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I'm taking a week off. See you in the new year.

Also, it looks like I farked-up my blog and deleted the last entry. Here's the basic playlist from the last entry, minus album info. I don't feel compelled to look it all up and add it to the list.

mixtape = love #59

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Cold White Christmas
Young and Sexy - Santa Claus Likes Rich Kids Better
Oxford Collapse - For The Khakis And The Sweatshirt
The Hidden Cameras - Awoo
The Nice Device - Innocent
Hello Saferide - My Best Friend
Phoenix - Second To None
The Blow - Pile of Gold
sprites - Modern Gameplay
Over The Rhine - One Olive Jingle
Eef Barzelay - Joy To The World
Diana Darby - Jesus Was a Capricorn
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Noodles
His Name Is Alive - Get Your Curse
Guther - Trick or Treat
Ms John Soda - Hands
Titan - Spiritual Guidance
Morgan - Christmas In Waikiki
Califone - the Orchids
The Decemberists - Shankill Butchers
Sixpence None The Richer - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
Bishop Allen - Vain
Voxtrot - Trouble
Kisswhistle - Verhanukkah
The Bell Rays - Rocketship Santa
The Untamed Youth - Santa's Gonna Shut 'em Down
Los Straitjackets - Christmas In Las Vegas
Beatmas - Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
Letters to Cleo - Wtfamp (Xmas Song)
The Polyphonic Spree - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Belle & Sebastian - O Come O Come Emanuel
Sufjan Stevens - Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing

I stuck mainly to the rock and pop side of things this week in my run-down of some of my favorite tracks/albums/artists of '06. Maybe I'll follow up with a part 2 next week. I still have other stuff on my list. And I reactivated comments. Leave a comment if you want. Don't cost nuthin'.

1. Mission of Burma - Birthday    The Obliterati
2. Sonic Youth - Incinerate    Rather Ripped
3. Eleventh Dream Day - For Martha    Zeros and Ones
4. Controller.Controller - Poison/Safe    X Amounts
5. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control    Standing In The Way Of Control
6. The Thermals - power doesnt run on nothing    The Body, The Blood, The Machine
7. pretty girls make graves - pyrite pedestal    Elan Vital
8. Be Your Own Pet - We Will Vacation, You Can Be My Parasol    Be Your Own Pet
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena    Show Your Bones
10. Tilly and the Wall - Sing Songs Along    Bottoms of Barrels
11. Built To Spill - Conventional Wisdom    You In Reverse
12. Viva Voce - From The Devil Himself    Get Yr. Blood Sucked Out
13. Elf Power - An Old Familiar Scene    Back To The Web
14. Pony Up! - The Truth About Cats and Dogs    Make Love To The Judges With Your Eyes
15. Rachael Cantu - Saturday    Run All Night
16. Pink Nasty - Take It Back    Mold the Gold
17. The Eames Era - Year Of The Waitress    Double Dutch
18. Jennifer O'Connor - I'll Bring You Home    Over the Mountain, Across the Valley, and Back to the Stars
19. The Concretes - On The Radio    In Colour
20. Regina Spektor - On The Radio    Begin To Hope
21. Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog    The Life Pursuit
22. Oppenheimer - Allen Died, April Five    Oppenheimer
23. Portastatic - I'm In Love (With Arthur Dove)    Be Still Please
24. Peter Bjorn And John - Young Folks    Writer's Block
25. BOAT - Clogged Castle    Songs You Might Not Like
26. Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - The Authority Box    Ole Tarantula
27. Halou - Tubefed    Wholeness and Separation
28. Psapp - The Words    The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
29. Heather Duby - Places Shape Lives   Heather Duby
30. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists    Rabbit Fur Coat

I woke up at 6 a.m. this morning and learned that, again, my internet connection was on the blink. After calling Time Warner support, I was forced to read a book for an hour when I normally would have been dicking around with pat radio.

So now would be as good a time as ever to listen to the latest mixtape = love archive, which isn't subject to my fickle home internet connection. Or you could read a book.

Real-life intervening again tonight. So I won't be on at 7 p.m. tonight. Whenever I get the show done, I'll upload it. It's going to be one of those phoned-in best-of-2006 things anyway. Too busy to dangle from the bleeding edge of indie hipitude this week.

12:49 p.m.
I came back from lunch and discovered that the internets is back up at home and the stream is available again. Enjoy.

I still won't be around until 8 or 9 tonight for the mixtape.

Not much of a preamble this week. Note the tunes you can download. Over and out.

1. Stephen Malkmus - Jo Jo's Jacket    Stephen Malkmus
2. Favourite Sons - No One Ever Dies Young    Down Beside Your Beauty
3. Black Lipstick - B.O.B. F.O.S.S.E.    Sincerely, Black Lipstick
4. Viva Voce - Special Thing    Get Yr. Blood Sucked Out
5. John Vanderslice - Peacocks In The Video Rain    Pixel Revolt
6. Cake on Cake - Sea-Microphone    I Guess I Was Dreaming
7. The Submarines - Brighter Discontent    Declare a New State
8. Wet Confetti - Dazzle Of Dynamite    Laughing Gasping
9. The Joggers - We've Been Talked Down    Various Artists: PDX Pop Now! 2006
10. Rocketship - Our New Track    Various Artists: PDX Pop Now! 2006
11. Say Hi To Your Mom - Not As Goth As They Say We Are    Impeccable Blahs
12. Chica and the Folder - Daleko (Dinky "splastik" mix)    Various Artists: Monika Force
13. Calexico - Electric Relay    The Book and the Canal
14. Anna Oxygen (remixing Mirah) - Monument    Joyride: Remixes
15. Tapping The Vein - Trader Boy    Various Artists: Where's Neil When You Need Him?
16. The Fall - Secession Man    The Light User Syndrome
17. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Little Boys In The Ghetto    #3

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18. Download "The End" (mp3)
from "Until The Sadness Is Gone"
by David & the Citizens
Friendly Fire Recordings

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

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19. Phoenix - Consolation Prizes    It's Never Been Like That
20. Download Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Underwater (You And Me)    Pre-release download!
21. PAS/CAL - Little Red Radio    Dear Sir
22. Thunderbirds Are Now! - The Veil Comes Down    Make History
23. Califone - Burned by the Christians    Roots and Crowns
24. Dear Nora - (I Can't Believe I Left) California    There Is No Home
25. Peaches - Lovertits    The Teaches of Peaches

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26. Download "Work Slow Life" (mp3)
from "Amid The Noise"
by So Percussion
Cantaloupe Music

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic
• Buy at Napster
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

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27. The Blow - The Long list of Girls    Paper Television
28. Hello Saferide - San Francisco    Introducing...Hello Saferide
29. Jeffrey And Jack Lewis - Don't Be Upset    City and Eastern Songs

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30. Download "Swingset Chain" (mp3)
from "It's Yours To Keep"
by Loquat
Jackpine Social Club

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Buy at Napster
• Buy at GroupieTunes
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody