what a pickle.

# In the state of Connecticut, in order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce. Plus, you may not sell a pickle that will fall apart if dropped 12 inches.

# In Trenton, New Jersey, it is illegal to throw a bad pickle in the street.

# In Rhode Island, it is illegal to throw pickle juice on a trolley.

# In some parts of the south, it's illegal for women to eat pickles with their feet up on the porch railings!

# Pickles were mentioned at least twice in the Bible.

# The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

# Aristotle praised their healing effects.

# Julius Caesar made his army eat them, maybe because...

# Cleopatra's favorite food was pickles. She said they made her beautiful.

# John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

# And the first American president George Washington loved pickles.

my top ten albums of oh nine.

10. Sleepy Sun - Embrace




09. Heartless Bastards - The Mountain




08. Kylesa - Static Tensions




07. Dan Auerback - Keep It Hid




06. AA Bondy - When The Devil's Loose




05. Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall




04. Lovvers - OCD GO GO GIRLS!




03. Fever Ray - Fever Ray




02. Wavves - Wavves




01. Dead Weather - Horehound (by a long shot)




Honourable mentions go to: Baroness "Blue album," Asteroids Galaxy Tour "Fruit," Beach House "Devotion," Future of the Left "Travels With Myself and Another," Municipal Waste "Massive Aggression," Crocodiles "Summer of Hate," The Sadies "Country Club," Neon Indian "Psychic Chasms," and Doomriders "Darkness Come Alive".

perfect albums.

This is by NO means a definitive list.

On to it...

1. The Stooges - Raw Power
2. T Rex - The Slider
3. Faith No More - Angeldust
4. Imperial Teen - The Hair, The TV, The Baby and The Band
5. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
6. The Jesus Lizard - Goat
7. Alice Cooper Group - Love It To Death
8. The Dead Weather - Horehound
9. The Dictators - Blood Brothers
10. The Beatles - White Album
11. The Adolescents - s/t
12. Career Suicide - Attempted Suicide
13. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
14. The Misfits - Static Age
15. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
16. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
17. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
18. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
19. Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
20. The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
21. The Wipers - Is This Real?
22. The Rolling Stones - Goat's Head Soup
23. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
24. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
25. The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea





Honourable mention goes to the White Stripes for every single album they've ever recorded.

total sonique coma.

Albums I'm currently obsessing over:

Sex Positions - Self titled (Deathwish)
VMW - VMW (Coalition)
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
Big Black - The Hammer Party (Touch & Go)
Imperial Teen - The Hair, The TV, the Baby and the Band (Merge)
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
Adolescents - Self titled (Frontier)
Les Georges Leningrad - Sangue Puro (Dare to Care)
M.I.A. - Kala (XL/Interscope)
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward (Universal/Ecstatic Peace)
The Sonics - Boom! (Norton)
The Sonics - The Savage Young Sonics (Norton)
Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi (Last Gang)
Doomriders - Black Thunder (Deathwish)
Flowers in the Attic - Flowers in the Attic (Reptilian)
Imperial Leather - Something out of Nothing (Profane Existence)
Ladytron - Velocifero (Nettwerk)
Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake (Wea International)
Witch Hunt - Blood-red States (Profane Existence)
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation (Warner)
Unsane - Scattered, Smothered and Covered (Relapse/Ronald Reagan)
Wire - Chairs Missing (Harvest)



And some timeless faves that I'm always crushing on at any given moment, such as right now:

Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams (RCA)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (Universal Music Group)
The Velvet Underground - Loaded (Atlantic/Wea)

thanks for the accolades.

1. Dear loud-talking guy on the bus:

Please shut up about conspiracy theories at 9:15 in the morning. No one is in the mood. Thanks.


2. Dear cold weather:

Thank you for your presence in the bedroom late at night, provoked really cozy naked body-hug-sleeping.


3. Dear Jesus lady who came to my door last night:

I appreciate you trying to save me, but I was trying to masturbate. But thanks for the blessing anyway!


4. Dear Payless Shoes:

Thank you for having one left of the PERFECT big grey purse.