Heem

Lil B is real weird. "post Lil-Wayne deconstructionist"? maybe. sure why not

trying to sneak in a post here before i go to bed. shoot i'm not using word hold on.

Ok phew that’s better. I can’t deal with the straight blogger.com text. No punctuation or capitalization. Looks like it was done a typewriter. Blech.

So yeah, lil b is super weird. I’m listening to “Blue Flame”. I think one of the globe sportswriters recommended it?

It’s late and I’m trying to sneak a post in before going to bed. But “Im Heem” is a good song, “Cold War” is a good song, and I like “Im Burnin” too.

Got our second basketball game tmrw. It’s supposed to snow. I really hope the game doesn’t get snowed out. I’m optimistic that it won’t. this snow has been relentless. I think that’s the word that menino used. Relentless. It’s fitting.

There’s no place to put the snow. It’s everywhere. They’ve been taking it to “snow farms.” Something like thousands of tons of snow were took out of boston this past weekend to seven area snow farms. Snow farms. That’s the funniest term ever.

Come out to my snow farm where I grow snow. I only grow sustainably raised, organically fed, free range, hormone free snow. Visit Dave’s snow farm, go home with a handful of snow.

But seriously, the roads are ridiculous. I am so, so glad that I don’t live in Somerville or Cambridge with a car. It’s a zoo out there! Like, even if I go to pick up a friend or park at a friends house in Camberville I have to jockey for a spot and it gets kind of intense. But that might be cause I’m not used to living in crowded cities any more.

Ok I gotta get some rest for this game tmrw, wish me luck. I’m way less nervous than I was for the last one, but I still wanna have a good game so I gotta get focused and get in the zone and play well.

Night!

article of the day -- How Meditation May Change the Brain - NYTimes.com -- i totally buy this stuff. meditation totally changes you.

Humming and Singing

Matt & Kim

I am humming Matt & Kim

But I am listening to The Blow

Lyrics to "Why Don't You"

Why don't you come over here into my world
I've got a place for you
You can see that I've moved my bed across the room
I would open my sheets
And open my arms
I would make you a food or two
I would run right into you
Oh the ocean is wide
The ocean is wide

"It's Kind of a Funny Story"

Is the name of a movie that I want to see soon. Recently I saw “The King’s Speech”, which I really liked. I just saw “127 Hours” too, which I also really enjoyed. Bunch of other movies here and there. Yaaaaaaaay movies. They are way too good at keeping me indoors.

Well I’ve had a good week. Kept busy. There were a couple snowy days here and there. Just mad storms left and right. Dumping lots of snow. I just went and checked outside and my sidewalk and driveway are shoveled, which I had nothing to do with. Hey, I’ll take it!

So I’m considering getting up early tmrw morning and going to the gym. Why? Because the basketball leage starts back up Thursday night. I havent been to the gym in a couple weeks. I gotta go to the gym a handful of times before Thursday night so that I can be somewhat confident in my fitness. We’ll see. If I wanna get up at 8am tmrw morning I’ve gotta go to bed relatively soon. Hmmm.

Oh yeah pats lost. It was awful. Not even thinking about football right now. Celtics are crushing the jazz, which I’ll take.

So I got some new speakers. They had been sitting in my attic. I didn’t think that they worked. Turns out that some of the inputs are just a lil busted, but with some finagling, I now have a really nice ipod dock system and tv stereo system. It’s all hooked up. Huge subwoofer too. A friend gave it to me because the inputs were always wonky for him and he just was sick of it.

So I’m bumping loud now. Neighbor’s probably gonna hate me soon. I guess I’ll use my backup mini speakers to prevent that.

Ok I’ll talk to you soon, D

Recovering

Hi. How are you.

I freaking got food poisoning. Remember how I was all excited to go that restaurant? Yeah, I take it back. I think they poisoned me.

Was it on purpose? I think not. But I still felt awful yesterday, had an awful night tossing and turning in bed, and still feel pretty weak today.

Yeah. So stupid. I need to eat something. Maybe I’ll just drink a bunch of apple juice and then have a sandwich later. That sounds pretty good.

I think it was the seafood I got. I don’t think it was the monkfish. I think it was the mussels. WHY AM I EATING MUSSELS IN JANUARY. That’s gotta be it. Never again. Never going back to that restaurant, never ordering mussels in January again.

Well, I had a pretty good week. Looking forward to a return to normalcy. Boston college lost to miami by one point yesterday. Very bad. Not happy about it.

