2012 RECAP

Starting with the mixes.

I continue my trend of generally not aggressively seeking out what's new, but rather passively listening to spotify and cruising yall's youtube links for 12-14 hours a day while I work, and if something strikes me as interesting I'll throw it in my 2012 Cool Song playlist. So there's no real intensive rank-n-sort effort going on here, just a general cross-section of stuff that happened to get played more than once on purpose.

:::2012 Songs:::

Barry Moser

http://open.spotify.com/user/youngtobac ... ulOkrCOlOe

Bear In Heaven Kiss Me Crazy
Never fail to deliver the dreamy songs that feel like falling in love with a cotton candy machine.

Grimes Genesis
Unashamedly falling in on the Grimes bandwagon. This is what I think the girl from Die Antwoord would sound like if she dropped the mutants and rebuilt her brain from fresh stem cells. Never mind, this wouldn't be like that at all.

Wovenhand Terre Haute
Terra Haute is like 3 hours from here. It exists like this song sounds. Desolate. Oppressive. Guitary.

Desolate Risen
I drove all the way to Toronto on this album last spring. (See Feats of Strength section). It rained the whole way. Ne'er was a thicker vibe felt.

The American Dollar Steeltown Pt. 2
In every hollowed out club in every lonesome midwestern college town, there was this band. This isn't groundbreaking, but it brings back some very specific memories of being drunk in a van.

Futurecop! Gateaux Blaster
Jelly sandals. Ocean Pacific. Sun Burn. Ralph Macchio.

Lemaitre Appreciate
A tropical sunset song. Steak dinner on the horizon. I love these feelings.

Kontravoid Native State
Still hanging onto the dark/new/no wave throwback throwback throwback. Don't judge.

Baron Von Luxxury Rosebud Was the Name of His Sled
Great, sad chorus here. A hook that makes me want to write poems about buildings.

Fostercare Daedalus
As a whole, this album is hit or miss, but there are some cool bits that pop in and out hither and thither.

Vacationer Everyone Knows
Really reminds me of The Bees. And I really like The Bees. They allow Bees in here.

Southern Shores Take Me Anywhere
Day 2 of my tropical sunset. Tonight, shrimp cocktail and mojitos.

San Cisco Awkward
A little jingly jangly that reminds me of last years (?) Jamaica.

Maxence Cyrin Eye of the Storm
If you want to peer into the depths of my soul, all you have to do is bring a sad piano.

Petrels Winchester Croydon Winchester
This stuff is kind of neat and freeform. I really like the scuba suit on the cover. Marine stuff on a cover will increase the chances I will like an album by about 20%.

From the Mouth of the Sun Sitting In a Roofless Room
Sparse, ambient piano. More of the sad. If you like Max Richter or Goldmund, and also suicide, you'll probably like this.

Jeans Wilder Gravity Bong
Pretty chill, reverby lo-fi tunes.

Selebrities Secret Garden
Love that chilled, cobalt grey guitar sound. Reminiscent musically of Clan of Xymox, but with a troubled, wounded female singer.

Lazerhawk Visitors
Directed by Wes Craven.

Miami Nights 1984 Tiger42
Trapper Keepers. White tigers. Go-Bots.

Loscil Khanamoot
My go-to Don't Bother Me music for 2012.

Shook Love for You
The #shook meme hit the hpn board pretty hard, so somehow I came across this. Some nice neo-Stevie Wonder grooves.

Mitch Murder Heading South
Pretty much what it sounded like when I started falling in love with girls in the 3rd grade.

Tame Impala Elephant
I would have liked to avoid putting an artist on this for two consecutive years, but this song is like a shotgun made out of chewing tobacco that shoots eagle shaped bullets. #jucksounds

Ricardo Donoso Chemical Structures
My 2nd go-to Don't Bother Me track of 2012. Alone in a planetarium I sit...

Principles of Geometry Americhael
Stiff. Robot. Dancing. Tooka tooka tooka.

Black Bug Razor Face
This is simple. I like this. Simple. Good. This.

