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Stories & SNippets : 2005
…and observations, journals, & musings on music, film, books, art, and pretty things. and life in general.
January 2005
February 2005
March 2005
April 2005
May 2005
May 21
Camper Van Beethoven and Ben Harper on a Sunday.
May 25
Elliot Smith.
May 28
Neko Case.
June 2005
June 05
The Proclaimers. My dad. Driving along, listening to 500 Miles. Not right now. But any song of theirs brings up this memory.
June 08
Randy Newman.
June 09
Listening to Maná. Always think of my old friend Gabe, who also had some beautiful songs.
June 13
A stream of Cocteau Twins, Frank Black, Galaxie 500, Grandaddy, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
June 22
Some G. Love and Special Sauce swirled with Louvin Brothers.
June 27
The Strokes. Will they have staying power? I think maybe so.
July 2005
July 02
John Medeski, John Mayer, John Lennon, followed by a cherry atop them all of Kate Bush.
July 03
Teenage Fanclub, Parts & Labor, Man Or Astro-man?, Tears for Fears, Low, Longwave, Death From Above…some good stuff from the fringes and mainstreams.
SOTD: Broken Man Going To Work - Teenage Fanclub
July 04
Sleater-Kinney, Slayer, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds, The Clientele
SOTD: Joseph Cornell - The Clientele
July 06
SOTD: My Own Summer (Shove It) - The Deftones
July 11
Liars, Strokes, Tears for Fears, Tara Maclean, Calvin Singh.
SOTD: Sutrix - Talvin Singh, If I Fall - Tara Maclean
July 12
Cocteau Twins.
July 13
The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Billy Bragg, Old 97’s, Wilco, Björk, Teenage Fanclub, Bonnie Prince Billy, Dolly Parton.
July 17
Some easy listening: Amen, Dream Theater, Cohered & Cambria, Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Metallica, Amen, Fantômas.
July 18
Apples in Stereo, Throwing Muses, Archers of Loaf.
SOTD: Valerie - Steve Winwood
July 19
Flogging Molly, Dead Can Dance, Howard Carpendale, Cher, Modest Mouse, Bad Brains, Wire, The Temptations, Alanis Morissette, Torley Wong, NordBeat, Roots Manuva.
July 21
Wire, the Pogues, Fugazi.
July 27
SOTD: Rid of Me by PJ Harvey
July 29
Bond, Page France.
August 2005
August 06
David Sedaris.
August 12 a Shabbat
Stryper, Third Day, Charlotte Church.
August 13
SOTD: Hero - Enrique Iglesias
September 2005
September 01
SOTD: Meet Me At The Harbor - Idlewild
September 07
Spiritualized, Sparklehorse, Flaming Lips.
September 11
It’s a Modest Mouse day.
September 12
SOTD: Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers.
September 13
Guided by Voices, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, Faith No More, Pharaoh Sanders.
September 15
Death From Above 1979, Quasi, The Cooper Temple Clause.
September 26
Ben Folds for #30. SOTD: Brick.
October 2005
October 02
Arcade Fire, Calexico, Ed Harcourt, Cafe Tacuba. SOTD: All the Pretty Horses - Calexico
October 03
Alkaline Trio and Hefner.
October 04
Superdrag, OK Go, Catherine Wheel, New Kids on the Block. SOTD: Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Superdrag.
October 09
Sonic Youth, Dashboard Confessional, Starsailor, Concrete Blonde, PJ Harvey, Decemberists.
October 14 : Shabbat
Bond, John Medeski, Willie Nelson & Johnny Cash, Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama.
SOTD: I’ll Fly Away - John Medeski, The North Mississippi Allstars & Robert Randolph
October 18
Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins.
October 24
X-Japan, Sunny Day Real Estate, White Zombie, Missy Elliott. SOTD: More Human Than Human - White Zombie.
October 25
Flaming Lips, the Faint, Echo & The Bunnymen, Dinosaur Jr, PJ Harvey.
SOTD: All That Jazz - Echo & The Bunnymen.
October 26
Modest Mouse - Building Something Out of Nothing
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
KLF, Jesus & Mary Chain, Interpol, Gastr Del Sol, Meat Puppets, Le Tigre.
SOTD: What Time Is Love - KLF
October 27
Athlete, Futureheads, Oasis, Eels, Magic Numbers, The Notwist.
November 2005
November 05
Luciano Pavarotti, Herb Alpert
SOTD: Zorba the Greek - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
November 10
Ben Folds Five, The Killers, Snow Patrol.
November 12
A triple blast of three delectable tracks:
SOTD:
You Got Me - The Roots f. Jill Scott
Making Plans for Nigel - XTC
Legend of a Cowgirl - Imani Coppola
November 17
Death From Above 1979.
November 20
Beirut, Scooter, Air, Kings of Convenience
Playlist sample x5
Sugar is Sweeter - CJ Bolland
Filthy Mind - Amanda Ghost
Dreaming - BT
Bratislava - Beirut
School Disco - Bis
November 28
Duke Ellington & Bill Evans.
December 2005
December 07
Sonic Youth
December 11
Typhoon
December 12
Band of Horses
December 20
The Polyphonic Spree
December 24
Christmas SOTD: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Tony Bennett.
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2005
Favorite films
A History of Violence
Batman Begins
Brick
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Munich
Honorable mention
Flightplan
Good Night, and Good Luck
Murderball (documentary)
Red Eye
Rumor Has It
War of the Worlds
All ages
Night at the Museum
Zathura: A Space Adventure (Jon Favreau family sci fi follow up to Jumanji)
Guilty pleasures
coming soon
Holiday
coming soon
Want to see
Brokeback Mountain
Kingdom of Heaven
Syriana
Not worth the time
coming soon
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ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2005
Albums
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Honorable mention
coming soon
The greatest songs of 2005
Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
Fake Palindromes - Andrew Bird
I Summon You - Spoon
Luno - Bloc Party
Sister Jack - Spoon
This Boy - Franz Ferdinand
Walk Away - Franz Ferdinand
Well That Was Easy - Franz Ferdinand
You’re The Reason I’m Leaving - Franz Ferdinand
Playlists by Month
January
February
March
Closer to You - Brandi Carlile
Eleanor Put Your Boots On - Franz Ferdinand
April
Walk Away - Franz Ferdinand
Outsiders - Franz Ferdinand
May
June
Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
July
Luno - Bloc Party
This Boy - Franz Ferdinand
Well That Was Easy - Franz Ferdinand
August
I Summon You - Spoon
You’re The Reason I’m Leaving - Franz Ferdinand
Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
September
Fake Palindromes - Andrew Bird
Sister Jack - Spoon
I’m Your Villain - Franz Ferdinand
October
Evil And A Heathen - Franz Ferdinand
November
December
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