top uberalbums of 2006

I've been reading pitchforkmedia for some time, mostly for their top albums reviews (2006, 2005, 90s). 2006 is no different, i'm supremely interested in all they recommend. And thanks to a friend of mine, i discovered another music site, short list of music, that has also catalogued their favorite albums of the previous few years (in no particular order).

In order to "give something back" to the community and at the advice of this same friend, i've decided to cross reference the 2 lists this year, looking for hip similarities, exclusions, and things that i already think are large, or think i will probably think is large at some point during 2007.

Album	Pitchfork Rank	On Longlist	Large	Likely to become Large
Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time	12	Yes	Yes
Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit	30	Yes
Cat Power - The Greatest	28	Yes
Danielson - Ships	31	Yes		Yes
Girl Talk - Night Ripper	34	Yes
Hot Chip - The Warning	26	Yes
Joanna Newsom - Ys	3	Yes	Yes
Liars - Drum's Not Dead	6	Yes		Yes
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor	32	Yes		Yes
Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast	47	Yes
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain	2	Yes		Yes
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife	41	Yes	Yes
The Knife - Silent Shout	1	Yes
Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet	21
Beach House - Beach House	16
Booka Shade - Movements	50
Boris - Pink	9			Yes
Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light	36
Califone - Roots & Crowns	27			Yes
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country	45			Yes
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury	7
DJ Drama & Lil Wayne - Dedication 2	37
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies	18
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles	49
Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things	39
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale	4
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House	8			Yes
Herbert - Scale	35
J Dilla - Donuts	38
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye	11
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds	25
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33	22
Lily Allen - Alright, Still	29
M. Ward - Post-War	46
Man Man - Six Demon Bag	20			Yes (Zaphods, tonite!)
Mastodon - Blood Mountain	42
Mission Of Burma - The Obliterati	33
Peter Bjorn And John - Writer's Block	24			Yes
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That	13
Scott Walker - The Drift	10
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped	43			Yes
Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming	15
T.I. - King	19
Tapes 'N Tapes - The Loon	40
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America	5		Ya, Duh??
The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home	48
The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes	44
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine	17
Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet	14
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass	23
Against Me! - Americans Abroad Live In London		Yes
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - So Divided		Yes
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll		Yes
Beck - The Information		Yes
Beirut - Gulag Orskestar		Yes	Yes
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go		Yes		Yes
CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy		Yes
Country Teasers - The Empire Strikes Back		Yes
Cursive - Happy Hollow		Yes
Dabrye - Two/Three		Yes
Dead Heart Bloom - Dead Heart Bloom		Yes
Editors - The Back Room		Yes
Field Music - Field Music		Yes
Forgive Durden - Wonderland		Yes
Jeremy Enigk - World Waits		Yes
Kidd Jordan - Hamid Drake + William Parker- Palm Of Soul		Yes
Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You		Yes
Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song		Yes
Mates Of State - Bring It Back		Yes
Mew - And The Glass Hand Kites		Yes
Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther		Yes
Mohair - Small Talk		Yes
Mute Math - Mutemath		Yes
Neil Young - Living With War		Yes
OOIOO - Taiga		Yes
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom		Yes
Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers		Yes
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope		Yes
Roots - Game Theory		Yes		Yes
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops		Yes
Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh		Yes
Skream - Skream		Yes
Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo		Yes
Teddybears - Soft Machine		Yes
The Blow - Paper Television		Yes
The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control		Yes
The Hush Sound - Like Vines		Yes
The Stills - Without Feathers		Yes
The Strokes - First Impression Of Earth		Yes
The Velvet - Teen Cum Laude		Yes
The Weepies - Say I Am You		Yes
Tom Waits - Orphans		Yes	Ya, but its not really 2006
Vaux - Beyond Virture Beyond Vice		Yes
We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor		Yes
Wolfmother - Wolfmother		Yes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones		Yes		Yes
the Bronx - The Bronx		Yes

If you've got any suggestions for albums to check out on the list, let me hear em. Or perhaps if you know of a better way of presenting this massive tabular data on a blog, cause i agree this is nasty.

lunchtime

Not much has changed, not much is new. Life has been very good lately. As evidence of this, i will present this image, my lunch on this march 16th 2007.
- de cecco tagliatelle, comes in spools, best dried pasta you can buy
- 3 large mushrooms, sliced
- 8 cherry tomatos, halved
- a bunch green onions, 1.5 inch pieces
- 3 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
- half red pepper - unnecessary
- pinches of hot peppers
- tons of s & p
- large bunch parsley, chopped
- a tablespoon or 2 of olive oil
- a bit of wine, a bit of broth, optional, unnecessary

1 Start water on high, start fry pan on med-high
2 add shrooms n pepper, cook for a few min
3 add pasta to water when boiling
4 add oil and s n p n hot peppers to pan
5 a few min later add rest of stuff to fry pan
6 keep on kookin!
7 when pasta done, spoon directly into pan, add a bit more oil, combine

Eat!!! This may not be everyones cup of tea, but a refreshing pasta lunch like this revitalizes me like nothing else.

I'm working from home today, it rules. Things of note:
- Apparently my blog is worth a little over 500 bux:
- Its getting warmer! Soon to start running in prep for 10 million K!!!
- House stuff mostly on hold, trying to find people to build a deck for you can be hard work.

inspired by seahorses

I think this is pretty inspiring. Even without him ever earning a dime for it, I think its beautiful, and sad to think of what was happening to those precious baby seahorses (being chewed up).

I think its also scary and great that CBC calls it news!!!