November 17, 2009
November 17th Updates to the Best of the Decade (2000-2009) Online Music Lists
Today's additions to the list of the online best of 2009 music lists:
100 Greatest Songs of the Noughties (greatest songs)
The A.V. Club (best comedy albums)
The A.V. Club (best electronic albums)
Consequence of Sound (albums)
The Corsair (top albums)
Enormous Yes (albums)
I Am Gary Hampton (top albums)
I Taught Myself to Grow Old (best albums)
The Indecision (top songs & albums)
Jolt Country (favorite albums)
The Night Bird Calls (albums)
NME (greatest albums)
NPR Music (most important albums)
Open Room (defining songs & albums)
Ragged Words (top albums)
Rock n' Rolly (top albums)
Skip to the End (best albums)
Songs from the Id (top albums)
Strangeluv Music and Film (best albums)
also at Largehearted Boy:
other daily updates to the list
Online Best of 2009 Music Lists
Online Best of the Decade (2000-2009) Music Lists
Online Best of 2009 Book Lists
2008 Online "Best Of" Music Lists
2007 Online "Best Of" Music Lists
2006 Online "Best Of" Music Lists
Online "Best Books of 2008" Lists
other lists at Largehearted Boy
Daily Downloads (free & legal mp3 downloads)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
musician/author interviews
tags: music cd list lists indie 2000s albums
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November 17, 2009
Book Notes - David Henry Sterry ("Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys")
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys collects stories, poems, and essays by sex workers. Compiled by David Henry Sterry and RJ Martin, Jr., the book organizes this collection of refreshingly genuine and brutally honest writings by category (love, life, money, etc.).
The New York Times wrote of the book:
"From the unappealing title, you might think this is a truly trashy paperback. Far from it: it’s an eye-opening, occasionally astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection from those who really have lived on the edge in a parallel universe. Their writing is, in most cases, unpolished, unpretentious and riveting — but don’t worry, their tales are also graphic, politically incorrect and mostly unquotable in this newspaper."
David Henry Sterry reads tonight in New York at the Museum of Sex at 7 with Xaviera Hollander.
In his own words, here is David Henry Sterry's Book Notes music playlist for his book, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex:
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys took me six years to write. Which is odd when you consider I didn't actually write it. It's an anthology I put together with my partner in crime RJ Martin, Jr. They are 71 writers in this book, and the only thing they all have in common is that they made money in the sex business. They are from the creamy top and shitty bottom of the economic food chain, and everywhere in between. $2500 an hour escorts, $100 rent boys, and $10 crack hos are bedfellows in our book. Trust me, it's just as strange as it sounds to wrangle 71 industrial sex technicians. A bit like herding cats in heat. With many of the same drawbacks and benefits. Ironically, this book full of hos was an act of pure love. After we paid everyone, we actually lost money. And it was such a stupidly difficult book to put together. We were inundated with submissions from industrial sex technicians all over the world. From Xavier Hollander, the happy hooker; to Dr. Annie Sprinkle, Post Modernists Porn Priestess; to Georgina Spelvin, legendary star of the greatest movie with sex in it ever made, the Devil in Miss Jones. And lots of work-a-day, meat and potatoes, working stiffs. Frankly, most of the writing was atrocious. Actually, that was the only other thing these people have to have in common. Their writing had to be good. But a big huge chunk of it came in handwritten scrawls. We had to transcribe and edit all that. Add the fact that it took us years of constant failure and rejection, from huge publishing houses, C-list agents, university presses, publishing houses that specialize in exactly this kind of book, even publishers so small that when you call them, someone picks up the phone and says, "Hello, this is Joe's Publishing, I'm Joe, talk to me." This book changed my life profoundly, from Hollywood calling, to prostitution abolitionists and decriminalizationists both calling for my head on a pike. But while I was making it, I often felt like Sisyphus, pushing that big huge rock up that big huge mountain for what seemed like eternity. Agony, ecstasy, exhilaration, exhaustipation, and finally a sense of intense satisfaction. And with me every step of the way was the thing that has always soothed my savage beast: music. These are songs I turned to a lot when I put this together. I also accumulated a long list of songs about industrial sex technicians, which I'm including.
1. "Just a Gigolo/I. Ain't Got Nobody," Louis Prima
People forget what a musical genius Louis Prima was. Yes, of course he had that big huge voice and personality, he was in some ways a buffoon, in the best sense, lovable and over the top. But it was he who put these two songs together. And in doing so he captured something of the essence of what it's like to be in the sex business. It has a huge beat, it's boisterous and it’s massive amounts of fun. There's that wild call’n’response section at the end, where Louis seems to be having so much fun improvising that he actually runs out of breath. But underneath is a terrible melancholy. There will come a day, when youth will pass away, what will they say about me? When the end comes I know, they'll say just a gigolo, life goes on without me. Cuz I ain't got nobody. Having lived for so long with all the stories sex workers sent me, a theme seemed to run through the whole thing. Yes, you often have a crazy, fun loving posse, but there is a feeling of not fitting into the world. Of not having anyone. Or rather, there's a good chance the people you do have may well be gone tomorrow, or are only there because of the money you can generate from them, or the sex they want from you. So many people have secret lives. But when you are an industrial sex technician, it is accentuated, the tension tightened, the stakes higher. I always felt like I was too straight for the freaks, and too freaky for the straights. This dichotomy of dark and light is brilliantly captured in this song. Plus it's great to both sing along to, and dance to. Btw, I think the David Lee Roth version sucks. It has absolutely no soul, and none of the sweet melancholy I'm talking about.
