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Holy crap, time’s flying like there’s no tomorrow (ugh, how’s that for a shitty metaphor?). A merry Christmas to you all!

For those of you who don’t know, I finally graduated from college, moved to Munich and got a kick-ass job there (although not in that order ;) And it only took my ISP six goddamn weeks to hook up my internet, adding technical difficulties to my latent laziness as far as blogging is concerned. I was gonna write a review of the NAS I bought for my movie collection, but it crapped out on me about a month ago and that was that. Which also explains why there haven’t been any movie roundups for a while.

As for 2010, I think it’s gonna be a great year. I plan on putting my private little movie theater into practice, step by step as my wallet permits. There are a couple of fairly interesting projects at work that I wanna share with you once they’ve matured a little bit, and considering the fact that I do get paid for implementing them, there’s a pretty good chance that that is actually going to happen.

Also, I am definitely gonna post my “picks of the year” for 2009, but I won’t be able to do that until I’m back in Munich which will be in early January and chances are I’ll date it back to December 31st.

Man, I gotta say, 2009 has been an exciting year for me in many respects, and it is not even over yet. Aside from things like finishing school, hooking up with a cute girl and getting my first real job (which is pretty damn awesome if I say so myself), what really tickled my pickle this year was the bunch of CD releases that hit the stores (or file sharing communities, whichever you prefer).

It appears that in 2009 all the stars have aligned to give us aural pleasure. So far it has brought us new albums from Aes Dana, Archive, Infected Mushroom, Muse, Pearl Jam, Third Eye Blind, Placebo and The Prodigy (as well as Solar Fields, although that was technically a videogame score). If we’re being generous and add Firewater’s latest CD in mix, which was released in late 2008, we’ve in my humble opinion assembled the créme de la créme of awesome bands. Or bands that used to be awesome but have somewhat slipped into mediocrity.

Sadly enough, none of these records has really impressed me all that much. They’re all very solid and by no means bad, but they left me somewhat dissatisfied nonetheless. Then again, Infected Mushroom’s last record Vicious Delicious was a god damn masterpiece which was more or less impossible to top. The Prodigy hasn’t really done anything worthwhile since The Fat Of The Land and Third Eye Blind’s debut back in ‘97 is still undoubtedly their best album. Maybe it’s just me getting older.

In any event, there’s one final straw for me: the most anticipated release of the century (for people with brains, anyway): Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland by Shpongle! A fairly retarded name, I know, but I’m so gonna pee my pants when I finally hold that CD in my hands. I wish I could see them live next month in London. Their debut Are You Shpongled? was awesome, the follow-ups Tales Of The Inexpressible and Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost were nothing short of spectacular, and I expect the new album to be absolutely mindbogglingly insane. It’s gonna be the first CD in years I’m gonna buy without even listening to it first. And if it sucks… well, I’m probably just gonna kill myself. Or at least go cry for a while and bitch about it on the interwebs. That’s what it’s for after all.

Whoah, that was a pretty long time with no serious posts whatsoever. In my defense, I am a lazy bastard. Also, I was fairly busy with college. But now I’m done with my thesis and my last seminar and only have one more 20-minute oral to go in late October. Until then, I’m free. Well, free in the sense that I don’t quite know what I’m gonna do yet. Suggestions welcome :)

Celina and I hung out with Guy Kemper last Saturday, and I tell you that man is a funny fucker, and a great story teller as well. I don’t claim to know much about art, but I’d definitely put some of his stuff in my apartment if I could afford it.

I’ll be in Poland for about a week starting Thursday, so there is my perfect excuse for not blogging anything. I’ve heard very scary things about polish weddings… so if you guys don’t hear anything from me for a while, I’m probably somewhat comatose and need some time to recover *coughs*. Should make for some cool photos, though.