Top Ten #26

fig. a: Son of PM

1. V/A, Shadow Music of Thailand (Sublime Frequencies)

2. Jeffrey Hamelman, Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes (Wiley)

3. tomato chutney & hamburgers

fig. b: product placement

4. Big Star's "September Girls" + Upper Saranac Lake, NY

5. doubling up on Mister Spicee's doubles

6. Freaks & Geeks + Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen"

7. Badlands, dir. Terrence Malick

fig. c: Casse-Croute 45

8. Rte 132, entre Beaumont et Rivière du Loup

9. Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel

fig. d: ORdK

10. Orchestre Régional de Kayes, The Best of the First Biennale of Arts and Culture for the Young (1970) (Mali Music/Mississippi Records)

9/12/08

Top Ten #5

1. Destroyer, Destroyer's Rubies

2. The Murray Bay

3. The Thin Blue Line, dir. Morris (especially if you've just seen Capote and just finished reading In Cold Blood)

4. Wolf Parade, "Dinner Bells"

5. Jun-I



6. MFK Fisher's A Cordiall Water, a garland of odd and old receipts to assuage the ills of man & beast

7. Rooibos tea, especially the parfum de Provence variety

8. Au Pied de Cochon on a miserable winter day

9. The New World, dir. Malick

10. Delila

01/30/06