Just got back from Crazy Heart, what a C+ movie that was.
On the other side of mediocrity:
Brooklyn’s Backyard Chicken Keepers *food curated* from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
I want to buy a house in South Philadelphia, so I can have bees, chickens and a dog named Robert Zimmerman
I don’t think anyone will dispute that 2009 was a mediocre (at best) year for music. When Animal Collective’s 5th best album is topping charts, you know you are in for a world of hurt. That said, a few bands managed to get it done in the preceding calendar year. Here is my top 5:
1) The Reigning Sound - Love and Curses
2) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
3) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amedeus Phoenix
4) The Black Hollies - Softly Towards the Light
5) Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
The rest of the year’s releases, jeepers creepers.
My New Year’s Resolution is not to spend more time updating a website that nobody reads.
I will; however, indulge in some shameless list making, top ten films of the decade. Get excited.
10) Dogville
9) Hot Fuzz
8 ) American Psycho
7) Ratatouille
6) Spirited Away
5) There Will be Blood
4) Grizzly Man
3) Children of Men
2) City of God
1) You Can Count on Me - They’ll be better movies than You Can Count on Me, but nothing so perfect.
This was difficult, but I think we have a list that America can get behind.
My five favorite Beach Boys (a post in early Sunday morning boredom stereophonics)
Brian Wilson
Al Jardine
Kevin Love
John Stamos
Brian Wilson
I know everyone (all six readers) get incensed when I post youtube videos. It’s lazy, I know it, whatever, but I couldn’t not post this, it’s two of my favorite things, muppets and Twin Peaks, incongruously combined into something I cannot believe anyone thought would be entertaining/appropriate for children. Sesame Street, the best case for Socialism.
This is what happens when I’m bored on a Sunday morning and I become hung up on Obama photo sets from 2008.
I have been accused of turning Chris Knauer dot com into a veritable wasteland of youtube videos, have I sunk so low that my outlet to the word is defined entirely by Heart and sweet Kenyon Martin jams. The answer is no, at least for now, as I actually spent a weekend doing something more interesting than crosswords and complaining. Canoe Trip!
Overall the trip was a success. Nothing finer than taking communion in nature’s cathedral. And any good trip would not be complete without a near disaster to christen our voyage down the Delaware, thankfully this years wasn’t as ruinious as a forgotten tent, everything eventually got underway, although an hour late.
Pictures:
USA! USA!
Our heroes.
