Top Ten #55

1.  Washington County, VT (and environs)




2.  George Harrison, All Things Must Pass (Apple)

sample track:  "Run of the Mill"




3.  Minnesota!

4.  Lauren Collins, "The Spy Who Loved Me," The New Yorker, August 25, 2014

5.  poulet grillé au gingembre

6.  This American Life #534, "A Not-So-Simple Majority"




7.  Cape Cod!



8.  Lawrence Wright, Going Clear:  Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief



9.  David Crosby, If I Could Only Remember My Name...

10.  Boyhood (2014), dir. Linklater

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Top Ten #54

1.  John Jeremiah Sullivan, "The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie," The New York Times, April 13, 2014

sample tracks:  Geeshie Wiley, "The Last Kind Words"

Elvie Thomas, "Motherless Child Blues"



2.  M. Wells Steakhouse, Long Island City, NY



3.  The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)

sample track:  "Red Eyes"



4.  Le Semeur (2013), dir. Perron

watch the trailer here



5.  Iggy Pop, Lust for Life (Virgin/4 Men With Beards)

sample track:  "Neighborhood Threat"



6.  Pizza Night in Canada



7.  Motorino, New York, NY



8.  V/A, Country Funk (Light in the Attic)

sample track:  Link Wray, "Fire and Brimstone"



9.  Finding Vivian Maier (2013), dir. Maloof

watch the trailer here



10.  Sensations' Fix, Music is Painting in the Air (1974-1977) (RVNG Intl')

sample track:  "Dark Side of Religion"

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Top Ten #53

1.  The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner (1974), La Soufrière (1977), and The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984), all directed by Werner Herzog, plus Herzog on Herzog, ed. Paul Cronin

2.  Destroyer, Il Motore, February 7, 2014

3.  Grand Budapest Hotel birthday dinner, featuring Hungarian goulash, Hungarian home fries, roasted carrots, salad, sausage, cheese, and Sour Cherry Torte



4.  sweet memories of  Charleston



5.  Tim Hecker, Virgins (Kranky)

sample track:  "Amps, Drugs, Harmonium"

6.  the pleasures of cucina povera

7.  Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (Viking)



8.  The Incredible String Band, Earthspan (Reprise)

sample track:  "Sunday Song"

9.  ongoing experiments with whole wheat and rye



10.  The Clock (2010), dir. Marclay, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

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Top Ten #51

1.  Cape Cod!

2.  Adam Leith Gollner, The Book of Immortality (Doubleday Canada)

3.  dinner for seven at Impasto, Mtl

4.  Steve Gunn, Time Off (Paradise of Bachelors)

sample track:  "Lurker"



(And if you're lucky enough to live in the NYC area, or to be just passing through, be sure to catch Steve Gunn, along with Endless Boogie and Tom Blacklung & the Smokestacks @ 285 Kent in Brooklyn on Monday, September 23rd.)



5.  Museum Hours (2012), dir. Cohen

(watch the trailer)

6.  late-night revelry at Le Vin Papillon, Mtl

7.  Faces, Long Player (Warner Bros.)

sample track:  "Maybe I'm Amazed"



8.  AEB chicken paprikash + sourdough caraway rye (Igen!)

9.  Girls (season 2)



10.  Farm-to-Table VT (including Misery Loves Company, Pistou, and Vergennes Laundry)

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Top Ten #50

1.  summer escapes

2.  v/a, Delta Swamp Rock, vol. 1 (Soul Jazz)

sample track:  Cher, "I Walk on Guilded Splinters"

3.  fruit hunting with Local 24 & its benefits

4.  Majical Cloudz, Impersonator (Matador)

sample track:  "Childhood's End"

5.  Runaway Creek Farm, Arundel, QC

6.  Monterey Pop (1967), dir. D.A. Pennebaker + Big Brother & the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills (Columbia)

sample track:  "Summertime"

7.  summer socials

8.  John Cale, Paris 1919 (4 Men With Beards)

sample track:  "The Endless Plain of Fortune"

9.  Girls, season 1

10.  Miss Audrey (2001-2013), R.I.P.

Audrey was regularly featured on "...an endless banquet" right from the start, and with good reason:  she was a darling girl and a true superstar.  You can find two of our favourite Audrey-related posts here and here.

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note:  none of them ever are, really, but, as you may have guessed already, this special edition Top Ten list (#50!) is definitely not in any particular order--eds.

Top Ten #49

1.  NC BBQ pilgrimage

2.  The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), dir. Cianfrance



3.  Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Daze (Matador)



4.  Turner country hams, bacon, and ham sandwiches, Fulks Run, VA + Wade's Mill cornmeal & grits, Raphine, VA

5.  The Central Park Five (2012), dir. Burns, Burns, and McMahon

6.  earthen oven building class, Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, VT



7.  real VA & NC peanuts

8.  Tabloid (2010), dir. Morris



9.  v/a, Delta Swamp Rock, vol. 2 (Soul Jazz)

10.  Asheville, NC + Black Mountain, NC

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Top Ten #48

1.  Endless Boogie, Long Island (No Quarter)

2.  Dead Man (1995), dir. Jarmusch

3.  S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

4.  baked baby back ribs, AEB-style

5.  Amour (2012), dir. Haneke



6.  Yo La Tengo, Fade (Matador) + Yo La Tengo, Corona Theatre, Mtl, QC, Feb 11, 2013



7.  Lareau Farm Inn + American Flatbread, Waitsfield, VT

8.  Thai beef curry & Thai steamed fish à la Pok Pok + coconut rice



9.  Mocky, Graveyard Novelas EP + Mocky "Make You Rich" video (featuring Hilary Gay & Pegasus Warning)

10.  homemade congee (TY Danny Bowien!)

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top ten #47

1.  Fall/Christmas bazaar season, Montreal

2.  Meek's Cutoff (2010), dir. Reichardt



3.  The eel hunt, Kamouraska

4.  R.I.D.M. 2012



5.  hommage à Richard Olney



6.  lapin à la kriek

7.  Foodlab turns 1



8.  Errol Morris, Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography)



9.  turkey, turkey gumbo, hot turkey sandwiches





10.  More (original soundtrack/"music played and composed by Pink Floyd," 1969) + Zabriskie Point (original soundtrack/various artists, 1970)

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