My Top 100 Songs Of 2006:

1. Nth Degree - Morningwood

2. Starlight - Muse

3. Suffer Well - Depeche Mode

4. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

5. Over And Over - Hot Chip

6. Knights Of Cydonia - Muse

7. Rise Up With Fists!!! - Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins

8. Free Radicals (A Hallucination Of The Christmas Skeleton Pleading With A Suicide Bomber) - The Flaming Lips

9. Hurt You - The Sounds

10. Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge


11. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
12. Is It Any Wonder? - Keane
13. Hoppípolla - Sigur Ros
14. And I Was A Boy From School - Hot Chip
15. Nausea - Beck
16. I Don't Feel Like Dancin' - Scissor Sisters
17. Cheated Hearts - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18. Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke
19. To Be Myself Completely - Belle And Sebastian
20. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

21. Martyr - Depeche Mode
22. Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
23. Take Off Your Clothes - Morningwood
24. Funny Little Frog - Belle And Sebastian
25. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power) - The Flaming Lips
26. Jetsetter - Morningwood
27. Turn Into - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
28. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Sciencetists
29. (Just Like We) Breakdown - Hot Chip
30. Standing In The Way Of Control - The Gossip

31. Munich - Editors
32. You Have Killed Me - Morrissey
33. Strange Apparition - Beck
34. You're All I Have - Snow Patrol
35. A Million Ways - OK GO
36. When You Were Young - The Killers
37. White Collar Boy - Belle And Sebastian
38. Cash Machine - Hard-Fi
39. Someday You'll Be Loved - Death Cab For Cutie
40. These Things - She Wants Revenge

41. I Want You So Hard (Boys Bad News) - Eagles Of Death Metal
42. The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat) - The Flaming Lips
43. Your Heart Is An Empty Room - Death Cab For Cutie
44. Cubicle - Rhnocerose
45. The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle And Sebastian
46. I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
47. Long Distance Call - Phoenix
48. Tent In Your Pants - Peaches
49. Hands Open - Snow Patrol
50. Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt

51. Bones - The Killers
52. Wolf Like Me - TV On The Radio
53. Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
54. Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung - The Flaming Lips
55. Here It Goes Again - OK GO
56. How To Save A Life - The Fray
57. Night After Night - The Sounds
58. You Only Live Once - The Strokes
59. The Hardest Part - Coldplay
60. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Artic Monkeys

61. Song With A Mission - The Sounds
62. Map Of The Problematique - Muse
63. Listen Up - The Gossip
64. All Sparks - The Editors
65. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
66. Lost And Found - Phoenix
67. The Sound Of Failure / It’s Dark … Is It Always This Dark?? - The Flaming Lips
68. Land Of A Thousand Words - Scissor Sisters
69. Crystal Ball - Keane
70. Gone Daddy Gone - Gnarls Barkley

71. Only This Moment - Royksopp
72. Set The Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol
73. Colours - Hot Chip
74. My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life As Blazing Shield Of Defiance And Optimism As Celestial Spear Of Action) - The Flaming Lips
75. Crooked Teeth - Death Cab For Cutie
76. Lillian - Depeche Mode
77. We Are The Sleepyheads - Belle And Sebastian
78. Way Out - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
79. Kiss You Off - Scissor Sisters
80. Le Disco - Shiny Toy Guns

81. John The Revelator - Depeche Mode
82. Transformer - Gnarls Barkley
83. Last Call - Brazilian Girls
84. White & Nerdy - Weird Al Yankovic
85. Talk - Coldplay
86. Queen Of Apology - The Sounds
87. Lets Make Love And Listen To Death From Above - CSS
88. Steady, As She Goes - The Raconteurs
89. Minimal - Pet Shop Boys
90. Stars Of CCTV - Hard-Fi

91. You Love It - Peaches
92. Come Back Margaret - Camera Obscura
93. Here In Your Arms - Hello Goodbye
94. Dear God Please Help Me - Morrissey
95. Suzie - Boy Kill Boy
96. Born Secular - Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
97. Meds/Running up That Hill - Placebo*
98. Stay - Small Sins
99. Upside Down - Jack Johnson
100. Do I Creep You Out - "Weird Al" Yankovic

Top 10 Albums of 2006

1. The Life Pursuit - Belle And Sebastian
2. The Warning - Hot Chip
3. At War With the Mystics- The Flaming Lips
4. Dying To Say This To You - The Sounds
5. Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis And The Watson Twins
6. The Back Room - The Editors
7. Black Holes And Revelations - Muse
8. Show Your Bones - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
10. Ta-Dah - Scissor Sisters

Keane has cancelled their North America tour for the Fall.

Ticketmaster sucks x2...They refunded me the face value, service charge, but they kept their grubby, greedy hands on the processing charge as per "policy".

What will I do on October 4th you ask? Why haven't you updated your blog? ok ok I am...now.

What was a major inconvience is now a happy resolve. I am going to see Scissor Sisters down the road instead. I was gonna see them in Seattle when I found out they were gonna play the same night as Keane. This works out better!

This will be the 3rd time seeing Scissor Sisters, would of been the 4th time but didn't see them the first time even though I got tix (they were like $10 that time), and the 2nd time this year seeing them.

New cd Ta-Dah is out in 2 weeks 9/28.

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

Now with treadmills!

Even a head Wal Mart CEO is a Klepto
Only if he just stole under $25...he would of gotten away with it.

