I'll only be listening to five of these as albums in a couple years. Once again, it wasn't a great year.

The next step is work on a decade list. Best 216.5 records of the 00s. This may take awhile. I do this for me, people.

1. David Bazan - Curse Your Branches
2. Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood
3. Laura Gibson - Beasts Of Seasons
4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
6. Do Make Say Think - The Other Truths
7. Swan Lake - Enemy Mine
8. Bowerbirds - Upper Air
9. Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Elvis Perkins In Dearland
10. Why? - Eskimo Snow
11. dirty projectors - bitte orca
12. Mirah - (A)Spera
13. maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
14. Halloween, Alaska - Champagne Downtown
15. Sea Wolf - White Water, White Bloom
16. Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains
17. M. Ward - Hold Time
18. Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
19. Alela Diane - To Be Still
20. Brother Ali - Us
21. Wilco - Wilco
22. Jeremy Enigk - OK Bear
23. Hayden - The Place Where We Lived
24. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
25. Magnolia Electric Co - Josephine
26. Zu - Carboniferous
27. Adam Arcuragi - I Am Become Joy
28. Telekinesis! - Telekinesis!
29. Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
30. Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
31. Pelican - What We All Come To Need
32. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
33. Dälek - Gutter Tactics
34. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
35. DOOM - Born like this
36. Mi & L'au - Good Morning Jokers
37. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
38. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
39. Sparklehorse & Dangermouse - Dark Night of the Soul
40. Sholi - Sholi
41. Medeski Martin & Wood - Radiolarians III
42. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
43. Saxon Shore - It Doesn't Matter
44. Ryland Bouchard - A-Sides
45. Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean
46. Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
47. Dj Signify - Of cities
48. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
49. Zee Avi - Zee Avi
50. Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque
51. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
52. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
53. Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
54. And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
55. Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away
56. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
57. Yo La Tengo - Dark Was The Night
58. Vetiver - Tight Knit
59. Themselves - CrownsDown
60. Sleepy Eyes Of Death - Dark Signals
61. Finale - A Pipe Dream and A Promise
62. The Dodos - Time To Die
63. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
64. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
65. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life

November mix. Mostly sad sack hipster folkies. Made this. It's delicious.

1. Brother Ali - Tight Rope
2. The Black Heart Procession - All My Steps
3. Sondre Lerche - I Cannot Let You Go
4. Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Hey
5. Nicole Reynolds - Wonderin
6. Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin
7. Sea Wolf - Orion & Dog
8. The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
9. Lou Barlow - Too Much Freedom
10. Andy Hull - Manchester Orchestra - Where Have You Been
11. The Octopus Project - Half A Nice Day
12. Adam Arcuragi - People And Private Music
13. We-Or-Me - Tell Sarah
14. Olivia Rose Muzzy - Climb
15. Alexi Murdoch - Wait
16. Do Make Say Think - Do

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Previously: Mix #42, Sep '09

I probably won't have a new mix for a while. I find it very very hard to listen to popular (or unpopular) music in the fall and winter. Drinking hoppy beers gives me heartburn too.

Plus I'm spending so much time watching and listening to baseball. Postseason.TV is incredible. I want four angles when I watch baseball in the regular season too.

I've had a personal great week in sports. Vikings monday, that awesome Twins game tuesday (what a graph):

The Dodgers had an awesome game last night:

Batting Mark Loretta with fantasy-season-killing Jim Thome on the bench with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and bases loaded was a bold move.

A Dodger game is a hard thing to listen to after Vin Scully gets off the air after 3 innings. Steiner and Monday are pretty terrible, but the St. Louis guys are painful. And even they are better than the Naive & Hustle boys we have doing Twins games. I'm listening to the Yankee broadcast. He's actually very good as long as there are no Yankee home runs. I've always had a bad impression of John Sterling because of those stupid home run calls, but they're all I've ever heard because that's all you hear in highlights. Plus there's a woman in the booth with an awesome accent.

You can at least see what I'm reading online if you care.

So, no mix right now.

Today some guy decided to rob me of some transfers that were stored in the wastebasket next to my bag and keys, which kind of pissed me off. Later on in the trip though, an elderly lady came up to make small talk.

