December 2009
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2009: The Year In Review by Matt Payton
It certainly was the last year of the 2000s, you can say that. I don’t know what else you could say about it, but I’ll give it the old college try: TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2009 1. The Raveonettes In And Out Of Control The fact that The Raveonettes were my first concert in Chicago this fall may have influenced this being at the top of the list, but this album is hard to compete...
Dec 31st
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TOP 25 ALBUMS OF THE DECADE by Matt Payton
1. Cursive The Ugly Organ (2003) One of the few bands I will see every time they tour and don’t get sick of at all. This was the album that introduced me to the band and like Annie Hall to Woody Allen, it’s a great one to start with so you can see what you’re getting yourself into. This album also contains one of my favorite lines of all time: “My ego’s like my...
Dec 31st
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TOP 25 SONGS OF THE DECADE by Matt Payton
1. Cursive “Rise Up! Rise Up!” (2006) My favorite call-to-arms song of the decade. 2. Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros “Coma Girl” (2003) My favorite posthumous song of the decade. 3. M.I.A. “Paper Planes” (2007) My favorite better-than-the-great-song-that-it-samples song of the decade. 4. The Roots featuring Cody Chesnutt “The Seed (2.0)” (2002) ...
Dec 31st
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FILMS OF THE DECADE by Matt Payton
From the looks of it, Charlie Kaufman seems to be my MVP and Mark Wahlberg is my MW(orthless)P. That seems about right. Top 25 Films Of The 2000s 1. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears; 2000) Ah, the movie that inspired me to start making these lists 9 years ago…High Fidelity is to blame for all of this nonsense for better and (mostly) worse. I don’t think I have any choice but to put...
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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“The films that, if I’m in a cinema, and I’m watching a movie that answers all...”
–  Michael Haneke
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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A Peril in War Zones - Sexual Abuse by Fellow... →
This reminded me of the way that the Catholic church handles their sexual abuse cases. I assume the church has more money to pay people off with, but who knows?
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“I am particularly concerned about a threat to our essential public identity....”
– - David Fanning, executive producer of Frontline: http://communicationleadershipblog.uscannenberg.org/2009/12/david-fanning-presents-the-200.html It’s nice to see a man with some scruples have a job like that.
Dec 28th
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WatchWatch
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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ListenSONG OF THE DAY The Exciters “Tell...
Dec 26th
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Barack Obama Never Campaigned On the Public Option... →
Dec 25th
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The joy of celebrating a godless Christmas. →
Dec 25th
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ListenSONG OF THE DAY Sly And The Family Stone ...
Dec 25th
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KCUR: New KC Website Looking to go Hyper-Local  →
I want to know who’s in charge of recording the footstep and outside noises for these things? They’re so detailed.
Dec 24th
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ListenSONG OF THE DAY Ramones “Merry Christmas...
Dec 24th
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Bill Moyers Journal: Robert Kuttner & Matt Taibbi →
Taibbi: “And I think, you know, back in the in the mid-’80s, after Walter Mondale lost, I think the Democrats made a conscious decision that they were no longer going to rely entirely on interest groups and unions to fund their campaigns, that they were going to try to close that funding gap with the Republicans. And they made a lot of concessions to the financial services industry to...
Dec 23rd
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ListenSONG OF THE DAY Brenda Lee “Tammy” ...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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“It’s one thing to recognize capitalism for the powerful economic tool it is and...”
– - David Simon The man can give interviews with the best of them: http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n12/htdocs/david-simon-280.php?page=1
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Blackwater: Private Army In The News Again : NPR →
I always like it when people try to change the name of something but everyone else ignores it and keeps calling it what it originally was. Like Prince or the Sears Tower.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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"You’re the last person who can give us the... →
Hey, why is Fox News located in the heart of what they see as the “Not Real America”? If they were true patriots they’d be headquartered out of Huge Cock, Texas or something, right?
Dec 21st
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Defense Bill Raids Personnel Funds to Pay For... →
If only people were still paid to cover this sort of thing instead of bloggers writing essays about how they are the future.
Dec 21st
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ListenSONG OF THE DAY Robert Johnson “When You...
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