The 11 Best Songs By Rodrigo y Gabriela

What's the best way to be label as a racist?  Get caught saying something really stupid.  

Let's get one thing straight.  Don Sterling didn't get banned from the NBA for being a racist.  He didn't get banned for saying something ignorant.  He got banned because the NBA owners hated him.  In the 90s, the NBA owners had a deal with each other.  Those teams on the losing end also lost financially, so the winning owners would kick in money to help the losing owners stay afloat.  Don Sterling figured out it was more cost effective to underpay his players and have a losing season, while receiving NBA welfare from the prosperous owners than it was to try and have a winning season.  For years he purposely tanked his team, and became richer for it.  If you were an NBA owner who took chances and paid the high cost of having the best players and at the end of the season had to turn over some of your riches to a lazy asshole milking the NBA for all it was worth...wouldn't you look for a way to get rid of him?  This was the first piece of concrete evidence they've had against him.  And they used it.

 What Sterling said was horrible.  What his girlfriend did to him was shady.  But Sterling was punished for his greed.  It's good he's gone.  And if he does have cancer...then for once, cancer got it right.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By Rodrigo y Gabriela:

1. Hanuman (11:11)
2. Tamacun (Rodrigo y Gabriela)
3. Master Maqui (11:11)
4. Ixtapa (Rodrigo y Gabriela)
5. Paris (Re-Foc)
6. Orion (Rodrigo y Gabriela)
7. Buster Voodoo (11:11)
8. 11:11 (11:11)
9. Foc (Re-Foc)
10. One (Live in Japan)
11. South of Heaven's Chanting Mermaids (Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides)

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The 11 Best Songs By Rodrigo y Gabriela

I will never understand Apple.  They really have no ability except to repeat the same mistakes over and over and over.  First off, I can't figure out how to turn off Genius from constantly connecting and using up the internet bandwith.  But what's worse is that every time it tries to connect, it makes me fill out my password.  It's annoying because I don't even want Genius to connect but it does anyways...AND...I can never remember my password.  That shouldn't be an issue but apple has the most ridiculous parameters for passwords (needs letters, numbers, and capital letters).  Apple doesn't realize that people use mostly the same passwords.  Asking them to create a new password with all your parameters is counter-productive.  Since every website needs a password nowadays...making your site the one site where the password needs to be different is only going to piss us off.  Now we have to remember a new password...it's just not going to happen.  We'll forget it...then every time we sign in...we're going to need to reset our password.  If I have to do that every time I check in it's only going to discourage me from coming back.  I know this sounds silly and petty to complain about but should Apple the company that everyone thinks is so customer-friendly...be a bit more customer friendly?

Here are the 11 Best Songs By Rodrigo y Gabriela:

1. Buster Voodoo (11:11)
2. Diablo Rojo (Rodrigo y Gabriela)
3. Orion  (Rodrigo y Gabriela)
4. Hanuman  (11:11)
5. Foc (re-Foc)
6. Tamacun  (Rodrigo y Gabriela)
7. 11:11  (11:11)
8. Temple Bar  (re-Foc)
9. Paris  (re-Foc)
10. Master Maqui  (11:11)
11. Take 5 / One (Focing Version 9)  (re-Foc)

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The 11 Best Albums of 2009: 34-44 (Part 2)

With the end of decade sending everyone scrambling to make decade topping lists, let's not forget all the good music that made this year one of the better musical years of the decade.

Don't forget to vote in our annual "best of." Just send us your top 20 albums of the year...or as many as you can think of, if you can't think of 20. We take all albums...all genres...just be sure they were released in 2009. To vote, just put your list in the comments section of the blog...or email us.


Here 11 Best Albums of 2009: 34-44 (Part 2):

34. Moby - Wait for Me (Shot In The Back of the Head) - only $5.00
35. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
36. Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light - only $5.00
37. Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11 -only $5.00
38. Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti...is a Skyscraper
39. Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen (What Have I Done)
40. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (East Jesus Nowhere)
41. The Editors - In This Light and On This Evening
42. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
43. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
44. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue