The Year's Best Music

I was about to write a list of my favorite albums from 2006, like I have done other years, when it occurred to me that the reasons for not writing such a said list are many-fold. How many fold? I don't know, I'll just start listing and we can count together how many fold. So,

1) It would probably just be pretentious, and let's face it: my music library is not expansive, eccentric, quirky, diverse, impressive, or even good. It's just a bunch of money spent on hour-long chunks of audible noises organized into roughly harmonic sounds.

2) I'm way too lazy for said list to be remotely complete.

3) If I was really going to be honest about it, it would probably have to include at least a couple of embarrassing ones.

4) It's not like you're going to go buy music based on my suggestions, are you? You all have radios, iPods, computers, and ears.

5) It's really just Dog Problems, by The Format. That's it.

Plus, I should just be recommending my own music anyway.

I'm leaving for France in a day or so. Not that it will have any bearing on my twice-monthly post frequency here - I just wanted you to know. Happy Holidays to all.