Kettel & Secede Admittance
Thanks for this one, Dale. Lotta good tracks on here. This one in particular is a sad, sad march into the fog. Godspeed, diminutive androgynous Hensonian warrior. May your quest be ever epic and bring you riches untold.



:::2012 Louder Songs:::
A lot of music by previously appearing artists from earlier years, which is not generally a thing I do, but I liked all this stuff and was a little lazy this year on the heavy side.


Barry Moser

http://open.spotify.com/user/youngtobac ... UZsAOIwjK7

Terrorizer Generation Chaos
Generation of Vipers Eternal
Lord Mantis Levia
Coffins Mortuary in Darkness
General Surgery Lab Rat
Kreator Victory Will Come
Nile Natural Liberation of Fear Through...
Martyrdod Klassfienden
Asphyx Deathhammer
Wolfbrigade Feed the Flames
Young and In the Way Dark Seed
Coke Bust Under the Streetlights
Converge Aimless Arrow
Afgrund Living the Nightmare
The Secret Agnus Dei
Witchcraft Deconstruction





:::Cool Stuff that Happened:::

*Flew my son all the way out to Disneyland west coast on his first plane ride and his favorite thing was this roadside train museum.


*Went to the Wynwood Walls in Miami. Failed to see Steve Wynwood.


*Started a tattoo of a train all up on my leg.


*Continued this guy.


*Voted. Voted so hard.


*Started dating someone I'm really crazy about. Totally smitten here, guys.


*Played live again for the first time in almost half a decade.


*Recorded and archived my grandmother's biography in her own words. If you'd like to hear it, click here.


*Made a mix for the Head Gardener. If you'd like to hear it, click here.
*Drove from Joshua Tree to Twin Peaks in a rental car.
*Company got bought. Went from design lackey to management. Babes and suds parties ensued.
*Started a monthly jet commute to Princeton, NJ.
*Started a MasterMind professional accountability group with a respected colleague.
*Paid off my car.
*Paid off my credit cards.


:::Feats of Strength:::

Drove to Toronto on an angry whim and climbed this thing:


Conquered the Poconos Tough Mudder on a work trip. Me and a Brit Android developer.


Ran a 100 mile overnight relay with this crew in Bloomington, IN.


Met one of Phil's cool ultramarathon friends and ran 13.1 miles up and down Lake Shore Drive with her.


Also:
*4 for the 4th 4-Mile Run - Yorktown, IN
*Warrior Dash - Crawfordsville, IN
*Magnolia 12k - Seattle, WA
*Tough Mudder - Maysville, KY
*Turkey Trot - Noblesville, IN
*Bop to the Top Stairclimb - Indianapolis
*Shamrock Run 5K - Indianapolis


:::Concerts and Events:::
Philip Glass, Lightning Bolt, Frank Ocean @ All Tomorrows Parties - Pier 42, NYC


And:
*Anthony Bourdain - IU Theater, Bloomington, IN
*Devil Wears Prada - Egyptian Room @ The Murat, Indianapolis
*GWAR - The Vogue, Indianapolis
*Chiodos - Egyptian Room @ The Murat, Indianapolis


