2011 in music

2011 - 25 great albums!

pure x - pleasure (10) 
kurt vile - smoke ring for my halo (9.5)

altas sound - parallax (9)

metronomy - the english riviera (9)
black lips - arabia mountain (9)

girls - father son holy ghost (9)

destroyer - kaput (9)

vivian girls - share the joy (8.5)

yuck - st (8.5)

puro instinct - headbangers in ecstasy (8.5)

thee oh sees - carrion crawler/ the dream (8.5)

washed out - within and without (8.5)

tennis - cape dory (8)

wild flag - st (8.5)

real estate - days (8)

grouper - alien observer (8.5) / grouper - aa dream loss (7.5)

cut copy - zonoscope (9)

blouse - blouse (8)

veronica falls - st (8)

asap rocky - livelovesasap (8)

the rapture - in the grace of your love (8.5)

sean nicholas savage - tripple midnight karma / flamingo (9)

beach fossils - what a pleasure ep (9)

m83 - hurry up, we're dreaming (8.5)

the horrors - skying (8.5)

then 35 awesome records

dirty beaches - badlands (8)

la sera - st (8)

twin sister - in heaven (8)

the men - leave home (8)
battant - as i ride with no horses (8)

yelle - safari disco club (7.5)

iceage - new brigade (8)

ty segal - goodbye bread (7.5)

neon indian - era extraña (8)

the drums - portamento (8)

widowspeak - st (7)

the field - looping state of mind (8)

christian aids - stay positive ep (9.5)

grimes - geidi primes (7.5)

oneohtrix point never - replica (7.5)

james blake - st (8/10)

king krule EP (8)

braids - native speaker (8)

miracle fortress - was i the wave? (8.5)

toro y moi - underneath the pine (8)

spectrals - bad penny (7.5)

the pains of being pure at heart - belong (8)

minks - by the edge (8)

mogwai - hardcore will never die but you will (8)

francois and the atlas mountain - evolo love (7.5)

moon duo - mazes (8)

korallreven - an album by korallreven (7.5)
cass mccombs - wit's end (8)

zomby - dedication (8)
adventure - lesser known (8)

cat's eyes - st (7.5)
sleep over - forever (7.5)
white denim - D (8)
cold cave - cherish the light year (8)
the war on drugs - slave ambient (8)

bill callahan - apocalypse (7.5)

crystal stilts - in love with oblivion (8)
julianna barwick - this magic place (8/10)
holy ghost! - st (8) 
I break horses - hearts (8) 

and 40 more

clams casino - instrumentals (8)

julien doré - bichon (7.5)

explosions in the sky - take care take care take care (7.5)

zola jesus - conatus (7)
the ladybug transistor - clutching stems (7)

youth lagoon - the year of hibernation (8)

thee oh sees - castlemania (8)

feist - metals (8)
lykke li - wounded rhyme (7)

kuedo - severant (7.5)

peaking lights - 936 (7.5)

banjo or freakout - st (7.5)

the cult of youth - the cult of youth (7.5)

panda bear - tomboy (7.5)

jens lekman - an argument with myself (7.5)

wild beasts - smother (7.5)

comet gain - howl of the lonely crowd (7.5)

chelsea Wolfe - apokalypsis (7.5)

baxer dury - happy soup (7) 

nicolas jaar - space is only noise (7.5)

the antlers - burst apart (7.5)

quilt - quilt (7.5)

sonic youth - simon werner a disparu (7)

thurston moore - demolished thoughts (7.5)

unknown mortal orchestra - st (7.5)

the weeknd - house of balloons (7.5)

cant - dreams come true (7.5)

kate bush - 50 words for snow (7)

the shoes - crack your bones (7.5)

dum dum girls - only in dreams (7.5)

psychic paramount - II (7.5)

fucked up - david comes to life (7)

tuneYards - w ho k i l l (7)

beirut - the rip tide (7.5)

connan mockasin - forever dolphin love (7.5)

wolves in the throne room - celestial lineage (7.5)

sebastian - total (7/10)

araabmusik - electronic dreams (7)

planningtorock - w (7)

frank ocean - nostalgia, ultra (7)

the sandwitches - mrs jones cookers (8)
still corner - creatures of an hour (7)

