Happy new year, everyone. I hope you’re doing well. I’m still up to my ears at home and at work, and am thus not much of a blogger, nor am I much of a Frogger, nor am I much closer to finishing my record. I suppose you have enough blogs to read already, and enough records to buy. But if anyone’s still frequenting my site or subscribing to the feed, I have a little present for you in lieu of a record. It’s a present that you have to pay for, I’m sorry to say. I just created an imix of some of the songs I most enjoyed this year. You can search for “Ben’s 2006 Picks” in the imixes section of the iTunes music store. The songs are in no particular order. Some are old and some are new. I don’t know if any of them are legitimate or important, but that’s not what this is about. Rather, if we could have each of you over to eat pizza on the picnic table in our back yard, I’d bring the little boom-box out of the bedroom and plug it in by the back door and this is the music I would play. I hope you like it.

Warm regards, Ben

p.s. I think it’s rated E for everyone, with the exception of one of the Imogen Heap songs (Hide And Seek), which has the word “Hell” in it.