Surfrider Oil Spill Calander

It's a real shame I didn't discover this until the year was already half over.

The Bicycle By Jacque Magazine

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Favorite Songs Of 2009

Here it is my first end of the year post for 2009. I guess this year I was feeling more poppy and dance oriented stuff form the phoenix's 1901 to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs more synthesised sounds. If I had to guess I would say this had to do with a more positve outlook based on the end of the Bush years and election of Obama.

1) Phoenix - 1901

2) Animal Collective - My Girls

3) Bat For Lashes - Daniel

4) The Big Pink - Dominoes

5) Girls - Hellhole Ratrace

6) Grizzly Bear Two Weeks

7) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction

8) The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

9) Passion Pit - The Reeling

10) The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea

11) Mos Def - The Ecstatic

12) Metric - Help I'm Alive

13) Dinosaur Jr. Over It

14) We Were Promised Jetpacks - Ships With Holes Will Sink

15) The Decemberists - The Rake Song

16) Atlas Sound (with Noah Lennox) - Walkabout

17) Manic Street Preachers - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

18) Raekwon - House Of Flying Daggers

19) The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deathbridge At Lethbridge

20) The Thermals - Now We Can See

Not Just Girls Fun

The lead singer of the San Francisco band Girls grew up in a cult. He watched his brother die because of the cult's policy against medicine a tragedy that caused his farther to leave. His mother was forced to work as a prostitute in order to provide money for the cult and also to recruit new members. All of this brings a sense of realness to the tortured songs the band sings.

On a lighter note these "day in the life" style videos of the band partying in SF make me a little melancholy for my time there.