Top Ten #38

1. Metal Mountains, "Structures in the Sun" (Amish Records)

2. Errol Morris' First Person: The Complete Series



3. Tartine basic country bread

4. W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage



5. Destroyer, "Archer on the Beach/Grief Point" 12" (feat. Tim Hecker and Loscil) (Merge Records)

6. Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France



7. Michael Hurley, Blue Hills (Mississippi Records)

8. Soirée Choucroute, Pop!, feat. James MacGuire, Nov. 29, 2010

9. Anvil: The Story of Anvil, dir. Gervasi



10. Black Mountain, Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar)

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top ten #23

1. Benji Aronoff, The Two Sides of Benji Aronoff

2. Eastern Promises, dir. Cronenberg



3. Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food & Drink, ed. David Remnick

4. The Office (U.S.), seasons 2 & 3

5. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals



6. quinces

7. Sullivan's Travels, dir. Sturges

8. La Caprese



9. Black Mountain, In The Future

10. Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, vol. 2

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Top Ten #21

1. Brussels sprouts

2. The Man Without Qualities, Pt. 1, Robert Musil



3. Bert Jansch, Birthday Blues



4. Black Mountain, Le National

5. Up the Yangtze, dir. Chang

6. Patti Smith + A Silver Mt. Zion, Ukrainian Federation Hall



7. fall leaves

8. Roland Penrose, The Road is Wider Than Long

9. high-temperature turkey (TY, Mr. Steingarten!)

10. Hot Fuzz, dir. Wright

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