{"id":1722,"date":"2011-12-31T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2011-12-31T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:45:42","slug":"goodbye-2011-hello-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/31\/goodbye-2011-hello-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, 2011; hello, 2012!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been an interesting year, and I’m looking forward to the next one – the first one where I consider myself “settled”, in a job, a flat, with no massive change looming in my immediate future. On one hand this is a bit dull not to have big plans, but on the other one it’s just really nice to be able to relax and just live<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Like every year I’ve put together a mix of music I’ve been listening to this year – 25 songs I added to my iTunes Library in the past 12 months and that stand out to me, not more than one song per artist. <\/p>\n

I actually listened to much less music this year, because my love for audiobooks took off massively, but I did go to several great concerts and saw, among others, My Chemical Romance (twice), CAKE, Panic! at the Disco (3 times!), The Cat Empire, and two days at Leeds Festival. Also, I listened to a lot of covers<\/a>, even liked some of them, and a few long-time favorites released new stuff – most notably of course one of my favorite guys ever, the talented Patrick Stump<\/a>! In any case, I hope you enjoy… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Finding
\n[Photo taken at the Rhine here in Basel, while waiting for the big fireworks display for the Swiss national holiday on August 1.]<\/small><\/p>\n

1. PSAPP – Hi!
\n2. Sonja Indin – Silver Sky | a childhood friend of mine released her first CD<\/em>
\n3. Patrick Wolf – Time Of My Life
\n4. Noah & the Whale – L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.
\n5. My Chemical Romance – #SINGItForJapan | so happy I finally saw them live – also, remembering Fukushima…<\/em>
\n6. The Naked and the Famous – All of This
\n7. Mama Kin – Beat and Holler | opened for The Cat Empire, bought the CD<\/em>
\n8. The Decemberists – Calamity Song
\n9. Crippled Black Phoenix – Whissendine | my bff dragged me to their show and I really liked it<\/em>
\n10. CAKE – Sick of You
\n11. Bruno Mars – The Lazy Song | c’mon, he got SPOCK to be in his video<\/a>!<\/em>
\n12. Adele – Set Fire to the Rain
\n13. Empires – Hells Heroes
\n14. Eels – I Like the Way This Is Going
\n15. Rodrigo y Gabriela – Tamacun
\n16. Roomie ft. Magdalena Engstr\u00c3\u00b6m – Moves Like Jagger (Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera)
\n17. Vicci Martinez – The Dog Days Are Over (Florence & the Machine) | from ‘The Voice’, the first ever singing competition I enjoyed<\/em>
\n18. Stark Sands – Hey Ya
\n19. Lindsay Ray – Brand New Day
\n20. Panic! at the Disco – Sarah Smiles | love this band even more now that I’ve seen them in the new formation<\/em>
\n21. Metric – Gold Guns Girls
\n22. Freja Bluegrass Band – Under the Pale Moon (Ace of Base)
\n23. The Cat Empire – Call Me Home
\n24. Vitamin String Quartet – Clint Eastwood (Gorillaz)
\n25. Patrick Stump – Bad Side of 25 | it was hard to pick just one song off ‘Soul Punk<\/a>‘, let me tell you!<\/em><\/p>\n

Download mp3s<\/strong>: single tracks<\/a> (@ Mediafire) – .zip<\/a> (137mb)<\/p>\n

And let me send you off with this New Year’s wish from the amazing Neil Gaiman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"black-and-white<\/a> May your coming year be filled with
\nmagic & dreams &
\ngood madness.
\nI hope you read some fine books
\n& kiss someone who thinks you’re
\nwonderful,
\nand don’t forget to make some art
\n(write or draw or build or sing
\nor live as only you can)
\nand I hope, somewhere in the next year,
\nyou surprise yourself.
\n~Neil Gaiman<\/em><\/p>\n

Can’t say it much better than this, can I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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