June 2012
1 post
00s EDM Poll Ballot
1. Lindstrøm - I Feel Space
2. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
3. Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday
4. Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje’s Extra Dill Mix)
5. The Juan Maclean - Happy House
6. Daft Punk - One More Time
7. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Mix)
8. Ame - Rej
9. Vitalic - La Rock 01
10. The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Thin White Duke Remix)
11. The Knife - Heartbeats...
May 2012
2 posts
Ron Paul and Roman Currency Debasement
Earlier today, I watched a discussion between Ron Paul and Paul Krugman:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/91689761
If you have no interest in watching that, there’s a moment that I focussed on involving Paul’s accusation that Krugman wants to take us back 1,000 years to the Roman Empire and its debasement of currency. Krugman had a pretty good quip about Diocletian in response, but...
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
2 posts
2011 ILX Music Poll Ballot
Hastily thrown together because I procrastinated. Crucial stuff missing due to limited options.
Albums:
25. Death Grips - Ex-Military
24. Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx - We’re New Here
23. The Antlers - Burst Apart
22. Grouper - Alien Observer/Dream Loss
21. Various Artists - Drive OST
20. Clams Casino - Instrumentals
19. Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting
18. Yuck - Yuck
17. Mogwai -...
The Best Films of 2011 Part 1: 30 – 21 →
December 2011
2 posts
The Eleven Best Television Shows of 2011 →
November 2011
4 posts
The Princess of Montpensier →
Terri →
Margin Call →
Pulp Poll Results - FYI
50 Love is Blind 0 77 49 Ansaphone 0 77 48 Styloroc (Nights of Suburbia) 0 85 47 Little Girl (with Blue Eyes) 0 88 46 Bar Italia 0 88 45 Running the World 0 91 44 I Want You 0 91 43 Pencil Skirt 0 96 42 Party Hard 0 96 41 Live Bed Show 0 96 40 Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time 0 97 39 Glory Days 0 101 38 Inside Susan 0 107 37 Mile End 0 114 36 Blue Girls 0 116 35 The Night that Minnie Temperley...
October 2011
3 posts
Brostep v Dubstep
I love Burial, but I laughed pretty hard:
“British hoodie beardstrokestep is one of the worst things imaginable, and the fact that a microuniverse of aging Animal Collective fans convinced themselves that sulking to Burial is somehow better than robotripping to bowel-rattling heavy metal sawblade drops with sexy girls out in the desert is maybe one of the most embarrassing things about our...
Pulp Poll Ballot
1. Babies
2. Ansaphone
3. Dishes
4. Do You Remember the First Time?
5. Underwear
6. Like a Friend
7. Running the World (Jarvis Cocker Solo)
8. This is Hardcore
9. Common People
10. Pink Glove
11. Help the Aged
12. Pencil Skirt
13. I Spy
14. Disco 2000
15. The Fear
16. Trees
17. A Little Soul
18. Bad Cover Version
19. Synchronize (Discodeine ft. Jarvis)
20. Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time...
Adventures at the Best Buy discount bin
*somebody speaking loudly about something*
Lady at the Bin: Thank you for letting us know.
Me: What did he say?
LatB: Oh something about being at a party in fifteen minutes. Just because they might have something to say doesn’t mean we all need to hear it.
Me: Well, we’re a loud people.
LatB: Yes, they are.
She picks up a copy of The Boy with the Stryped Pajamas and shows...
September 2011
8 posts
Downton Abbey →
Drive →
Contagion →
Super 8, Transformers, and the Benefits of... →
4 tags
August 2011
5 posts
The Beaver →
Fifteen Years Later: Escape from L.A. →
Questioning faith and the existence of god: Part... →
Captain America: The First Avenger →
July 2011
2 posts
Pet Shop Boys Poll Results
Here are the poll results. The first number is the total number of points, second number is the number of people that voted for the track, and the final number is the number of #1 votes.
The four of mine that didn’t place were “Minimal”, “Yesterday, When I Was Mad”, “To Step Aside”, and “Losing My Mind” (I voted for the PSB version, not the...
Pet Shop Boys Top 20
For an internet poll. Not well thought out, but quite frankly, after over a week of listening and listening I couldn’t get the shortlist lower than 90.
20. West End Girls
19. King’s Cross
18. Rent
17. Can You Forgive Her? (album version or swing version)
16. Minimal (original or Tocadisco Sunday at Space remix)
15. The Truck Driver and His Mate
14. Flamboyant (original or...
June 2011
2 posts
The Killing and Forbrydelsen →
May 2011
2 posts
Sunday Morning Movies: Skyline and Battle: Los... →
Marwencol →
April 2011
1 post
Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no Mori) →
February 2011
1 post
Sunday Morning Movies: No Strings Attached and... →
January 2011
6 posts
“Among movie-goers there is a sect whose members prefix all discussions of films...”
– “The Happiness Boys”, Manny Farber. Feb. 28, 1944
Sunday Morning Movies: No Strings Attached and... →
Best Films of 2010: 10-1 →
“I’ll get right back to that, I promise. But let me cede a point to Mr. Gabler,...”
– A.O. Scott rebuttal of Gabler’s cultural elite nonsense.
Sunday Morning Movies: Percy Jackson and the... →
December 2010
3 posts
How Do You Know →
Sunday Morning Movies: Pirate Radio (aka The Boat... →
Black Swan →
November 2010
3 posts
Top 100 best tracks of the 20th Century
I was limited to choices form a nominations list.
100. Big Country — In a Big Country
99. Judy Garland — Somewhere Over the Rainbow
98. Prince — Little Red Corvette
97.The Rolling Stones — Under My Thumb
96. Richard Harris — Macarthur Park
95.The Undertones — Teenage Kicks
94. Lou Reed — Walk on the Wild Side
93. Louis Armstrong — What a Wonderful World
92. Bob Dylan — Like a Rolling...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 →
Stating the Obvious
While reading Joseph Stiglitz’s Guardian column today, I began thinking about the Republicans I’ve talked to and watched on TV in recent weeks. When you’re distanced from the infuriating political and business practices of the US, it’s easy enough to fall back into the position that people are being cuckolded and a “WHY DON’T THEY SEE?” mentality. The...
October 2010
4 posts
