Bare bones version! 2012 was a good year! I turned 38 and further settled into my role of championing everything white dudes in plaid shirts like. Yay! Can’t wait until next year and POOP List 2013: The Status Quo Apologist Strikes Back.
Music!
ALBUMS:
1. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
2. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
3. Fang Island – Major
4. Cheap Girls – Giant Orange
5. Aimee Mann – Charmer
6. Ken Stringfellow – Danzig In The Moonlight
7. Titus Andronicus – Local Business
8. The Big Pink – Future This
9. Soul Asylum – Delayed Reaction
10. Taylor Swift – Red
11. Craig Finn – Clear Heart, Full Eyes
12. Rhett Miller – The Dreamer
SONGS
Redd Kross – Stay Away From Downtown; Cheap Girls – If You Can’t Swim; Guided By Voices – The Unsinkable Fats Domino; Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe; Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built; Fang Island – Sisterly; Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together; Baroness – Back Where I Belong; Rhett Miller – Picture This; Craig Finn – New Friend Jesus
MOVIES!
1) Moonrise Kingdom; 2) Argo; 3) Lincoln; 4) The Avengers; 5) The Master; 6) The Perks Of Being A Wallflower; 7) Silver Linings Playbook; 8) Ruby Sparks; 9) Pitch Perfect; 10) (Insert any of the critically acclaimed movies I have not seen yet – Django Unchained/Zero Dark Thirty/Amour/The Sessions/Holy Motors – here!)
AWESOME LIVE SHOWS!
Aimee Mann @ Bearsville Theater; Saturday Looks Good To Me @ Bar; Archers of Loaf @ The Bowery Ballroom; That Dog @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg; Matthew Sweet @ The Egg; The Shins @ Terminal 5; The Hold Steady @ The Iron Horse; The Hold Steady @ Arch Street Tavern; Wilco @ Ommegang Brewery; The Feelies @ Club Helsinki; Morrissey @ The Palace Theatre Yo La Tengo/The Feelies @ Maxwells; Soul Asylum @ The Bowery Ballroom;
RIP
Marva Whitney, George McGovern, Joe Kubert, David Rakoff, Gore Vidal, Bill Doss, Chris Marker, Andrew Sarris, Rodney King, Sally Ride, Jean Giraud, Bob Anderson, Don Cornelius, Mitt Romney’s Political Aspirations,and Gary Carter.
-John Greak