Pats are about to play the jets in a couple hours. I’m real amped. Let’s go pats.

Ok I’m gonna try to recover, I’ll talk to you soon.

In the meantime, here’s a fascinating article on the Stuxnet computer worm. You buyin any of this stuff? It’s totally wild.

Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel - NYTimes.com

Waving to the plow drivers

Hey how’s it goin everyone. We had a big snowstorm here. Like, big heavy wet snow. Took a lot of work to shovel out, but we persevered. It took me, Jeff, and our neighbor. I was able to back my car out, and our landlord helped a little too. But boy oh boy was there a lot of snow this morning. Here’s hoping that the roads aren’t too bad tmrw. I have trust in the commonwealth, we’ll be ok.

So yeah, boston college lost their bowl game. That was too bad. Well, just wait til next year! Haha.

Hmmmmm I’m finishing up a big project that’s been occupying me since August. I’ll finally be over with it this wknd and can return to normal life. I’m looking forward to it big time, lemme tell ya. Next week will be one long celebration. I’m starting it right this Friday night with dinner at Craigie on Main. I swear that they have some of the best cocktails I’ve ever had. I’m excited for that one.

Craigie On Main - 853 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 | tel: 1-617-497-5511

Ok, I’ll talk to you soon. –Dave

Snowzin

Happy New Year!

Happy new year everyone! I played basketball tonight and still haven’t eaten dinner, but right now I feel like blogging is the right thing to do. I apologize if my writing is bad – if I have a low blood sugar I’m not gonna be good at anything. Oh well.

Well, let’s all hope for a good 2011. I think I was still telling people happy new year today. Why is it such a happy new year? Well, 2010 was pretty intense. Maybe we want a little mellower 2011. Hmmmm I’m not making any sense. I probably shouldn’t blog on no dinner, nothing’s gonna come out right.

Ok, I’ll turn this into an honorable mention post. Doing that top ten list was a huge pain in the butt. I’m looking forward to it next year, but now it’s become something I kind of obsess about. Here are some albums that I listened to a lot that didn’t make the list.

Actress – Splazsh
Good weird album. Not really techno, more like experimental. If I had put it on the list it probably would have been the least accessible album. Lots of weird noises and such. But it’s still pretty awesome. My fave song is “Maze.”

Matt + Kim – Sidwalks
Incredible album. 9 songs, and it’s all really good. Good rock and roll. “Cameras” is my favorite.

Sleigh Bells – Treats
I saw these guys live. They were awesome. I really think that they’ve made their own sound. They opened for M.I.A. and are on her label. It’s not often that you hear a band that really kind of defies genres and doesn’t fit into any neat space. This is one of those bands. “Rill Rill” is my favorite and hard to not listen to on repeat.

Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday
I’m not crazy about a couple of the songs including the song with Eminem (Eminem always just sounds like he’s yelling at me), and so I can’t really say that it’s that incredible. But some of the songs are really beautiful, really beautiful beats and rhythms. “Save Me” is my fave song.

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
All of these songs individually are really good, but some are too long, and some get too weird. This album would be one of the best, but Yeezy kind of messed with his own art a little. It’s totally got a far out/out there/piece of artwork/concept album kind of thing going on, but I just want to skip some of the songs. Granted, I’ve heard a bunch of these songs on the radio or whatever a bunch of times, so I may just be sick of them. The first five minutes of “Runaway” are my favorite, before the awful guitar solos kick in.

Drake – Thank Me Later
If I put on the list “top ten albums that I listened to the most”, then this might be on there. I certainly listened to an absurd amount of Drake last year (I’ve mostly moved on now). Still though, love this guy and his work. Fave song is easily “Miss Me.”

Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being
Great album with great jams. Fave song is “Right Above It”

Top Ten Albums of the Year (revised)

Revised top ten albums of the year list. I combined my top ten albums and top five hip hop albums and came up with the below. WOW did I put a lot of time and thinking into this. Enjoy, individual posts to come about each and every one, as well as my more comments on my line of thinking.

In no particular order, the best ten albums of 2010, without a doubt, are:

1. Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers
2. Kid Cudi – Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager
3. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
4. Balam Acab – See Birds
5. Salem – King Night
6. M.I.A. – /\/\/\Y/\
7. Die Antwoord – $O$
8. Phaeleh – Fallen Light
9. Ital Tek – Midnight Colour
10. Aardarck – Choice

Hope you like it. I know this won't please everyone, but I back each and every one of these albums.