is it the end of the year time for a list already?

I am never ready for this time of year.   It always comes rumbling in demanding to know what I saw, heard, ate, and when. 

1. Sheep.  They are still the animal I most want roaming around in my backyard, and since I live in the city, they can not.  Note to self:  ask Santa for a farm...

2. 4 Women No Cry v/a Monika.  I want to run away and join the Monika circus.  Everything I hear from this label is fabulous and everyone I have met is adorable.  (Barbara Morgenstern just came out to record a live show which will air soon, and you will see what I mean).  How can so much goodness emit from one label?

3. Live shows: Brightblack Morning Light with Fursaxa at Le Poisson Rouge. A huge and fabulous show where both bands floated above the stage.  Truly.  And of course, Lights with Teeth Mountain at Issue Project Room in September.  I felt like royalty!  It was a magically wonderful and intimate nite.  The highlight of the summer was truly the WFMU Lincoln Center bash where The Ex with Getatchew Mekurya, Either/Orchestra with Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete  charmed everyone in attendance. (Dan Bodah devotes an entire show to Ethiopian music here)

4. Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum.  Subtle, gorgeous moments like this come as infrequently as Venus and Jupiter snuggling up to the moon.

5. Low down & slow oozing of electrified honey: Maxine Funke Lace.  A beautiful release on Alistair Galbraith's label.  Vetiver Thing of the Past: covering all their favorite musicians, obscure and commonplace. Donovan Quinn October Lanterns: dark and warm.

6. Jean-Michel Gondry: Be Kind Rewind.  I love his filmmaking and the sentiment in this movie is just so infectious.

7. Tove Jansson: The Summer Book; A Winter Book.  More Finnish magic that still burns bright many years after she wrote them.

8. TV royally sucks.  Except for shining moments like Flight of the Conchords and Cranford.

9. All the musicians and labels that make listening to music so fantastic!

10. Our very own WFMU listeners, as usual, you rock. Let's hope for lots of Peace in the New Year.

More DJ's 2008 top ten lists can be found here.

Comments

[Mark From Helsinki]

That's..... Tove Jansson.

[kate]

Thanx dude!
that show at project room was fully fun!
we should do it again for reals!
sincerely,
kate
teeth mtn