Highway 290 Revisited: A Most Unusual Birthday Gift

Monday, February 18, 2008

Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location - New York Times

Thank you, Sam Roberts! An article about the semicolon--one of my favorite pieces of punctuation, right up there with the long dash--is exactly what I wanted for my birthday!

Annual Albums

2007
The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Iron and Wine: The Shepherd's Dog

2006
1. Teddy Thompson: Separate Ways
2. Belle and Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
3. Scissor Sisters: Ta-Dah
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones
5. Rosanne Cash: Black Cadillac
6. Bob Dylan: Modern Times
7. Brahms: The Piano Concertos (Nelson Freire)
8. John Mayer: Continuum
9. Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
10. KT Tunstall: Eye to the Telescope

2005
1. Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine
2. Antony and the Johnsons: I am a Bird Now
3. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
4. Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
5. Martha Wainwright: Martha Wainwright
6. Garbage: Bleed Like Me
7. Iron and Wine: Woman King EP AND Iron and Wine/Calexico: In the Reins
8. Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
9. Aimee Mann: The Forgotten Arm
10. Sigur Ros: Takk

2004
1. Scissor Sisters: Scissor Sisters
2. Green Day: American Idiot
3. Arcade Fire: Funeral
4. Black Keys: Rubber Factory
5. Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose
6. Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
7. Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
8. Rilo Kiley: More Adventurous
9. Matt Pond PA: Emblems
10. Rufus Wainwright: Want Two

2003
1. Rufus Wainwright: Want One
2. Kathleen Edwards: Failer
3. The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
4. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism/ The Postal Service: Give Up
5. Ryan Adams: Love is Hell & Rock N Roll
6. Annie Lennox: Bare
7. Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers
8. Belle and Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
9. The Thrills: So Much For the City
10. The White Stripes: Elephant
11. New Pornographers: Electric Version
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell

2002
1. Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
2. Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
3. Kylie Minogue: Fever
4. Joseph Arthur: Redemption's Son
5. Foo Fighters: One by One
6. Beck: Sea Change
7. Aimee Mann: Lost in Space
8. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Ryan Adams: Demolition
10. Lisa Loeb: Cake and Pie
11. Sigur Ros: ( )
12. Bright Eyes: Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground/ Desaparecidos: Read Music/Speak Spanish

2001
1. Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
2. Ben Folds: Rockin' the Suburbs
3. Ryan Adams: Gold
4. Bjork: Vespertine
5. Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American
6. Weezer: Weezer (the green album)
7. Garbage: beautifulgarbage
8. Melissa Etheridge: Skin
9. Dave Matthews Band: The Lillywhite Sessions (CDR)
10. John Mayer: Room for Squares
11. Pete Yorn: musicforthemorningafter
12. Robbie Williams: Swing When You’re Winning

2000
1. Radiohead: Kid A
2. Everclear: Songs From an American Movie, Volume 1&2
3. Aimee Mann: Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo)
4. Robbie Williams: Sing When You’re Winning
5. Coldplay: Parachutes
6. No Doubt: Return of Saturn
7. Joseph Arthur: Come To Where I’m From
8. Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
9. XTC: Wasp Star: Apple Venus Volume Two
10. PJ Harvey: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

1999
1. Fiona Apple: When the Pawn...
2. Matthew Sweet: In Reverse
3. Wilco: Summerteeth
4. Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin
5. Robbie Williams: The Ego Has Landed
6. David Gray: White Ladder
7. Moby: Play
8. Travis: The Man Who
9. Melissa Etheridge: Breakdown
10. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
11. Beck: Midnite Vultures
12. Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

1998
1. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
2. Beck: Mutations
3. Sheryl Crow: The Globe Sessions
4. Garbage: Version 2.0
5. Air: Moon Safari
6. Smashing Pumpkins: Adore
7. Hole: Celebrity Skin
8. Dave Matthews Band: Before These Crowded Streets

1997
1. Radiohead: OK Computer
2. Bjork: Homogenic
3. Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind
4. Whiskeytown: Stranger's Almanac
5. Ben Folds Five: Whatever and Ever Amen
6. Ric Ocasek: Troublizing
7. Oasis: Be Here Now

1996
1. Weezer: Pinkerton
2. REM: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
3. Dave Matthews Band: Crash
4. Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow
5. Beck: Odelay
6. Sting: Mercury Falling
7. Counting Crows: Recovering the Satellites

1995
1. Radiohead: The Bends
2. Oasis: (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
3. Chris Isaak: Forever Blue
4. Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill
5. Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
6. Garbage: Garbage
7. Elton John: Made in England
8. Bjork: Post
9. Aimee Mann: I'm With Stupid
10. No Doubt: Tragic Kingdom

1994
1. Weezer: Weezer (1994)
2. Toad the Wet Sprocket: Dulcinea
3. Tom Petty: Wildflowers
4. Dave Matthews Band: Under the Table and Dreaming
5. Jeff Buckley: Grace
6. Beck: Mellow Gold
7. Green Day: Dookie
8. Oasis: Definitely Maybe
9. Seal: Seal (1994)

1993
1. Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
2. Counting Crows: August and Everything After
3. Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong
4. Sting: Ten Summoner's Tales
5. Radiohead: Pablo Honey
6. Bjork: Debut
7. Aimee Mann: Whatever

Highway 290 Revisited

Monday, February 18, 2008

A Most Unusual Birthday Gift

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