:::Films and Television Series Finished in Their Entirety:::
Carnivale
Sucker Punch
Source Code
The Old Grey Whistle Test
Ultramarathon Man
Up
Country Boys
Lightning Bolt: The Power of Salad
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Transformers
Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
Suspiria
Powaqqatsi
Alice Sweet Alice
The Dead Pit
[REC]
Hearts and Minds
War Horse
MASH
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Desert Victory
The Fighting Lady
Antichrist
Southland Tales
Kill Your Idols
Lockdown
Two Weeks in Hell
The Office UK
A Town Called Panic
Ink
Microcosmos
Arrested Development
Man On Wire
Toy Story 3
Them!
Spirit of the Marathon
King Corn
Heathers
Labyrinth of Darkness (Jiri Barta)
Hatchet
Portlandia
Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Super Troopers
Cosmos
The Pixar Story
Stephen Fry in America
The God Who Wasn't There
Waste Land
Buena Vista Social Club
Invaders from Mars
Whale Rider
God Grew Tired of Us
Being Elmo
The African Queen
Kimjongilia
Marwencol
Ken Burns: Statue of Liberty
Running the Sahara
The Omega Man
For the Bible Tells Me So
Blood into Wine
The Modernism of Julius Shulman
Milton Glaser: Inform and Delight
Drugstore Cowboy
The Resurrected
Frontline: Sick around the World
Visioneers
Santa Sangre
Afghan Star
October Country
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Freakonomics
Krull
Serpico
River's Edge
Demolition Man
Louie
Uncle Boonmee
The Endless Summer
Ghost in the Shell
I Think We're Alone Now
Inside Deep Throat
Robert Thurman on Buddhism
Tuvalu
Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
Life After Django Reinhardt
The Dark Ages
Weird Science
Valhalla Rising
The Red Balloon
The War Game
Strange Powers: Stephen Merritt
Stephen Hawkings: Into the Universe
The True Glory
Nowhere in Africa
Bubba Ho-Tep
The Keep
Parents
I Spit on Your Grave
The Countess
The Invisible Man
Hour of the Wolf
The Dentist
Let the Right One In
The Philosopher Kings
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Hell and Back Again
Triumph of the Will
Downfall
The Thin Red Line
The Universe of Keith Haring
The Life of Pi
The Devil Inside
Storefront Hitchcock
A Cat in Paris
Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth
Last Days Here


If you got this far, wow. Thinking about sleeping more in 2013.

A) Nice job man. This is great.
B) You are a running fool. Don't think I knew that about you.
C) Did you archive your films/tv throughout the year? That's a lot of rememberin if not.

hey rick

yeah the running thing is kind of new to this year. timis has actually been pretty helpful in terms of pointers and whatnot.

i didn't archive the films/tv...i just go by my netflix log.

do you live in a parallel universe where there are more than 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year?

This made me tired

What's a MasterMind accountability group?

i'm just resourceful with my time. watch a lot of things in transit. multi-task when possible. i aim high.

MasterMind accountability group...it's a group of friends who get together bi-monthly or so and have the following agenda:

1) Share wins and/or “a-ha” moments from the last week (2 minutes each) – it’s best to start with the positives. “A-Ha” moments are things you have learned/light bulbs that came on/new perspectives gained, etc.
2) Review last week’s commitments (see #4) (2 minutes each)
3) Each member shares their challenges, ideas, wants, needs or something they need feedback on from the group. (20 minutes each, includes response time from others)
4) Each member shares what they will accomplish before next week’s meeting. This is the accountability piece. (2 minutes each)
5) Remaining time (8 minutes) is free for all time to catch up personally.

These actually work best when the members are not necessarily related by work and come from diverse professional backgrounds, i.e. tech, finance, art, etc.

We usually meet for lunch or via Skype when lunch is not an option. Kind of an iron-sharpens-iron thing.

i should probably add that i started at least a few of the mini-series in the list the previous year. possibly misleading.

I like this idea. I like this veddy much.

congrats on what seems like an amazing year. BTW, femtoots = hawt

I challenge you to keep your horn tooting under 2 minutes.

a Vesco Island MasterMind needs to happen. and then be broadcast.

I got this in the mail on Christmas Eve and look here it's 4 days later and I'm just now posting it.

how much is an "A" budget?

Yeah, me too.

I didn't know about all the running either. Very impressive, even though I think running is pretty fucking selfish, haha.

whaaaaat

Explain.

All this shit almost made me get off the couch.

best.post.ever

If you are constantly training for and participating in competitive distance runs, it takes up a lot of time and costs a not insignificant amount of money. If you have a family and there are other people involved, it can become a bit selfish.

That's all.

seems like that could be said for about 3000 other activities as well

something amiss at Redlands?

Don't change the subject, asshole.

Impressive. I think I'd enjoy a Procrastinator/non-accountability group more though.

Ohmygod, I did nothing this year.

Awesome post, toots.