THEN IS REALLY LIKED THOSE TOO

david lynch - crazy clown time (7)

mikal cronin - st (7)

bonnie prince billy - wolfroy goes to town (7)

british sea power - vahalla dancehall (7)

mazes - a thousand heys (7)

smith western - dye it blonde (7)

battles - gloss drop (7)

stephen malkmus and the jicks - mirror traffic (7)

keren ann - 101 (7)

ema - past life martyr saints (6.5)

dom - family of love (7)

low - c'mon (7)

deerhoof - deerhoof vs evil (7)

bjork - biophilia (7)

r e m - collapse into now (7)

modeselektor - monkeytown (7.5)

peste noire - l'ordure a l'etat pur (7.5)

com truise - galactic melt

peter bjorn and john - gimme some (7)

sbtrkt - st (7)

dead frozen boyfriend - kissing the zombie stars ep

and then the rest

french films - imaginary future (6.5)

mina tindle - mina tindle (7)

papercuts - fading parade (6)

the strange boys - live music (6.5)

handsome furs (6)

civil civic - rules (7)

Favourite Directors

Edward Yang (Taipei Story - Yiyi - A Brighter Summer Day - Mahjong)
Gus Van Sant
Olivier Assayas (Désordre - Irma Vep - L'Eau Froide - Paris S'éveille - L'Heure d'été - Clean)
FW Murnau (Faust - Sunrise -
Claire Denis (J'ai pas Sommeil -
Jacques Demy
Georges Franju
Jean Luc Godard
Wong Kar Wai
Tsai Ming Liang
Abel Ferrara
Lars Von Trier
Werner Herzog
Ozu
Leos Carax
Atom Egoyan
David Lynch
Pedro Almodovar
François Truffaut
Orson Welles
Agnes Varda (Sans Toi Ni Loi - Cleo de 5 a 7)
Gael Morel

2011 FILMS

MELANCHOLIA - lars von trier

OSLO 31st AUGuST - joakim trier

HORS SATAN - bruno dumont
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY edward yang
WEEKEND - andrew haigh

HABEMUS PAPAM (WE HAVE A POPE) - Nanni Moretti
SUPER 8 - jj abrams

MEEK'S CUTOFF - kelly reichardt

SOMEWHERE - sofia coppola

BLACK SWAN - darren aronofsky

THE GIRL WITH A DRAGON TATTOO - david fincher

RESTLESS - gus van sant

ESSENTIAL KILLING - jerzy skolimowski

DRIVE - nicolas winding refn

HOW DO YOU KNOW - james l brooks

THE SKIN I LIVE IN- pedro almodovar

THE EAGLE - kevin mcdonald

BLUE VALENTINE - derek cianfrance

L.A. ZOMBIE - bruce labruce

THE GREEN HORNET - michel gondry

TWILIGHT - BREAKDOWN part 1

then
NOBODY ELSE BUT YOU -
WUTHERING HEIGHT - andrea arnold

PAUL greg mottola

HOWL rob epstein and jeffrey friedman

HEREAFTER clint eastwood

A DANGEROUS METHOD david cronenberg

HUGO CABRET martin scorcese

THE PORTUGUESE NUN eugene green

BIUTIFUL alejandro gonzales inaritu

RABBIT HOLE john cameon mitchell

TRUE GRIT joel and ethan cohen

2008 Cinema

GOMORRAH matteo garrone
HUNGER steve mc queen
WALL E andrew stanton
CLOVERFIELD Matt Reeves
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY julian schnabel
MAN ON WIRE James Marsh
PERSEPOLIS marjane satrapi
SUMMER HOURS olivier assayas
MILK gus van sant
PONYO hayao miyazaki

MISTER LONELY harmony korine

BE KIND REWIND michel gondry
SYNECHDOCHE NEW YORK charlie kaufman



haven't seen those yet
THE WRESTLER darren aronoksky
MY WINIPEG guy maddin
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD werner herzog


and those ones were ok
LET THE ONE RIGHT IN
BURN AFTER READING coen brothers
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
BOLT
KUNG FU PANDA
ROLE MODELS
VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
THE DARK KNIGHT (over long)
DEFIANCE
ZACK AND MIRI DO A PORNO
BOY A (the end was awful though)
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL

2001 in music

1- vincent gallo - when

2. the moldy peaches - the moldy peaches

3. departure lounge - jetlag dreams

4. low - things we lost in the fire

5. charles douglas - the burden of genius

6. kings of convenience - quiet is the new loud

7. daft punk - discovery

8. pulp - we love life

9. ed harcourt - here be monsters

10. herman dune - switzerland heritage

11. the tyde - once

12. m83 - m83

13. the gentles waves - swansong for you

14.the strokes - is this it?

