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Spring break is upon us, and with it the finest week of the year, SXSW.  As is customary, my friends and I are gonna RAGE and make like Andrew W.K. and PARTY HARD and all that good stuff.  New parties and showcases are being announced every day, and next week I hope to have a list of my picks for ones to check out.  In the meantime, however, after the jump is a list of bands I am hoping to see this year while meandering around downtown Austin, and you should try your damndest to see them as well.

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Trailers for upcoming movies. Some are good, some not as much.

Today I continue my ongoing feature showcasing my personal picks for the best songs of the past decade, posting ten songs at a time.

50. Passion Pit – Sleepyhead

Named my favorite song of 2009, I’ve already explained how much I love this song. Even a casual reader of the blog knows how many times I’ve blared it loudly, as I’m doing right now. It never gets old. The song is littered with hooks – in the singing, in the wordless chorus, in the sampling, in the background synths. It all just works. And Passion Pit will likely never top it.

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Today I had a giant to-do list and I was feeling very productive.

It was going to be a good day….so the first thing I wanted to do was do a blog post.

When I entered my site it said I needed to update my version of WordPress, and so I did…..and my entire site fucking crashed.

So instead of getting things done, today has been spent on forums and FTP servers trying to rectify a clerical error in hopes that I didn’t lose EVERYTHING.  In other words, one day-long anxiety attack.

Imagine your first-born child getting hit by a bus and you have to wait at the hospital for hours to find out his condition…..okay, maybe it wasn’t that bad, but still…..I had a bad day is all I’m trying to say.

Here’s some songs about it, kinda.

The to-do list will have to wait til tomorrow, because tonight I’m celebrating that you’re able to read this.

If I don’t post something today, I’ll have an anxiety attack. So…..I went to the record store today. Here’s some videos of stuff I bought.

Toro Y Moi – “New Beat” (Official Video) from Urban Outfitters on Vimeo.