2010 music

Leaving 2010 makes me feel old. When I was a kid, 2010 was like the end of time, the ultimate future. Predictions about future events never speculated beyond 2010. I would think about 2010 and be like woah, I'll be 37 in 2010 and that's old. And now 2010 is gone.

I decided to add a second end of 2010 list (because I see how much everyone loved and felt compelled to comment on my book list! :). I was going to do a music, movies, and tv list because the music list is short but then I decided to add videos (awesome, I know) and that made the post long. It's January 2nd people and these lists can only go on so long, so maybe you will not get my movies and tv lists and that's probably ok because a) lisa b. has the definitive movie list and b) recording my tv-watching, as I've said before, may be too embarrassing.

Music
I didn't purchase or listen to much new music in 2010. Much of what I did purchase was not new in 2010, so you'll have to go elsewhere for your definitive view of the year in music (I know, it's disappointing).

• Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter. This came out at the end of 2009, but I am counting it here because I love Richard Hawley and I think you should too.
  

• The Swell Season, Strict Joy. Also a late 2009 entry. While my sister saw the Swell Season perform multiple times in 2010, I was stuck listening to the album, but I'm not complaining.
  

In These Arms from banjo bandstand on Vimeo.

• Josh Rouse, The Besk of the Rykodisc Years. I bought this because there is this song of his, "Dressed Up Like Nebraska," that I bought randomly when Will and I were making a state-by-state playlist for our long drive to the cold, cold north. I love that song. I didn't love this album as much. But that's ok.
  
• Purple Rain. After three years of watching Purple Rain (the movie) on Christmas Eve with Will, I decided I needed the actual album. Everything about it is awesome, which sort of goes without saying.
  

• A couple of other purchases in the nostalgia category: Aztec Camera, Stray and the Very Best of the Human League. I bought the Human League album because of something my sister posted on Facebook. Damn that Facebook.
  

• Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Up From Below and Arcade Fire, The Suburbs. (These were technically Will purchases). I love Edward Sharpe--hippy, dippy but I don't care. Neither Will nor I cared for the Suburbs. pretentious much?
• Some music for Miss Imogen: Woody Guthrie's Songs to Grow on For Mother and Child and Dan Zane's Catch That Train. Dan Zanes does "family music" that kids like and parents won't want to kill themselves listening to. American-roots' inspired. Imogen is dancing to it right now and that's pretty adorable.
  

• Finally, a couple of end of the year Christmas music purchases: A Colbert Christmas and A Xmas Postcard from Willie (that's Willie Nelson).
  

What have you been listening to this year?

my new favorite movie

will and I went to see Adventureland yesterday, which I loved, loved. will said I was grinning through the whole thing.

melancholy, nostalgia, the haze of transition--all of the moods I like to contemplate and wallow in. all of this plus a few moments of sublime comic relief, thanks mostly to kristen wiig, and a killer soundtrack. In my mind, it was the best movie soundtrack ever. Lou Reed, the Cure, the Replacements, Crowded House. I would buy the soundtrack if I didn't have most of the songs already--but I will be filling in the gaps.

you should go see it. you might not love it as much as I did, but it is a lovely movie.