My year, heavily influenced by whatever happened to be public posts in LJ and Flickr:

• January: Watched the Seahawks win the NFC championship


• February: Best camping trip in quite a long time. Maximal beard growth.


• March: Visited friends in NYC


• April: Visited my sister in Israel


• May: Launched Coffeerobot


• June: Started our PMBA group


• July: Met Bill Clinton


• August: Trip to Vancouver and Victoria


• September: Trip to NYC (again) for Cousin Hindel's wedding


• October: Ate 4 burritos in one day


• November: Helped take back the Congress


• December: Cleansed my colon

Happy New Year!

I usually do a best-of list around this time, but frankly this year wasn't a very strong one for music. Nothing I heard really raised the bar. Most of the new stuff I got I consumed through like a disposable razor, and quickly grew tired of. Sorry 2006, your music sucked. Maybe I'm just getting too old for new music?

update: "Angina" or whatever it's called, by Helios is pretty good. Like "oh I'm hearing some vaguely nautical relaxing sounds" good, but it's somewhat derivative of coherent ambient albums of yesteryear.

update2: evan made me point out that I'm just being a sourpuss. I took a bunch of recommendations and I've got a bunch of albums being downloaded right now: Midlake, Henrick Schwarz's DJ Kicks mix, Yo La Tango, The Knife, Ben Watt. Maybe 2007 will be my year for the music of 2006. Cheers!

[last year's reivew]

The first post of each month, paired with a random* flickr photo from that month.

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