Best of 2005

I always scramble to assemble a top 10 list for the year way too late. This year I'll start not so late.

OK, so far:
New Pornographers "Twin Cinema"
People are bumping or dumping this one. I'm bumping it.

The Clientele "Strange Geometry"
I can't not like anything these guys do. I'm gay for supreme sad bastard music.

Dungen "Ta Det Lugnt"
It's here, it's Swedish, it smells like cheeba. I can see Charles liking this.

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Wait, is that all I can think of? Was this a bad year or am I missing a bunch? I am probably missing a ton of stuff. Hello record labels? Send the new Broadcast CD, stat! I have so much catching up to do. I shouldn't have spent all that time fixated on Jens Lekman or the Kinks.

Puppy party!

Posted to un-break my melted heart.

Just look at this pug. He knows you want him and he doesn't sweat it. Just take it easy already, OK?

This dog is fully capable of the following skills:
Throwing his bark
Shades wearing
Leg lifts
Fart noises
Shedding AND shredding

Total cute power= +10

Too sad to type today

If you look closely, you can see tears falling into Dan's combo meal. I won't say if they're my tears or his & Heather's.

Bye-bye Heather. Bye-Bye Dan. We'll be around to visit...someday. Wait, I have it! Meet us on top of the Empire State Building next September.

How we roll...

This weekend we went to Point Montara Lighthouse Hostel. One of two lighthouse hostels on the California coast. This one...the views were just gorge.


We relaxed.


Then we hiked around the beach that was there. A little tiny beach with lots of scattered mussel shells, all pearly and glistening with sea magic. It was chilly cold with sea spray in the air.


Behold, nature.


The lighthouse looked like a postcard. A foggy, wave-crashing banana slug infested postcard.