1. Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster

Get it here:

Listen here: Cool Yourself

2. John Mayer - Battle Studies

Get it here:

Listen here: Heartbreak Warfare

3. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Get it here:

Listen here: Stillness is The Move

4. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains

Get it here:

Listen here: And The Hazy Sea

5. Regina Spektor - Far

Get it here:

Listen here: Folding Chair

6. Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds And A Sound

Get it here:

Listen here: One Red Thread

7. Tegan & Sara - Sainthood

Get it here:

Listen here:

Ta da! That should keep you busy for at least a little while.

But first, these are not from 2009, but they have been big with me as of late and I believe you should hear them:

Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats (get it here:)

The Middle East - Blood (get it here:)

older brother, restless soul, lie down
lie for a while with your ear against the earth
and you'll hear your sister sleep talking
say "your hair is long but not long enough to reach
home to me
but your beard
someday might be"

and she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
and beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more
she'll lay it aside

older father, weary soul, you'll drive
back to the home you made on the mountainside
with that ugly, terrible thing
those papers for divorce
and a lonely ring
a lonely ring
sit on your porch
and pluck your strings

and you'll find somebody you can blame
and you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
and you'll find the peace of the Lord.

grandfather, gentle soul, you'll fly
over your life once more before you die
since our grandma passed away
you've waited for forever and a day
just to die
and someday soon
you will die

it was the only woman you ever loved
that got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
and the cancer spread and it ran into her bod

Now, back to 2009. Here is some more of my favorite music from the year.

1. Death Cab For Cutie - The Open Door EP

Get it here:

Listen here: My Mirror Speaks

2. Passion Pit - Manners

Get it here:

Listen here: Moth's Wings

3. Dashboard Confessional - Alter The Ending

Get it here:

Listen here: Get Me Right - www.myspace.com/dashboardconfessional

4. Anni Rossi - Rockwell

Get it here:

Listen here: or here

5. Say Anything - Say Anything

Get it here:

Listen here:

Yet once again there will be more coming soon.....

]]> http://www.ghostonmytongue.com/2009/11/16/best-albums-of-2009-installment-3/feed/ 0 http://www.ghostonmytongue.com/2009/11/12/the-churches-of-charleston-project/ http://www.ghostonmytongue.com/2009/11/12/the-churches-of-charleston-project/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:13:08 +0000 admin http://www.ghostonmytongue.com/?p=366 My project of photographing the historic churches of Charleston, SC now has it's own website. Go check it out here: www.churchesofcharleston.com. Also, you can become a fan of our Facebook page, and follow us on Twitter.

Naturally, you don't come across a dragon fruit and leave it laying there, especially when your 3 year old son is convinced that it somehow came out of a dragon (not that a dragon will come out of it, which would be particularly cool). So I called my mother and asked her the question that all mother's pray their son never asks them, "How does one select a dragon fruit"? She had no clue. Luckily, Google did. So after some brief instruction on picking one with consistent coloring, no splotches, firm yet slightly giving when pressed, and green, not brown, fluffy things on it, I selected my dragon poop and took it home. I put it on the cutting board.

I wasn't happy with its placement so I moved it slightly to the right.

Nothing happened, so I added a knife to the mix.

I heard, via Google's wisdom, that there are 3 types of these. One is yellow on the outside and 2 are pink. Between those 2 pink ones, one is white on the inside and one is pink on the inside. I had no clue what mine was, but I didn't intend to wait any longer to find out.

It was white, which I find more interesting because it's much less expected. The fruit is made up of the white part which has hundreds of tiny black seeds speckled throughout it. Thanks to Google once again, I got the recommendation to use a spoon to separate the inside from the skin.

Slide the spoon around the point where the inside meets the skin and the fruit comes out effortlessly.

I chopped it up into cubes.

The taste is reminiscent of a kiwi, even having that familiar crunch from the tiny seeds. Even the texture is extremely similar to that of a kiwi. However, it's not quite as acidic as a kiwi would be. It has a nice but mild sweetness to it and is quite refreshing. It tastes almost like a kiwi if it were a melon. Or maybe that makes absolutely no sense. All in all I'd say its strikingly similar to what you might think a dragon fruit tastes like if you happened to perfectly guess what one would taste like having never tasted one.

SO, everyone run to Publix and grab a dragon fruit while they're still available. Or just have a bite of mine.

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