Friday "Why Am I Awake?" Random 10+

Turned off the alarm and rolled back over this morning, first time in a long time. The extra 10 or so minutes wasn't near enough.



1) Cigarettes and Fishnets, Sad Salamanders

2) Hurricanes, Au Revoir Simone

3) Paranoia Blues, Paul Simon

4) The Sound of Silence, Leonard Cohen

5) Numbers With Wings, the bongos

6) Crawling From The Wreckage [Live], Rockpile

7) Jude's Drunken Trumpet (The Beatles vs. Kid Koala), DJ not-I

8) I Send A Message, INXS

9) Happy The Man, The Cure

10) Paranoid, Kanye West


Sadly, that's not Kanye covering Black Sabbath. But here's some more make up for the disappointment:


11) King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1 (Neutral Milk Hotel), Wilco

12) Rock And Roll Lawyer, Austin Lounge Lizards

13) Moscow Olympics, Orange Juice


Teh Intartubes has presented me with a zip of Pitchfork Media's Top 100 songs of 2008, and after I organize them into the correct order, I plan on listening to them all, and maybe even commenting on them here. We shall see what happens.

Friday "Why Am I Awake?" Random 10+

Turned off the alarm and rolled back over this morning, first time in a long time. The extra 10 or so minutes wasn't near enough.



1) Cigarettes and Fishnets, Sad Salamanders

2) Hurricanes, Au Revoir Simone

3) Paranoia Blues, Paul Simon

4) The Sound of Silence, Leonard Cohen

5) Numbers With Wings, the bongos

6) Crawling From The Wreckage [Live], Rockpile

7) Jude's Drunken Trumpet (The Beatles vs. Kid Koala), DJ not-I

8) I Send A Message, INXS

9) Happy The Man, The Cure

10) Paranoid, Kanye West


Sadly, that's not Kanye covering Black Sabbath. But here's some more make up for the disappointment:


11) King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1 (Neutral Milk Hotel), Wilco

12) Rock And Roll Lawyer, Austin Lounge Lizards

13) Moscow Olympics, Orange Juice


Teh Intartubes has presented me with a zip of Pitchfork Media's Top 100 songs of 2008, and after I organize them into the correct order, I plan on listening to them all, and maybe even commenting on them here. We shall see what happens.

Horn, Mine, Toot (Not a Euphemism)

Got the latest Anticipation Progrerss Report (Rapport préparatoire) in the mail today. Included was the Hugo & John W. Campbell Nominating Ballot (Bulletin de monination pour les prix Hugo et Joun W. Campbell de 2009), which I had the privilege of designing. I believe it's the first fully bilingual ballot (Nippon had separate ones, and I won't make the obvious jokes about about the UK and Australia).

The French text was provided to me by the fine folks at Anticipation, and it was an interesting excercise in layout. It was the first time I'd seen it in printed form (thank Ghu for pdfs!), and I have to say it looks pretty damn good.

The pdf is available for download here, and there should be an online ballot in the near future. Nominate well; I want to have a great list of works to format for the final ballot.

I have to admit I did try to sneak a little bit of fun in. In the form where the voter fills out their information, I had changed "Name/Nom" to "Name/Om nom," but it was spotted during the proofing stage, damn it.

Horn, Mine, Toot (Not a Euphemism)

Got the latest Anticipation Progrerss Report (Rapport préparatoire) in the mail today. Included was the Hugo & John W. Campbell Nominating Ballot (Bulletin de monination pour les prix Hugo et Joun W. Campbell de 2009), which I had the privilege of designing. I believe it's the first fully bilingual ballot (Nippon had separate ones, and I won't make the obvious jokes about about the UK and Australia).

The French text was provided to me by the fine folks at Anticipation, and it was an interesting excercise in layout. It was the first time I'd seen it in printed form (thank Ghu for pdfs!), and I have to say it looks pretty damn good.

The pdf is available for download here, and there should be an online ballot in the near future. Nominate well; I want to have a great list of works to format for the final ballot.

I have to admit I did try to sneak a little bit of fun in. In the form where the voter fills out their information, I had changed "Name/Nom" to "Name/Om nom," but it was spotted during the proofing stage, damn it.