1. Pierrot le fou - I haven't seen this one, but I do know one scientific fact and that's Godard + Anna Karina + Anna Karina's hair > Denzel + Clooney and both of their smugness combined. I'm gonna have to restrain my broke-ass from buying this one tomorrow. Damn you, Criterion Collection. Why must you have such aesthetically pleasing DVD covers?
2. American Gangster - I didn't see this one, but it features T.I. and was reason enough for Jay-Z to make his best album since The Blueprint. That makes it get my stamp of approval. To be honest though, I haven't really liked anything Denzel has done since Glory, but to be fair to him, Matthew Broderick saw a steady decline in the quality of his films after Glory too. I sense a Confederate conspiracy.
3. In the Valley of Elah - There are few actors in Hollywood more likable than Tommy Lee Jones. I've kinda always wished he was my dad. Especially in The Fugitive. He's so cool in that. I haven't seen this, but this is the one he's nominated for. I hope he wins. He won't, but I hope he does. If I had Netflix I'd put this on my queue. No Country For Old Men is the TLJ film I'm really waiting for.
4. Michael Clayton - I have no interest in this, whatsoever.
5. Ray Davies - I could listen to that solo on repeat for the rest of my life and I'd be fine with that. He's one of the heads on my personal Mount Rushmore. My Mount Rushmore is about as wide as Seftron's head and features about fifty people, but still...he's up there. I'm sure the new album has nothing to offer me, but I still hope it's great in that "I'm old and trying to cash in" kind of way. He deserves it. Seriously, how many people have written more great songs than Ray Davies?
Dylan
Jagger/Richards
Robert Pollard
Lennon/McCartney
Mark E. Smith
Willie Dixon
...Malkmus?
David Berman would probably have more if he didn't have but five (about to be six!) albums under his belt. I mean that's basically it and Davies wrote all his great ones in a period of about eight years. Maybe I'm crazy, but this guy should be treated like a god by more people more often.
6. Carla Bruni - Her music is never bad, but it's never anything I want to listen to either. If I gave her a number one through ten on "songwriting ability" and "attractiveness" the combined score of the two would be a 17. That's four points higher than Dylan. I guess that's saying something. Who would be number one on that list? And is it gay that SM was the second person that I thought of after the Pipettes?
7. Mountain Goats - zzzzzzzzz.....zzzzzzzzzzzz.....zzzzzzzzzz....terrible joos cover....zzzzzz
8. American Music Club - I don't know how I've managed to never hear of these guys, but based on this CD's cover, I'm happy I haven't. I guess it's an age thing, because according to Wikipedia they released a "masterpiece" called Everclear in 1991. All the songs on that album where about how gay the song "Father of Mine" is, despite the fact that Everclear was released years before that song actually was. I guess Mac really does know what he's doing down in Chapel Hill if he's signing artists who can see into the future.
9. Bell X1 - NME: "Funked up Snow Patrol meets Gospel-friendly Radiohead." You can say what you want about whatever your job is, but don't ever complain to me about it until the day comes that you're forced to listen to funked up Snow Patrol all day.
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