Stoner’s 2011 favorites:
Hot Sauce Committee Volume Two, Beastie Boys: Running wild like the rats in Taco Bell. Originally recorded for the 1964 World’s Fair in NYC, but only released this year. Back to the future.
Runner-up: Several Shades of Why, J. Mascis or Last Summer, Eleanor Friedberger
Single/Video: “Bizness,” by tune-yards (thanks, Feral Boy)
Runner-up: “Black Up” by Shabazz Palaces
Jazz Album: Novela, Tony Malaby
Non-Fiction: Shock Value, by Jason Zinoman…A brief history of American horror films of the seventies. Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, and Brian DePalma tackle “the monster problem.”
Runner-up: How Did You Get This Number, by Sloane Crosley
Fiction: The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach…Life on and off the baseball team at a lovingly-rendered Midwest liberal arts college.
Pulp fiction: Quarry’s Ex, by Max Allan Collins
The Trip: In most current comedy, you are invited to hang out with people you would never choose to spend any time with in life. The Trip is a welcome reprieve from that.
Runners-up: Attack The Block, Daddy Longlegs, Midnight In Paris
1 comment:
J. Mascis and Chad Harbach are excellent picks. I'm not familiar with any others. Too busy mining in the past.
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