING RULED even though we were up in the nosebleeds (apologies to Noodles, Grimstitch, and MIR).

We were close to the top row, but the view was great. Most of the seats on our level were a lot further from the stage than we were. I'm pretty sure that's the closest I've ever sat from the band!

In stark contrast to my panicked November fucking ten (written like ten days ago):

1) Departmental Ph.D. defense = SUCCESS. BOOOOOYAH.
2) Seeing Depeche Mode 12 hours before #1
3) Doing some proper CD shopping for the first time in ages
4) Watching TV shows that I taped during the week
5) Orange juice that is so pulpy, it's practically a slushie
6) Drinking in our offices at work
7) "Do you know what et al. means?"
8) Kinda looking forward to marking final exams
9) Thick wool socks (worn as slippers)
10) SLEEPING IN

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 4 December 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

We were close to the top row, but the view was great. Most of the seats on our level were a lot further from the stage than we were. I'm pretty sure that's the closest I've ever sat from the band!

And the crowd in our section was GREAT -- very energetic. That's so important (this is my addendum to #2).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 4 December 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

congrats on the ph.d. defense, barry!

1. Jalapeno cornbread
2. Feeling accomplished about writing I've done this week
3. Awesome drunken late-night IMs and long e-mails
4. New Belle & Sebastian album
5. Girl I met randomly at the Apple Store wanting to hang out
6. Upcoming mini-tour with the band
7. Warm apartment
8. End-of-the-year LISTS
9. New project at work
10. Renting all the 2005 movies I never saw

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

1) A college visit today and a sudden flash of realization that my daughter is not a kid anymore. I'm awfully proud of her.

2-10: ...nothing worth giving a damn about.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

Thanks John, although in truth I was hoping I would be more excited! Maybe I will be after the second (external) defense when it all becomes official.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

1.) The kid's first Santa photo (he looks a little puzzled)
2.) Our festive little tree in the living room
3.) EGGNOG
4.) More freelance work
5.) After three years of peripatetic wandering in an overcrowded office, I finally have my VERY OWN DESK again.
6.) Jose Luis Borges
7.) Upcoming trip to Knoxville, those always make me happy
8.) Chestnuts on street-vendor carts, carols everywhere, folks dressed up like eskimos, giant snowflakes on Saks, all the corny trappings of the shallow, hypocritical, but totally lovable season
9.) Remembering what cold air feels like
10.) the Townes van Zandt movie, if I actually get around to seeing it

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

6) feeling less irritable and frazzled than i have in a few months

haha well this was a wash! i have to think of a new number 6 now.

uhh.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

3.) EGGNOG

Oooh, I just bought SOYNOG for the first time tonight. I am eager to try it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 December 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

1. Having a proper kitchen again
2. Having a proper stereo again
3. Having a proper apartment again
4. Janine Jansen playing the four seasons and looking hawt
5. My band having a breakthrough by writing crazy krautrock jams and Talking Heads style-parodies
6. extra money from a second job
7. exercising again and remembering how good it feels
8. knowing that I'd score really highly on the LSAT if I wanted to and thus keeping my parents and gfs parents at bay because they know "I could always go to law school"
9. Saul Bellow
10. Baby Dodds

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 4 December 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

1. kitchen remodeling almost done
2. colonoscopy results = free & clear
3. chronic pain in remission
4. "freak folk"
5. Elia Kazan: A Biography by Richard Schickel
6. waking up to snow this am (ignoring wet/slushy aspect)
7. actually made $ last month
8. last night's marinara sauce (the cook never starves)
9. writing block slowly dissolving
10. today is my dad's bday, remembering him feels good now

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 4 December 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

1. Getting lots of writing done and sorta even, gasp, published. Plus, the thesis is exciting again. PWNING IT.
2. Meeting and talking with awesome new people + good friends! Offline, online, inline.
3. Fri night's Lady Sovereign show and all involved.
4. Lots of new music, some LOUD, some pretty, some somehow both.
5. Warm new coat, surprisingly fashionable (relative to old sorta-warm coat and its eye-of-beholder fashionsense).
6. High-quality merino wool sweaters on sale in nice colours.
7. Warm, late-nite sesame bagels.
8. Griffon Noir, Jameson on ice, minor pot usage.
9. "Lost"+talking about "Lost", weirdly applying it to life.
10. The way one of my cats has decided to sleep on a once-ignored chair, even if he keeps pulling off the cover/blanket.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

