Danny says

Found this kicking around on my hard drive.  It was a rough draft for what I eventually did with the song.  The picture is of Deets.  R.I.P. Deets.

2013 wrap-up

For the records, here are the things I liked/listened to/enjoyed the most in 2013

Favorite Movies I saw this year:
1.  The Act of Killing
2.  Gravity
3.  12 Years a Slave
4.  Inside Llewyn Davis
5.  The Worlds End
6.  Blue Jasmine
7.  Frances Ha
8.  American Hustle
9.  Enough Said
10.  Much Ado about Nothing

Favorite TV:
1.  Mad Men
2.  Breaking Bad
3.  Veep
4.  Boardwalk Empire
5.  Game of Thrones.
6.  The Moaning Life
8.  Enlightened
9.  Parks and Rec
10.  Community

Favorite Albums:
1.  Saal, Serengeti
2.  Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend
3.  Muchacho, Phosphorescent
4.  Comedown Machine, The Strokes
5.  Nothing was the Same, Drake
6.  Dream River, Bill Callahan
7.  Big Wheel and Others, Cass Mccombs
8.  On Oni Pond, Man Man
9.  12 Ways to Die, Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge
10.  Outer Face EP, Matthew E. White

Honorable Mention goes to:  Random Excess Memories, Amygdala, Yeezus, Run the Jewels, Blue Chips 2

Favorite Songs of the Year
1.  Pink Rabbits by the National

2.  Instant Crush by Daft Punk

3.  The Wire  by Haim

4.  Step by Vampire Weekend

5.  Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus
Not posting a link for this video though, sickos.
6.  Reflektor by Arcade Fire

7.  Head On by Man Man

8.  Wave Forms by Islands

9.  Brighter!  by Cass Mccombs

10.  Karate by Serengeti

Honorable Mentions to Dance Apocalyptic, Worst Behavior, Down to Go, 50/50, Juice, New Slaves,





Books I read in 2013:

1.        Carter beats devil, Glen David Gold

2.        Kraken, China Mieville

3.        Manhood for Amateurs, Micheal Chabon

4.        Telegraph Avenue, Micheal Chabon

5.        CivilWar Land in Bad Decline, George Saunders

6.        10^th of December, George Saunders

7.        Talulla Rising, Glen Duncan

8.        God who Weeps, Terryl Givens

9.        Swamplandia, Karen Russell

10.    Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

11.    Price of Politics, Bob Woodward

12.    Six Gun Tarot, R.S. Belcher

13.    Wind up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

14.    Braindead Megaphone, George Saunders

15.    The Crossing, Cormac Mcarthy

16.    Blood Meridian, Cormac Mcarthy

17.    Cities of the Plain, Cormac Mcarthy

18.    Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain, A. Lee Martinez

19.    The Infatuations, Javier Marias

20.    Jim Henson:  The Biography, Brian Jay Jones

21.    NOS4A2, Joe Hill

22.    Buffalo Girls, Larry Mcmurtry

23.    Soon I will be Invincible, Austin Grossman

24.    A Once Crowded Sky, Tom King

25.    Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell

26.    In Persuasion Nation, George Saunders

27.    Mo Meta Blues, Questlove

28.    The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

29.    Top Dog:  The Science of Winning and Losing, Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

30.    The Pearl, John Steinbeck

31.    The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck

32.    Cannery Row, John Steinbeck

33.    The Terror, Dan Simmons

34.  The Son, Phillip Meyer

Of those I really liked Blood Meridian, Winter of Our Discontent, The Corrections, The Infatuations, The God who weeps, The Tenth of December, Manhood for Amateurs, and Vampires in the Lemon Grove the most.