Just getting by in Tucson. Same ol', same ol'.

Films I saw for the first time this year:

1. In the Loop
2. TimeCrimes
3. Let The Right One In
4. Celia
5. Blindness
6. The Visitor
7. Red
8. Inside
9. La Antena
10. Stuck

. . .

Top 25 Semi-Ranked New-To-Me Movies This Year:

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
2. Canyon Passage
3. Wagonmaster
4. Man of the West
5. Budd Boetticher's Ranown Cycle (cheating)
6. Notorious
7. The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)
8. Place de la Republique
9. Sanjuro
10. Act of Violence
11. Phantom India
12. Stray Dog
13. The Steel Helmet
14. The Crimson Kimono
15. Night of the Demon
16. The Fall of the Roman Empire
17. Winchester '73 (or any other Anthony Mann/Jimmy Stewart western)
18. Side Street
19. The Big Red One
20. War of the Gargantuas
21. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
22. My Dinner With Andre
23. Thieves' Highway
24. Fixed Bayonets!
25. The Narrow Margin

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Originally posted by TheFalloness:
22. My Dinner With Andre

Nice.

There are two other Malle films as well.

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Originally posted by loveisreal:
1. Talking movies, and life in general, with Fal.
2. Acting stupid with Saul.
3. My gal.
4. Re-discovering Who's Next by the Who.
5. This awesome Citizen Eco-Drive Military watch I am wearing.

You like Saul better than your gal?

ouch...

that's GOTTA hurt.

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21. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

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Originally posted by Ingmar Bearman's Magic Lantern:

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Originally posted by loveisreal:
1. Talking movies, and life in general, with Fal.
2. Acting stupid with Saul.
3. My gal.
4. Re-discovering Who's Next by the Who.
5. This awesome Citizen Eco-Drive Military watch I am wearing.

You like Saul better than your gal?

ouch...

that's GOTTA hurt.

It's not in any particular order.

It has numbers



!

Maybe I should add a disclaimer next time so as to not confuse you.

Thee Oh Sees ~ Help
Gus Gus ~ Thin Ice
Gay Witch Abortion ~ Maverick
BLK JKS ~ After Robots (epic centerpiece 'Kwa Nqingetje' reimagines OK Computer if it had been unwittingly downloaded by teens in a Johannesburg township)
Jarvis Cocker ~ Further Complications
Jay Reatard ~ Watch Me Fall
Kylesa ~ Static Tentions
Mew ~ No More Stories
A Place to Bury Strangers ~ Exploding Head
Sunn O))) ~ Monoliths & Dimensions
The Church ~ Untitled #23
Baroness ~ Blue Record
Modest Mouse ~ No One's First And You're Next [EP] (sounds like old MM)
The xx ~ S/T (almost left this off; still growing on me)
Japandroids ~ Post-Nothing
The Dead Weather ~ Horehound (yep, they got me)
Handsome Furs ~ Face Control
Dinosaur Jr. ~ Farm
Bloodhorse ~Horizoner
Isis ~ Wavering Radiant
PJ Harvey and John Parish ~ A Woman a Man Walked By
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis ~ White Lunar
J.G. Thirlwell ~ The Venture Bros.: The Music of J.G. Thirlwell
Screen Vinyl Image ~ Interceptors
Zu ~ Carboniferous
Nothing People ~ Late Night
Robert Pollard ~ Elephant Jokes
Sylvester Anfang II ~ S/T
Ian Brown ~ My Way
Throbbing Gristle ~ The Third Mind Movements
Mokira ~ Persona
Boston Spaceships ~ The Planets Are Blasted
Mission of Burma ~ The Sound the Speed the Light

The list so far. Still discovering things all the time.

yeah...so to be honest this is one of the worst years of my life thus far.

BUT

there are always good moments, no matter how shitty things get. My list:

-finally going to college
-being totally blown away by the NIN concert at Bonnaroo. I don't pay too much attention to them and definitely didn't expect something that amazing.
-seeing the Lips in concert and them playing Enthusiasm For Life..., and Bad Days
-Embryonic
-moving back around my family and friends and being able to take care of my Gma (not all the time, but just being able to see her is awesome)
-The Ren Fest
-still being very happy and confident in my relationship
-Going camping at a BEAUTIFUL spot in CO, and seeing bears, foxes, hearing coyotes, watching the sunrise, etc.

PEOPLE WHO INCREDIBLY OUTLIVED MICHAEL JACKSON
j d salinger

jake la motta

I bought ONE CD this entire year. And the kindly and handsome young man who I bought it off of threw in another disc because he is a good shit. I was given discs by friends of mine who finished records. They are fabulous cuz I hang with fab peeps.

So, here's my list of new music for this year:
1) The Stew Gunn Band WINTER OF MY DISCONTENT
1) Nicholas Szczepanik THE CHIASMUS
1) Celer CLOSE PROXIMITY AND THE UNHINDERED CARE-ALL
1) The GLOW
1) Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
1) Devin and the Dark Light LOUD TO LIVE WITH

And pretty much everything else I heard this year was old. And no one wants to hear aboot old things from an old guy. I also heard buts of lots of new albums, but seeing as I listened to very few of them in full, I won't list them either.

But I will give a special mention to Sylvester Anfang II for being one of my fave things LENT to me this year.

Oh wait, I lie. I also bought Child Bite's new album this year, which was fucking bad ass.

Most of those albums sound made, who do you think you are, Pickle Puss?


And who the hell is Nicholas Szczepanik ?

szchepanik @ the disco

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Originally posted by TheFalloness:

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1. Flaming Lips – Embryonic

This really is a great fucking album.

ive only heard it once since i got it - i really should sit down and listen to it.

Things I've been enjoying in the past month or so:

Blue Haze tea
Mario Kart 64
Fucked Up - 'The Chemistry Of Common Life'
Sweaters
Jazz radio stations funded by the state
Having my car back from the shop
Flea markets

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Originally posted by TheFalloness:
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc

Yeah!

The Beatles, ordered list of remasters favorites.

1) Abbey Road
2) The White Album
3) Revolver
4) A Hard Days Night
5) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6) Help!
7) Rubber Soul
8) Magical Mystery Tour
9) Please Please Me
10) With the Beatles
11) Beatles For Sale
12) Let it Be