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Seriously Though

Seriously though, "Convoy" is a great movie. A real git-er-done. Kris Kristopherson, Ernest Borgnine...how can you go wrong with them? And the kicker is that the movie was based on the song "Convoy", not t'other way 'round.

Here are my media bests lists for 2007, I assure there are things I am forgetting.

Road Shows:
Om @ Emos
The Clientele @ Emos
Old time Relijun @ Carousel
Brightblack Morning Light @ Emos Lounge
MV & EE @ Mohawk
Wolves in the Throne Room @ Mohawk
RTX @ Emos
Sonic Youth @ Stubbs

Local Bands I Saw Most:
Yellow Fever
Horse + Donkey
Shapes Have Fangs
Count Dracula's Weed Smuggling Jam Engine
Basic
Lonesome Heroes
The Carrots
Baby Robots
Black Angels
Still Water Pioneers
Smoke Detector
Finally Punk
Ralph White
White Denim

Good Bands I Discovered:
Street Hassle
Headdress
Toko-Ri Get High
Beach House
Marie Sioux
Chief Death Rage
Yellow Swans
Farah
Flaming Priest
The Tunnels
Mayhem
Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang
Coma in Algiers
Current 93
Boyz Noise

Best Movies(seen in, but not necessarily made in 2007):
Control
Grindhouse/Deathproof
Hot Fuzz
I'm Not There
Eastern Promises
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
Dead Kids(aka Disturbing Behavior)
Dirt Road to Psychedelia
Jeremiah Johnson
Rockers
The Harder They Come
Don't Go in the Basement
Five Minutes To Live
The Big Cube
Hustle and Flow
Pieces
This is not a Test

Best Books Read:
Valga Krusa- Charles Potts
Lords of Chaos- eds. Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind
The Sorrows of Young Werther- Goethe
Nexus- Henry Miller
Laughable Loves- Milan Kundera
A Cauldron of Witches- ed. Clifford Alderman
Distance From Loved Ones- James Tate
This is It- Alan Watts
Lost Beatles Interviews- ed. Geoffrey Giulliano
Arm in Arm- Remy Charlip
Ask the Dust- John Fante
Dead Babies- Martin Amis

7:37 p.m. - 2008-01-02

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