the usual...

when i got home yesterday i had a cd waiting for me that i had forgotted i'd ordered...it was like a magical surprise present to myself!!! the best kind...and the cd happened to be Gary Numan: Telekon, in case you're counting...anyway, last night Amanda and then Justin came over...we all sat around...i don't think anything of any event happened...though a bit later i picked Tim, who had been out of town for the week, up from the bus station...hrm...last night i also realized that i've been driving around on expired tags for a little over a month...that just puts me in a feelgood mood...

top 14 shows of 2003 (i.e. ALL the shows of any worth i've seen this year...in descending order...)

Sonic Youth
Trans Am
Radiohead
Melt-Banana
Rocket from the Tombs
Erase Eratta/Numbers
Xiu Xiu
Low
The Black-Eyed Snakes
Enon
The Fall
Unsane
Haley Bonar/Rivulets
90 Day Men

top 10 albums of 2003, also in descending order...

Xiu Xiu: A Promise
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Joan of Arc: In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust
Wire: Send
Melt-Banana: Cell-Scape
Mogwai: Happy Songs for Happy People
Erase Errata: At Crystal Palace
Joan of Arc: So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
Haley Bonar: . . . The Size of Planets
Enon: Hocus-Pocus

...almost every new album i got this year...not counting comps or reissues...i was almost tempted to put that Hood singles comp in...but i thought i'd stick to albums proper...i could be forgetting something too...but probably not...