Top 40

Every year I look forward to the Village Voice Pazz and Jop Poll, an annual roundup of what the nation’s music critics thought were the best releases of the previous year. And every time, I find myself more and more out of touch … until this year! I actually own a quarter of the top 40 choices. And my taste appears to span the musical range from A to B, from American indie-rock to British indie-pop. I am legion, I contain multitudes.

My choices in the top 40:
9. New Pornographers, Twin Cinema
11. LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem
17. Beck, Guero
18. Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
19. The Go! Team, Thunder, Lightning, Strike (my favorite CD from last year)
21. Gorillaz, Demon Days
26. Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better
32. Coldplay, X&Y
33. Decemberists, Picaresque
35. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Another Saturday night dinner

Come meet the charming George (gapathfinder) and Ben (benjiej) this Saturday, at yet another San Francisco Live Journal bear community dinner. They're coming in from Atlanta and are visiting San Francisco for the first time, so let's give them a warm welcome. They'll be around town through IBR. Both have fabulous journals that you should check out, pronto.

Meet at 7 p.m. Saturday the 11th at the Chevy's at 590 Van Ness, a location so convenient that even foodpoisoningsf can make it. I'm expecting about 14-18 people will show up. We'll split the food bill evenly unless you make prior arrangements.

And as Dorothy Parker might have said:
I love one margarita,
Two, at the very most.
Three, and I'm under the table,
Four, and I'm under the host.