December 2009
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Hiatus til 2010.
I have some pretty crazy real life to contend with right now and I’m trying to right some wrongs and be okay. I just don’t have the energy for this blog / the song list until I do that. I will finish up the countdown next January. Love, love, love.
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #47
“Dirt Off Your Shoulder” by Jay-Z
Read the introduction for details on my criteria.
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If my criteria were purely the ‘stickiness’ of a song in my head over the last decade — waving my hand in the atmosphere, nodding my head, singing along, dancing along...
Letters of Note: Holden Caulfield is unactable →
“What he thinks and does so naturally in his solitude in the novel, on the stage could at best only be pseudo-simulated, if there is such a word (and I hope not).”
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #48
“The Art Teacher” by Rufus Wainwright
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Never have I turned to any other man.
‘Just’ a piano, and his ridiculously beautiful, soaring voice. ‘Just’ a story about a young girl in love with her teacher....
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #49
“The War Criminal Rises and Speaks” by Okkervil River
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This song’s power, like so many songs penned by Okkervil’s Will Sheff, is in empathy. Rather than simply tapping into his own heartbreak and neuroses, Sheff...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #50
“Monument” by Mirah
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(animation by some guy — this is not the official video but it is the only copy of the album version of this song available on youtube.)
This is precise opposite of the Sound of Settling. This is...
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The Collected 2009 Tip Jar Drawings Lists Of Good...
giant sugar cookies, B.J. Upton, sweater weather, halloween, karaoke, raccoons, sweet tea vodka, Don Draper, hotels, real mail, kites, basketball season, homemade bread, my kitchenaid mixer, Project Runway, green tea, butter cookies, Tim Lincecum, panda sneezes, bananas, boys in well-fitted suits and skinny ties, Joni Mitchell, Spock, front porches, pretty dresses, old mysterious photos, penguins,...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #51
“The Sound of Settling” by Death Cab for Cutie
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An anthem for inaction, stuttering, and apathy. A celebration of what-could-have-beens. Ridiculously catchy and horribly sad. This is the kind of song you relate to and wish you...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #52
“Mushaboom” by Feist
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Watch the video on youtube (embedding disabled).
A dream world in song, both musically and lyrically. When I listen to this song, I see visions of fresh baked bread, wooden furniture and little kid’s snow flushed cheeks.
There is kind of a fourth wall thing happening here: Leslie Feist is describing the...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #53
“Constructive Summer” by The Hold Steady
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I imagine that for the rest of my life, once a year around May, I will jam this song and get really, really, really excited about all the fun, productive things I’m going to do...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #54
“If You Find Yourself Caught In Love” by Belle & Sebastian
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Listen to this song on lala.com!
Belle & Sebastian is another band (like Cat Power or The Silver Jews or Elliott Smith) that, while they made good music in the 00s, is really not best represented by this list. Most of their tragic/adorable songs that make my eyes...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #55
“Remember Me As A Time Of Day” by Explosions In The Sky
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1. John, whose list of the best songs of the 2000s is probably better than mine, has a rule against instrumental ‘songs’ because they’re ‘not...
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“ON A DARK & RAINY MORNING IN ENGLAND, JUST WHEN YOU NEED SOME SPIRIT &...”
– Joe Strummer on Bruce Springsteen
Letters of Note: BRUCE IS GREAT…
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Mostly Mick Jagger by Catie Rosemurgy
(she is one of my favorite poets, and no one seems to know about her. so enjoy. this is how I would write if all of my inhibitions went away.)
1 Thank god he stuck his tongue out. When I was twelve I was in danger of taking my body seriously. I thought the ache in my nipple was priceless. I thought I should stay very still and compare it to a button, a china saucer, a flash in a...
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Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs of the 2000s: #56
“Greetings In Braille” by The Elected
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Listen to this song on lala.com.
Carefree, lilting, hummable melodies + bittersweet, vulnerable, sad lyrics = The Elected. I relate to this song more than I could possibly explain in a few sentences, but the great thing about it is that, specifics aside, you’ll probably relate to it too....