Twenty favorite things from two thousand ten.

Retrospective.

1. Making Time - The Creation
2. We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool and D-Cup
3. Calabria 2008 - Enur
4. Bulletproof - La Roux
5. Carnival - The Cardigans
6. The Shining Path - RJD2
7. Hey Young World - Slick Rick
8. I'm a Man - Spencer Davis Group
9. Intermission
10. Redondo Beach - Patti Smith
11. Fronteir Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
12. Maybe the People Would be the Times - Love
13. Richard Cory - Them
14. Jackson Cage - Bruce Springsteen
15. Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
16. He War - Cat Power
17. Stage Fright - The Band
18. Gotta Gettaway - Stiff Little Fingers
19. You Gotta Move - RL Burnside
20. Home - LCD Soundsystem

hey, bo diddley

"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.”

- Bo Diddley (1928-2008)

not all musicians play music...

Neil Aspinall, "The Fifth Beatle"

10/13/1942 - 3/24/2008

"As a loyal friend, confidant and chief executive, Neil's trusting stewardship and guidance has left a far-reaching legacy for generations to come."

- Paul, Ringo, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono 3/08

bully

how big is it, mr. spitzer?

sixty years without you

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

10/2/1869 - 1/30/1948

“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills.”

See: Ghandi (1982) winner of Best Picture, Actor, Screenplay and Director

signing off

"be well, do good work, keep in touch"

-garrison keillor, "the writers almanac"