More End of the Year stuff.. This type, it's a user-voted "Plug Awards". However, there doesn't' seem to be a lot of Can Con represented.. Other then the Arcade Fire. There was a ton of good can con records this, I hope next year the international indie community, stands up and takes a closer look at us.

http://www.plugawards.com/general_vote.php

More "Best Albums Of 2004", this time curiosity of my "Favorite Station Of 2004", KEXP. When I finally get my ass and pick my albums, I have a feeling many of them will be derived from this list. However, I still don't seen any Hayden, or Hidden Cameras, at least the Magnetic Fields charted.

http://www.kexp.org/programming/djtop10.asp

Christmas is two days away. I have been doing the "12 Days" for Stacey. Today, is day #10. Figuring at what to do for the first nine was a real challange, I think the last couple will be a walk in the park.

Well, the end of the year is near, and that marks the begin of the "Best of the year" lists. I've started to compile my own. I have about a 130 or so songs to sort through. I fashion of last year, I'll just ram them up, in no particular order. Any songs that were super good for whatever reason, I'll annotate in some fashion.

To start things off, WOXY has posted their 97 best. I agree with 2/3 of this list. However, a couple of my favorite records did not chart at all. "Let's bottle Bohemia" By the Thrills, "Elk Lake serenade" by Hayden and "In Between Evolution" by the Tragically Hip.

[woxy] 97 best of 2004

In other news, I'm back to the golden horseshoe for Christmas. I'll probably throw up a few recounts of air flight hell, or maybe some pictures of truffle making mania with Stacey.

Alnemosophy

Legendary Canadian author Pierre Berton died Tuesday. Oddly Enough, I had a conversation with Stacey a few days ago, on how I haven't yet read any of his books, but it was on my list to do. With his death, I believe it's more important then ever to recognize his accomplishments, and I will take the time to introduce myself to some of his works.

CBC as usual, has provided a nice article on him. I wonder what effect his death would of done for CBC's "The Greatest Canadian".

"CBC News: Author Pierre Berton dies"