20 out of 100

Music Downloading Goal: 100 new albums by June 26th

Progress: 20/100 (bold means downloaded, italics means I've listened to it)

Japandroids, Celebration Rock
Mount Eerie, Clear Moon
Kate Bush, 50 Words for Snow
Panda Bear, Tomboy
Hot Chip, In Our Heads (very fun dance album, I've heard)

The Weeknd, House of Balloons
John Maus, We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves 
Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972
Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz
Matthew Dear, Black City 
Panda Bear, Young Prayer (their first album)
Dinosaur Jr., Farm
The Tallest Man on Earth (four albums): Shallow Grave, Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird, The Tallest Man on Earth (EP), and The Wild Hunt


Adding two more classics:


The Smiths, The Queen is Dead (always fun)
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust (my favorite Bowie album)


as well as a couple of newer albums:


Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring for My Halo
Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport


Time for a break from downloading--at least until bedtime, when I will probably queue up another half-dozen.  At this pace, I should finish my goal early.


Finished Breaking Bad, Season 4 today.  Really incredible last four episodes.  Ending was truly chilling.


Good stuff.  Hope you're doing well.

Breaking Bad, Season 3

Over the last three days, I've seen the entire season 3 of Breaking Bad.  Pretty fantastic.  I'm in a hurry to download season 4.  Please don't give anything away!  I'll probably have seen all of season 4 by Wednesday.

A few glitches in the season, however.  Episode 8 seemed to be about 17 hours long and took place mostly in a hospital waiting room.  Also, episode 10--"The Fly"--was about a fly that Walt was chasing around his laboratory.  Poor guy ended up looking far crazier than he really was.  Lots of cringe-worthy moments in that episode.

However, the near-confession between Walt and Jessie, in which Walt *almost* confesses to watching Jessie's girlfriend die without lifting a finger to save her, almost saved "The Fly."  The episode would've worked if it was darkly funny, like the episode from season 2 where the junkie had his head crushed by an ATM machine . . . and the other characters couldn't resist repeating the line "that junkie who had his head crushed by an ATM machine" over and over.  Oddest punchline ever, but it worked.  "The Fly," on the other hand, didn't work.

The last two episodes of the season however--"Half-Measures" and "Full Measures"--were brilliant.