Pitchfork's Top 10 Songs of the Decade:
They actually did top 500, but who can argue such minutia? Unless it's your job, of course. There will be more of these lists as the year winds down, but who else but Pitchfork can top the snobby douche quotient that I love in my music critique, oh so much? Let's see if I approve or disapprove of the songs that gave them the biggest boner this decade.
10: Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Ok - yeah I like this song... it's probably my second favorite on Funeral so I can dig it.
9. Animal Collective - My Girls No no no. I hate this band. Maybe I don't actually hate the music but I the discussion of said music makes me want to go and do some suicide
8. Radiohead - Idioteque Only song on this list I never heard before... maybe I have but it's not springing to mind
7. Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On Uh, yeah ok. I always thought Missy Elliot had some really fun party songs
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps Yay. I love this song, obv. Still their best yet (I would guess the almighty p4k agrees with me)
5. Daft Punk - One More Time I actually can't believe this song was released this decade. I feel like it came out around when I was born. And yes, it's the one you're thinking of.
4. Beyonce - Crazy In Love I like this song. It does NOT however, have the added bonus of the Beyonce dance that I mastered and busted out at the most random times to make people laugh all last winter.
3. M.I.A. - Paper Planes Dear Pineapple Express and Slumdog Millionaire, thanks for all the exposure. Where do I write the check? Love, M.I.A. (good song, but #3 of the decade, WTF?)
2. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends Loooove this song...honestly thought it would be #1 when they were counting down earlier in the week.
1. Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs over Bagdhad) Interesting choice. Good song, crazy good to work out to. Definitely not my favorite Outkast song (that would be Hey Ya residing back at #12 of the decade but I get it)
So that's the list... it's an interesting list. I'm guessing they will follow it up, as they usually do with an album list. I have no idea how that's going to shake out... I'm guessing that Sound of Silver will be top 3 but if the list is topped by Meriweather Post Pavilion I am going to cry a river of tremendous sorrow.
Weekend
Awesome weekend. I had an awesome draft, which I won't go over in too much detail. I know who mostly reads my blog and I know those people aren't interested in all the nuts and bolts of my fantasy draft. I think I did well enough to secure a victory, but we won't know that until around New Years. Saturday was a great day, though... drinking and busting balls all day. Kind of stuff I wish I could do more often and also a more painful reminder that I don't have any really good guy friends in Syracuse.
Inglorious Basterds was a quality film, standard Tarantino and I loved it. It wasn't as good as Kill Bill to me, but considering how much I loved that movie, not much would be.
I also had a pretty good day yesterday in general and I think I will just leave it at that, for now.
Fitness
So yeah, last week didn't quite work out like I planned. I only ran twice, lifted zero times and was a bad boy all week. I think I consumed anywhere from 10-15 coffee beverages with milk in them. Oops!
Anyway, I realized that warm air and myself are running out of our precious time together so I'm going to ditch lifting for the next month or so and just focus on running - probably going to go back to banging out 40 mile weeks or close to it. This will make me really sick of running, I realize that ahead of time, but luckily by the time that settles in it will be cold and I won't be able to run anyway, so everyone wins. In the winter my fitness plan will mostly consist of lifting with some running sprinkled in, so I'm going to try to get as lean as possible now.
Running also takes less time and I think I'm going to need my free time for some other things right now.
One thing I have a small interest in is increasing my fast twitch muscle reponse... So, right now I run long distances at my slow (10 min/mile) pace and that builds cardio as well as slow twitch muscle response. I was thinking of adding in sprints and things of that nature so that I can increase my fast twitch muscles. There is also a running program out there which name escapes me at the moment, where the basic gist is that you sprint/jog/sprint and it effectively "tricks" your body into burning just as much calories during your jog as if you were sprinting. I would have to start off very small there, but the plan would be to get up to 1 mi/1 mi/1 mi/1 mi. Now, obviously I can't sprint one mile but I'm thinking something along the lines of 7 min mile/10 min mile/7 min mile/10 min mile. It might be too late in the season to try something like this but I'm going to give it a shot.
Baaaaack to work. I'm a big dummy and I reminded Celia that I owed her $13 (she had forgotten!) and now I have to take her out to lunch today. Oops. Well, tomorrow is her last day before she moves to North Carolina so I don't mind taking her out to lunch anyway. My lunch buddy is leaving me! :(
Soon, I will have no one left at work that I actually consider my friend. How depressing.
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