Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to wish everyone a very merry Christmas. I was so busy with work this year that Christmas came almost overnight. It's been good to see my sister who is in town from Florida. We stayed up late talking last night for hours. Im glad my sister is comfortable talking to me about her life. That means a lot to me.

To all those i care about, i hope you are having a wonderful Christmas. If i can do anything to make this time better for any of you, just let me know. Ill do my best to make it happen....

Subject To Change

Here are my picks for the top 30 albums of the year. They may change, but here is how they stand right now.

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
2. Magnolia Electric Co. - Trials and Errors
3. Luxury - Health and Sport
4. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
5. Denison Witmer - Are You a Dreamer?
6. Gorillaz - Demon Days
7. Andy Stochansky - 100
8. Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After The Blues
9. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
10. Over The Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer
11. Wilco - Kicking Television
12. Jimmy Eat World - Stay on My Side Tonight
13. The Choir - O How The Mighty Have Fallen
14. The Violet Burning - The Loudest Song in My Heart
15. Interpol - Antics
16. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
17. Weezer - Make Believe
18. Sigur Ros - Takk
19. Mike Ford - Canada Needs You Volume 1
20. Audioslave - Out of Exile
21. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
22. Headphones - Self Titled
23. Nada Surf - The Weight is a Gift
24. Coldplay - X & Y
25. The Juliana Theory - Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat
26. Magnolia Electric Co. - Hard to Love a Man
27. Queens of The Stone Age - Over the Years and Through the Woods
28. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
29. John Davis - Self Titled
30. Broken Social Scene - Self Titled

It should be noted that this includes only cds i actually purchased. Off the top of my head i thought of about 15 cds i wanted to buy, but didnt get a chance to. (The new Starflyer, The new LN, Feist, etc....). Any comments about the list or music from this year that you really liked are welcomed and encouraged.

Instant Karma

So i saw my 2nd and final U2 show for the current tour last night. We were lucky enough to make it into the ellipse, so the show was fantastic. A great setlist and a very happy U2 would have made the show great anyways, but being that close made it that much better. Setlist:

City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Gloria
The Ocean
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - In a Little While
Beautiful Day
Original of the Species
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Rock the Casbah
Bullet the Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride
Where the Streets Have No Name
One - Help

Encore:
Until the End of the World
Mysterious Ways
With or Without You
Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Instant Karma
Yahweh
40

Amazingly enough, for a band that gets a bad rap (usually deserved) for not changing setlists much, there were *six* songs i saw in the other show that were not played at this one:

The Electric Co
Miracle Drug
Discotheque
The Fly
All Because of You
Fast Cars

So yeah, it was great. Possibly the best U2 show i have seen, and ive seen 12. =)