…I'll admit I slept on the K'naan, Ghostface, and Raekwon joints…although, in the case of the latter, the dope game is a tired ass rap topic…

in no particular order…

…what's sad is this was one of the best years for hip hop in recent memory…

indefendsible…
the AV Club will look back at the Aughts as the decade they slept on hip hop…

…and yes indeed this album does kick ass…

"Coochie" is a vinyl & CD only track…

and holy shit, no Soderbergh!

The worst exclusions from both lists…
Coraline… and The Reader…

No love for Aronofsky?
Y'all forgot about Requiem For a Dream…

My wife and I looked at each other and simultaneously wondered aloud what it must smell like inside that clubhouse…

I'm only into the 2nd Criminal trade, so I'll reserve judgment whether or not I agree with you about its superiority 100 Bullets…but there's got to be room for more than one work of crime fiction on this list…100 Bullets belongs here…

agreed…Mr. McGruder needs to unleash Ruckus up in here…

I may not know what passes for Metal these days, but I'm positive SGM is not it. Art rock, sure…Prog noise, maybe…Avant-Goth, most likely…Metal? Hell No.

I've got a lot of catching up to do…
and this list looks like a great place to start…thanks…

here, here…criminally forgotten…

can't wait wait for Kristofferson…
That's all I got…

I'll take the bait and throw you a bone…here's a short list of living jazz artists who released vital music just this year…

perhaps Sal might just be the show's connection to the burgeoning career of a certain Mr. Warhol…he did get his start in advertising…

New York movies in the fall…Stevie Wonder in the spring…
there's a cycle of movies set in NYC I watch every fall…Godfather (I & II), Manhattan, 'Mo Better Blues (or Saturday Night Fever, depending on my mood), and Taxi Driver…ah, memories…

thirds on the love for S.O.A….