Monday, October 08, 2007

37 Favorite Albums of All Time

I was talking to someone online who asked me what my favorite albums were. I started going through my music library on my computer and just couldn't stop. Before I knew it I had 37 on the list. So without further adieu, my 37 favorites (top 3 are in order, but after that it's a crapshoot)...

37.) Shins - Oh, Inverted World
36.) William Fitzsimmons - Goodnight
35.) Beck - Sea Change
34.) Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
33.) Presidents of the United States of America - (self-titled)
32.) Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
31.) John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt
30.) Killers - Hot Fuss
29.) Sister Hazel - Somewhere More Familiar
28.) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
27.) Snow Patrol - Final Straw
26.) Spoon - Gimme Fiction
25.) The Weepies - Say I Am You
24.) Third Eye Blind - (self-titled)
23.) Travis - The Invisible Band
22.) Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
21.) Weezer - (self-titled blue album)
20.) Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
19.) Pearl Jam - Ten
18.) Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
17.) Live - Throwing Copper
16.) Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You
15.) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Airplane Over the Sea
14.) Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory
13.) Over the Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer
12.) Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
11.) Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
10.) William Fitzsimmons - Until When We Are Ghosts
09.) Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the New Loud
08.) Eels - Blinking Lights & Other Revelations
07.) Beatles - Rubber Soul
06.) Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
05.) Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
04.) Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
03.) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
02.) Postal Service - Give Up
01.) Cake - Fashion Nugget

Sunday, October 07, 2007

1 Corinthians 13

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.