Jazz Albums:
Trombone Shorty, Backatown
The Bad Plus, Never Stop
Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green, Apex
Not-Jazz Albums:
The Black Angels, Phosphene Dream
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, I Learned The Hard Way
Black Mountain, Wilderness Heart
Books:
Michael Lewis, The Big Short
Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Donald Westlake, Memory
Movies:
Cyrus
The Fighter
True Grit
Kick Ass
Television:
Justified (Best Elmore Leonard adaptation to date)
Hardcore Pawn (Detroit; little histrionic episodes)
(The still on the right could be from Justified or Hardcore Pawn, actually.)
Sport:
I'm certain we're all in agreement that the Giants' World Series victory was the only thing that mattered.
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3 comments:
Two of the three non-jazz albums of the year are by bands with "black" in their names, but neither one is the Black Keys. "Brothers" is my album pick of 2010. Your sports pick for the year is beyond reproach. Best comeback of 2010: The Detroit Lions?
I never bought "Brothers".
These lists are an exercise in futility, of course. I forgot to list Winter's Bone, for example, maybe the best movie I saw last year...
Winter's Bone was one of my favorites, as well. (I posted about it a while back.) Another recent film I'd recommend, with a similar theme (though displaced Down Under), is "Animal Kingdom."
I didn't listen to much music this year but three albums stick out in my memory: Aloe Blacc's "Good Things," Mavis Staples' "You Are Not Alone," and "Doc At the Radar Station," which I explored only after Captain Beefheart's passing.
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