The Best Albums Of 2008 (so far...)

I'll have to admit that it's been kind of a disapointing year for good new music. But there have been a few that I have taken a liken to. So here's a list of my top 6 albums of 2008.

1.The Racontuers, "Consoler's of the Lonely"


2.Portishead, "Third"

This song is just magic.

3.Kings of Leon, "Only by the Night"


4.Vampire Weekend, "Vampire Weekend"


5. Sigur Ros, "Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust"


6.Dr. Dog, "Fate"


So there's my list. It's not finished. Neither is 2008.

Up In Smoke

Well hello... I'm thinking I should start each new post with why it's been so long since my last post. I have been slacking. Not much inspiration these days. My life just seems to be one bad country song. I mean a really fucked up country song.
But leave it to my father calling me to give me some inspiration.
I got the call from him this morning. He was all excited. Turns out he got tickets to go see Cheech and Chong tonight in Atlanta. Now to my father this a dream come true. My Dad is an advocate for the legalization of marijuana(never new this till I was in my early 20's) The man is on a mission.
Clue's I should of picked up on that he was probably high throughout my childhood,

1. I had horrible earaches as a child and he would lay my head on his lap and blow smoke in my ear which would always make the pain go away and make me sleepy. e.g. He did not smoke cigarettes when I was a child.
2. I remember when I was 4 or 5 years old always seeing what I thought were grape stems in the ashtray on the coffee table. But when I would search the fridge for grapes, none were found. The stems were never discovered again after I asked why I couldn't have grapes, too.
3. I was 10 years old and we were driving across Louisiana headed for Texas. It was late at night and my father was driving. We were all sleeping. When all of the sudden My dad screams like women in a horror flick and slams on the brakes. We nearly went off into alligator infested swamp water. My dad was hyperventilating as he started telling my mom he saw some black hairy shiny 8 ft. tall Bigfoot creature running across the road. Now he was probably smoking while we slept unsuspecting. Or it could be flashbacks from all the peyote he ate as a young man.
4. He asked to borrow my video camera one time and kept it for a couple days and then returned it with the tape still in. I went to rewind it and play back what he recorded. and discovered a reenactment of Cheech and Chong's Dave's not Home and Vietnam. He was by him self and laughing really hard.
5. He took me to my first movie which was Up In Smoke!!!

I always get tear filled phone calls from him when he sees or reads anything on the legalization of. It's very funny actually, you wouldn't know this about him in first meeting. But if you happen to walk into my old bedroom of my parents home you will see that he is trying to perfect the perfect bud. When ever I go back home and visit I have to sleep in that room. It's actually quite nice, I have a path that leads to my bed through a deep tall forest of green. The only thing that's not so nice is that he comes stumbling into my room at 5 in the morning turning on huge heat lamps forgetting I'm in there.Now that he has grand kids when we come visit they are all carefully transported to the garage(the plants). I don't smoke, but when I go home I sneak off with my dad. It's only out of respect. So back to Cheech and Chong, I wish I could go see them with him. The very first movie I ever saw as a child was Up in smoke. My dad actually took me to see this at age 2. I remember the whole event. I think he underestimated my 2 year old brain's ability for memory.

It's Labor Day.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
-Horace