TGD

It seems people have been talking about their Best of the Decade lists lately. As a person who enjoys lists, I thought I’d make a Best Album of the 2000’s list today. I thought about it for a while and realized that’s a pretty hard list to make. Hell, it’s almost impossible. But here’s what I came up with:

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Bjork - Vespertine
5. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

But looking at that list now…I don’t know. The only one I’m certain about is Sufjan. I haven’t really listened to those other albums for some time. Don’t get me wrong, they’re amazing, but… Ok, full disclosure: I recently took a bunch of bands out of my iTunes library and demoted them to my external harddrive because I was tired of songs coming up in shuffle. Which bands? Radiohead, Bjork, some Flaming Lips, Aloha, Death Cab, Fiona Apple, Weezer, etc. The list goes on and on. And I loved or, at the very least, really liked these bands. Whatever.

Anyway, 2009 Albums of the Year? First place tie: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion and Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest. Others in the top ten: Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca, Angel Deradoorian - Mind Raft (it’s an EP, but who cares), Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light, Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures, Wilco - Wilco (The Album), and Clipse - Til the Casket Drops.

All of this coming from a guy who listened to Sweetheart of the Rodeo and Merle Haggard all day.

Best country-rock album? Probably. Best country-rock album cover? Definitely.

While doing all this farming / driving farm trucks, I’ve been seriously bitten by the truck bug. Want: 2010 Ford F-150 Lariat 4x4 (5.4L V8, 6-Speed Automatic, Supercab, 6-1/2’ box) in Royal Red Metallic. Should probably buy a house + garage first…

Mr. John Ugolini is 28 years old.

Cry Me A River, my favorite Joe Cocker song. Well, tied with The Letter (really, just about everything off of the Mad Dogs and Englishmen live album is solid gold, with that enormous choir and like 4 drummers).

I watched No Country for Old Men again this weekend while at my parents’ house. Not that I forgot or anything, but I just need to say it: what a great movie. I think next summer, instead of the usual camping trip, I’m just going to hide 2 million (fake) dollars in a suitcase on the farm and let everybody hunt each other with shotguns on the 1000+ acres. I’ll hire some stranger to play Chigurh. I’ll play the Tommy Lee Jones sheriff character and just ride around on a horse and say awesome things. It’ll be good times. Who is in?

Another one of our fields…done.

Unloading corn at Kevin’s last night.