Weekly Discoveries

A few weeks and months late on many of these.


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// Favorite Crowdsourcing  - Watsi.org






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Favorite Songs of 2014

Just pretend this was posted a few months ago.




16. "Hear Me" - The Very Best






15. "Just One of the Guys" - Jenny Lewis






14. "Hang On" - Shad and DJ T.LO





13. "Blue Moon" - Beck






12. "Traditional Arrangement: Moonshine" - Alexandre Desplat






11. "My Wrecking Ball" - Ryan Adams





10. "Parade" - The Antlers






9. "Silver Joy" - Damien Jurado






8. "High Ball Stepper" - Jack White






7. "Water Fountain" - tUnE-yArDs






6. "Two Weeks" - FKA Twigs






5. "Terror of Wide Open Spaces" - Momcat


If embed code isn't working.....  momcat.bandcamp.com


4. "Red Eyes" - The War on Drugs






3. "Had Ten Dollaz" - Cherry Glazerr  (kinda cheated on this one, learned of this only a couple months ago, but oh well)






2. "Do You?" - Spoon






1. "Courtney Barnett" - Avant Gardener

Favorite Books of 2014

Beginning today I'll be looking back at some of my favorite media of this past year. Starting out, it's my favorite fifteen books of 2014:

American Blues by Evan Guilford-Blake

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Ghosts by Cesar Aira

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples

Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton

Underworld by Don Delillo

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

White Girls by Hilton Als

What were some of your favorites for the year? Anything I need to put on my list for 2015?

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// Favorite Reason to be Thankful for John Williams -

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// Favorite Podcast -   You Must Remember This



// Favorite Book -   We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

// Favorite Review of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves -  This one by the great Ian North.

// Favorite Prank -

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Another belated weekly discovers. Think more monthly.


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// The End of the Ice Bucket Challenge -

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// Favorite Song/Music Video - Thanks to Michial for this one.






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// Favorite Music Video You've Already Seen -






// Favorite Re-Trailering -






// Favorite Short -

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// Something to Think About: World Cup Edition -






// Favorite Tribute to Dads -






// Something to Think About: NFL Edition -






// Favorite Wedding Highlight Reel - My brother's wedding!






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// Favorite Teaser -

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// Favorite Late-Night Bit - Finally, the Chad Smith/Will Ferrell drum-off.










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// Favorite Music Video -

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