you can do it like this:

################# define my var:

@{
var startNode = Model.someDocType.OrderBy("CreateDate desc");

Thats how i'm using it, here*s an example from my current project:
@using umbraco.MacroEngines
@using System.Linq
@using System.Xml.Linq

@{
    var article = Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).Descendants("Article");
}

@foreach(dynamic n in article.Take(8).OrderBy("CreateDate"))  //Because the nearest date should be first or you write ("CreateDate desc")
        {
            if(n.articlePic.ToString() != "")
            {
          var crop = n.articlePic.Find("@name","cat small").url;
          var myDate = n.CreateDate.ToString("MMMM dd yyyy");
          var excerpt = umbraco.library.StripHtml(@n.contentBody.ToString());
          var dateToGet = n.createDate.ToString("ddMMMyyyy");
          var dateActual = DateTime.Now.ToString("ddMMMyyyy");
         
           
               
                       
                        <li>
                        <div class="image">
                        <a href="@n.Url"><img src="@crop" alt="category pic"></a>
                        </div><!--image-->
                        <div class="details">
                        <h5><a href="@n.Url">@MyHelpers.Truncate(excerpt, 61)</a></h5>
                        <span class="date">@myDate</span>
                        </div><!--details-->
                        </li>
          
               }
        }

Reason i used uQuery was to aggregate both the event and newsitem docType

any idea how you would use that in your situation without lots of tricky stuff :)

hm maybe it's easier than i thought, 

i could just do .Descendants().Where()  nodetypealias = 1 or 2 ...

let me try, i'll get back to you ... but this seems like its going to solve my problem



side question:
i notice you use  Take(8) just to take the first 8 most likely
do you have funcionality like paging or "read more" then?

because it seems like you do your take(8) always from the same starting collection
(i was just wondering because its highly possible that i will have to figure out something like continues 'fetch more articles' in that list...
with ajax most likely, so i will have to figure out a clean way to fetch more items not having to load them all at once in the beginning.

now its not a problem but in a few months loading all would seem harsh. when a user does not need them all :)

anyway, first the sorting
thanks! 

Hmm you don't need uql in Razor. You can cast your nodes into a new List<> this can look like this:

@{
                var newNodeList =newList<DynamicNode>();
                foreach(dynamic node in@Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).DescendantsOrSelf().OrderBy("CreateDate desc"))  //here you allready have your sorting:=)
{
                        if(node.NodeTypeAlias=="YourFirstDocType"|| page.NodeTypeAlias=="SecondDocType")
                        {
                                newNodeList.Add(nodes);
                        }
                }
        }

        @foreach(dynamic node in newNodeList.Take(5)){
                <span>@page.Name</span>
        }
For the other Code i will have a look tomorrow.

So long.

Have to corret the first Line. It should be:

var newNodeList = new List<DynamicNode>();

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