Happy New Year!

12/31/2007 – So this is the end of the year, and I always tell myself I’m going to post a list of favorite songs, or CDs, as if anyone buys CDs anymore. Well, here’s a quick and dirty list of things that made me smile this year. I’m sure I missed some things and some people. My bad.

- Super Deluxe goes live and I still have a job

- Jeff Tweedy @ the Tabernacle

- Playing with The Good Graces, Mary O. Harrison and The Yum Yum Tree! Great people, every one of them!

- The Atlanta music scene

- SXSW 2007! A million great shows in one town.

- BAAMO

- WMNF

- Dean & Britta at the Variety Playhouse

- ISP Space (R.I.P.)

- The EARL

- Smith’s Olde Bar

- Hanging with Ava in Delaware

- 500 Songs for Kids

- See-through Souls

- Working with the CNN.com folks on Funny Lunch

- Ben Gibbard at Center Stage

- Sloan at the 40 Watt

- AthFest

- Bright Eyes at The Fox Theater

- Memorial Day weekend with my Florida friends

- Corndogorama!

- The Star Bar photo booth

- “Marry Me” by St. Vincent (answer “yes”)

- Java Monkey

- The Atlanta Songwriters shows

- Lenny’s Bar

- Rufus Wainwright, Neko Case @ the Tabernacle

- My second annual Wisconsin holiday

- Milwaukee Art Museum

- The Other Sound Festival

- 11:11 Teahouse

- The Drunken Unicorn

- KEXP & KCRW podcasts

- 2007 Grant Park Summer Shade Festival

- Playing Kelly’s Pub in Tampa with Lance, Rebekah & Rob and Ted

- Rebekah & Rob in Atlanta

- Kent and everyone at Legend’s Guitars

- Midtown Music

- Eskimo Kiss and Eskimo Bliss

- The Preakness

- Club Awesome’s pool party

- Parade

- Thunderbox rehearsal space

- GutterPop

- Sandra and Raleigh

- All my Super Deluxe co-workers

- Jeff Wood (R.I.P.)

- The Howlies

- The Bain Mattox crew, past and present

- James and Ali

- The East Atlanta Strut

- The 88.5 WRAS interview

- The Jupiter Watts

- Art Bar in Columbia, SC

- Two Sheds Records

- Two days in Indianapolis with friends

- The Gardner clan

- Broad Ripple Fall Music Festival

- Luna Music

- Indianapolis Museum of Art

- Eisenhower Field Day

- Atlanta People With Blogs Who Get Together To Drink

- The Clermont Lounge with Liz! Peach Cobbler!

- Little 5 Points Halloween Parade

- Pittsburgh to see The Weakerthans

- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

- The Hushpuppy Gallery

- Chomp and Stomp

- Kavarna

- A decent car crash

- My new JamMan pedal

- My new Strat

- The 1990s, Art Brut & The Hold Steady show at the Variety

- The Swell Season at the Variety

- Once

- Black Lips at the Variety

- Happenstance 2007, “One Great Song!”

- Bain Mattox and Shot From Guns at Eddie’s Attic

- The Turner Christmas Party and a busted window

- Liz’s new house and expertly manicured lawn

- All my great new friends in Atlanta.

- Molly my doggie

Have a fun and safe New Year’s Eve everyone. I’ll catch up with everyone in the next few days!

John