My Tentative 2004 best-of list (as originally posted on indecline.net):


Top 15 Albums of 2004:

01. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
02. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
03. Converge - You Fail Me
04. The Wolfnote - This is the Getdown
05. Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
06. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
07. The All Purpose Voltage Heroes - TEODJP
08. The Franklins - s/t
09. Hot Cross - Fair Trades and Farewells
10. Whitey Houston 7"
11. !!! - Louden Up Now
12. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
13. Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
14. Mastodon - Leviathan
15. Bloc Party - s/t EP


Top 10 shows of 2004:

01. Coachella (especially seeing Basement Jaxx and Le Tigre back-to-back)
02. GWAR
03. Department of Homeland Security (easily the best surprise of the year!), The Wolfnote, Totheteeth/tothehilt, Downeastday, The Mark Birtles Project
04. Black Dot Halloween roller-rink show: The Wolfnote, The Frosted Tipz, The Operators, Shout Out Out Out Out, the James T. Kirks, Black Market Inc.
05. The Stars Wept (they were fuckin incredible), The Hollywood Ending, Tandum Vitalis
06. Xiu Xiu
07. The Franklins' vinyl release
08. Choke's 10th at New City
09. .moneen. at the Starlight
10. Sparta


Top 10 people/bands that played fuckin awesome music in 2004 but didn't get mentioned in my other lists:

01. Blacklisted
02. Change Methodical
03. Stillframe
04. Fractal Pattern
05. The Nouns
06. The Gun Bunnies
07. Bolide
08. Our Mercury
09. Eshod Ibn Wyza
10. Dance Floor Disasters


Top 3 favourite DJs for 2004:

1. Slipped Disc
2. Miss Mannered
3. Nik7


Favourite shows I got to play in 2004

with London Disturbance Force: The Intesives, Hit & Run, Hellthrasher, and the Homewrekers. This show was awesome. When we did our shitty cover of Motorhead's "Killed By Death" for an encore and everyone went nuts, that was the funnest thing I've ever done! Plus, all the bands were fuckin incredible that night.

with LIME: it's a tie. Either that one at Stars waaay at the beginning of the year with Totheteeth/tothehilt, Change Methodical, and Stillframe or else the recent one at the Shark Tank with the Fontanelles, the Mark Birtles Project and Fractal Pattern. Those were both really fun bills to play on.

Just a little something I was working on. Damn that Kampfer, I was suppose to be finishing Panzer off but instead I jumped to Kampfer instead. Oh well more time to draw mechas I guess. Yeah!

Thanks guys! I ran the scan with both those programs and the spyware is still on. It is your generic make your homepage some default ad page spyware. It isn't effecting firefox so yeah! I'm going to say good bye to that IE crap. One of these days that spyware will die.

Tabbrowser Extensions are also nice.

hey Al, using firefox won't stop spyware.
You will probably need Adaware and Spybot-S&D.
Not to say you should stop using firefox or anything.

The extensions I have are:

Adblock
Linkification
Word Count
Allow right click
BugMeNot

You can get them here and here

Beck or Ed what other stuff should I get for Firefox?

Never mind I'm using firefox now.

Do any of you know any good spyware removal programs for window? My brother got spyware on our computer again.

Marks still not up on beartracks. My professors really do take super long vactions like the students.

I agree... stupid U of A.

On a positive note I got a string of B's for last semester.
Last I checked that's a string of "not fails"