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Here are my top 30 songs for the Year in Music 2009 project I'm doing with my friends. We ask for everyone's votes and then we tally them and make a mix cd based upon the results. While I wasn't completely blown away this year by any bands like I have been in years past, I did think there were some really strong albums this year and some bands that are pushing the boundaries in good ways. I'm really glad that I went to Bonnaroo this year because I saw a lot of the bands that made my YIM list and that's pretty cool. I also saw Sonic Youth for the first time, so being able to check them off of my "People to see before they die list" is a great accomplishment as well. Anyway, here's my list:

Rank - Song - Artist - Album
1 My Girls - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2 Young Hearts Spark Fire - Japandroids - Japandroids
3 Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4 Stillness Is the Move - Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5 Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
6 People Got a Lotta Nerve - Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
7 Islands - The xx - The xx
8 Leaky Lifeboat - Sonic Youth - The Eternal
9 1901 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10 Horchata - Vampire Weekend - MP3 download from band website
11 11th Dimension - Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
12 Young Adult Friction The Pains of Being Pure at Heart TPaoBPaH
13 No Hope Kids - Wavves - Wavves
14 You Got the Love (xx Remix) - Florence & The Machine - Lungs
15 Oh My God, Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem - OMG, Charlie Darwin
16 Lust for Life - Girls - Album
17 Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z - Blueprint 3
18 Wilco (The Song) - Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
19 Bay of Pigs - Destroyer - Bay of Pigs
20 Daylight - Matt & Kim - Grand
21 What Would I Want? Sky - Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP
22 While You Wait for the Others - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
23 Knotty Pine - Dirty Projectors/David Byrne - Dark Was The Night
24 Something Is Squeezing My Skull - Morrissey - Years of Refusal
25 Amazing Grace - Cat Power - Dark Was The Night
26 Daniel - Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
27 Cornerstone - Artic Monkeys - Humbug
28 Life In Marvelous Times - Mos Def - The Ecstatic
29 Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
30 Twist & Shout - The Beatles - Please Please Me

Honorable Mention - I'm On A Boat - Lonely Island - Incredibad

Today is my last full day of work in 2009. I have to check in next week but most of my teammates will be out of the office an I took tomorrow off for Preston's vet appointment and my car inspection and Christmas shopping.

It's been a good year. I'm incredibly grateful to still have my job. To top off that thankfulness, we got a little surprise this morning at the staff meeting. The company exceeded $100 million in revenue in 2009, a first for us. It's a momentous occasion for an agency and a yardstick by which big agencies are measured. We also had an incredible profit margin, higher than the last two years. So they decided to spread the wealth a big. Can you say $1000 bonus? Aww yeah.

Now in addition to my regular duties on Alltel and seeing that transition through, I'm also putting together media ideas for Walmart, Pizza Hut and planning for Chobani Greek yogurt. I'm excited to see what 2010 holds.


Here's a video of what I think will be a leading change agent in the media world next year.

I wrote some new songs. They're based on my usual themes of rainbows and sunshine and unicorns.

http://www.myspace.com/stephenpaulbasfordmusic

Woohoo, another list!

100 Leonard Cohen - 10 New Songs
99 The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
98 TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
97 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
96 The Streets - Original Pirate Material
95 Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor
94 The Libertines - Up The Brackett
93 Johnny Cash - Unearthed
92 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
91 The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
90 Amadou & Miriam - Dimanche A Bamako
89 Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
88 Brian Wilson - Smile
87 Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
86 The Postal Service - Give Up
85 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
84 Eminem - The Eminem Show
83 The Black Keys - Attack & Release
82 Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
81 Ryan Adams - Gold
80 Kings Of Leon - Youth And Young Manhood
79 The New Pornographers - Electric Version
78 Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
77 Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
76 Sigur Rós - ( )
75 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
74 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
73 Coldplay - Parachutes
72 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
71 Bright Eyes - Lifted Of The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
70 Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
69 Missy Elliott - Under Construction
68 U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
67 Björk - Vespertine
66 Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
65 Manu Chao - Próxima Estación Esperanza
64 Gillian Welch - Time The Revelator
63 Kanye West - 808s And Heartbreak
62 Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary May
61 The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
60 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
59 Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
58 Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
57 Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
56 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
55 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
54 Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
53 Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
52 M.I.A. - Arular
51 Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
50 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
49 Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
48 TV On The Radio - Dear Science
47 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
46 Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
45 Kanye West - Graduation
44 System Of A Down - Toxicity
43 The Killers - Hot Fuss
42 Elliott Smith - Figure 8
41 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
40 Kanye West - Late Registration
39 Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
38 Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
37 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
36 U2 - No Line On The Horizon
35 PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
34 OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
33 Daft Punk - Discovery
32 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
31 My Morning Jacket - Z
30 Radiohead - In Rainbows
29 Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
28 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
27 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
26 Cat Power - The Greatest
25 Radiohead - Amnesiac
24 Bruce Springsteen - Magic
23 D'Angelo - Voodoo
22 Green Day - American Idiot
21 Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
20 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
19 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
18 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
17 Beck - Sea Change
16 OutKast - Stankonia
15 Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
14 Jay-Z - The Black Album
13 U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
12 LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
11 Bob Dylan - Love And Theft
10 Kanye West - The College Dropout
09 M.I.A. - Kala
08 Bob Dylan - Modern Times
07 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
06 Arcade Fire - Funeral
05 The White Stripes - Elephant
04 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
03 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
02 The Strokes - Is This It
01 Radiohead - Kid A

Has anyone on here completed Little Rocket Man achievment on HL2? How do you get through the last of a car chase?? FUCKING GNOME WON'T STAY IN THE CAR AND THE FUCKING COPTER SHOOTS IT AWAY FROM YOU SLDKFJSLKFJKLSDFJKL

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oh also!! Princess and the Frog is pretty old school Disney style and I liked it a lot so you should see it too.

Here is a video that I just taped using my iPhone. I don't even have the video iPhone, but just what is essentially a regular cell phone with a camera and a microphone and a 3G connection (and some processing power). I could see this being a pretty revolutionary service. This new iPhone app called Broadcaster from a company USTREAM is now available and free on iTunes. Apparently there's been an Android version out for a while. So you can broadcast live from your phone and then save the video and share it immediately across Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites if you wish. I just did an experiment to see what the service is like. You can see a boring video of my computer at work and a bit of my face at the end here:

yay xD

I believe this is the opening for Demo Solly update, no?

My dearest LJ friends, I have decided to give Twitter a go on the advice of Tudds. 'If you want to get a book published, they're gonna want you to have a Twitter account.' Damn the 21st century. Anyway, if you want to read my boring, self-indulgent posts then 'follow' me at StephenWhatever (I didn't spend much time thinking of the name, alright? Oh, shut up...)