I live in Chicago but I love the Pacific Northwest. I worked/lived in Alaska the summer of 2008 and you can find many pictures from my journey there if you start at the beginning of this blog. I'm returning for the rest of the summer of 2009. I enjoy music, cycling, photography and being slightly boy crazy. especially ones that look like bike messengers. My name is Jason but I go by many names. Say 'hi' at skylitup at gmail dot com
“The movie reviewer at the Vatican newspaper has called the film “Avatar” simplistic, superficial, bland, sappy and unoriginal. Sounds like someone forgot to get stoned.” - Conan
I can cross dropping my iPod Touch in my cup of Dunkin Donuts off my to-do-list
don’t you hate when you look down and you have been laying on your cell phone and you realize you are calling the one person you don’t need to be calling. That’s a subtle message to someone who may be reading this.
(from my Facebook post)
My Favorite Albums of 2009:
This decade is ending. I’m not sad about that. It’s not been one of the best from the beginning paranoia over Y2K in 2000 and the Twin Towers falling the next year. Personal loss in my life. The war on terror and the reign of Bush saw the joy in each of us fade. The economy went to shit and friends lost their jobs. The one thing that endured, thrived and evolved during this time as through any time of strife is music and other art forms.. 2009 was an exceptional year and I think that several of the albums that came out this year will end up on my favorite albums of the decade. It was hard enough trying to figure out my albums of the year. Albums of the decade is going to be an even harder venture but I hope to have finished in the next couple of weeks.
Anyway, like I mentioned in a recent status update, making lists like these is pointless, but it passes the time and that’s the point of anything. There was a time when people didn’t know what to listen to and needed people like me who were full time music heads to recommend them music. The digital age has hit though. We all have an iPod and the internet and we all know what we want to listen to and I think that’s pretty cool.
here are the albums that got me through last winter, through a summer in Alaska and back again.
1) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion/ Fall Be Kind ep
2) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
3) Girls - Album
4) Japandroids - Post-Nothing
5) Various Artists - 5 Years of Hyperdub
6) Flaming Lips - Embryonic
7) Antony and the Johnsons - Crying Light
8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz
9) Mount Eerie - Wind Poems
10)The XX - XX
11- 21 (in alphabetical order)
The Antlers - Hospice
Atlas Sound - Logos
Basement Jaxx - Scars
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Fuck Button - Tarot Sport
Grizzly Bear - Vecktamist
jj - jj n° 2
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Sunset Rubdown - Dragon Slayer
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
I had to watch the trailer a couple of times because I was so confused. Considering who the writers were I automatically assumed it was sci-fi/monsters. It’s set an office is where the confusion came along and then came the tag-line “Close Encounters of the Office Kind” . still a bit perplexed but considering who the writers and cast are, I’m definitely intrigued. Here’s the blurb from Aint-it-Cool News.
Once upon a time on “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” evil robot-builder Warren (Adam Busch) shot hot lesbian Wicca Tara (Amber Benson) in the heart. Now Benson and Busch have co-directed the sci-fi comedy “Drones,” which arrives next month.
Its cast is supercool, including the great Angela Bettis (“May”), “Freaks and Geeks” vets Dave “Gruber” Allen and Samm Levine (“Inglourious Basterds”), Jonathan Woodward (Holden from “Conversations With Dead People” and Knox from “Angel”), James Urbaniak (Rusty on “The Venture Bros.” and Dwight’s pal Rolf on “The Office”), Tangi Miller (“Felicity”) and Paul F. Tomkins (“Mr. Show,” “The Sarah Silverman Program”).
