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Best of 2024

Can You See Me Tonight - Good Looks
Misses - Domnic Fike
Birdseed - Merce Lemon
Right Back to it - Waxahatchee
Alien - Dehd
When I Learned Your Name - Daniel Romano
Away From the Castle - Video Age
One Bad Day - Spacey Jane
That's What Time Does - Oso Oso
Never Meant - Iron and Wine
Big Blue - Hovvdy
Deeper Well - Kacey Musgraves
Where Were You - Tyler Ramsey
Waiting and Waiting - Bonny Light Horseman
She's Leaving You - MJ Lenderman
Sexy to Someone - Clairo
Stained Glass Window - Sunday 1994
Flowers - Real Estate
Taste - Sabrina Carpenter
Run Your Mouth - Marias
All I Ever Wanted - Ivy
LUNCH - Billie Eilish
That's How I'm Feeling - Jack White
Jerkin - Amyl & The Sniffers
Burning (Live...Again) - War in Drugs

Top Albums of 2024:
  • Lived Here For a While by Good Looks
  • Poetry by Dehd
  • Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild by Merce Lemon
  • Tigers Blood - Waxahatchee
Top Vinyl Find:
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic - The Sundays (@ Harvest Records)

Best Show:
The Good Looks (@ The Pilot Light, Knoxville)

Top books for my year:
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (This was first published in 1988 so I am very, very late to the game here.  But, reading this book for the first time this year was magical and I can't stop thinking about it.  It is ostensibly based on a classic folktale concept of "the treasure at home" but for me, it is about working within the universe to manifest our dreams.  I love it!)
  • Crying in H Mart - Michele Z
  • A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999  by Tom Maxwell  a book about Superchunk AND Dillon Fence?  I was 100% in and remain the target audience).
  • James by Percival Everett
  • Revenge of the Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

Top Podcasts:
  • Empire 
  • Rewatchables
  • Let Me Talk (Manchester City stuff)
Cover Photo:  Athens, by the great British photographer Martin Parr.  It was first published in his book on tourism, Small World, in 1996.

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