Local terroist sucks!
And I am looking to move there???

Ariz. driver gets 70 speeding tickets in 5 months - Yahoo! News

Introducing Simon...

I adopted him a week ago to be a companion for Mr. K my 10 year old buddy. Simon is also a lover and loves my lap, has an internal purr on switch and is very healthy and active.

MTV turns 25 today.
I watched the first hour of MTV on VH-1 Classic and this video blew me away. It could possibly be one of the best videos ever made! The cheese factor is not over the top and the effects! WOW!


cliff richard-we dont talk anymore

Keane is returning to Portland this October and I just purchased my tix. Different venue this time, Arelene Schitzner Concert Hall where parking sucks, or is it the fact I haven't attened anything there in forever?

LastFM/Audioscroller just got a facelift and I couldn't be happier! Looks more interactive and my profile page is a feast to my eyes!

Went to the doc for the first time in 23 months. Down 30 pounds, bp normal, cholesterol is 77 (!?!?!), though my Homosystine is still high so I am taking an increased prx of Folic Acid/B vitamins. Gonna see a Gastronoligist about my G.I. track and spastic colon in the next week or two.

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Homeownership in the Pacific Northwest. For a first time home buyer this is somewhat a challenge. I own a home now, a manufacturer home. It's 16 years old, in pretty good shape as well. No not a single, but a double and I got a good deal on it, though it can use a little more TLC to make it great, but for what it is, it's a cozy place. I want a house though. By this time next year I plan to have one.

Where? How much? What style? How big? How many beds/baths? Questions any first time homeowner asks. My sisters live in houses. They get me wanting one myself. We all live in the Portland metro area where like Seattle, San Francisco, and other major west coast cities, home prices are through the roof. I look at homes in parts of the midwest where I would think of uprooting if I did, and I litteraly get to pick from the cream of the crop. It's feels like I got 2006 money to look at houses with 1976-1986 prices. I can find a nice house anywhere there from $40,000 to $175,000 easy and there are many to choose from. Very nice homes. In the Portland area $175,000 is where I would even start. Eugene is slightly more affordiable and a more likely place locally to purchase a house.

I'm not too picky to find a house, just something nice. Somewhat bigger with space, but not huge. 3-4 bed, 1.5-2 bath, hot tub sounds nice too. Something with a little character.

I've been getting more time to make blog entries since I have more personal time...too much in my book. Is dating for me? Parts of it are ok and other parts terrify me. My hair, my clothes, my trying to keep up a coversation with someone I barely know. It's ovewhelming! I have both confidence and lack confidence at the same time, is that considered a happy medium?

Who knows...I need to try not to focus too much on meeting someone, or thinking of getting back together, or waiting out for something that might not be ready...or mabye never will be.

I work on the 4th 2-11p, double time and a half...thank goodness i'm at a location where I can look outside! My old location restriced my view from outside, and since I transfered I am able to look outdoors, and regardless of the weather, it has contributed to the improvement of my health...and I get to see the fireworks on the clock!


New DM concert video coming later this year!

If it's not one thing it's another. Tech/Electronics one by one fail or break down. Last month it was my new Dish reciever which I added a cooling fan to it. OK. Now just in time for today's 100 degree day it's my one year old LG Air Conditioner. When the cooling element comes on the plug "trips" off and so I have to reset it to have it start again...It trips off again. Called LG who I now know has the WORST 24/7 phone support! Hanging up on you because you want results gives you "no stars". So fuck them! When I upgrade my cell I will probably switch. Well Verizon takes care of me, so LG phones are no prob, just appliances.

I went down to Lowes and got a Samsung 12,000 btu (the LG is 8,000) for $250- and am installing it now. 92 yesterday (was 88 inside at 11:20p when I came home...Mr. K was outside all day in the shade) 100 today, 102 Monday.

Excellent phone support? Deep Discount DVD! I had a duplicate disc in my Homicde: Life On The Street set (Seasons 1-5 set, 22 discs, 1 dupe grrrr), She had e-mailed my my postage paid tag while I was still on the phone. ****!

While I install the A/C I listen to Electric Six's Danger! High Voltage...fortunately it's on e-music.com. Sweet!

ALL women that I am intersted in FRUSTRAE ME!!!!

I am glad I am single (at the moment), though I do want to be in a relationship. I don't see that happening anytime soon, so I will enjoy being single for now. Working 40 hours helps.

The A/C doesn't want to work on these hot days. Mr K is outside in the shade for now.

What a month June has become! I've done so much in the last 3 weeks than I done this year up til now.

- Flaming Lips concert (Yes, it was one of the best concerts I beeen to)
- Purchased a Titanium Green 2006 Ford Escape
- Went on a 4,500 mile trip
- Ended a 3 year relationship
- Added 3 states to my list of places I been
- Stirred emotions in me that haven't been stirred in quite some time
- Went to a baseball game
- Visited Mt. Rushmore
- Went to a strip joint (first one in 10+ years and the worst one in the USA, sad)
- Visited Kohl's and opened a charge account (whoppie do) It's like Mervyns but shoppable)
- Have my house to myself again
- Discovered there is Caffiene Free Diet Mountain Dew

Life is back to normal, well see how the rest of the month goes.

I finally found a skeleton template that I am pleased with, now I just got to tweak it while learning how to do it.