High For This

Top Albums of 2011

1. Frank Ocean- Nostalgia Ultra

2. Ryan Adams- Ashes & Fire

3. Bright Eyes- The People's Key

4.Jay-Z and Kanye West- Watch the Throne

5. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo

6. The Roots- UNDUN

7. We Are Augustines - Rise Ye Sunken Ships

8. The Weeknd - House of Balloons or Thursday (tie)

9. T.W. Walsh- Songs of Pain and Leisure

10. M83- Hurry Up We are Dreaming

Honorable Mentions:
Drake - Take Care
Childish Gambino - Camp
Bon Iver -Bon Iver
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Wilco- The Whole Love
Lykke Li- Wounded Rhymes
Nerves Junior - As Bright as Your Night Light
The Joy Formidable- The Big Roar
Wye Oak- Civilian
Cults- Cults

Finals

this isnt about finals at all it is about ryan adams (what else do i post about)

Morning Becomes Eclectic Session on KCRW from last Friday

this got me through a ridiculous day

http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb111202ryan_adams

"and if i could find my way back home where would i go?" story of my life right now

I also like this new Cass Mccombs album (favorite song above)

Twitter Fiction

http://nanoism.net/

These are the best!!! Fiction in 140 words or less and Austin Hackett got published on it check it out.

Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_4aB2pFkr0   Put It In Your Manners by Chiddy Bang ft. Childish Gambino or mashed up or sumthin

Leave of Absence

So I have not blogged for a while it is because I have been updating my imaginary blog with funny and interesting stuff it has lots of followers and traffic. I lost the link to it, but I will share it when I find it.

In the meantime is this girl serious ?! http://prettymuchamazing.com/videos/lana-del-rey-blue-jeans-live
lust/repulsion

New Ryan Adams http://stereogum.com/836942/ryan-adams-lucky-now-video/video/

Bon Iver

Bright Eyes

Music: All Alone by Toro Y Moi

No matter the way I look I cant see anything 

No matter the way I run I get nowhere

If You Have Enough Attention

Song: Midnight City by M83 (this album is going to be amazing)

Surfing the internet instead of studying (of course) and I came across this article about Oregon football and it got me thinking way too much for a sports article. This is a simple idea, but it is very true: If you have enough attention you can get whatever you want. Here is a quote from the article with a link to the whole thing:

"Economics is the study of the allocation of resources that are scarce. These days, more and more, information isn't scarce. Stuff isn't scarce. What's scarce is attention. The companies that win in an attention economy are those that win the eyeballs of people who have too much to look at. Too many ads. Too many screens in too many places. Too many games on too many channels on too many days of the week.

"This new economy," Goldhaber said in Cambridge in January 1997, "is based on endless originality.

"If you have enough attention," he added, "you can get anything you want."

John C. Beck cowrote a book called The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business. "Just go back to what gets attention in the animal world," he said. One thing is fear. Another thing is bright colors."

Full article: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6909937/how-does-oregon-football-keep-winning