November 2009
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #57
“Guns and Cigarettes” by Atmosphere
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One of the sassiest, smartest, funniest rhymes of the 00s. These boys love to play with the huge-ego hip-hop persona, and this song is their take on it at it’s most ridiculous....
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #58
“You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son” by Wolf Parade
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“I’ll build a house inside of you.
I’ll go in through the mouth.
I’ll draw three figures on your heart.
One of them will be me as a...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #59
“I Better Be Quiet Now” by Elliott Smith
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Listen to this song on lala.com.
One of my most beloved songwriters. One of the only ‘celebrity’ deaths that has made me weep. One of the saddest songs I have ever heard.
Most of my favorite Smith songs were written and recorded in the 1990s, so this list isn’t as peppered...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #60
“The Blower’s Daughter” by Damien Rice
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Heartbreaking. To a serious, almost unlistenable degree, for me anyway. What’s remarkable is that the lyrics aren’t actually very specific at all — a line like...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #61
“Coin Operated Boy” by The Dresden Dolls
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A fable in which a woman who’s romantically frustrated and decides to build a robotic boyfriend. We’ve all thought about it, right? I love the meta-ness of the bridge:
“this bridge was written to make you feel smitten with my...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #62
“Something To Do With My Hands” by Her Space Holiday
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Things can be sad and sexy at the same time.
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“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy
I like that guy.
(via tedr wreckandsalvage) (via yournewfavorite)
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #63
“Love and Jet Engines” by The Tiny Tin Hearts
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GO TO THETINYTINHEARTS.COM & click on ‘Love & Jet Engines’ in the audio sidebar on the left to hear this amazing song. Then come back.
First off, these are my friends. Second off, it really doesn’t matter.
Just hit play on this song, close your eyes, and then...
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try easier.
“The “try easier” issue is just another example of the differences in the declarative/procedural memory types.
Muscle memory is procedural memory. That means it’s an automatic, subconscious process. If you try to induce conscious control over those types of memories, you’re rerouting the process through the wrong memory system, and you’ll likely mess the process up.
The conscious part of...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #64
“I Don’t Blame You” by Cat Power
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This is such a beautiful song. When this album came out I remember only wanting to hear this song, over and over and over again, for weeks afterwards.
People like to theorize that this...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #65
“Full Grown Man (I Will Lay In The Grass All Day)” by Phosphorescent
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To me, this song — musically, lyrically, vocally, every ly — personifies happiness and freedom. This is deciding to drive to the closest beach...
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“When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in...”
– Umberto Eco
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #66
“100 Days, 100 Nights” by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
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It’s a bit of a trick to play music that sounds like it was made 50 years without sounding like a six flags novelty act. Most of the bands that try to do it are...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #67
“Your Blues” by Destroyer
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There’s very little I can say to try to describe Destroyer. The sound of Dan Bejar’s songs is truly singular because of his remarkable, overpowering, emotionally rich, beautiful,...
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The Deadlies : Drunk Or Not.
This is the...
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And Now A Selection From Tim McCarver's "Great... →
I think the title says it all this time, folks.
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The Compass Room: East
I should have written this myself, but Thalia Field wrote it first.
The Compass Room: East
by Thalia Field
from “Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets”
Each book has a title and all chapters have numbers and each page has a number and each paragraph begins with a clear indentation, a pause or a clearing of the throat, and each sentence ends with a period...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #68
“Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys
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It’s a good thing I left some wiggle room on this list when I first made it, because it would be a travesty for this song not to be on it.
Look. I hate the...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #69
“By Your Side” by CocoRosie
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All I wanted was to be your housewife.
Listen closely and let it bounce around in your brain and then consider how it makes you feel and what that means about you. I can’t tell you how it...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #70
“What’s Golden” by Jurassic 5
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It’s hard for me to believe this song came out this decade. To me it has the effortless exuberance of the scene when hip-hop was fresh. It’s less bling and more spray paint, less booty shaking bikini girls and more breakdancing, less Kobe and more MJ....
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #71
“City of Electric Light” by Chad VanGaalen
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Happiness is often the intersection of surprise and familiarity: Biting into baked macaroni and cheese and discovering a sharp grown-up taste mixed in with all your mom...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #72
“The Queen of England” by The Mendoza Line
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No video, but you can listen to the full track at lastfm.
The Mendoza Line was this really good band named after a sabermetrics term (one of my favorite band names of all time) and I never understood why they never got popular, and then they broke up (doubly: the married couple that fronted...
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I miss baseball already
A few thoughts:
Tin Lincecum — my número uno baseball crush — being busted for pot. Shock me, shock me, shock me.
Chase Utley is not only the best player on the Philles, he might also be my favorite baseball player period. I would actually give up my right pinkie for him to be an Astro for the duration of his career.
Eff the Yankees.
Fox’s treatment of Jeter was ridiculous. With...
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“After dinner, Oliver came over and sat next to Mr. Mayer, who was across the...”
– Hugh Prather, Notes on Love & Courage. With special thanks to Holly G. and Charlie L. for transcribing and sourcing, respectively.
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #73
“Paparazzi” by Lady Gaga
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I think this video of Ms. Gaga performing at the VMAs is even more awesome than the album version of this insta-classic. The best karaoke song of the decade? I think so. And I have ten bucks on Lady...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #74
“So Many Ways” by Mates of State
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With their super-catchy keyboard melodies, amazing and strange harmonies, and cryptic but emotionally delivered lyrics, Mates of State probably has one of the most immediately recognizable...
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The Year of Living Postracially →
Ha!
Film is similarly problematic. A re-imagined “Do the Right Thing” should reflect Brooklyn’s changing demographics, with a group of multicultural Brooklyn writers — subletting realists, couch-surfing postmodernists, landlords whose métier is haiku — getting together on a mildly hot summer afternoon, not too humid, to host a block party, the proceeds of which go to a charity for restless leg...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #75
Number One - John Legend
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This song is misunderstood. What’s heard by people taking it literally is a player’s manifesto: “you can’t say I don’t love you just because I cheat on you.” But I hear a clever warning to women that dirtbags will stay that way, and to take the stupid...
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