Did you know...

...that I'm getting married?

It's true!

Fall Quarterly Mixtape

This is a bit delayed, but not too late, as it is still fall.

The Fall of Athens

1. Optimist Vs. The Silent Alarm - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
2. I'll Take Us Home - Matt and Kim
3. Secrets - Headlights
4. Cartoons and Forever Plans - Maria Taylor
5. One Man Band - Washington
6. I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Amy Millan
7. Love Has Left The Room - A Camp
8. Begin Again - The Veils
9. It's Thunder And It's Lightning - We Were Promised Jetpacks
10. This Year - The Mountain Goats
11. Day To Day - Amy Millan
12. Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
13. Please, Baby, Please - David Bazan
14. Bandits - Midlake
15. Save Me From What I Want - St. Vincent
16. Hardwire - Metric
17. Hooting & Howling - Wild Beasts
18. Tenuousness - Andrew Bird
19. Vapours - Islands
20. Raised Eyebrows - The Feelies
21. I Called Out Your Name - The Thermals
22. Curse Your Branches - David Bazan

Download Link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lqun94

It's all about the wordmark

I really just keep this old blog around cause I love the wordmark I made for it.

Mostly my internet presence has moved on to twitter and I share lots of things I find interesting on Google Reader.

In other news, my best friend got married, I moved in with my parents, and I got engaged to Bethany.

I'll feel better when the winters gone.

Says the chorus of the recently released November was White, December was Grey by Say Hi.
Download here.

Boss is finally back in the office after two months of near complete absence. Finally getting excited about the work ahead of me. Though that may be related to the vacations I'm planning to Georgia in February and March. I haven't left this wintry place since mid-October.

I'm probably not moving back to the city till May/June. Georgetown Twp. isn't that awful and gas prices tanked, so the very low cost of living is worth it.

Top Albums of 2008

Several weeks in the making, hours of listening later, the jury
returns with the verdict:

The Top 15 Albums of 2008 (Sample size of about 43):

15. Anathallo - Canopy Glow

14. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

13. Mates of State - Re-arrange Us

12. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride

11. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

10. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell

9. Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust

8. Greg Laswell - Three Flights From Alto Nido

7. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

6. Breathe Owl Breathe - Ghost Glacier EP

5. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line

4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (technically self-released in
2007, but label released in 2008)

3. The Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks

2. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

Honorable Mentions:
JJ Heller - Painted Red
Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
The Weepies - Hideaway

Still Processing:
PlusMinus - Xs On Your Eyes
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
She & Him - Volume One
Welcome Wagon - Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue

Equivalencies

I'm using mint.com to track my finances and found the following equivalencies:

~$14.50=
-a tank of gas for my vibe
-dinner for two at Panera Bread
-dinner for one at Red Robin
-an average trip to Target (chocolate, soup, and underwear)
-a glass of wine at Five & Ten

Another magazine from the bathroom. Who has a subscription to Old West magazine? What is this about women and whips?


The article featured several such newspaper headlines. Though I'm not really sure what the whole point of the article was. That women are crazy and can't be trusted?

I really like the type of the headline here, maybe I'll mock something up similar to that, use it for something.