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