Here's to an awesome 2013 from ALL KINDSA GIRLS!!
All Kindsa Girls- The Real Kids Real Kids
Donna- 10cc Donna
Winter Blues- Redd Kross Researching The Blues
Emily- The Blondes Swedish Heat
Agnes- Donnie Iris Back On The Streets
Coat Check- Queued Up S/T EP
Rita- Sorrows Love Too Late
Pamela- Face Dancer About Face
^Jane- Jefferson Starship Jane 7"
Lucille- The Didjits Hey Judester / Fizzjob
Sandy- Popsicle Laquer
Think I'm In Love- The CRY! The CRY!
Maya- The Weed Bros The Weed Bros
Christina- Idle Jets Nashpop: A Nashville Pop Compilation
*I Love the Feeling- David Myhr Soundshine
*X-Kid- Green Day ¡Tré!
*Remember (Falling Off the Sky)- The dB's Falling off The Sky
*Heaven Help Me- Shoes Ignition
*Come On- Brendan Benson What Kind Of World
Angeline- Pointed Sticks Part Of The Noise
Carrie- Dirty Looks Turn It Up
Rosie- The Kooks Junk Of The Heart
The Streets- Soul Asylum Delayed Reaction
Justine- The Cretones Thin Red Line
Caroline- Throwback Suburbia Shot Glass Souvenir
Cool Runnings- The DomNicks Super Real
Ramona- The Ramones Rocket To Russia
Leilani- Hoodoo Gurus Stoneage Romeos
Bloody Mary- Barrence Whitfield Dig Yourself
Maria- The Pop Go!
52 Girls- The B-52's The B-52's
^Power Pop Peak: #14 Billboard Hot 100 11/1/79
*SacroSet: 2012 Top 5
New Year’s greetings to you all! I hope you had an
enjoyable 2012. I’m happy to report that even though I was fake stabbed
to death numerous times while playing Julius Caesar on stage, in the real world
I had an injury-free 12 months! And my radio show ALL KINDSA GIRLS is
still going strong (check out the facebook
page). As always, 2012 was chock full of great movies, DVD’s, TV shows,
records and books I thoroughly enjoyed watching, streaming, listening to and
reading. So, in a proud tradition that dates back to 1999, I humbly share
my 2012 Top 5’s:
TOP 5 MOVIES
The Perks
Of Being A Wallflower (feel infinite)
Silver
Linings Playbook (90% mental)
The Sessions
(breathing lessons)
Headhunters
(literally!)
Young
Adult (you can’t go back)
TOP 5 DVD’S/WEB STREAMS
Pariah
(AG indeed)
Coriolanus
(Shakespeare/Fiennes)
Point
Blank (nurse nightmare)
Chronicle
(growing pains)
Tomboy
(boy’s life)
TOP 5 ALBUMS
Ignition-
Shoes (Zion’s
finest are back)
Falling
Off The Sky- The dB’s (triumphant Tar Heels return)
What
Kind Of World- Brendan Benson (rocking raconteur)
Soundshine-
David Myhr (merrymaking)
Tre-
Green Day (third time’s the charm)
TOP 5 BOOKS
Ready
Player One- Ernest Cline (virtual unreality)
The
Fault In Our Stars- John Green (amazing Hazel Grace)
American
Subversive- David Goodwillie (blogger/terror-ist)
The
Leftovers- Tom Perotta (after-rapture)
The
Name Of The Game Is Death- Dan J. Marlowe (pulp fiction)
TOP 5 TV/CABLE SHOWS
Game
of Thrones Season 1 (Stark outlook)
Sons
of Anarchy Seasons 1-4 (something is rotten in Charming)
Boardwalk
Empire Seasons 1-2 (Nucky rules)
Walking
Dead Season 2 (poor Dale)
Hell
On Wheels Season 1 (home on the range)
If you’d like to check out past Top 5 Lists, I’ve compiled
them here: http://ricktop5lists.blogspot.com/.
Please feel free to share your favorites from 2012- I’m always on the lookout
for quality viewing, listening and reading material so it would be great to
hear from you. Here’s wishing you all the best in 2013!!
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p.s. Since sending out my Top 5's e-mail I've gotten three responses saying essentially the same thing: "What about Homeland? What is WRONG with you?!?" Let me explain... I really liked Homeland Season 1 but its exclusion from this list comes down to two things, one outside my control and the other totally my fault. First, my expectations were impossibly high after hearing so much Homeland hype from friends, Entertainment Weekly, Aziz Ansari, etc. Homeland would have to have been better than The Wire to measure up and as we know that is an enormously high bar. Second, I watched the pivotal bunker episode on my laptop at Dallas-Ft. Worth airport during a flight delay. Brody's got his thumb on the switch while Carrie is at his house accosting his daughter and over the PA I'm hearing a drawling announcement that the flight to Des Moine will be delayed 30 minutes. I really screwed myself there. Plus, already knowing that there was a Season 2 and that Brody is in it really put a damper on the suspense. I really envy people like my friend Tim who watched the show when it first aired having no idea how everything would turn out. At that time it was entirely plausible that Brody fulfills his mission and Carrie gets locked up- now that would have been a memorable finish!
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