HULLO

Here's a recap of everything memorable to me from this last year.


To start, here's my end-of-the-year mix of songs that stuck with me over the last 12 months...

2011


1. I'm New Here Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX
2. Reunion M83
3. Channel Pressure Ford & Lopatin
4. Far Away Washed Out
5. Trust Me The Streets
6. Shine Like Stars Glasvegas
7. It's Your Destiny The War On Drugs
8. VHS Sex Com Truise
9. Nightcall Kavinsky (technically 2010, but nobody gave a shit about it til this year's Gosling flick)
10. Somebody That I Used to Know Gotye
11. Foxes Song Amor de Dias
12. Time Forgot (To Change My Heart) Daniel Romano
13. We Saw Bobby
14. All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back Here The Caretaker
15. Time Spent Deaf Center
16. Endurance Desolate
17. Terrible Angels Charlotte Gainsbourg
18. Belongings Clock Opera
19. Dust It Off The Dø
20. An Echo from the Hosts that Profess Infinitum Shabazz Palaces

http://www.mediafire.com/?zjfaxs4bz9qfz80


...followed by my annual mix...


2011 Metal


1. Blessed to Resist Sacrilegious Impalement
2. The Embodiment of Paradox and Chaos Lock Up
3. Grains Execration
4. Euclidean Elements Obscura
5. Distorted and Twisted to Form Exhumed
6. One Shot, One Kill Dekapitator (re-issue)
7. Meteor to the Face Wormrot
8. Death Curse Today is the Day
9. Elegant In Their Funebrial Cloaks... Encoffination
10. Guiltless Indian
11. Crawling Death Entrails
12. III-3 Aosoth
13. Epitome 2 Blut Aus Nord
14. The Sound of Violence Onslaught
15. Black Earth Weekend Nachos
16. Fear Dead in the Dirt
17. Unite to Defy Xerath

http://www.mediafire.com/?wo1mzcnzepe53wa


I also made a few other mixes during the year, reposted here for posterity...


Solarbabies - A Heatwave Summer Mix


1. From the Morning Heat Craft Spells
2. The Voices Ford & Lopatin
3. By The Numbers Jamaica
4. Spirit of the Night Tesla Boy
5. When We're Dancing Twin Shadow
6. Stay Out Tonight Lay Bac
7. Caribbean Queen Billy Ocean
8. Oranges Is Tropical
9. Tripped And Fell in Love Yacht
10. If You Want It TV Girl
11. My World Lee Fields
12. Behind the Blue Curtains El Michels Affair
13. He Would Make Her Like Winter Redondo Beach
14. Solstice Brian Bennett
15. Banana Ripple Junior Boys
16. Miami Vice Theme Loafers With No Socks

http://www.mediafire.com/?aiv0755v4jid7u6


Halloween MIXXACRE


"I'LL KILL YOU!" Ash Williams (0:00-0:10)
Optimus Maximus Gatekeeper (0:11-3:53)
Illumination Miami Horror (3:54-10:33)
Con Clavi Con Dio Ghost (10:34-14:00)
Suicide Child The Nuns (14:01-18:23)
John Henry Gonna Those Poor Bastards (18:24-21:16)
Brief Terror Teenage Panzerkorps (21:17-24:48)
Ghoul Hunter Ghoul (24:49-26:40)
The Crypt The Southern Death Cult (26:41-29:38)
Ghost on the Highway The Gun Club (29:39-32:19)
Dragula Trashwomen (32:20-34:57)
Fool In the Full Moon Violent Femmes (34:58-39:00)
I Wanna Be Your Zombie Slackeye Slim (39:01-42:01)
Werewolves of London Warren Zevon (42:02-45:24)
Ghost of Love David Lynch (45:25-50:37)
Someone Chasing Someone Through a House Umberto (50:38-57:13)
The Order of Death Public Image, Ltd. (57:14-1:02:03)

http://www.mediafire.com/?5ydh2ovr6k52wzm





I also made some cool rad awesome burgers (with shera's help)...

The rather larged-hatted Mamma Mia...

...a burger delicious in concept, yet challenging in consumption by way of the mouth-destroying crust.

The Sheboygan...

...as disgusting as it looks.

The Waldorf...

...thoroughly unremarkable, my good man.

The Havana...

...amazing, with those fried plantain chips and homemade banana ketchup (the late shera's idea.)

The Johnny Appleseed...

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...aw pickle shoes!

and The Macho Nacho...

