Friday, December 11, 2009

Merry Media Wish-List!!














A short list of records that I would be listening to these days if money were no issue:

Mount Eerie "Wind's Poem"
No Age "Losing Feeling"
Deer Tick "Born on Flag Day"
Mountain Goats "The Life of the World to Come"
Tegan & Sara "Sainthood"
Against Me! "White Crosses"
Jawbox "For Your Own Special Sweetheart" Islands "Vapours" Monsters of Folk
Dinosaur Jr's "Farm"
Bowerbird's new one
Volcano Choir "Unmap"
Yaysayer "Odd Blood" out in Feb '10
Vampire Weekend "Contra" out 1/12/20
Mighty Mighty BossTones "Pin Points and Gin Joints"
Fucked Up "Do they Know it's Christmas" single
...and I want to buy the Bouncing Souls' "Ghosts on the Boardwalk" even though I already own all the songs.






Some books I'd like to read:
Jonathan Safron Foer's "Eating Animals"
Mark Andersen & Mark Jenkins' "Dance of Days"
George Wendt "Drinking With George"
Nick Hornby "Juliet, Naked"
Chuck Klosterman "Eating the Dinosaur"
Greg Pratos "Grunge is Dead"
Amy Sedaris "Book of Liz"
Flan O'Brian "Poor Mouth"
and...
"Our Noise: The Merge Records Story" by Mac & Laura from Superchunk