1.02.2008

Lists and such

Five Really Really Good CDs from 2007 (in no particular order):

1. The Avett Brothers, Emotionalism
2. Slo Mo, Smokey Mountain
3. Amy LaVere, Anchors and Anvils
4. Scott Miller and the Commonwealth, Reconstruction
5. Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind

Five Really Really Good Concerts I Saw in 2007 (in no particular order)

1. Split Lip Rayfield, Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
2. Willie Nelson/Ray Price/Merle Haggard, Radio City Music Hall, NYC
3. Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble, Beacon Theatre, NYC
4. Drive By Truckers, Castle Clinton, NYC
5. Chuck Berry, Cranford Music Festival, Cranford, NJ

Two Heartbreaking LIve Concert Moments in 2007

1. Kirk Rundstrom telling Wayne Gottstine that he physically couldn't do an encore
2. The everybodyfields' Jill Andrews crying as she sang "Lonely Anywhere"

Three Really Really Good Moments from Older or Dead Guys on CDs Released in 2007

1. John Fogerty saying "Pocatello" on Revival's "Somebody Help Me"
2. Warren Zevon telling his road manager (and the audience), "Get up and dance! Get up and dance or I'll kill you! And I got the means!" on Stand In The Fire's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me"
3. Paul Anka swaggering through "Time After Time" on Classic Songs: My Way

The Three Movies I Saw In a Theatre This Year

1. Knocked Up
2. Superbad
3. Juno

Four People I Want To See on a VH-1 Celebreality Show in 2008

1. Billy Ocean
2. Lark Voorhies
3. Mark Linn-Baker
4. James Ellroy

The Two Books That Actually Made Me Enjoy Reading in 2007

1. Dead Boys, Richard Lange
2. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Crystal Zevon

My Three Favorite Years of Schooling

1. Fourth grade
2. Junior year of college
3. Kindergarten

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