YAMR: Best of 2006

Christmas is over, so it's time to retire the Christmas 2006 Mix on Yet Another Music Radio; it was very popular during the holidays, but we're moving on.

Our new playlist at YAMR for the next little while is Best of 2006, over 100 tracks of my favorite music from the past year.

You'll hear songs by:

Allison Moorer, Andrew T. Hunt, Annie Stella, Anoushka Shankar, The Arcade Fire, Ashley Monroe, Baby Gramps, Barenaked Ladies, The Be Good Tanyas, Beirut, Beth Orton, Boy Kill Boy, Cat Power, Cobra Starship, Corinne Bailey Rae, Corrina Repp, Damone, Delerium, Dixie Chicks, The Duhks, Elizabeth Mitchell, Enter the Haggis, Evanescence, Ferraby Lionheart, Goldfrapp, The Grates, Hello Stranger, Jack Johnson, Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins, Jewel, John Whipple, Johnny Cash, Jonathan Coulton, k.d. lang, Kasey Chambers, Kaskade, Kelly Sweet, Kevin Devine, Kim Richey, Klee, KT Tunstall, Laura Michelle Kelly, Lisa Loeb, Mark Insley, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, Mindy Smith, Natalie Walker, Neko Case, Nerina Pallot, Nina Gordon, Office, Pink, Pinmonkey, Plumb, The Ranconteurs, Rocky Votolato, Saint Etienne, Sandi Thom, SHeDAISY, Sing-Sing, Smoosh, Sol Seppy, The Sounds, Starlight Mints, Sting, Sugarplumb Fairies, Todd Snider, Venus Hum, Vienna Teng, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

It's nearly seven hours of great music, so tune on in!
 

Review: Opening Lines, Pinky Probes, and L-Bombs

Opening Lines, Pinky Probes, and L-Bombs: The Girls & Sports Dating and Relationship Playbook
by Justin Borus & Andrew Feinstein
Santa Monica Press, $14.95

Opening Lines... attempts to serve two purposes: as a collection of strips from the syndicated Girls & Sports comic strip, and as a dating guide for (heterosexual) men.

On the plus side, it's an attractively designed book; it integrates the full-color strips with tips and advice from the comic characters, with the strips and tips organized by theme (rather than chronologically as one finds in most strip collections). There's plenty of variety, with text blocks, charts, word balloons, etc. I suppose if one is a fan of the strip, this will be a winning collection.

However, I can't say that I personally am a fan of the strip. Yes I like sports, and yes I'm a single male; but G&S seems to have at its core a view of the relationship between the sexes that I don't cater to, namely one that is combative and where a person has to essentially trick a potential mate.

But then again I'm currently single, so what the heck do I know?

Rating: 2.5 (of 5)

(A review copy of this book was provided by one of the authors.)