Staying focussed

The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (reread)
Martian Time Slip by Phillip K Dick (reread)
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

Aw man I am THERE. I am there with fucking bells on. Anyone else that's from Ireland that will be there?

I still have to do the border, do a light background and sign it. Oh well, at least I coloured it.

Already posted on my tumblr.

50 favourite albums of the 00's (no particular order)
01 yellow house - grizzly bear
02 andrew bird & the mysterious production of eggs - andrew bird
03 fleet foxes - fleet foxes
04 rounds - four tet
05 bromst - dan deacon
06 mirrored - battles
07 third - portishead
08 sung tongs - animal collective
09 person pitch - panda bear
10 the arcade fire ep - arcade fire
11 water curses ep - animal collective
12 sea change - beck
13 apple o' - deerhoof
14 vespertine - bjork
15 yoshimi battles the pink robots - flaming lips
16 the eraser - thom yorke
17 a ghost is born - wilco
18 load blown - black dice
19 once we were trees - beechwood sparks
20 yesterday was dramatic, today was okay - mum
21 kid a - radiohead
22 geogaddi - boards of canada
23 tripper - efterklang
24 ambivalence avenue - bibio
25 the lemon of pink - the books
26 and their refinement of the decline - stars of the lid
27 standards - tortoise
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[Edit] Soft Bulletin changed to Yoshimi because it was released in 1999.

[Edit Edit] Replaced Post (1995) with Vespertine

A Tiger 2Xl. It's around somewhere. I think it might be in the attic.

Either that or that recorder thing from Home Alone 2. Yes, I had one of those.

January
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
Neither Here nor there by Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwadine
American Elf: The Sketchbook Diaries of James Kochalka Vol 1

February
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Scott Pilgim No.5 by Brian Lee O'Malley
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Would you Still Love me if I Wet the Bed? by Liz Prince
American Elf: The Sketchbook Diaries of James Kocalka Volumes 2 & 3

March
Side A: Music Anthology, various authors/artists
Intentionally Left Blank by Rachel Dukes
Rumble Strip by Woodrow Phoenix

April
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
The Stuff of Thought by Steve Pinker
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchins
New Europe by Michael Palin

May
The portable atheist compiled and with introductions by Christopher Hitchins
The Blindwatchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau
The yiddish policeman's union by Michael Chabon (reread)

June
The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
French Milk by Lucy Knisley
Pyongyang by Guy DeLisle
Skim by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki

July
Goodbye Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

August
Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
How the Mind Works by Steve Pinker
Eight Little Piggies by Stephen J Gould

September
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

October
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens (reread)
Diaries 1969-79, the Python Years by Michael Palin

November
The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and in Practice by Christopher Hitchens
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (reread)
Love the Way You Love: Side A and Side B by Jamie S. Rich and Mark Ellerby

December
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (reread)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (reread)
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (reread)
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick (reread)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (reread)
Scott Pilgrim 1-5 by Brian Lee O'Malley (reread)
Uzumaki by Junji Ito

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Yeah, so I'm leaving early in case the weather is crappy. This time every year for the past 5 or so years me, my mum and my grandparents head up to Roscommon to spend time with neices, nephews, aunts, uncles and what have you. But the roads are icy as shit. At least the back roads are and it'll get snowier the closer we get to our destination. So, instead of taking any chances we're heading earlier. Tomorrow actually, which is why I got my mp3 player now so I can put songs on it and charge it before I go.



It's pretty great. Anyway, here's what's on my sansa clip+.

Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs, Noble Beast
Animal Collective - Campfire Songs, Here Comes the Indian, Sung Tongs, Water Curses
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons, Creature Comforts
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi, Music has the Right to Children
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Caribou - Andorra, The Milk of Human Kindness, Up in Flames (technically a Manitoba album but whatever)
Clint Mansell - Moon Soundtrack
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Deerhoof - Apple O', The Runners Four
Fennesz - Black Sea, Endless Summer
Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic, Pause, Ringer, Rounds
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing, Tarot Sport
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest, Yellow House
Mum - Finally We Are No One, Yesterday was Dramatic - Today is OK
Panda Bear - Young Prayer, Person Pitch
Pavement- Brighten the Corners, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Slanted and Enchanted, Terror Twilight
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline, Tired Sounds of (Stars of the Lid)
The Books - The Lemon of Pink, Thought for Food
The Knife - Silent Shout

There's a couple more albums I'm going to put on tonight, some David Byrne and some Beach House. There's some albums that I have to put on that'll need to be reformatted as well, (which explains the absence of radiohead). How do I convert quick time player AAC audio files to windows mediaplayer MP3 files? I'll leave that until after the holidays.

I got the new zelda game for ds as well but I'm leaving that till friday.

Anyway. Eat, drink, be merry you know all the rest. (<--- It's getting to be a christmas tradition that I read those two articles every year in increasing frequency relative to the awfulness (in general) of this holiday. It gets earlier every year so I've read them about 30 times by the time christmas day rolls around. Oh well, it is oddly therapeutic.)

I'll be ordering some brush pens because the one's I have suck and I am afraid of ruining this. I have a news post coming soon. Top secret.

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Play this Listen to this The video is longer than the song but if you press play when you see earth it syncs up well. You can press play on both at the same time either. That works.

I discovered this guy recently and here are a few things he's done that I like.


Scientific American article about the expansion rate of the universe and what that means for cosmology.

Some books that he has written.

Hiding in the mirror

Quintessence: The Mystery of the Missing Mass

Fear of Physics


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The list is preliminary and in no particular order. It's only a top ten but I might post another more complete list before the decade is out.
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Yeah so I'll probably be listening to more music between now and new years so I might do up a top 20 or maybe even a top 50. It'll be nice to put some less obvious choices on it but these were essential.

Also I'm looking to upgrade my headphones and get a decent set of earcup headphones. Any recommendations?

[Edit] Whoops, I didn't have my list with me (that's a notepad file on my laptop at home) and I changed Kid A (which'll probably be on the top 50) to Bromst by Dan Deacon.

[Edit] Oh yeah, this is the MP3 player I'm getting in case you're wondering.

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2009/08/sandisk-sansa-clip-plus-review.php

It'll be my first!

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It's by no means a complete list. I've put all this up here more for me than anyone else because I'm likely to forget most of these. If any one has any books that think I'd like you're free to recommend them to me in the comments.

Okay so my internet is being annoying. Here are three sketchbook pages I did at thought bubble up on flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stayingfocussed/

There's a comic there! Hey, I haven't done one of those in ages. Maybe I'll do some more around christmas. After college I can get back into doing this kind of thing properly.