Music of 2009

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

Bat for Lashes - Two Suns


J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid

9th Caller - J Dilla

Madlib - Beat Kounducta Vol. 5

The Mystery (Dilla's Still Her...

Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa


Doom - Born Like This

Yessir! Feat. Raekwon - Doom

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

Lulla - Tinariwen

Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong


Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be


Honorable Mention

Beck - Sea Change

Sunday Sun - Beck

Bjork - Homogenic

Joga - Björk

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

Tres Bien - Le Tigre

Q-Tip - The Renaissance


Sean Lennon - Into the Sun

Into The Sun - Sean Lennon

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

My Little Corner of the World ...

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)

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

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Devendra Banhart

I Am Goodbye


At the Hop

Money Mark and Moby

Hand in Your Head


Beautiful

Joanie 4 Jackie

A short history on the first independently produced(?) video chain mail from inspiring female artists and filmmakers.

Cleveland Street Gap

via Courtney Egan

This film was a long-distance collaboration with Helen [Hill], since she and her husband were living in South Carolina, still deciding whether to return to New Orleans.

De La Soul and Yo La Tengo

Itzsoweezee


Sugarcube

The Muffs and Mika Miko

Oh Nina - An early 90's band I've never heard of. Now, I want all of their albums.


I Got a Lot (New New New) - I have this album on repeat on my iPod.

Movies I've Seen This Year (or remember due to my inconstant memory span)

Slumdog Millionaire

Itty Bitty Titty Committee - Not as sharp with the gay social satire as But I'm a Cheerleader, at least it has a kickass riot grrrl soundtrack. That good right?

Wendy and Lucy

The Midnight Meat Train - Best Clive Barker film adapt since Candyman 2: Day of the Flesh.

Spring Breakdown - If you want to see Pohler, Posey, and Dratch getting wasted, then this is your movie.

Lioness - Documentary about the first female strike force team in Iraq. And first documentary featuring women serving in Iraq too??

Ask Not

Last Tango in Paris - A part of me died a little while watching this. The innocent part, where the flowers and rainbows are.

New Muslim Cool

The Hottie and the Nottie - This would've been hilarious twenty years ago.

Rachel Getting Married

Sita Sings the Blues

Superman Returns

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Cléo from 5 to 7

The Princess Bride

The Wrestler

American Teen - Makes The Hills look like Ken Burns' The War. Yeah, I totally dropped a PBS reference.

Billy the Kid - If you hated the film above watch this instead.

Sweet Dreams

A stop-motion short about acceptance and indifference, from the point of view of a cupcake. Yes, this is awesome. There's also an island inhabited by vegetables, which makes it all the more watchable.

Peter Bjorn and John and Danielson

Lay it Down - I want this song to play in a continuous loop at my funeral while everyone wears cut-out face masks and dance. Just throwing out suggestions.


Did I Step on Your Trumpet? - Sounds like The Polyphonic Spree mixed with The White Stripes.

Sean Lennon and Thievery Corporation

Home


Sweet Tides feat. LouLou

Beck and Cat Power

Jack-Ass


Nude as the News