{"id":52,"date":"2012-01-01T00:48:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T00:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-01-01T00:58:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T00:58:31","slug":"a-whole-bottle-of-dreamy-sleepy-nightie-snoozy-snooze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"A whole bottle of Dreamy Sleepy Nightie Snoozy Snooze"},"content":{"rendered":"

My favorite records of the year (sadly, no real new \/ magical discoveries):<\/strong>
\nMicachu and the Shapes (w\/ London Sinfonietta), Chopped and Screwed<\/em>
\nCraig Wedren, Wand
\n<\/em>Deerhoof, Vs. Evil<\/em>
\n<\/em>Sloan, The Double Cross
\n<\/em>Real Estate, Days
\n<\/em>Chad VanGaalen, Diaper Island
\n<\/em>Battles, Gloss Drop
\n<\/em>Tim Heidecker, CAINTHOLOGY: Songs in the Key of Cain
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Records that were better than I might reasonably expect:<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/em>Drake, Take Care<\/em>
\n<\/em>Burzum, Fallen<\/em>
\nThe AWOLNation thing
\nThe Homefront – Songs for the Resistance <\/em>soundtrack (the latter half is way better than the first, though)
\nThe new Primus record actually wasn’t bad, but don’t ask me how I know<\/p>\n

Records I still need to get around to from 2011:<\/strong>
\nNew Tom Waits
\nGiles Corey s\/t
\nProbably the Jay-Z \/ Kanye thing at some point, but meh.
\n<\/em>And about five dozen others I probably read about, got excited about, and forgot about.
\n<\/em>Hey, there was a new Bill Callahan in there somewhere, I think?
\n<\/em>I should probably also finish a whole Tyler the Creator-related record someday before he’s totally irrelevant.
\n<\/em>And I also asked for the Weird Al live Bluray for Xmas, but didn’t get it. So. <\/em><\/p>\n

Big disappointments:<\/strong>
\nHeidecker and Wood, Starting from Nowhere <\/em>(not that it will stop me from idolizing either of these two fine gentlemen)
\nLow, C’mon <\/em>(apt title, that)
\nI finally got around to listening to Bon Iver. Yeah, no<\/em><\/span>.
\nAnd who the fuck are all these people who think Adele is omg so awesome? She’s like one notch more musically interesting than Susan Boyle. I’m not sure who is worse– them, or the Bon Iver people.<\/p>\n

Resolutions for myself:<\/strong>
\nMake a helluva lot more music, and make it a helluva lot better this time, punk.
\nLearn to code so you can make cool music stuff, y’doofus.
\nFinally learn the frickin’ pedal steel; also, the fiddle (note: NOT the violin).
\nLearn about alternative vocations that are actually useful <\/em>to society at large.<\/p>\n

Proposed resolutions for the record industry, of which I am not really a part, but it’s always nice to dream:<\/strong>
\nLet’s get back to not mastering everything to 0dB every time, all the time.
\n<\/em>Let’s also stop rehashing everything that’s ever been done ever with a fresh, proud coat of Autotune on top.
\nAlso, please die a horrible, horrible death.
\n(note: I have also made these same three proposed resolutions every year since roughly 1999)<\/em><\/p>\n

Things I look forward to in 2012:<\/strong>
\nNot a whole lot, honestly.<\/p>\n

Happy strictly-arbitrary new calendar year! May our truly chaotic universe with its strictly-arbitrary economy and ultimately meaningless existence find you all well, or at least believing that you are well. Comfortable self-delusion is a great gig if you can land it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My favorite records of the year (sadly, no real new \/ magical discoveries): Micachu and the Shapes (w\/ London Sinfonietta), Chopped and Screwed Craig Wedren, Wand Deerhoof, Vs. Evil Sloan, The Double Cross Real Estate, Days Chad VanGaalen, Diaper Island Battles, Gloss Drop Tim Heidecker, CAINTHOLOGY: Songs in the Key of Cain Records that were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}