15. jim o’rourke - insignificant

16. bjork - verspentine

17. air - 10 000 hz legend

18. mogwai - rock action

19. arab strap - the red thread

20. papa m - whatever, mortal

21. explosions in the sky - those who tell the truth shall die

22. radiohead - amnesiac

23. manic street preachers - know your enemy

24. camera obscura - biggest bluest hi-fi

25. echo and the bunnymen - flowers

26. brian jonestown massacre - bravery, repetition and noise

27. the white stripes - white blood cells

28. black rebel motorcycle club - b.r.m.c.

29. silver jews - bright flight

30. lali puna - scary world theory

31. bardo pond - dilate

32. electrelane - rock it to the moon

33. gel; - evidenz ep

34. ladytron - 604

35. sebastien tellier - l’incroyable verité

36. stars of the lid - the tired sound of star of the lid

37. aaliyah - aaliyah

38. tindersticks - can our love

39. super furry animals - rings around the world

40. stephen malkmus - Stephen Malkmus

41. smog - Rain on Lens

42. the shins - Oh, Inverted World

43. royksopp - Melody AM

44. helena - azul

45. Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - bavarian fruit cake

46. fridge - happiness

47. beulah - the coast is never clear

48. stereolab - sound dust

49. zoot woman - living in a magazine

50. fischerspooner - #1

honorable mention

brigitte fontaine - kekeland

depeche mode - exciter

le tigre - feminist sweepstakes

miss kittin and the hacker - first album

new order - get ready

orange can - home burns

aphex twin - drukqs

troublemakers - doubts and conviction

the avalanches - since you left me

encre - encre

migala - arde

neil halstead - sleeping on roads

2000 in music

2000 (in no particular order, well almost)

22 gems

broadcast - the noise made by people 9/10

black box recorder - the facts of life 8/10

the delgados - the great eastern 9/10

badly drawn boy - the hour of the bewildered beast 9/10

saint etienne - sound of water 9/10

phoenix - united 9/10

air - the virgin suicides 9/10

radiohead - kid a 9/10

goldfrapp - felt mountain 9/10

modest mouse - the moon and antartica

mirwais - production 8/10

bertrand burgalat - the sssound of mmmusic 8/10

michel houellebecq - presence humaine 8/10

peaches - the teaches of peaches 8/10

the moldy peaches - the moldy peaches 8/10

elastica - the menace 8/10

explosions in the sky - how strange, innocence 8/10

madonna - music 8/10

doves - lost souls 8/10

belle and sebastian - fold your hands child you walk like a peasant 8/10

animal collective - spirits they're gone, spirit they've vanished 7.5/10

blonde redhead - melody of certain damaged lemons 7/10

more goodies

gonzales - gonzales uber alles 7/10

cat power - the cover album 7/10

tommy guerrero - a little bit of something 7/10
sigur ros - agae byrjun 7/10
yo la tengo - then nothing turn itself inside out 7/10

mojave 3 - excuses for travellers 7/10

dandy wharols - 13 tales from urban bohemia 7/10

tommy hools - popular frequencies 7/10

leila - courtesy of choice 6/10
alpine stars - b.a.s.i.c. 6/10

eels - daisies of the galaxy 7/10

elliott Smith - figure 8. 7/10
modest mouse - the moon and antartica 7/10
the kingsburry manx 7/10
mum - yesterday was dramatic, today is ok 7/10

primal scream - xtrmntr 7/10
godspeed you black emperor! - levez vos skinny fists like little antennes to heaven 7/10