2. "Louise," by Paul Siebel
This is a haunting song about a sex working woman who gets killed. It's terribly sad and poignant. Louise rode home on the mail train, somewhere to the south I heard them say. Too bad it ended so ugly. Too bad she had to go that way. But the wind is blowing cold tonight. So goodnight, Louise, goodnight. There's so much violence in the world of sex 4 $. In our anthology is a beautiful piece by Dr. Annie Sprinkles about a vigil she started to honor those killed by the Green River Killer, who said he murdered so many prostitutes because he knew he could get away with it, that no one would care. When I myself was in that world I fell madly in love with a woman/child named Jade. I was insanely in love with her. She was either 15 or 40, depending upon when you looked at her. She was a very very high end teenage call girl. We had the same employment counselor/pimp: Sunny. I myself was slightly untethered from reality at this point in my life, and I used to have these crazy fantasies of us getting out of Hollywood and moving to the Galapagos Islands or somewhere and making beautiful little biracial babies together. One day I got a call from Sunny. Jade was dead. Killed at the hands of the trick. There two versions of this song that I love. They're very different. One is by Bonnie Raitt. Early Bonnie Raitt, so it's very stripped down and not slickly produced. The other is by Leo Kottke, that 12 string madman virtuoso, with that heavy heavy baritone. And an exquisite slide guitar solo that just hugs at the strings of my heart, which is usually at that point on my sleeve.
3. "Sex Machine," by the hardest working man in show business, James Brown.
Plowing through all those stories, I frequently fatigued. This song always makes my drawing click save go to sleep glands squirt. This track drips testosterone. The guitar hook, the beat, the funk, it's all so good. Plus, when I used to be in the Life myself, I thought of myself when I was on the Job as a machine. A sex machine.
4. "Cocaine," by Rev. Gary Davis
The recording I have was done when the good Rev. was about 150 years old, so he has this amazing old bluesman rasp, and his incredible finger picking style is very percussive but also has a lilting melodious quality to it. There's so many drugs in this book. I was a cocaine addict. It wasn't nearly as much fun as it sounds. I haven't had any cocaine about 10 years. Not that I wouldn't, if you were sitting here and you offered it to me. I just don't go out of my way to look for it anymore. But this song, and the raw quality of the recording, always helped me get back in touch with the dragon that must be fed, the monkey clinging to the back, the 600 pound gorilla in the room of every addict.
5. "Lady Marmalade," written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan
I happen to enjoy both versions, the original Patti LaBelle (produced by New Orleans legends Allen Toussaint), and Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & Pink, from the Moulin Rouge Boz Lerman soundtrack. Depending if I'm feeling modern or old school. "Voulez-vous couchez avec moi, ce soir?” For those of you who don't speak French, the loose translation is: Do you want to f*ck me tonight? What could be more appropriate for a whole book about the intersection of f**king and money. Sexy, fierce, majestic, and throbbing with pussy power, this song just puts a smile on my face, my body starts dancing, and it shakes my brain free.
6. "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed
That double bass lines which dominate this song feel so slinky and sexual and subversive, no matter how many times I hear it. And that hardcore yet effortless singsongy thing that Lou Reed does feels so much like the underground world of sex 4 $. And of course that absolutely prescient, transcendent line: But she never lost her head, even when she was giving head. Words to live by for anyone, but especially for industrial sex technicians.
7. "YMCA," written by Jacques Morali, Victor Willis, Henri Belolo, and made famous of course by the one, the only Village People.
There are lots of rent boys and male hustlers in this book, and this song and its campiness, plus it's cockeyed optimism and sense of funfunfun made it a constant companion throughout the writing of this book. And it's actually mentioned in one of my favorite stories in the book by fantastic writer, Perry Brass.
Here are the songs about sex workers I’ve accumulated over the years.
