Top Ten #28

fig. a: Witchies: now I know how Joan of Arc felt

1. Witchies, s/t E.P.

2. In a Lonely Place, dir. Ray

3. moules à la bonne humeur

fig. b: Tapestry: made in Canada

4. Tapestry, Down By Maple River

5. The Wrestler, dir. Aronofsky

6. M.F.K. Fisher, As They Were

7. soto ayam

fig. c: self-explanatory

8. Andrea Nguyen, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors

fig. d: Setsuko Hara/Noriko

9. Tokyo Story, dir. Ozu + Tokyo-Ga, dir. Wenders

10. Cuisine Mas

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