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1. Broken Embraces
2. Up in the Air
3. An Education
4.-12. In alphabetical order:
Duplicity
Fantastic Mr. Fox
500 Days of Summer
The Hurt Locker
In the Loop
Inglourious Basterds
Julie & Julia
A Single Man
Where the Wild Things Are
* Favorite, not Best, based on an unscientific mix of affection and critical judgment
Great, not Favorites: District 9, Invictus, Precious
Quite fun, not Favorites: The Hangover, It’s Complicated
Movies I intend to see but haven’t yet, and that might change this, but I don’t expect them to: Avatar, Bad Lieutenant, Brothers, Crazy Heart, The Informant!, Julia, Nine, A Serious Man, Public Enemies
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I spent the first part of this year listening to great music from 2008 that I discovered at the end of that year, then spent the bulk of the past several months rotating between these three, without ever settling on a favorite, other than whichever is currently playing:
Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Meanwhile, liking but not spending enough time with:
Antony & the Johnsons, The Crying Light
Jarvis Cocker, Further Complications
Marianne Faithfull, Easy Come, Easy Go
Ida Maria, Fortress ‘Round My Heart
Regina Spektor, Far
Sunset Rubdown, Dragonslayer
Tegan & Sara, Sainthood
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It’s Blitz
And now only discovering—but really loving:
The Antlers, Hospice
Noah & the Whale, The First Days of Spring
Also, I remain firmly pro-GaGa and delight in whatever Rihanna chooses to sing—under her own name, as a guest on someone else’s song, on Saturday Night Live, or, probably, in the shower.
Oh, and: Jeff just reminded me that we both really liked the Killers’ Day & Age. And judging by the number of times I’ve seen Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion listed this week, I’m likely to really get into that next. Putting it on right now…
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