Dec 14, 2009

Music of 2009

[update] Missing in action: Grizzly Bear, Jay-Z, and others.

Bat for Lashes - Two Suns


J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid


Madlib - Beat Kounducta Vol. 5


Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa


Doom - Born Like This


Nite Jewel - Good Evening


Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian/Meditation Upon Meditation [import]



Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II

PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman and Man Walked By


Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People Lazers Do


The XX - XX

Sonic Youth - The Eternal


Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions


Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong


Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be


Honorable Mention

Beck - Sea Change


Bjork - Homogenic


Caribou - Andorra


Cibo Matto - Viva La Woman/Stereo Type A


Flying Lotus - 1983 [I didn't exactly like the album, but this is a great song and video]


GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords


Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes


Q-Tip - The Renaissance


Sean Lennon - Into the Sun


Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock


Stereolab - Chemical Chords/Dots and Loops/Emperor Tomato Ketchup


Talking Heads - Remain in Light


Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

Dec 12, 2009

Movies of the Zero Zero's

Updated whenever. Get it, Zero Zero's? Didn't think so.

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Requiem for a Dream (2002)
Ghost World (2001)
Hedwig and the Angry Itch (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Orange County (2002)
Funny Ha Ha (2005)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Secretary (2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Volver (2006)
Spirited Away (2002)
Kill Bill Vol. 1+2 (2004)/Death Proof (2007)
The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
The Descent (2005)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
Shawn of the Dead (2004)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Primer (2004)
Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Amelie (2001)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Dec 3, 2009

Movies of 2009

In no particular arrangement. [final update]

Away We Go
In the Loop
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
The Princess and the Frog
Moon
Drag Me to Hell
Inglorious Basterds
Black Dynamite
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
The Cove
The Hurt Locker
(500) Days of Summer
Precious: Based on the Story Push by Sapphire
Sita Sings the Blues
Antichrist (for better or worse)
Zombie Girl: The Movie
The Brothers Bloom
Medicine for Melancholy

Honorable Mentions

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Billy the Kid
Sunshine Cleaning
Waking Life (2001)
Happiness (1998)
Lioness
Frozen River
Jeanne Dielman
Hausu (1977)
JCVD
Real Life (1979)
Persepolis
The Order of Myths
Waltz with Bashir
Monsoon Wedding
Kids (1995)
Meshes of the Afternoon
Wendy and Lucy
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Life is Sweet (1991)
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Inland Empire/Eraserhead/Blue Velvet
The Wrestler
Hannah Takes the Stairs
The Goonies
Slumdog Millionaire
Baghead
Rachel Getting Married