...a monstrous finale to the experiment, not done a lick of justice here in this tiny submissive pic. Four beef patties lie betwixt those be-toasted buns.



I SAW SOME COOL SHOWS


OFF! in Los Angeles, along with The Descendents, Four Tet, DFA1979 and a billion others.


Washed Out/Cut Copy Indianapolis. That's me on the left, Chillwave on the right.


Florence & The Machine lawn show with the tootkins.


Coheed & Cambria in Detroit (from the tech perch). My bosses fave, and they are old friends. Good seats are never lacking.

...and then some other super bad awesome dope shows that are not pictured here, namely:

Atari Teenage Riot in Los Angeles
Dudefest in Indy
War On Drugs in Indy





I WROTE SOME NEAT MUSIC (well my mom says it's neat)




Lifetaker


Silver Teeth


Doomsday Radio


Eagle Ray


In My Time of Dyin







Unfortunately, I lost two meaningful people...


Mary Bee, beloved grandmother, Great Depression and farm repo-survivor. Maker of fantastic bread and bacon with sopping grease.



My homey Jared, who went to be with Odin in the great E350 Super Duty in the Sky.




THIS IS THE YEAR I STARTED WORKING OUT OF MY HOUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER...

(and can wear configurations such as this without fear of ridicule.)


...AND PUT ON MY ASSLESS CONSTRUCTION CHAPS TO BUILD A FEW THINGS AROUND THE PLACE

like this shed

(before)


(after)

and this platform bed


and this gluten free Día de Muertos cake





I TOOK SOME GREAT TRIPS

Chicago







St. Louis









California (where I met Tania and Billy )






...and a coupla quick trips to Ontario and Philadelphia, wherein I forgot to take pictures, but ate some delicious pho and had meetings with people in suits and a girl who wears a bow.


I SHOULD ALSO MENTION I ALMOST BLED TO DEATH OUT OF MY MOUTH. CLICK 4 DEETS.


AND FINALLY...


...became a short-lived baseball dad (no fistfights...this time)...


...witnessed the reincarnation of cornholio


...and then kept him from going [too far] off to the dark side.



[size=a million]HAVE A GOOD 2012, OBNER[/size]

i'm laughing uncontrollably

Seriously, amazing re-cap.
and a reminder of what a shitty crappy 2011, I had..
hopefully turning the corner in '12.

kudos my good man!

i'm sure of it

good post, dude. are you gluten-free? my wife has been for 2.5 years, and it has literally saved her life and turned things around for us.

will check out those mixes soon. what kind of metal is that stuff? not that i know anything about metal.

i'm not gluten free, but shera is/was. we're no longer together, so i don't make gf things much anymore.

the metal stuff is kind of all over the place. some death, some black, some progressive...i could break it down to the molecular nerd level, but it's probably good to say it's all pretty fast and blasting. except for the slow songs.

+1000

Let's remake Scarecrow in 2012. For Indiana. For America.

Toots is the best of obner. Great post, dude.

Great post. That mouth thing is nuts. Why did you need the graft in the first place? (I hope the doctor's office didn't charge you for the second "visit.")

yeah, this was a great read/viewing. good job, toots!

i had a tongue piercing for a few years that wore away the gum line at the back of my lower incisors. it wasn't like a crazy abscess or anything, but enough to cause concern.

(kids, let that be a lesson)

Your first mix's link doesn't want to work for me. Based on the first few tracks, I'm thinking I'll dig the unknowns.

Love the fact you have Billy Ocean AND Tesla Boy on the same mix.

that's strange...it pops up for me, no problem

here's the spotify URL, which has most of the songs

tesla boy is great!

Wow, that's quite a post, Mr. Toots. Nice year and nice pics to document it.

I would put up a similar post, but I'm too lazy.

Seriously. I can't even make a top 20 of 2011 and this freaking guy ovah here posts this awesome thread.

post/thread of the year. finally!
just got myself an impression of your deliverance on my phone so I will get your neat mixes soon. nice to see obscura on your metal mix! have you heard the new EP of blotted science?

no! i didn't know there was a new one. is it good?

nice posting, like the mix of personal with the regular ol' lists

i thought TheTheory had a good idea

In theory he did....

was that funny??

a little...bland
























hiyoo

leave Bob's kids out of this!

Definite smile inducing thread dude.

Looks like a well-deserved pretty good year man. Certainly hope this next one treats you well also.