BTW
Did I tell you about this morning? I made eye contact with a man who was taking a dump in the subway.
That's disturbing.


Spartan Power
We have a little college alumni message board.
It's fun - it's not some official college thing, but just something my pal Scott built and posted. I think there are about 30 or so people on it. A good number of happyrobot people actually (Jason, Blaine, John Ball, EricS, EricW, Jessica).

The topic yesterday was putting together our collective list of the greatest albums of the past twenty years. EricS is spearheading the project and there have been a ton of posts (57 in one day. Yow!) about how we should pick these albums (should they be our own personal faves or our faves that also were huge milestones or... ).

I thought it would be best to our personal top twenty - everything else be damned. So, between projects at work, I scribbled down my list.

1	Pixies	Surfer Rosa / Come on Pilgrim
2	The Smiths	The Queen Is Dead
3	Polvo	Polvo
4	Bongwater	Breaking No New Ground! EP
5	REM	Lifes Rich Pageant
6	Pavement	Slanted & Enchanted
7	Guided by Voices	Bee Thousand
8	Public Enemy	Fear of a Black Planet
9	Sebadoh	The Freed Weed
10	Ice Cube	Death Certificate
11	Belle & Sebastian	Tigermilk
12	Public Enemy	Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black
13	The Nation of Ulysses	Plays Pretty for Baby
14	The Fall	This Nation's Saving Grace
15	Stereolab	Refried Ectoplasm
16	Sufjan Stevens	Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
17	Belle & Sebastian	Dear Catastrophe Waitress
18	Beulah	Handsome Western States
19	Guided by Voices	Alien Lanes
20	Ween	God. Ween. Satan.

24 hours I am still happy with it.

Each album has some fun memory with it. The Queen is Dead was the second CD I ever bought.
The time I saw Pavement on the Slanted Enchanted tour was the first time I saw the Archers of Loaf - who were all from my home town / high school.
Breaking No New Ground I copied from some girl who was living with my friend Joel in his post-high-school-crap-pad. Since it was an EP of covers, she put the Redd Kross EP of covers on the tape after it - which I didn't realize until much later was really really cool.

The Freed Weed I found in our giveaway bin at the radio station. What awesome fun.
Ice Cube's Death Certificate I literally know all the words to.
Surfer Rosa / Come on Pilgrim is Pixies perfection.

Both Public Enemy albums on my list can sometimes give me nutty goose bumps.
That Stereolab collection is super lovely.
Ween's God. Ween. Satan. was the soundtrack to my life when I lived with Kristy and had just started dating Mrs. Robot. We went to their show and got them to do a radio station ID.
Ah.

I forgot Negativland. Damn. That's half my childhood right there. They threw eggs at us.

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Mrs. Robot's Top 20 of the Last 20

1	Liz Phair	Exile in Guyville
2	Wilco	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3	Pixies	Surfer Rosa
4	Belle & Sebastian	If You're Feeling Sinister
5	Elliott Smith	Figure 8
6	The Smiths	Queen is Dead
7	RUN DMC	Raising Hell
8	The Cure	Head on the Door
9	Guided by Voices	Bee Thousand
10	Nirvana	Nevermind
11	Beastie Boys	Paul's Boutique
12	NWA	Straight Outta Compton
13	REM	Life's Rich Pageant
14	Public Enemy	It Takes A Nation of Millions
15	Hole	Live Through This
16	Archers of Loaf	Icky Mettle
17	Johnny Cash	Unchained
18	Ween	God. Ween. Satan.
19	Cibo Matto	Viva La Woman
20	De La Soul	3 Feet High & Rising

Honorable Mention- In A Priest Driven Ambulance- The Flaming Lips

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