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Found out that my camera is broken. At least it won´t turn on with a charged battery. Don´t expect photos any time soon.
Still in Valparaiso. I think I´m going to go find the beach today.

I really should have listened more in Spanish class…

My NOLS course starts in a week (get caught up here). Over this dinner this evening, among barrage of questions about what exactly I’m going to be doing in Chilé over the next month, my sister suggested I post some more info on my blog. Here it is…

The Park Slope 100 — A list of neighborhood notables from New York’s favorite borough compiled for the 4th running. Even my friends and I at Morning Disc made it on this year…

This is way too good not to blog about. This single was released last week by Broken Bells, a new collab. from Danger Mouse and Shins frontman James Mercer…

Double-packaged Kenya Gaturiri Reserve roast from Stumptown.
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I was thinking about what I’ve been listening to over the past 12 months and found that there’s just too much good stuff here to narrow it down. So, here’s my year in musical highs listed chronologically. I’ve painstaking narrowed it down to just these albums, but I’ve highlighted 5 that absolutely dominated my playlist for weeks at a time when I got a hold of them (and they still do). Check these out if you do nothing else. View List

I had the pleasure of seeing Fanfarlo live at Webster Hall here in NY last week. They are my favorite band of 2009, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to actually tell this to lead singer Simon Balthazar after the show. Loving NY….