Voltron

Taking recommendations from our Best of 2009 thread and other similar ones, and buying some things I already liked but did not own, I went a little nuts at Amoeba tonight. Quite a few were available used, luckily. Sarah Jarosz - Song Up In Her Head Dirty Projectors -- Bitte Orca Deluxe Edition including Stillness is the Move EP A Fine Frenzy - Bomb In A Birdcage Steve Earle -- Townes Deluxe Edition with second disc containing Dave Rawlings Machine -- A Friend of a Friend The Avett Brothers -- I and Love and You Steve Kuhn -- Mostly Coltrane Dave Douglas -- Spirit Moves John Zorn -- O

Stretch has listened to These Four Walls and posted in the WAYLTN? thread. Lots of folks in that thread seem to have been loving on Merriweather Post Pavilion, especially when it came out. Also, Stretch had that in his list above.^

Agreed. And if you listen to my sped-up needle-drop it will move you even faster.

What do you think of the queen of the B3? Not bad. How is The Hunter? I keep looking at the ads for it but I have never heard it or even read a review.

Nice catch, Dan.

Seizure trance!

Oh nelly! Your year-end must have been pretty damn good! Congrats!

Indeed x2!

Don't be coy. Who is it?

Good show, Greg, now stop fucking around and get the ULN-8 pumping out glorious tunes!

Tyll! How you doin? You at CES or know what they are announcing?

I'm annoyed that there is no word on the product announcements.

I have that lens too, Mike, and I love it. Congrats.

I got my pair of new production WE 300Bs in the fancy wooden box for $500 on Agon.

wtf? I hope this isn't the big announcement. Sennheiser to unveil new corporate design at CES 2010 Sennheiser, one of the world’s leading producers of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems has evolved its corporate design that is to be unveiled at this year's CES show. At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the audio specialist will be introducing itself for the first time with a new design. “The new corporate design brings our profile into focus and is an important step within the framework of the brand strategy. Throughout this process it was important for us to ensureSennheiser ’s three brand values – premium quality, passion and progression – are reflected even more clearly and further enhance the brand,” says Susanne Seidel, President Global Marketing at Sennheiser. The Hamburg Design Agency Syndicate was responsible for both creative and consultancy work on the project. The reworked corporate design will gradually be implemented across all of Sennheiser’s communication collateral. The Sennheiser in-store retail display programme will be unveiled to a larger international public using numerous modules, including interactive displays, at the CES 2010. During the Consumer Electronics Show which runs from the 7th to the 10th of January 2010, Sennheiser can be found in the South Hall, Stand No. 21240 of Las Vegas’ exhibition centre.

Akiko Tsuruga -- Oriental Express

Girls In Trouble

I feel a vegetative state coming on for the same reason.

Now playing: The Antlers -- Hospice

Damn I am glad I didn't have any sandwiches that weekend.

I concur with a lot of the foregoing, so without repeating those albums here are too many favorites from 2009, in no particular order: ROCK/POP Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar -- One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur Steve Earle -- Townes Grizzly Bear -- Veckatimest Dave Rawlings Machine -- A Friend of a Friend Monsters of Folk -- Monsters of Folk Flight of the Conchords -- I Told You I Was Freaky WPA -- Works Progress Administration The Avett Brothers -- I and Love and You Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 -- Goodnight Oslo St. Vincent -- Actor The Smithereens -- Tommy M. Ward -- Hold Time Wilco -- Wilco Iron & Wine -- Around the Well Yo La Tengo -- Popular Songs God Help the Girl -- God Help the Girl JAZZ Anthony Wilson -- Jack of Hearts Joshua Redman -- Compass Branford Marsalis Quartet -- Metamorphosen Christian McBride -- Kind of Brown Steve Kuhn -- Mostly Coltrane Anouar Brahem -- The Astounding Eyes of Rita The Masada Quintet -- Stolas: Book of Angels Vol. 12 Dave Douglas -- Spirit Moves John Zorn -- Alhambra Love Songs and O’o Doctor 3 -- The Song Remains the Same Jeff “Tain” Watts -- Watts Enrico Rava -- New York Days Ran Blake -- Driftwoods Nels Cline -- Coward Peter Bernstein Trio -- Monk Bobby Broom -- Plays for Monk SF Jazz Collective -- Live 2009

Mayonnaise? He did say "pee," didn't he?

You stopped doing that before DanJam, though, right?

I definitely made rainbows on the TV with magnets and I think I left them there too long one time. Oh, and a friend of my son's did in fact poke in the dust caps on my Gallo speakers but I was able to pop them out with balled up duct tape, sticky side out.