December 2010
12 posts
Top 20 Songs of 2010: Part I
And so it begins. The list making continues here today with the first half of our favorite songs of the year countdown extravaganza! We have songs 20-11 today, and we’ll have 10-1 tomorrow, and then we’ll wrap it all up with our Best Albums of 2010 list a few days later. PHEW!
Picking these songs was really, really hard. There were so many songs this year! I guess that’s...
The Guest List: Will's Top 10 Albums
It looks like I beat my housemates in creating this year’s top 10. 2010 was a great year for music and it was a little overwhelming going through and reviewing the plethora of albums that came out this year. Okay here’s the list:
Honorable Mention:
Dilla Joints - The Roots
Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
Astro Coast - Surfer Blood
Top 10:
10. New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the...
Thanks a lot, Meg!
So last night was my friend Meg’s 21st birthday party. You can see where I’m going with this. I’ve been incapacitated for most of the day as a result, and only mustered the strength to post now because I’m finally not nauseous anymore. So, as I said, thanks Meg! Thanks for turning 21 and giving us all an excuse to drink our faces off.
I wanted to post my Best Songs...
Top 5 Debut Albums of 2010
To kick off the list making this year, I’ve decided to start with my favorite debut albums of 2010. And I have to say, I bought a lot of debut albums this year! Probably more than any year before. Maybe this means that the quality of music is on the upswing. Either way, I’m glad all these bands decided to exist and enter our consciousness this year. They’re all pretty young...
Winter's Bone: Don't Ever Go to Missouri...
You know that feeling you get when you’re walking through an unfamiliar part of town, usually an urban area, where you totally don’t belong and it seems like everyone you pass is looking at you? You know how it feels like you might get jumped and stabbed with the sharpened end of toothbrush just for being there? I get this feeling in the city where my college is some of the time...
Black Swan: Wowza.
Holy shit, you guys.
…so I just got home from seeing Black Swan and my brain is yet to catch up with me. I’m pretty sure the movie was great, but still WHAT ON EARTH?
I’m not going to give a synopsis or anything because I’m sure most of you are familiar with the plot, but here: Natalie Portman is a nervous wreck over being the swan queen, Vincent Cassel sexually...
True Grit = hilarious
I just saw True Grit and, knowing your awesome knowledge and passion for movies, I figured I’d share my thoughts. I haven’t seen the John Wayne original and I’d like to see how the Coen brothers changed things. But I did read the NY Times review that says the directing duo admitted to borrowing the best lines from the Portis book. And indeed, this script is as incredibly sharp...
The Grammy's (aka uh...what?)
Just to fill up the page a bit, I thought I’d discuss the recent Grammy nominations. Now I know that they’re old news and that nobody really cares about the Grammy’s anyway, but come on. Come on, Grammy’s. Does anybody involved with the Grammy’s actually listen to music, or even LIKE music? I mean look at what’s up for Album of the Year:
-Teenage Dream by...
The first post (bear with me)
So here we are, at the beginning of the blog. I’ve never blogged before, I’ve never had a website or anything like that, so please be gentle. I imagine that for a while this thing isn’t going to be very funny or interesting, but hopefully it’ll come around.
I’ll be posting all sorts of things, such as music and film reviews/opinions, funny or strange videos I come...