1. Secret Machines at Webster Hall
2. My place of work finally throwing me a goddamn bone.
3. Led Zeppelin IV as written by Erik Davis for Continuum's 33 1/3 series.
4. A Charlie Brown Christmas by the Vince Guaraldi Trio
5. My hotly-anticipated/finally aquired Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force BOTTLE OPENER! Oh how the Gods weep with mirth.
6. THE VERY REAL POSSIBILITY OF ESCAPING my vocational hell.
7. 30th Anniversary Edition of A Night at the Opera by Queen
8. Baseball Furies action figures.
9. Shepherd's Pie
10. my little Charlotte.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

I like the Sex Pistols piece, nice.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Thanky!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

1. Earl Grey tea
2. snow on branches
3. snow underfoot
4. having something diverting to read, namely, Everything Is Illuminated
5. the thought that the Great Brain might be Jewish
6. understatement at the end of NYT articles
7. having a sense of direction at work
8. going to the post office
9. anticipating going to California for the holidays

― youn, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

10. "Bi-Coastal Serenade"

― youn, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

1. 65 Days of Static albums
2. revisiting an old barely-started friendship and finding it's turning into something very special
3. Perth
4. Melbourne
5. bittersweet
6. shoegaze
7. MSN conversations and not working
8. making very little sense
9. summer
10. fork in the road

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

1. the newest depeche mode effort (still)
2. planning my trip to chicago 29 dec. - 02 jan.
3. turning in change for bills ($237!)
4. golden curry
5. forgetting
6. in the mail, i got bff and sis's xmas gifts -- they are so neat!
7. filling out xmas cards for boss -- $1 per card.
8. xtian dior's addict parfum
9. horse riding (english style)
10. talking in fake accents with friends.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

new number 6) someone sent me a copy of stephen shore's uncommon places book
8) people who make a mental note the one time you say "i want to buy this" in passing, and take the appropriate action when it's time to pick out your birthday present!

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Fucking lists. Just kidding.

1. Jeanette - Corazon De Poeta
2. Big cheese literary agent reading my wife's full manuscript.
3. Upcoming Midwest xmas trip
4. Pacific Film Archive
5. The writings of Rem Koolhaas
6. Yoga
7. Possibly quite interesting new job opportunity
8. French cheese lady and her wonderful cheese at Berkeley farmer's market
9. Paris
10. Winter evening skies over the Bay. token twee entry but it's true.
11. Winning Eleven 8/Football Manager 2005!

― Almond White (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Almond White

haha

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

* son and daughter wid me at my place. (heaven:)
* the current year at work
* corresponding wid Hoppy
* "Tropical Truth", Caetano Veloso's book
* "Viimane jõuluöö", Vennaskond's song
* the documentary on Madis Kõiv
* "Arvo Pärt 70" (radio series in 14 parts)
* old friends (not the tv series)
* Dame K. Bush
* champions league on da telly

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

1. Feeling like me for the first in ages
2. December
3. I don't mind the Wolf Parade album, but why do bands from Canada always sing about ghosts?
4. My framed certificate of membership for the "Cloud Appreciation Society"
5. Having very messy hair
6. Star Trek series 2 DVD box set, no need to go out this X-mas!
7. Meaning to do things but not getting round to it, but not feeling that bad about it.
8. England re-assuringly rubbish at cricket again :(
9. Anticipating Dr Who on X-mas day
10. OMG! I have a list of ten
11. Good people

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm doing a top ten of least fave things:

1 Acid reflux
2 Acid reflux
3 Acid reflux
4 Acid reflux
5 Acid reflux
6 Acid reflux
7 Acid reflux
8 Acid reflux
9 Acid reflux
and guess what at nr 10: Acid reflux!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Nathalie, I have acid reflux, low blood pressure and am hypoglycemic. Mornings are miserable for me.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I have low blood pressure as well. Is that correlated with your acid reflux. I mean, your AR, not mine of course because my acid reflux is due to pregnancy. :-) IT SUCKS. Night time is worst. :-(((

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

i have acid reflux + hypoglycemia too!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Get a room, you guys.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

No, I don't think my blood pressure is related, but it fucking sucks.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)


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