Elsewhere, 12/10

BBEdit 8.5.2 is now available for download. A quick perusal of the changelog makes me think this is mostly minor bug fixes and maintenance updates.

Aaron Grauer has listed his fave albums of 2006. Not surprisingly, Junior Boys’ So This Is Goodbye — which is a pretty darn good album — tops the list.

Kaiju Shakedown links to the trailer for Derek Yee’s new drug-themed film, Protege. Yee is one of my fave HK filmmakers right now, thanks to such stellar-yet-criminally underlooked films as One Nite In Mongkok and Lost In Time.

Paste talks to Eric Matthews: Do it yourself. It’s a credo Eric Matthews now lives by — whether playing every note on his latest, Foundation Sounds, or renovating the old Oregon church he and his wife call home.

I Come in Peace, With Console Advice — The guys from Penny Arcade strike again, this time for Wired.

Read the introduction to Jeffrey Overstreet’s Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies.

What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies): …last I checked my terminal app doesn’t require OpenGL. I’m working here, bitches — I’m not playing quake. Classic. Via

Get ready to taste your lunch again. The nominees for the 49th annual Grammies have been announced.

July Skies’ long-awaited — at least around here — The Weather Clock will be released in February 2007. The band has one track from the album — “Branch Line Summers Fade” — currently playing on their MySpace page.

Stars Of The Lid will be releasing their first album in five years, the two-disc Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline, on Kranky Records on April , 2007. Pitchfork has all of the details. Here’s hoping that Labradford would get back together and record a followup to 2001’s Fixed::Context.