The Best of 2009

2009 was the year of the cover, encouraged by the Guilt By Association discs and my newfound love of Nouvelle Vague (the band; my love of the genre is longstanding). When I made my disks, I ordered the music by month; in this list, they’re just grouped by disc in whatever order the iTunes playlist export doled them out in, but you can pretty much follow when I would have heard them if you knew when the band was in Nashville, or what trip I was going on. And then Christmas. There was also one blank track in there, because, you know, pretension can be fun.

Note: The list usually isn’t this long. Apparently all I did in 2009 was listen to music; I recognize that it's a little out of control.

Auto-tuning: an Audiobiography

or [Sounds] Like Home to Me.

I loved this idea from Erin's recent blog, and wanted to piggy-blog off of what she'd done - share memories formed around music.

I’d say that most songs that are more than five years old remind me of a specific time and place, so it’s difficult to just pick a few. I could go on and on and on…but here are some that really stick out:

 

Being Owen Wilson

So, last night while I was giving in to insomnia, I watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and all its special features. Today I've spent a few minutes reading quotes by Wes Anderson and the Wilson brothers.

The Best of 2008

After scrambling 2007's together at the end of the year, in 2008 I kept a running list of what I wanted to add (thank you, iTunes Smart Playlist!). I kinda remember what were the first and last songs on the discs - I reordere them where I could. All that stuff in the middle, though...no idea. Enjoy!

My favorites from 2008:

Five Alive!

I stole this from Erin and Taylor. For Taylor, it was five things he would go back in time and see/do. For Erin, it's a combination of that and just top five wishes. Mine are like Erin's.