2006 Top 10 Albums: (no order, fuck it's hard enough to actually narrow this shit down to 10, there was a lot of good stuff this year)

The only Thing I ever wanted I think this is my favourite album this year (favourite doesn't mean best though, I actually agree with the pitchfork reviewer about the slight flatness of the background especially when listening to the vinyl. )

he poos cloudsIf you've heard this album, and you know my tastes, you'll know why I like it, It's like an indie pop album filtered through the soundtrack from a silent…

How do you experience music? I was thinking about this not so much because I'd made a comment on someone's journal awhile ago that sort of touched on how I obsessively categorise everything, but I don't experience music in categories, it's just the easiest way to find something or explain it to someone else, but because I'd watched a programme about this guy who could do giant calculations and figured pi to like 212 decimal places in his head and how he was talking about how he experienced every number differently, he didn't just see digits exactly but they all…

Making mixes used to be one of those things that I found relaxing and really enjoyable, even when I was making them for people who I felt I had to make sure everything was perfect because I really cared about the craft involved in mix making in their case (meaning either I had a pash for them or they were super music snobs and top rate at mix making and I wanted to compete in their league) But lately I just find that mix making stresses me out and it's because looking at my music folders to find a narrow…

I was listening to death cab for cutie's 'Plans' today in the car and it occurred to me that that 'you will be loved' song really manages to stick in my craw every time I hear it. At first it was all, 'oh a sappy emo ray of hope' and then it further dawned on me that that's not what it is at all; instead it's a fucking cop-out, condescending, so -you-can-sleep-at-night break up speech. (though if you read the lyrics they could perchance be interpreted as not even break up, but merely sexual encounter, which would make such…