Best of 2006 - Arts and Entertainment
Jan. 2nd, 2007 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gordonzola My Favorite Albums
Honorable Mention: Sister George – "Drag King" released a decade ago but I just got a copy again this year. Awesome early ‘90s queer punk. Hard to find but I hear![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crusherrrr has a bunch under his bed.
5. Neko Case – "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood" I burned this fordairryiere and found myself listening to it all the time. It sounds profound even if I don’t really know why it would be. Everything I like about country folk rock
4. The Ex – "Singles. Period. 1980-1990" Classic Ex from their Dutch anarcho-squatter punk period. Can we call it political percussion punk?
3. Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes – "The Witch’s Dagger" Awesome Rough Trade-ish queer punk from a now defunct San Francisco band. Not quite the Raincoats or Delta 5, but pretty damn good. They put on the best shows in the city until they went under.
2. Hey Willpower EP MORE! We want more! Four songs is not enough.
1. Kirb and Chris – "Niggaz and White Girls" Oh man, questionable theme aside, this is great. SF new wave hip hop. Gary Numan, The Police, The Go Gos, Talking Heads… so many songs you never wanted to hear again re-mixed and rapped over.
Best Shows
5, Wanda Jackson/Rosie Flores Great Rockabilly woman rocking bimbos 365 Club. Except for a couple of minutes of Testimony to Jesus, it was great.
4. Joan Jett at the Marin County Fair If Marin was like that all the time I never would have left.
3. ESG even though I felt sick and left early they were awesome.
2.Mutants at Cafe Du Nord The full reunion with my teen crush Sally back and singing.
1. Hellakraptor in my friends’ backyard on Labor Day. Teenage punks playing for old punks. Soooo cute
Best show for boys:
Hard Skin Skinhead shows are boys only!
Most Unintentionally Funny Moment of a Show
When The Slits brought up an audience member to dance onstage for the song "Shoplifting" and it was someone we had banned from our store for shoplifting.
Favorite Books in no ranked order
Indecent by Sarah Katherine Lewis
OK OK. I’ve known SK since the zine days, of course I’m gonna list her book. But seriously, it’s refreshing that this book, among other things, looks at sex work as work. The ass on the cover is certainly helping it sell, but this could be filed under Labor Studies if we lived in a better world where most bookstores had such a section.aparcedia does a good review here and she’s impartial.
Jokes and the Unconscious Daphne Gottlieb and Diane Di Massa
Non-linear graphic novel about death, hospitals, sex, family and a lot more.
The Traveling Death & Resurrection Show Ariel Gore
Hold up! I actually don’t know Ariel though it seems like I might. No, I bought this at a reading and it was one of the best things I read all year. Obviously this book has religiousy bits, but what I loved was the formation and struggles of the book’s created family. It was one of those books where I got really sad that I had finished and wouldn’t know what came next for the characters.
Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City Anne Thomas Soffee.
I hate LA hair metal. I do not like it seriously and I do not like it ironically. But I loved this book about Soffee trying to become a rock journalist in ‘80s LA. It’s good enough that I’m gonna go find her book about belly dancing even though I have even less interest in that than in bad metal. That’s how much I enjoyed this book.
Cant Stop Wont Stop Jeff Chang
Rip it Up and Start Again Simon Reynolds
I know Can’t Stop came out in 2005, but read these together. The exhaustive history of hip hop and the city and/or theme oriented origins of Post-Punk. When read together you can see the cross-pollination going on in music that is often categorized by race. Two incredibly well-done books about the untold history of the ‘80s most important musical subcultures.
Favorite Movies
I think I went to less movies this year than in any year since I was in the single digits. The only ones worth mentioning were the deeply flawed, but still fun, "V for Vendetta" and the awesome but only for the already converted "Kiki and Herb: Reloaded". More movies next year.
I will happily critique any movies you thought were good though, whether or not I've seen them.
Honorable Mention: Sister George – "Drag King" released a decade ago but I just got a copy again this year. Awesome early ‘90s queer punk. Hard to find but I hear
crusherrrr has a bunch under his bed.5. Neko Case – "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood" I burned this for
dairryiere and found myself listening to it all the time. It sounds profound even if I don’t really know why it would be. Everything I like about country folk rock4. The Ex – "Singles. Period. 1980-1990" Classic Ex from their Dutch anarcho-squatter punk period. Can we call it political percussion punk?
3. Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes – "The Witch’s Dagger" Awesome Rough Trade-ish queer punk from a now defunct San Francisco band. Not quite the Raincoats or Delta 5, but pretty damn good. They put on the best shows in the city until they went under.
2. Hey Willpower EP MORE! We want more! Four songs is not enough.
1. Kirb and Chris – "Niggaz and White Girls" Oh man, questionable theme aside, this is great. SF new wave hip hop. Gary Numan, The Police, The Go Gos, Talking Heads… so many songs you never wanted to hear again re-mixed and rapped over.
Best Shows
5, Wanda Jackson/Rosie Flores Great Rockabilly woman rocking bimbos 365 Club. Except for a couple of minutes of Testimony to Jesus, it was great.
