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Fellows:

Aijung
Alyssa
Angela
Bobby
Carla
Dave
Ester
Jesse
Jonah
Josie
Kate
Lillie
Nori
Rabi
Rebecca

Mincetapes

e-mince

Photos!

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Archives:

Stuck in my Head
"Kiss Me Harder" by Bertine Zetlitz
"Hot" by Avril
"Brain Problem Situation" by They Might Be Giants


Now Reading
Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

Recently Finished
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Mad Tony and Me by Carl Hoffman
Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guaralnick
This Must Be The Place: Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century by David Bowman
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Movies Lately
Sicko
4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour
2 Days in Paris
United 93
The Savages
The Bourne Ultimatum
Sweeney Todd
The Departed
Juno
Enchanted
What Would Jesus Buy?
Ghost World
Superbad
I'm Not There
She's The Man
Superbad
Lars and the Real Girl
Romance and Cigarettes
No Country for Old Men
Into the Wild
Gattaca
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Across the Universe

Shows Lately
Damo Suzuki/Stinking Lizaveta @ Mill Creek
Death and the Maiden @ Curio
Devon Sproule/Carsie Blanton/Devin Greenwood/John Francis @ Tin Angel
Assassins @ The Arden
Oakley Hall and the Teeth @ Johnny Brendas
Isabella and Flamingo/Winnebago and Map Me and Gatz and Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Sonic Dances and Strawberry Farm and The Emperor Jones and No Dice and Hearts of Man and Principles of Uncertainty and Isabella and BATCH and Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century and Car and Sports Trilogy and Explanatorium and Wandering Alice and Must Don't Whip Um and Festival of Lies and A Room of Ones Own and Recitatif @ the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe
Martha Graham Cracker and Eliot Levin and Kilo etc. @ the Fringe Cabaret
Lullatone and Teletextile @ Boulder Coffee [Rochester]
TV Sound @ the M Room
Aretha Franklin @ East Dell, Fairmount Pk.
Romeo + Juliet in Clark Park
Daft Punk @ Red Rocks
Spoon @ Rockefeller Park
Ponytail at Pony Pants' House
Mirah/Benjy Ferree @ the 1UC
Tortoise @ World Cafe Live
Hall & Oates...ish
"Nuclear Dreams" - Mascher Dance Group, x2
The Four of Us @ 1812
Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines by Rainpan whatever
Mascher Dance Group/Nathaniel Bartlett
Cornelius @ TLA
Sloan @ World Cafe
In Fluxxxx
Slavic Soul Party!/Red Heart the Ticker @ I-House
the Fantasticks @ Mum
Peter Bjork + Jorn/Fujiya + Miyagi @ fkaTLA
John Vanderslice @ Johnny Brendas
The Books & Todd Reynolds @ 1UC
Into the Woods @ LPAC
The Fishbowl @ the Frear
Caroline, or, Change @ the Arden
Low & Loney, Dear. @ 1UC




Wednesday, January 5

instant history

it's not much news to y'all, i guess, but here's the top 50 albums of the 00s list i made to vote in the stylus list which will appear starting a week from monday. eleven out of fifty made the cut, which is decent i guess, but neither of my top two, sadly. also, i'd post my new jim white review, but it's going up on stylus in a day or two anyway (!) back in a sec.

1. Blur - Think Tank (Virgin, 2003)
2. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop, 2001)
3. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (Dreamworks, 2000)
4. The Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge, 2004)
5. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (Merge, 2002)
6. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch, 2002)
7. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Matador, 2000)
8. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World (Beggars Banquet, 2002)
9. Cornelius - Point (Matador, 2002)
10. The New Pornographers - The Electric Version (Matador, 2003)

11. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (Capitol, 2003)
12. The Postal Service - Give Up (Sub Pop, 2003)
13. OutKast - Stankonia (Arista, 2000)
14. Spoon - Girls Can Tell (Merge, 2001)
15. Missy Elliott - Miss E…So Addictive (Elektra, 2001)
16. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City, 2004)
17. Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up on Me (Fat Possum, 2002)
18. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade, 2003)
19. David Byrne - Look Into the Eyeball (Luaka Bop/Virgin, 2001)
20. Mirah - C'mon Miracle (K, 2004)

21. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl, 2004)
22. Jim White - No Such Place (Luaka Bop, 2001)
23. The Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia (Capitol, 2000)
24. Rufus Wainwright - Poses (Dreamworks, 2002)
25. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance (Lookout!, 2001)
26. Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol, 2000)
27. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop, 2002)
28. Manitoba - Up in Flames (Domino, 2003)
29. V/A - Digital Disco (Force Tracks, 2002)
30. Stars - Heart (Arts & Crafts, 2003)

31. Rjd2 - Deadringer (Def Jux, 2002)
32. Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man (Lost Highway, 2004)
33. Jay-Z - The Blueprint (Roc-a-fella, 2001)
34. Kylie Minogue - Fever (Capitol, 2001)
35. Tortoise - Standards (Thrill Jockey, 2001)
36. Junior Boys - Last Exit (Kin, 2004)
37. John Vanderslice - Cellar Door (Barsuk, 2004)
38. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop, 2003)
39. Call and Response - Call and Response (Kindercore, 2001)
40. Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills (TVT, 2001)

41. American Analog Set - Know by Heart (Tigerstyle, 2001)
42. The Strokes - Room on Fire (RCA, 2003)
43. Edith Frost - Wonder Wonder (Drag City, 2001)
44. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lakes State (Asthmatic Kitty, 2003)
45. Talib Kweli - Quality (Rawkus, 2002)
46. The Apples in Stereo - Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (SpinArt, 2001)
47. Richard X - Presents His X-Factor Vol. 1 (Astralwerks, 2003)
48. A. C. Newman - The Slow Wonder (Matador, 2004)
49. The Books - Thought for Food (Tomlab, 2002)
50. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs (Kranky, 2002)

[bonus ten !]
51. Missy Elliott - This is not a Test (Elektra, 2003)
52. Califone - Roomsound (Perishable, 2001)
53. Okkervil River - Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See (Jagjaguwar, 2002)
54. Cex - Tall Dark and Handcuffed (Tigerbeat6, 2002)
55. Ellen Allien - Berlinette (Bpitch Control, 2003)
56. Madonna - Music (Maverick/Warner Bros, 2000)
57. Mirah - You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This (K, 2000)
58. Old 97s - Satellite Rides (Elektra, 2001)
59. Lambchop - Aw Cmon/No You Cmon (Merge, 2004)
60. Basement Jaxx - Rooty (Astralwerks, 2001)

it does feel weird to be doing this.

nurtured all year
then pressed in a book