January 2010
96 posts
December 2009
87 posts
“When I was a young man, we were running around with girls all over the place and...”
– Michael Caine
“It’s like nobody admits they went to see Titanic, like it was something you did...”
– James Cameron on Titanic’s legacy
Guardian Reader's Poll 2009 →
See, you can tell it’s British because Jamie T is on there.
Album of the year
1/ The xx - Xx 2/ Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion 3/ Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 4/ Fever Ray – Fever Ray 5/ Florence and the Machine - Lungs
Song of the year
1/ Animal Collective – My Girls 2/ Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks 3/ The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero 4/ Bat for Lashes – Daniel 5/ Dizzee Rascal –...
The two Taylors call it quits →
And here I was sure those two would make it
Moviefone users' picks for best of the year →
1. What was the best movie of the year? ‘New Moon’ - 41% ‘Avatar’ - 14% ‘The Hangover’ - 13% ‘Star Trek’ - 11% ‘Up’ - 9% ‘Inglourious Basterds’ - 9% ‘Up in the Air’ - 2%
2. What was the worst movie of the year? ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ - 24% ‘Land of the Lost’ - 23% ...
Music Weekly Noughties review w/Paul Epworth, Erol...
REASONABLY GREAT ALBUMS OF THE LAST DECADE THAT...
findesiecle:
Presumably because they are vaguely embarrassed/uncomfortable with having purchased them (and indeed they probably were among the last actual CDs they purchased; I know for one that I was spending my babysitting money on these CDs at Sound Exchange on Rte 23 in good old Wayne, New Jersey, and then in 2003 we got broadband and it all went to hell) and that we all feel more...
Watchfindesiecle:
HOME ALONE (1990)
Secretly (or not-so-secretly) I actually really, really love this movie (despite the pretty terrible trailer and abysmally bad sequels.)
Also, it came out TWENTY YEARS AGO OH GOD I AM OLD.
merry christmas everyone!
The other day I realized Toy Story came out in 1995 and had a similar freakout.
Stereotyping People By Their Favorite Indie Bands →
shityeahitscool:
cockenblog:
Your feelings are about to be hurt.
I go to Pitchfork only for the ratings and haven’t showered in two days, like shitty beer unironically, think Tha Carter 3 was too mainstream, and like to go to concerts to relax. Apparently.
That’s okay, I learned that I’m both gay and a girl, wear checkered sneakers and love leggings.
Commercial radio's most-played songs of the decade
crumbler:
Via the AV Club:
Country: “Something Like That” / Tim McGraw / 487,343 spins [1999] CHR/Top 40: “Yeah” / Usher featuring Ludacris & Lil Jon / 416,267 spins [2004] Hot AC: “Drops Of Jupiter” (Tell Me) / Train / 338,749 spins [2001] Alternative: “Last Resort” / Papa Roach / 221,767 spins [2000] Rhythmic: “Low” / Flo Rida featuring T-Pain / 206,864...
Does Star Trek stop women from becoming... →
The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology seems to think so, but Kayla Iacovino - an Experimental petrologist at ASU - disagrees. Don’t ask me to define experimental petrology, because I can’t. I do know it has to do with rocks. I’m not what you’d call a smart person.
“The thing that will be frustrating for both you and mind-blown fanboys is that...”
– Best analysis/summarization of the Avatar backlash/praise I’ve read so far. And hey, it uses Star Wars to put it all in context. So everyone’s happy.
“Gray, damp, chilly until Christmas Eve then raining and windy into Christmas...”
–
Local Weather Man on December 21 (via tsurufoto)
At least he accepted responsibility for it.
Daily Mail makes fun of William Shatner's weight →
He’s 78! Go fuck yourself Daily Mail.
The 10 most pirated movies of 2009 →
rank movie downloads worldwide grosses 1 Star Trek 10,960,000 $385,459,120 2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 10,600,000 $834,969,807 3 RocknRolla 9,430,000 $25,728,089 4 The Hangover 9,180,000 $459,422,869 5 Twilight 8,720,000 $384,997,808 6 District 9 8,280,000 $204,570,836 7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7,930,000 $929,359,401 8 State of...
“Stephen Holden of The New York Times was among those who compared her...”
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Seems unnecessarily harsh for the New York Times to quote that review in its own obituary for Brittany Murphy. (via hailthepagesturning)
I’ve noticed nearly every obit or reference to her death includes a dig at her acting. Are these obituaries or film critiques?
Wired explains 3D projection →
Whatever you think of Avatar’s story, it was visually mesmerizing, due in no small part to the 3D IMAX projection. I felt like I was in some sort of virtual reality machine. Wired explains why I felt that way, though I still can’t say I fully understand. It’s magic, basically.
Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales
perpetua:
1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k 2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k 3. the xx xx 35k 4. The Flaming Lips Embryonic 75k (estimate) 5. Raekwon Only Built For Cuban Linx Part II 141k 6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest 132k 7. Bat For Lashes Two Suns 36k 8. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 205k 9. Fever Ray Fever Ray 23k 10. Girls Album 19k
Sales figures are from Soundscan...
We're all going to die from brain cancer, yay! →