Lady: I saw in the paper that those people left that Ronald Reagan left a trillion dollars buried at the White House. He buried them in tin cans. 'The Onion News' or something.

Me: That's a humorous newspaper. They make up their stories.

Lady: Yeah, I don't think he would have done that.

(A minute or two of silence)

Lady: You know, I don't think that's true.

Me: Yeah, that whole paper is made up. They're jokes.

Lady: He couldn't have fit a trillion dollars. That would be a lot of cans. I don't know. Maybe.

The Onion: U.S. Government Finds $20 Trillion Buried By Absentminded Reagan In 1987

In order of deliciousness:

1. Gizmo Sandwich
2. Peach-glazed pig cheeks
3. Mini donuts
4. 1919 Rootbeer
5. Fry Dog
6. Pronto pup
7. Cotton Candy
8. Tornado potato

September mix, get on it, there's only a handful left in me. One of these is from the album of the year so far. It's not the MxPx.

1. Delay Trees - Tarantula-Holding On
2. David Bazan - Heavy Breath
3. Why - Berkeley By Hearseback
4. The Felice Brothers - The Big Surprise
5. Bike For Three! - Lazarus Phenomenon
6. Generationals - When They Fight, They Fight
7. Zee Avi - Bitter Heart
8. Jason Lytle - You're Too Gone
9. Throw Me The Statue - Shade For A Shadow
10. Mew - Swimmer's Chant
11. Medeski Martin & Wood - Wonton
12. And So I Watch You From Afar - Mount Kailash
13. Joose Keskitalo - Esineet
14. Mi & L'au - Bingo
15. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Thinking Like That
16. maudlin of the Well - Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)
17. MxPx - Somebody to Love

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Previously: Mix #41, Aug '09

Buy it (or look at the other 49 states)

July and August combo. I'll probably listen to more music now that Air America took Marc Maron off the air for the third time. Who cares about what Montel has to say?

1. Phoenix - Lasso
2. Raphael Saadiq - Love That Girl
3. dirty projectors - two doves
4. Kevin Devine - All of Everything, Erased
5. Halloween, Alaska - In Order
6. Ryland Bouchard - Bye Bye Love #3
7. Sparklehorse & Dangermouse - Everytime I'm With You (feat. Jason Lytle)
8. Dinosaur Jr. - Pieces
9. Magnolia Electric Company - It's Made Me Cry
10. Dan Auerbach - Real Desire
11. Hayden - The Place Where We Lived
12. Bowerbirds - Beneath Your Tree
13. Wilco - One Wing
14. Patrick Watson - Drifters

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Previously: Mix #40, June '09

July mix will be up in a bit.

1. Fol Chen - No Wedding Cake
2. Faces On Film - Makers Of Medicine
3. Brother Ali - Real As Can Be
4. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin of Myself
5. Diverse - Escape Earth (The Moon)
6. CocoRosie - Happy Eyez
7. Benjy Ferree - Fear
8. Finale - Heat (prod. J Dilla)
9. Sunset Rubdown - Silver Moons
10. Jeremy Enigk - Mind Idea
11. The Walkmen - The Old Revolution (Leonard Cohen cover)
12. Manchester Orchestra - The Only One
13. Magnolia Electric Co - Map Of The Falling Sky
14. Eels - That Look You Gave That Guy
15. Saxon Shore - Nothing Changes
16. Pelican - Geometry Of Murder (Earth Cover)
17. Lazlo Bane - Superman

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Previously: Mix #39, April '09

I haven't posted in a while because I was on vacation (Boston's awesome - most polite drivers of any city I've been in, most random spaghetti bowl of public transit, made me depressed about massive Minneapolis front yards, stuffed my face with seafood etc) last month and we moved across the lake last week. I have a couple of mixes for the three of you left that RSS this bad boy and still download them. We don't have the internet yet though (I'm tethering on my iPhone at the moment - it's too slow to seed, plus it goes away when I go outside) so I'll be posting a mix in the next week or two, and another mix shortly after that. The music is there, it's just waiting to get out.