Saturday, December 20, 2008

2008: The Year In Review

Number of times Tricky's name has been invoked this year: 24
Number of times Rupert Murdoch's name has been invoked this year: 13
Number of times "When the Levee Breaks" has been referenced this year: 6
Number of times Steve Albini's name has been invoked this year: 6
Number of times Dave outlined his grudge against Steve Albini: 1
Number of posts by Dave: 1
Number of times Charlie needed Dave to look up a word: 5
Number of times Kirian did Daver's job for him: 1 (When Charlie accidentally typed "failded".)
Number of posts Charlie had to make on Kirian's behalf: 3
Number of times Kirian appeared on the blogcast: 3
Most times a guest appeared on the blogcast: 8 (Upstairs Tom)
Number of stories Upstairs Tom didn't want left in the blogcast: 2
Number of times Upstairs Tom just up and walked out in the middle of the blogcast: 1
Bands that Charlie loved broken down by month:
  • January: The Bird and the Bee
  • February: Gang of Four
  • March: Arcade Fire
  • April: Big Black
  • May: Wire
  • June: The Creeping Nobodies
  • July: Ella Fitzgerald
  • August: Unsane
  • September: Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles
  • October: NOXAGT
  • November: Oxbow
  • December: Oxbow
Number of records reviewed this year: 43
Number of records reviewed this year that were released this year: 0
Number of records gotten rid of this year: 44
Most posts in a month: 46 (September)
Number of those posts that actually concerned music: 15
Number of those posts that concerned death: 3
Number of those death-related posts that concerned a human: 1 (Paul Newman)
Number of people that died this year that were half-ass-eulogized here: 3 (George Carlin, Paul Newman, Betty Page)
Number of times Charlie compared Paul Anka to a date rapist: 1

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