Hey have you heard these 50 songs from 2019

I really enjoyed this last year so going to give it another go for ‘19. I put quite a lot of thought into what actually a ‘song of the year’ for me when I was first constructing and then heavily editing the playlist that came to be my Top 50 of 2019. I think the most important thing is that above all it’s a track that I’m glad exists, sometimes this is because of the songwriting or composition, sometimes the performance, sometimes the lyrical importance and sometimes just because it sparks joy.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6bFJOjL8b8Zc2s5r1oJbsk?si=UJdqSXOTR3SQ8D3IwcmV2g

Explanations for each tracks inclusion below the fold…

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What an adorable goofball

Hey, have you heard: Body Hound

If, in some parallel universe, I’m in a band I hope it’s a band like Body Hound. Not necessarily in terms of sound (although I’ll get on to just how much I love their sound in a due time) but in terms of the love energy, and fun they bring into making and performing their music. I first saw them live playing a mid-afternoon festival slot (ArcTangent 2015) and they tore up the stage like they were headlining. The pantomime theatrics of ‘playing metal’ giving way to huge grins on their faces as they tore through a woefully short but absurdly high quality oeuvre of tracks. I’ve seen them 4 times since that first show and every gig has lived up to the benchmark that first one set for me.

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So, I really want to tell you about Body Hound, because they are hella good music.

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Bai Yun at the San Diego Zoo in California, US, on May 25, 2018.

Hey have you heard, about the best games I’ve played this year...

There are a fair few games I played this year, having come into the possession of not one but TWO consoles (PS4 and WiiU). Most of these games were not released in 2018 so please don’t take this as a ‘Best of 2018’ list, it’s more personal than that relating to my specific experiences in the past 12 months.

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Did some more writing on my writing blog about video games I enjoyed this year.

I’ve just been going over the last few pages of my blogs and have come to a couple of realisations. 1. Pandas are the absolute best, I mean I knew this anyway but the babbies are so danged cute! just these fluffy little bundles of awww. 2. I really like my theme. It’s the first bit of web design/templating I ever did and it still kind of holds up, to me at least. I’m doing some pretty smart shit there, there are a few things I’ll probably change and some of the code is messy, but I’m really proud of past me, much more so than I was at the time.

As an addendum to this some of those homestuck themes I created back in the day were wonderful creative trash fires I was really pushing Tumblr theming in ways it was absolutely not meant to be pushed. You go past Sam, have one of those thrice goshed danged adorable pandas on me!

Target outchea comin for people’s lives 😂😂

Son I wish I could run their Facebook page

A++ social media intern.

how does anyone view non-gendered products as a problem oh my god

Words that people get mixed up

This would be great if it wasn't for the awful grammar in the compliment example. It really undermines the whole thing.