1. The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead

2. Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away

3. Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don’t Have Your Back

Villains play Andy’s Bar in Denton on Saturday Night…show up around 9:30ish…we’ll have drinks…

A friend of mine posted this on my myspace page once and told me it reminded her of my art. I still like it every bit as much today as 3 years ago. Thanks Jess.

Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been
- Dennis Oppenheim

here are some of the albums that kept me going through 2007 (better late than never). It was such a good year for music.

Alt Country/Acoustic

1. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin

2. Bright Eyes - Cassadega

3. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog

4. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

5. Jose Gonzalez – In Our Nature

Rock

1. The National - Boxer

2. BRMC - Baby 81

3. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

4. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Living with the Living

5. Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil

6. Villains - Please meet…

Electronic

1. Dntel - Dumb Luck

2. John Vanderslice - Emerald City

3. People Press Play - People Press Play

4. The Go Find - Stars on the Wall

5. Digitalism - Idealism

Indie

1. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

2. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

3. Rogue Wave - Asleep at Heaven’s Gate

4. Page France - …and the Family Telephone

5. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight

Post-Rock/Experimental

1. Explosions in the Sky

2. Battles - Mirrored

3. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?

4. The Apples in Stereo – New Magnetic Wonder

5. Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends

migrating took all of 2 seconds (thank you wordpress!) so enjoy the new digs and please be patient while I get the style set and all the images squared away…there’s work to be done…

Well here it is the new home of my blog…now that I am the happy owner of my own domain! I’m in the process of migrating my previous blog that we all know and love over to this domain but in the mean time sit tight and enjoy it at:

http://justinstrickland.wordpress.com

…something significant will follow…

So the top 10 lists never happened. I have them done but was too busy to post them and now sadly I fear it is too late. I was also going to do the 365 challenge…we can see how that has worked out. I’ve been busy both at work and at home. Making art and building web sites can get pretty time consuming. So here are some pictures to catch you up on what is new in my world.

and the Cowboys failed for the 12th year in a row to win a game in the post-season…better luck next year tony…