Top Six Things

Top Six Favorite Mnemonic Spelling Devices

1.  momentary cheese - brief

2. we are weird

3. piece of pie

4. friends to the end

5. believe no lie

6. achieve the highest

Top Six Ways I Misspell The Word “Because”

1. Beacuse

2. Because

3. Berceuse

4. Bear cruise

5. Becasue

6. Rebecca Sue

Top Six Mixed Metaphors Issued By My Lovely Wife (Volume Two)

1. Not my bag of tea

2. You’re talking to the choir

3. Throw down the hammer

4. Goodbye Irene

5. How do you like that apple

6. The food chain of life

Top Six List Of Lists Of Lists

1. List of lists of islands of the European Union 

2. List of lists of national institutions and symbols

3. List of lists of ancient kings

4. List of metalloid lists

5. List of lists about Omaha

6. List of lists of extreme points

Top Six Favorite Records Released In 2012

1. Emptyset - “Medium” Recorded in an abandoned, unfinished 19th century British mansion. Huge, oppresive, and delightful. Brings together my love of history, recording, and abstraction.

2. Oneohtrix Point Never - “Rifts” Five LPs of mind-melting synthesizer experimentation. This cat would have been at home with the Germans making this type of music in 1972. Hypnotic, texturally lush, and possibly self-indulgent (in the best way, of course.)

3. Andy Stott - “Luxury Problems” Mr. Stott keeps making music that sounds quite unlike anything else before it. Imagine if someone produced a Sade record under the influence of Bauhaus architecture and codeine. Unsettling and inviting at the same time. Time stands still when you play it.

4. Death Grips - “The Money Store” Parts of this record still scare the hell out of me. It’s so intense that I can only liken it to standing in front of a blast furnace. NSFW in a number of ways. Sonically and lyrically. These cats would have Lil’ Wayne weeping in the corner.

5. CAN - “Lost Tapes” Where do I turn when I wish to hear a man chant the lyric “Are you waiting for the streetcar” for ten minutes? This amazing set of outtakes and non-album cuts from these German giants of weird rock, of course.

6. Josh Berman and His Gang - “There Now” Mr. Berman helped me with a question about a Gerry Mulligan record at the Jazz Record Mart in 2011. In 2012, he released this thoughtful and exciting record of jazz music. It’s lighthearted at times, freely exploratory at others. Just what I needed, actually.

I even made a YouTube playlist with a track from each record.

Top Six Names Jazz Musician Sun Ra Used For His Orchestra

1. Sun Ra and his Arkestra

2. Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra

3. Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra

4. Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra

5. Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Research Arkestra

6. Sun Ra and his Outer Space Arkestra

(Sun Ra was a jazz big-band leader noted for his unusual dress, Afro-Futurism, and wide-reaching music.)

Top Six Chinese Buffet Restaurants With Interesting Names In The Twin Cities Metro Area

1. Crazy Buffet

2. Super Moon Buffet

3. 98 Pounds Buffet

4. New York Chinese Restaurant

5. Ho Ho Gourmet

6. C 1 Buffet

Top Six Things Or Occurrences In Need Of A Single Descriptive Term

1. When that paper tab thing comes off of the teabag string 

1. That mix of gravel and broken taillight chunks in the middle of an intersection 

1. Cutting the top off of a bag of chips to make them easier to reach 

1. Walking out of a room and forgetting what you were about to get or do 

1. That mark your eyelid leaves on your glasses when they get bumped on your face 

1. The feeling of rage resulting from an inaccurate weather forecast

Top Six Sites In Development Set To Capitalize On The Pinterest Craze

1. Painterest: Self-explanatory. Intially named “Das Schadenfreudery.”
2. Pornterest: (Probably already in production.)
3. Pruneterest:  A place to share everything related to nature’s digestive aid.
4. Primterest: Explore & share things EXCESSIVELY DECORUS in nature.
5. Pimmsterest: Content related to the British alcohol-based fruit cups.
6. Peenterest: For aficianados of hammers and hammer-related content.

Top Six Favorite Rhyming Hyphenated Nonsense Compund Words Featured In The 1947 Hank Williams, Sr. Song “Rootie Tootie”

1. Hotsy-totsy

2. Super-duper

3. Wicky-wacky

4. Hinky-dinky

5. Tootsie-wootsie

6. Rootie-tootie

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