1/2/2011 No pretensions of starting the blog going again, but rather than flood my facebook friends with 11 updates in quick succession, topics involve the following:

Titus Jones has replaced Party Ben as the go-to mashup expert. Bootie should hire him to mix their next Best of compilation, as A+D didn't really get it done well this year.

256kbps Amazon MP3s playing on a Google Android sound better than native AAC audio files sound on my iPod Nano (5g).

And it's not even all that close.

Relevant listening is "My Dark Beautiful Twisted Fantasy" by Kanye West, which is the best album of this year, and about 20 previous years as well. Not because it is perfect, but because it is wildly imperfect and still so phenomenal.

The second-best album of the year, in my opinion, would be Sufjian Stevens ""Age of Adz"; likewise, imperfect, but in a lot more quantifiable ways. That is just an opinion, though.

I'd consider the statement "Kanye West put out the best album of 2010" to be as close to incontrovertible fact as any musical preference statement is capable of being.

Lots of other stuff probably not to come.