Tedious Lists 2010
Favorite 2010 Albums:
1. Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill
2. Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love
3. Jeremy Messersmith - Reluctant Graveyard
4. Skeleton Staff - Solipsism
5. David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love
6. Evelyn Evelyn
7. Anton Barbeau - Psychedelic Mynde Of Moses
8. John Wesley Harding Sings To A Small Guitar Vol. 1 & 2
9. She & Him - Volume Two
10. Apples In Stereo - Travelers In Space And Time
11. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
12. Elvis Costello - National Ransom
13. The Head And The Heart
14. Sophie Madeleine - The Rhythm You Started
15. Cleaners From Venus - English Electric
16. Field Music - Measure
17. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
18. Magnetic Fields - Realism
19. Cee Lo Green - The Ladykiller
20. MGMT - Congratulations
Biggest disappointments: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin, Liz Phair - Funstyle, Ben Folds / Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue, Nellie McKay - Home Sweet Mobile Home, Jenny & Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now
Favorite pre-2010 albums heard for the first time in 2010, in no particular order:
Anton Barbeau - Automatic Door / In The Village Of The Apple Sun / Plastic Guitar
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
David Brookings - Obsessed / Glass Half Full
Preoccupied Pipers - White Bicycle Plan / Jokes About The Medical Profession
Rhythm Akimbo - Rainy Day Accident / Temple Beth Skyturn
Kimberly Rew - Ridgeway
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses
Marmalade Souls - In Stereo
Children Of Nuggets Box Set
Big Star - Keep An Eye On The Sky
Favorite 2010 movies:
1. The Social Network
2. Tangled
3. Inception
4. Toy Story 3
5. The Kids Are All Right
6. The King's Speech
7. Black Swan
8. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
9. Burlesque
10. Fair Game
Favorite pre-2010 movies seen for the first time in 2010, in no particular order:
Frida (2002)
Religulous (2008)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
Annie Hall (1977)
Cadillac Records (2008)
Chaplin (1992)
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Grey Gardens (2009) (TV)
Is Anybody There? (2008)
Just Like Heaven (2005)
I Served the King of England (2006)
The Fountain (2006)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Weather Man (2005)
Whatever Works (2009)
Favorite books read in 2010, from all years:
1. Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel - Gary Shteyngart
2. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction- Rebecca Goldstein
3. Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England - Stuart Maconie
4. Selected Poems - Martin Newell
5. The Story of Stuff: How Our Problem with Overconsumption Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities and Our Health--and What to Do About It - Annie Leonard
6. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
7. Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
8. Horses Seen Through Trees: Snapshots of North-East Essex - Martin Newell
9. Freedom: A Novel - Jonathan Franzen
10. Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece - Dominic Priore
11. Lost In Music - Giles Smith
12. Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur - Sy Montgomery
13. Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process - Irene Pepperberg
14. Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer - Wesley Stace
15. Andromeda Klein - Frank Portman
16. In the Land of Believers: An Outsider's Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church - Gina Welch
17. The Half Life of Stars - Louise Wener
18. The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night: Day by Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1964 -- 1997 - Doug Hinman
19. Lucy - Laurence Gonzales
20. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head - Rob Chapman
21. Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer - Novella Carpenter
22. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins
23. United States of Americana: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties, and Handma... - Kurt B. Reighley
24. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
25. Co-opted - Joan Bigwood