Over the next several days, we’ll be lobbing some of our favorite songs from 2008 your way; the first batch is listed below.  We’re still wrapping our brains around how the “internet” works, so, for the time being, we’re just listing (although most of them are in the lala player at your right).  We’ll throw a few songs up each day for the next week or so until we’ve emptied the citizendick warehouse of all our faves from the year that was.

• “Tora Tora Tora” -  Pretty & Nice (I defy you to get this song out of your head.)

• “The Twist”  – Frightened Rabbit (I’m breaking with the thinking of my fellow citizendicks on this one; they prefer “The Modern Leper.”  Tragically, they’re wrong.  This one’s a gem.  “Let’s pretend I’m attractive…”)

• “Black Hole” – She & Him (This makes us sound a touch sissified.  We do not care.)

• “Changing” – The Moondoggies (You’ve, no doubt, read about this one elsewhere.  Everyone is right; it is amazing.)

• “Sausalito” – Conor Oberst (Is it as good as “Waste of Paint?”  Probably not.  Such is life.)

Five more tomorrow!  Tell your friends!

Odds and ends:

• Big ups to largehearted boy, who was kind enough to give us our first shout on the internet.

• My lady and I went into the woods this weekend to celebrate the New Year far from society’s wiles, no television, no internet, no cellular telephone service.  We did take the portable speakers and the ipod (stick with me; I’m meandering to a point.).  We had the digital alarm clock set for the midnight hour, champagne uncorked, music cued up.  We kicked off our new year with the Walkmen’s “In the New Year.”  We didn’t want to leave you with nothing to listen to, so there’s a kicking live performance of that song below.  You’ll especially enjoy the drunk, screaming “yeah” at the open and close.

The Walkmen – In the New Year – 10-28-08 – London