4. Joan Jett at the Marin County Fair If Marin was like that all the time I never would have left.
3. ESG even though I felt sick and left early they were awesome.
2.Mutants at Cafe Du Nord The full reunion with my teen crush Sally back and singing.
1. Hellakraptor in my friends’ backyard on Labor Day. Teenage punks playing for old punks. Soooo cute
Best show for boys:
Hard Skin Skinhead shows are boys only!
Most Unintentionally Funny Moment of a Show
When The Slits brought up an audience member to dance onstage for the song "Shoplifting" and it was someone we had banned from our store for shoplifting.
Favorite Books in no ranked order
Indecent by Sarah Katherine Lewis
OK OK. I’ve known SK since the zine days, of course I’m gonna list her book. But seriously, it’s refreshing that this book, among other things, looks at sex work as work. The ass on the cover is certainly helping it sell, but this could be filed under Labor Studies if we lived in a better world where most bookstores had such a section.
aparcedia does a good review here and she’s impartial.Jokes and the Unconscious Daphne Gottlieb and Diane Di Massa
Non-linear graphic novel about death, hospitals, sex, family and a lot more.
The Traveling Death & Resurrection Show Ariel Gore
Hold up! I actually don’t know Ariel though it seems like I might. No, I bought this at a reading and it was one of the best things I read all year. Obviously this book has religiousy bits, but what I loved was the formation and struggles of the book’s created family. It was one of those books where I got really sad that I had finished and wouldn’t know what came next for the characters.
Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City Anne Thomas Soffee.
I hate LA hair metal. I do not like it seriously and I do not like it ironically. But I loved this book about Soffee trying to become a rock journalist in ‘80s LA. It’s good enough that I’m gonna go find her book about belly dancing even though I have even less interest in that than in bad metal. That’s how much I enjoyed this book.
Cant Stop Wont Stop Jeff Chang
Rip it Up and Start Again Simon Reynolds
I know Can’t Stop came out in 2005, but read these together. The exhaustive history of hip hop and the city and/or theme oriented origins of Post-Punk. When read together you can see the cross-pollination going on in music that is often categorized by race. Two incredibly well-done books about the untold history of the ‘80s most important musical subcultures.
Favorite Movies
I think I went to less movies this year than in any year since I was in the single digits. The only ones worth mentioning were the deeply flawed, but still fun, "V for Vendetta" and the awesome but only for the already converted "Kiki and Herb: Reloaded". More movies next year.
I will happily critique any movies you thought were good though, whether or not I've seen them.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:18 pm (UTC)I have to keep a list of books I read this coming year; I didn't do so for 2006 and yet tore through more books in a single year than I have since childhood. My pick for best book is probably Fun Home.
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:17 pm (UTC)"Lovemakers? What the fuck is a Lovemaker?"
no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 12:40 am (UTC)Can ya help a sista out?
You have me intrigued.
I need to laugh.
no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:22 pm (UTC)Did you think the grandpa was a pedophile?
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:28 pm (UTC)Not that I didn't fully appreciate the everyone dancing onstage scene at the end. I thought that was almost as good an us against them scene as the funeral fight in Suburbia, one of my fave movie moments ever.
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:38 pm (UTC)It was the dance scene that really got me. Perhaps I should see Suburbia.
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:49 pm (UTC)But it does have great lines like this:
cop to Skinhead wearing camoflague: "Hey kid, where's the war?"
Skinhead to cop: "Up your ass."
In the mid '80s that was a rallying cry!
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:52 pm (UTC)Ha ha! "Up your ass!" Love it!
no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 12:24 am (UTC)One of Obliviot's favorites, Suburbia.
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:16 pm (UTC)and LOLZ@unintentional funny moment.
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 04:43 am (UTC)http://www.myspace.com/heywillpower
though i can't figure out how to download it.
no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 04:47 am (UTC)I can't figure it out, either, but I plan on spending the rest of the night finding out.
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:23 pm (UTC)yay for "Dead Like Me", "Veronica Mars", and "The Office" US!
no subject
Date: 2007-01-02 10:23 pm (UTC)You are a dirty, filthy liar!
Date: 2007-01-02 11:52 pm (UTC)2)Hell's Kitchen
3)Trading Spouse's
And that's just what *we* watched together.
tsk, tsk, tsk.
As if it meant nothing to you.
Re: You are a dirty, filthy liar!
Date: 2007-01-03 12:21 am (UTC)ANTM is getting worse and worse. Hell's Kitchen was so bad in the end we didn't even care to see the finale. And I always hated Trading Spouses.
Re: You are a dirty, filthy liar!
Date: 2007-01-03 02:59 am (UTC)ps: dissing tv? I don't even know you anymore. xo
no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 01:47 am (UTC)Absolutely agreed that this was a blah year for movies. The only films I really enjoyed this year were A Prairie Home Companion and Stranger Than Fiction (despite my distaste for Will Ferrell).
no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 04:49 am (UTC)and some really great ones: The Science of Sleep, Children of Men, The Fountain,Sherrybaby,Volver,Pan's Labyrinth, An Inconvenient Truth.
no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 06:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 06:15 pm (UTC)(ps- i'll be in sf jan 10-24 - would be great to see you.)
no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 04:00 pm (UTC)