Lotta great noise came out this year. Hear some here, recommended by me.

Something else to check off on the bucket list: coordinating a publication's year-end poll.

I turned some old, crusty blog posts about Season 8 of American Idol into an eBook. It's a fairly good time capsule of 2009, if you miss 2009.

Triple Threat: Missy Elliott feat. Timbaland, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Bad Religion.

Triple Threat: Mountains, Benoit & Sergio, The Chemical Brothers.

Triple Threat: TV Torso, C.S. Yeh, Plums.

So Jason Crumer asked me to author the one-sheet for his latest album, which was a first and an honor.

"So this is like when rappers drop a track in advance of a mixtape, only totally backwards"

This one appears in Seven New Poems; I'm especially proud of it.

THE LITERATURE 

Wear connotes value in terms of

abuse. Convictions crumble mid-

sentence, chords left ajar, bitter

chrome. Crash pad tossed for

a Talmud. The split of old gloves.

Triple Threat: Melody’s Echo Chamber, Michael Zapruder, Elizabeth Veldon.

Triple Threat: Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, Skullflower, Ken Timber.

Also, got promoted this week, finally.

This is like a resource that is the natural right of, you know, people in all places and times and realities. And when you hear it, you have no idea how you've managed to live your life without it.

"Seven New Poems" = the title says it.

Seven New Poems, everyone. Everyone, Seven New Poems.

An eBook for Amazon Kindle by yours truly. Dedicated to the late Debbie Kruper Moore. Crazy cheap at $1.35 a pop. Available just in time for World Animal Day; available in an array of eye-catching colors.

Etc.

Triple Threat: GRMLN, Teen, Riff Raff.

Triple Threat: Fiona Apple, Aaron Ximm, Rainier Lericolais.

Triple Threat: Tag Cloud, Deniro Farrar & Shady Blaze feat. Haleek Maul, Guided By Voices.

This Beyonce Knowles thing I wrote was mildly humorous.

Triple Threat #6: Naked City Cinema, Ab-Soul, Eric Lanham.

Triple Threat #4: Kanye, Kanye, Kanye.

Triple Threat #5: Mike Bell, Juiceboxxx, Animal Collective.

Triple Threat #3: Sontag Shogun, Sharlyn Evertsz, Mayhem Lauren.

Triple Threat #2: Lantern, Mount Eerie, C.F.C.

"New God Flow"

5ingles is toast. Long live Triple Threat.

Triple Threat #1: Phil Julian, Meat Mist, Meek Mill feat. Rick Ross.

People love to cover the Reading Rainbow theme. May not be a good thing.

Do you have a Kindle? Do you have an iPod, iPad, or other device which can host a Kindle app? Have you ever read an alumni magazine? Do you have $1.59?

Then buy Class Notes.

This was supposed to run as a Village Voice music listing, but didn't due to a clerical error:

Celebrity DJs make the A-List for a reason, and the deceptively named Deadmau5 has earned his place there. The DJ born Joel Thomas Zimmerman may have committed his share of quasi-mortal sins – dating a Playmate without irony, assailing the etymology of his chosen profession in print, perverting the Disney logo fifty ways from Sunday – but there’s something quintessentially and universally euphoric about his brand of acid-trance that transcends race, economic status, and level of chemical dependency. Sure, Zimmerman’s fizz-tone beat-bounce prizes broad electronic strokes over ambient diffusion or convulsing-outside-a-rave nightmare, but in a compositional sense he excels at unspooling a good yarn, even if that yarn doesn’t go much deeper than the storyboard for a 30-second Mitsubishi advert.