Album of 2012

Tonight Alive - What Are You So Scared Of?
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This album definitely grew on me; without a doubt. Each song has a special meaning to me and it re-captures the essence of the classic punk rock sound in an age where pop-rock sounds so samey. Some favourite tracks: Reason To Sing, Safe & Sound, Amelia, To Die For, and the title track What Are You So Scared Of?

Album of 2011

Calexico - Carried To Dust
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According to Windows I downloaded this album on the 2nd of November 2011, but I picked it as my album of 2011 because it reminds the wonderful music on it, particularly tracks such Two Slilver Trees remind me of the autumn leaves falling and the happy memories I had around that time. I highly recommend the album.

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List of films for me to download and watch over the Xmas period:

A cross out means I've watched it since compiling this list.

Taking Lives
Phone Booth
Chapter 27
The Silence of the Lambs
Mirrors
American Psycho
Mean Girls
Shutter Island
North Country
The Skeleton Key
Event Horizon

Album of 2009

For the album of 2009, I couldn't decide between two amazing ones from two different artists, so i decided that since 2009 also marks the end of a decade I would submit two albums for 2009. They are:

Cobra Starship - Hot Mess
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The Sounds - Crossing The Rubicon
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I first heard both these albums in the fall of 2009 and although immediately loved them both, they didn't gain special significance until December. These albums have special signifiance to me for personal reasons that have…

Album of 2008

Gipsy Kings - The Very Best Of
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I first heard this album in late June, 2008, just before I went to California. I left on the 2nd of July, but one of the tracks that reminds me the most of my California trip is the track Hotel California (not because of the name) but the great sound of the song. We actually went on a cruise down to Cabo Can Lucas, Mexico as well. After this we spent some time in San Diego and then in LA before flying home.
I think this time round I…

Since 2005, I've been blogging albums of the year, once a year at the end of that year. An album that I made album of the year doesn't necessarily mean it's the one with the highest play count or is the one I listen to the most, although for previous years, this has generally been the case. When I listen to an album of the year, I can recall certain (happy) events that happened in my life around the time I first listened to the album.
In 2005 this album was Yellowcard's Ocean Avenue and I first listened to…

So I was listening to this one track and thinking hey I really love this. The track is actually from a game but I'm sure someone makes music like this and has releases out in shops or something. It's basically a soundscape of nature, and in the case of this particular track, a soundscape of the Jungle. But there are melodies and sounds outside of what you'd really hear in the jungle e.g. added in sounds of panpipes. This type of music, although wasn't really intended to be the case in the game, is really relaxation music… chill out or…

Last week I spent most of my spare time assembling the various parts of my new computer. I installed the OS yesterday but had the thing all setup by Friday. Before the purchase of this thing my only computer was a weak and somewhat slow laptop. I used to get about 17-23fps in CSS at 800x600, and aside from this it would regularly freeze - roughly three times per day!

Well all that is over now and here are the specs of my new machine.

OS: Windows XP Home SP2
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) E6400 2.13GHz
RAM: 2GB…

The last.fm client regularly crashes thus failing to write the tracks I listen to in real-time, the website crushes under heavy page requests. I cant even count on my fingers the amount of times I've tried to visit a page and it's been denied access to me because of high-bandwidth demands their database servers have been overloaded.

So this morning I find a last.fm announcement telling me that they've added free MP3 downloads to the site so that it can be down more often. It's insane lol.