the best things of the past ten years,
(ps which do you think is the most correct? least correct?)
reality tv, tom brady, eltee, jason bourne, lebron, the george bush shoe-throw, "that's what she said" and "that's hot" and "this guy," those ubiquitous buttonup suit vests (pinstriped and otherwise) worn with t-shirts and arrogance, gnarls barkley music videos, hanging chads, mickey rourke's comeback, forest whitaker's eyeball in last king of scotland, pandora (website, not the place), okay go's rube goldberg machine
visual art
james jean
david choe
todd field
long movies
the holiday, there will be blood, hot tub time machine, children of men, love actually, gosford park, the departed, memento!, the proposition, ironman trailers, michael clayton, the queen, crash/traffic, in bruges, best in show
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honorably mentions for long movies
no country for old men (mandatory cormac mccarthy inclusion)
ah, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnMOLZJnCt8
my body is a cage, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyp34v6Lmcc
libertines, sigur ros, jack white, tina fey (minus that movie with amy poehler), flight of the concords, joanna newsome, dave chapelle, budos band, man man
honorable mentions for a body of work
of montreal, jens lekman, john maus, michael buble, ill mitch, the books,
songs
DANCE, justice
ridin' chamillionaire
transformer (live), gnarls barkley
ms jackson, outkast
black eyed peas singles (NOTHING ELSE)
ping island/lightning strike, mark mothersbaugh
the justin timberlake singles including jizz in my pants but not dick in a box
i turn my camera on/golden touch, spoon/razorlight
albums
since i left you, the avalanches
donuts
carter iii, lil wayne
bromst, dan deacon
the incredibles soundtrack
speakerboxx love below, outkast
friend opportunity, deerhoof
los valientes del mundo nuevo, los black lips
death proof soundtrack
who will cut our hair when we're dead, the unicorns
(smokey rolls off thunder canyon, devendra banhart)
i can hear the heart beating as one: deluxe, yo la tengo
o brother where art thou soundtrack, tbone burnett
back to black, amy winehouse
b sides and rarities, nick cave
rainwater cassette exchange, deerhunter
fabric 36, ricardo villalobos
the black album, jayz (99 problems, dirt off ya shoulder)
original pirate material, the streets
madvillainy, mf doom
kid a
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all the names, saramago
2666, BOLANYO
how the dead live, will self
pornocalypse now, https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/83/pornocalypse_now.html
this is water, dfw
the corrections, john franzen
kavalier and clay, michael chabon
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