December 2008
56 posts
My Top 10 Albums of 08
I know everyones probably listed out by now, but I was listening to Man Man on the way to work this morning and realised they had been missing from far too many top x lists, and so I should include them in mine… where they belong.
I decided to base my top 10 on the amount of enjoyment I got out of these albums… and while some big albums are missing (M83, Deerhunter, No Age, Crystal...
iPhone thief nailed by MobileMe contact sync →
Michael Jackson forced to prove Billie Jean was... →
livesophia:
Michael Jackson is being sued for $1bn by a woman claiming to be the mother of his youngest son, according to reports.
Billie Jean Jackson claims to be secretly married to the reclusive popstar and says she gave birth to Prince Michael II.
She now wants joint custody of the six-year-old and regular visits.
Billie Jean said she filed the suit at LA Superior Court “because she is...
Favorite EPs and cover albums of 2008
I’m reblogging this to remind myself to check out a few of these that I haven’t heard yet.
branduponthebrain:
Animal Collective - Water Curses
Antony & the Johnsons - Another World
Library Tapes - Fragment
Andrew Bird - Soldier On
Final Fantasy - Spectrum, 14th Century/Plays To Please
The Mountain Goats and Kaki King - The Black Pear Tree/The Mountain Goats -...
ThreeThousands Meredith Ups and Downs
ThreeThousand had a list of Ups and Downs from Meredith in todays newsletter. I think I would have written an almost identical list, except I thought Saul Williams was ok. Also, I didn’t get a free meat pie!
Tops: The Bronx whipping the crowd into its first frenzy Final Fantasy telling off the sound guy The redhead convention Ponchos getting restocked AIH’s cover of the Never Ending...
dsquared92:
sarahchristine:
Death Cab For...
Film Addict: How many of IMDB's Top 250 have you... →
clembastow:
(robot-heart:seriouslythough:sneakyjane:peterwknox:bg5000)
Whoa, only 36.4%? Undone by my pitiful foreign and shoot-em-up record.
Disappointing… I only got 37.2%… I have a lot of classic back catalogue to get through.
Best Viral Videos of 2008 Retrospective →
Videogum has collated some of the best viral videos of 2008 into a 5 minute clip.
I’m still quite keen to like MGMT, despite...
No matter how many times I check the weather, it still says it’s going to rain at Meredith. Looks like I’m going to have to pay the gumboot division of Kmart a visit.
buyhercandy:
okayjokesover:
also, i forgot to mention, apparently i have been going to the same school as a woman named robyn banks for three years without laughing once at her name. IT DIDN’T EVEN OCCUR TO ME, HOW SLOW AM I.
i had to say it out loud before i got it. hahahaha. what a name.
i had a lady from the chemist come into my newsagent once wearing her nametag, which said Gay Spooner. i...
How to Fix the Ducking iPhone Problem →
livesophia:
At ducking last, there’s a ducking way to fix the ducking profanity auto-correction problem in the iPhone. As you probably know, for some strange reason, the iPhone won’t really learn swear words. Fortunately, there’s a solution.
If you have the iPhone 2.2 operating system, you can turn off the auto-correction entirely. But that will make things ducking inconvenient, though. The...
briantan:
‘Exit Music’ (Radiohead cover) - Vampire...
The 6 Most Retarded Gaming Consoles Ever Released →
livesophia:
For every NES and Sony Playstation, there are countless gaming systems that just didn’t make it. Sometimes it’s bad luck, or the marketplace. And other times, it’s because their system was completely retarded.
These are the systems that deserved to be forgotten. Unless the point was to laugh at them, which we shall do now.
A friend of mine got a Nomad. Even as an 8 year old I...
“I just hit my funny bone on the corner of my laptop.”