January 2010
Phish - American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL December 30, 2009
Set 1: Soul Shakedown Party, Runaway Jim, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Dixie Cannonball, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Corrina, What's the Use?, Tela, Gone, Rocky Top, Chalk Dust Torture, David Bowie
Phish - American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL December 29, 2009
Set 1: Golgi Apparatus, Maze, Driver, The Connection, Wolfman's Brother, Ocelot, Reba, Access Me, The Divided Sky, Cavern
Set 2: Kill Devil Falls > Tweezer -> Prince Caspian > Gotta Jibboo > Wilson -> Gotta Jibboo -> Heavy Things > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Slave to the Traffic Light
Fifteen things about me and books
Submitted by John Beatty on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 21:39
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I pushed off the post I was going to write for today because Sarah Glassmeyer posted a link on Twitter to Steve Lawson's Fifteen things about me and books and it looked like fun.
1. I don't really collect books, but my tastes are so odd I feel compelled to keep lots of books for fear of never being able to find certain titles again.
1. I don't really collect books, but my tastes are so odd I feel compelled to keep lots of books for fear of never being able to find certain titles again.
Phish-American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL December 28, 2009
Set 1: Sample in a Jar, NICU > My Soul, Roggae, Undermind, Bouncing Around the Room, Poor Heart, Stash, I Didn't Know, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Possum
Set 2: Mike's Song > Light -> I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Alaska, Backwards Down the Number Line, Makisupa Policeman > Harry Hood > Contact > Character Zero
Best Albums of 2008
Submitted by John Beatty on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 20:00
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Best of 2008? Isn't is 2010? Shouldn't I be writing a best of 2009? While I'm all for year-in-review, I often think that albums released late in the year get short shrift on year-end lists. A lot of year-end lists are published before the year's last albums have been released and many more were written earlier for publication at the end of the year. Also, as someone who is not a professional reviewer (and no longer a record-store employee), I don't hear everything as soon as it's released. I don't get to a lot of albums until well after release. I also like to give it some time.
Best Live Shows of 2009
Continuing my year-end wrap-up, here are my ten favorite live performances I saw this year.
Jesus Lizard, Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA, November 6, 2009
Jesus Lizard, Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA, November 6, 2009
Don't Call them New Year's Resolutions: Personal and Professional Goals for 2010
Submitted by John Beatty on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 20:00
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In December, I was already mulling over some goals for the coming year. Inspired by my colleague Tom Boone and by Chris Guillebeau, I decided to put them together in a concrete way. Not all of these goals have a plan as of yet, but some have dates by which I will have a plan in place.
Oh, so it's another new year, is it?
Submitted by John Beatty on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 15:44
I had been fully intending to post a number of year-end wrap-up type posts this week, in between getting things done around the house and taking in Phish's New Year's run in Miami. Unfortunately, someone broke into our house and stole a bunch of stuff while we were at the second show. So, that wrecked our week. We went to the rest of the shows, but everything else that had been on the schedule got bumped in favor of window repair, serial number searching and other such tasks.