honorable mention

herman dune - turn off the light 6/10

grandaddy - the sophtware slump 6/10

and you will know us by the trail of dead - madonna 6/10

bjork - selma songs 7/10

go kart mozart - instant wigwam

johnny cash - solitary man 7/10

placebo - black market music 5/10

rob - don’t kill 5/10

schneider tm - light 3000 ep 7/10

super furry animals - mwng

2002 in music

top 16

>comet gain - realistes 9/10

>baxter dury - len parrot’s memorial lift 8.5/10

>sigur ros - ( ) 8.5/10

>death in vegas - scorpio rising 8/10

>interpol - turn on the bright lights 8/10

>departure lounge - too late to die young 7/10

>primal scream - evil heat 8/10

>beck - sea change 8/10

>wilco - yankee foxtrot hotel 7/10

>mum - finally we are no one 9/10

>the libertines - up the bracket 8/10

>...and you will know us by the trail of dead - source tags and codes 8/10

>st etienne - finistere 8/10

>the polyphonic spree - the beginning stages of the polyphonic spree 7/10

>the electric soft parade - hole in the wall 8/10

>iron and wine - the creek drank the cradle 8/10

second position (the cool 16)

>suede - a new morning 6/10

>clinic - walking with thee 7/10

>boards of canada - geogaddi 7/10

>the shins - oh inverted world 7/10

>sonic youth - murray street 6/10

>felix da housecat - kittenz and thee glitz 7/10

>robots in disguise - robots in disguise 7/10

>queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf 7/10

>low - trust 7/10

>ms john soda - no p. or d. 6/10

>the liars - They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top 6/10

> swearing at motorists “this flag signals goodbye” 7/10

>belle and sebastian - i’m waking up to us ep 7/10

>beth gibbons and rustin man - out of season 6/10

>aim - hinterland

>the notwist - neon golden

then the rest (ok records, but not amazing)

>blue states - man moutain

>devendra banhart - oh me oh my...

>doves - the last broadcast

>the faint - danse macabre

>fc kahuna - machine says yes

>jason loewenstein - at sixes and sevens

>american analog set

>belle and sebastian - storytelling

>dj shadow - the private press

>ed harcourt - still i dream of it ep

>godspeedyoublackemperor - yanqui U.X.O.

>ian brown - sounds from the spheres

>jack - the end of the way it’s always been

>the mongolfier brothers - the world is flat

>ladytron - light and magic

>max tundra - mastered by the guy at the exchange

CINEMA 2010

My favourite Films in 2010

WHITE MATERIAL claire denis
SOMEWHERE sofia coppola

ENTER THE VOID gaspar noe

A SINGLE MAN tom ford

KABOOM gregg araki
OF GOD AND MEN xavier bauvois
A PROPHET
MACHETE roberto rodriguez

UNCLE BOOMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Apichatpong Weerasethakul

LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES xavier dolan

THE SOCIAL NETWORK david fincher

TOY STORY 3 Lee Unkrich

THE HOLE joe dante
FANTASTIC MR FOX wes anderson

ANOTHER YEAR mike leigh

I AM LOVE luca guadagnino

KICK ASS matthew Vaughn

SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD
TRASH HUMPERS harmony korine
BELLE EPINE
CARLOS olivier assayas

OTHER FILMS

INCEPTION
NOWHERE BOY sam taylor wooD
LET ME IN


I haven't seen the following films yet

SIMON WERNER A DISPARU
RABBIT HOLE
VINCERE
MOTHER

CINEMA 2009

My Favourites Films in 2009 were

Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)

Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)

35 Shots Of Rhum (Claire Denis)
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)

J'ai Tué Ma Mere (Xavier Dolan)

La Belle Personne (Christophe Honoré)
A Single Man (Tom Ford)
Up (Pete Docter)
Adventureland (Greg Mottola)

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

Antichrist (Lars Von Triers)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

Milk (Gus Van Sant)
Where The Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)

No One Knows About Persian Cats (Bahman Ghobadi)

Ponio (Hayao Miyazaki)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson)
Zombieland

then

A Serious Man (Coen Brothers)
Moon (Duncan Jones)
Up In The Air
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

Synechdoche New York (Charlie Kaufman)

Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
Drag Me To Hell (Sam Raimi)
Julia (Eric Zonca)
The Box (Richard Kelly)

District 9 (Neil Blomkamp)

Bolt
Star Trek

The Hangover
Les Beaux Gosses - Riad Sattouf