#besttweetsof2009

Alright duders and dudetters. Finals are over so I now have free reign over my free time and I'm gonna be blogging hard at you until I get sick of year-end reminiscing (though, it being 22 days into December, most of you have probably been done with that for a while now).

Without further adieu,

A Stare Liike Yours'
#BestTweetsOf2009
(you can't accuse me of taking this blog too seriously, now, can you?)

(this came up on google images under 'zany tweet'. whatever works, hey)

Twitter was certainly one of the most divisive pop-culture discussion pieces this year.

"It's a complete waste of time! Do you really think anyone cares what you have to say?"

"You don't GET it!! It's so much cooler than that!"

Being a self-proclaimed 'twat for twitter', I had a blast communicating with a combo platter of my brothers and celebrities this year. Listed below are a few tweets that got my tweeter tootin'.

br1gid

@astrobrando you are not hro. seriously.7:53 PM Apr 3rd from web

Clearly does not understand that I Am Carles.

Beligeront

@astrobrando SARS bRO!2:09 AM Apr 30th from web in reply to astrobrando


ptilley fuck everybody...i'm listening to "Wavvves" right now
3:49 PM Jul 2nd from web

Probably my favorite.

gabrielherrera

@astrobrando you don't even know, brah. that & trey songz's album on the 30th are the two best things that will happen to music in july1:28 PM Jun 10th from web in reply to astrobrando

'That' being 'guns don't kill people...lazers do'.

astrobrando

Spotted: already perfect alt bro specimen carrying oracular spectacular on vinyl. You're awesome dude!12:05 PM Sep 3rd from txt
cmarquard

@astrobrando look in the mirror again?12:26 PM Sep 3rd from web

lololololol!!!!!1!

@majorlazer INGLAN YU NICE. FRANCE YU NICE. AMSTERDAM YU NICE. GERMANY YU NICE. BIG UP DI WHOLE WORLLLL1:28 PM Sep 11th from web
astrobrando

X is smoking2:00 AM Oct 18th from txt

'do somethin crazy'

mbforr @astrobrando AHH SLAPPA THEE BASS.7:52 PM Oct 20th from Tweetie in reply to astrobrando

1. astrobrandojohn ash on the red bull power shot: "I don't even know if this works. It says 'energy for hours', but how many?"5:04 PM Nov 24th from web
2. astrobrando
   "i'm going to have to try it on a day when studying doesn't matter. What if I have an adverse reaction to it?"5:07 PM Nov 24th from web

#johnhashtag

Beligeront Patrick Till Wave11:24 PM Dec 20th from txt
ehberlin Patrick Chilley11:24 PM Dec 20th from txt

etc etc etc

ptilley

@astrobrando would like this: MAGIC KIDS http://www.myspace.com/themagickids
1 minute ago from web

haven't listened yet, but it would be cool if I published this and they ended up being my favorite band ever. sort of.

and @andymilanokis posting links of him rapping/twitpics of food.

R.I.P. ed droste's twitter.

hm....

The Daily Cardinal's top 15 albums of 2009

15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
14. The Antlers - Hospice
13. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
12. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
11. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
10. The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
9. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Part II
8. Atlas Sound - Logos
7. Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns
6. Girls - Album
5. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
4. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
3. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
1. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains



hm....

listen=oval

Though I never had a 'cool older brother' to turn me on to music, there have been a couple of fixtures in my family that have always been good go-to people for that sort of thing. This one comes courtesy of a second cousin with a large knowledge of experimental and electronic music.

Oval is a german glitch project sort-of famous for using physical cd manipulation instead of synthesizers. I picked up the album 94 Diskont a few days ago and I'm really enjoying it. The album's wiki credits the blips and tics to 'exacto knives, paint, and tape to damage the surfaces of the compact discs [stitched] back together in loops of melody punctuated by the disc's physical skips'. Intrigued? I love listening to music that seems to push today's boundaries only to realize i was 5 years old when this was released. Awesome.



Since 1995, the 3 men comprising Oval have worked on multiple projects while continuing to release material into the 21st century. I'm pretty excited to hear more stuff from these apparent 'pioneers of glitch'.