two albums in heavy rotation


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despite what SPIN tells you (see the strokes and the white stripes), this last year was lacking in good new albums. maybe i feel that way because i'm getting older and more out of touch with today’s youth, or maybe i just feel like i've heard it all before and have become jaded over the years with new bands.



anyhow, last year i decided that instead of getting the latest and greatest, maybe i should look into some of the bands and albums i overlooked over the years and see if i missed anything.



for christmas i got "the rise and fall of ziggy stardust" by david bowie and i must say "why the hell did i not love this years ago?". jeez! everyone has heard the song "ziggy stardust" which appears on the album, but every song here is rock solid and timeless. why the hell would anyone listen to the strokes after hearing this album. i mean the strokes have a similar style (as far as bowie's upbeat numbers are concerned), but are merely a subset of what bowie did here.



another great band that i over looked in the past (that belle and sebastian, all elephant 6 bands, the aislers set and more owe much credit to) is the kinks. I'd have to say i love "kinks kontroversy" the most out of what i've heard of their pre 70's material but their next three albums were stellar as well.



other honorable mentioned bands that i discovered in 2002:

(the):

zombies

razorcuts

bats

chills

clean

vapors

early pink floyed

television personalities




great albums of 2002 that nobody noticed:

the bees - "sunshine hit me"

the roots - "phrenology"

the mosquitoes - "killing the country"

oh man. wait til i tell you about my day..this is amazing

today i woke up from falling asleep while reading the preface to "lord of the rings". i hear it is an exciting book. better than the movie even. then i took a shower, brushed my teeth, got dressed, shaved and went outside to my car. i then took out my car keys and unlock the door. then i opened the door. then i placed the key in the ignition and turned it in a clockwise direction. the engine started and i drove three blocks to a bagel place and got a bagel with creamy cheese made by a young lad by the name of adrian. i then repeated the actions with my keys that i told you about earlier on. i then drove a good twenty miles to work. not much to say about that. then i got out of my car. showed my badge to a security officer and went inside. on the way in i ran into my friend fay and said "hi fay, how was your new years eve" she said "good". then we walked to our cubicles. all day long i read some boring technical paper because i have to know about the subject being written about for a future project i may or may not have to work on. i then ate lunch, came back to my desk, then went outside to play baskettball. i lost. then i came back to my desk and began to write in my web journal, and then i started rambling on about pointless events that happened throughout the day. then i...um... couldn't think of what to write next, so i started writing about not being able to think about what to write about..help..i'm stuck.

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i waisted a whole week and a half of vacation by sitting around and doing nothing.

i fealt like i was on high school summer break all over again, exept it was winter and my parents weren't trying to get me to mow the lawn.

speaking of high school, this year marks a decade of being away from it. i wonder if i should go to the reunion.