New Feature: Facebook Connect
OK, I've added Facebook login support for the website. You can log in and leave comments using your Facebook ID, but as always I would suggest you not post links to your wall to avoid spamming your...
View ArticleWheee! Content! (Coming Soon)
To make up for a lack of a 2010 Best Of list (frankly, musically the year was kind of underwhelming for me), I'm going to expand 2011's list into 10 blog posts. Why? Because I'm desperate to use the...
View ArticleDon's Best of 2011: Honorable Mentions
On Monday I will start counting down my top 10 albums of the year. Before I do that, though, here are a few of the albums that just missed the Top 10, with a few words about each one:St. Vincent,...
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Don's Best of 2011: #10 - Wobbler, Rites at Dawn
[caption id="attachment_19756" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Norway: Home of awesome curling pants and prog rock"][/caption]Before Spotify made its way to our fair shores, Progstreaming.com...
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Don's Best of 2011: #9 - Beardfish, Mammoth
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Let's see Unwinnable's Matt Marrone try to kill this mammoth!"][/caption]Sweden's Beardfish, much like Australia's Wolfmother (and, for that...
View ArticleNHL Realignment: Pros and Cons
So the NHL has approved a plan that will realign its 30 teams into four conferences starting with the 2012-13 season. It's a move necessitated by the Atlanta Thrashers moving to Winnipeg this year and...
View ArticleI'm a published author!
Unwinnable's first book has arrived at Stately Horvath Manor. Two of my pieces are in it.
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Don's Best of 2011: #8 - Van der Graaf Generator, A Grounding in Numbers
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Math and engineering geeks, unite!"][/caption]Released on Pi Day, 3/14/11, with the electrical symbol for ground as the cover and featuring a song...
View ArticleMore Site Changes
As usually happens when I rediscover this place, I've made a few tweaks to things. I did away with the old Facebook and Twitter logins and installed Intense Debate to handle comments. This will also...
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Don's Best of 2011: #7 - Riverside, Memories In My Head
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Poland is usually lovelier this time of year."][/caption]Some of you may see the inclusion of a three-song EP as a cop-out on a list like this. I...
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Don's Best of 2011: #6 - Sun Domingo, Songs for End Times
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="We can see the madness perfectly from here."][/caption]Much like John Wesley through the 1990's, Sun Domingo has become Marillion's house band....
View ArticleDon's Best of 2011: The Halfway Mark (and a forgotten honorable mention)
First off, a reminder of what we've seen so far:#10: Wobbler, Rites At Dawn#9: Beardfish, Mammoth#8: Van Der Graaf Generator, A Grounding In Numbers#7: Riverside, Memories In My Head#6: Sun Domingo,...
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Don's Best of 2011: #5 - Opeth, Heritage
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="The tree of metal bears bitter fruit!"][/caption]The first things I heard about Heritage were that it would be vastly different from the last few...
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Don's Best of 2011: #4 - Yes, Fly From Here
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="They told Yes to "go green" and "recycle"..."][/caption]To say the last 10 years have been tumultuous for Yes would be an understatement. In the...
View ArticleArticle 10
I should never have installed site stats here. It's depressing that I get excited for 15 hits when I write for a site that regularly measures two orders of magnitude more than that...
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Don's Best of 2011: #3 - The Grates, Secret Rituals
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="These Bilderberg Group meetings get weirder and weirder..."][/caption]I never would've expected to become a fan of indie pop. And, to be fair, I...
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Don's Best of 2011: #2 - Discipline, To Shatter All Accord
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Discipline. Grim. Foreboding."][/caption]This one came out of nowhere. One day my friend Adam posted a link to a Bandcamp page with the whole...
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Don's Best of 2011: #1 - Steven Wilson, Grace For Drowning
Really, there was no doubt in my mind from the first moment I listened to Grace For Drowning that it would be my album of the year.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="With all the...
View ArticleDon's Best of 2011: Post-Mortem and Disappointments
If you've made it this far, thank you. Here's your reward - a Spotify playlist with most of my favorites for 2011. That's the downside to listening to so much progressive rock - it's hit-or-miss when...
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Goodbye, Kid
In 1982, I became a Mets fan. It certainly wasn't because they were a good team, because they weren't - they finished the strike-shortened 1981 season with a record of 41-62. No, I became a Mets fan...
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