TOP 25
"Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody," Louis Prima
"Love for Sale," Noel Coward & Billie Holiday
"Louise," Bonnie Raitt/Leo Kottke
"Christmas Card from a Hooker," Tom Waits
"Walk On the Wild Side," Lou Reed
"Lola," The Kinks
"Ten Cents a Dance," Ruth Etting
"Gotta Get a Gimmick" from Gypsy
"Lady Marmalade," Patti Labelle
"I’m a Mighty Tight Woman," Sippie Wallace
"Tecumseh Valley," Patty Griffin
"Dance Hall Girls," Candye Kane
"Cracked Actor," David Bowie
"Private Dancer," Tina Turner
"Call Me," Blondie
"She Works Hard for the Money," Donna Summer
"St. Teresa," Joan Osborne
"Money Talk," Pretenders
"Darling Nikki," Prince
"Streetwalking Blues," Memphis Minnie
"House of the Rising Sun," Animals
"She Want to Sell my Monkey," Tampa Red
"Hustlin Blues," Ma Rainey
"Red House," Jimi Hendrix
"Roxanne," Police
THE REST
"Hustlin Woman Blues," Memphis Minnie
"The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore," PJ Harvey
"Prettiest Whore," East River Pipe
"Skin Deep," The Stranglers
"She Sells Sanctuary," The Cult
"Sell Your Love," Iggy Pop
"Down on the Street & Little Doll," the Stooges
"Take it off The E-String," Put It on The G-String
"Acapulco Goldie," Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
"Make That Money," Robi Rob's Club World
"Angel is a Centerfold," J.Geils Band
"Women got my Money," Rusted Root
"Fancy," by Bobbie Gentry
"No Diggity," Black Street
"Take It Off," The Andrew Sisters
"Chelsea Girls," Velvet Underground
"La Grange," ZZ Top
"Ladies," Jethro Tull
"Back Street Girl," Led Zeppelin
"You Got to Give Me Some of it," Buddy Moss.
"That Stuff you Sell Aint No Good," Walter Davis.
"Eight Hour Woman," Edith Johnson
"Tricks Ain’t Walkin’ No More," Lucille Bogan
"Down in the Alley," Memphis Minnie
"Good Girl Blues," Memphis Minnie
"You Can’t Give it Away," Memphis Minnie
"Girls, Girls, Girls," by Motley Crue
"Teenage Prostitute," Frank Zappa
"I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute," Tom Waits
"Femme Fatale," Velvet Underground
"S&M Airlines," NOFX
"Sweet Painted Lady," Elton John & Bernie Taupin
"Ballad of Chasey Lane," The Bloodhound Gang
"Bad Girls," Donna Summer
"High School Hooker," Forgotten Rebels
"He's a Whore," Cheap Trick
"Teenage Whore," Hole
"53rd and 3rd," the Ramones
"Hustler," Boss Hog
"Jennifer Jason Leigh," J Church
"Pasties and a G-string," Tom Waits
"Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves," Cher
"Jennie Lee," Jan and Dean
"When the Sun Goes Down," Arctic Monkeys
"What Do You Do For Money Honey?," AC/DC
"Pro Girl," Janis Ian
"Mexican Blackbird," ZZ Top
"Lady Of The Night," Isaac Hayes
"P.I.M.P. The S.I.M.P," Rick James
"Cosmic Slop," Funkadelic
"Flores Nocturnas," Silvio Rodríguez
"Trash A-Go-Go," Funkadelic,
"Perfect Gentleman," Wyclef Jean
"Best Little Whore House," Dolly Parton
"Barcelona," Sinceros
"Whores," Jane’s Addiction
"Prostitute Flange," Lil Wayne
"Jezebel," Sade
"Hooker," Pink
"The Love I Fake," Chris Robley
"He’s a Whore," Cheap Trick
"Midnight Caller," Badfinger
"Wild Thing," Tone Loc
"XXX," Helium
"Concrete Angels," Martina McBride
"You’Z a Ho," Ludacris
"Strutter," KISS
"Fancy," Bobbi Gentry
"Taylor," Jack Johnson
David Henry Sterry and Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex links:
the author's website
the author's Wikipedia entry
the book's website
Bust review
California Literary Review review
New York Times review
New York Press review
Publishers Weekly
The Rumpus review
Scribes Sounding Off review
Tiger Beatdown review
Whore Madonna review
Express Night Out interview with the author
Lee Bob Black interview with contributor Melissa Petro
San Francisco Chronicle interview with the author
Tonic interview with contributor Candye Kane
also at Largehearted Boy:
other Book Notes submissions (authors create playlists for their book)
online "best of 2009" book lists
online "best of 2009" music lists
best of the decade (2000-2009) online music lists
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
guest book reviews
musician/author interviews
52 Books, 52 Weeks
tags: books music literature non-fiction
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Shorties (Bowerbirds, Osamu Tezuka, and more)
Bowerbirds play a tiny desk concert at NPR Music.
The Guardian profiles comics legend Osamu Tezuka and his creation, Astro Boy.
Tezuka's comics look outward to the world, too: his influences are decisively international. Individual frames, as McCarthy points out, reference Captain Nemo, Frankenstein – and isn't that Mickey Mouse's hat from Fantasia? The backgrounds are pure Fritz Lang, full of hovercars reminiscent of chrome-crusted American cars from the 1950s. Astro Boy himself is a reimagining of Pinocchio (who is, perhaps, a semi-cutesy descendent of the Golem, the creature from Jewish myth made of inanimate matter).
Two worthwhile new biographies of Leon Trotsky: Trotsky: A Biography, by Robert Service and the graphic novel Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, by Rick Geary.
The A.V. Club interviews Jonathan Safran Foer about his new book, Eating Animals.
Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys talks to the Guardian about his film, Separado!, which traces his family origins in Patagonia.
The National Post profiles singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt.
NPR reviews and excerpts from A.S. Byatt's new novel, The Children's Book.
The New Yorker features a new short story by Sam Shepard.
The Daily Swarm interviews legendary music producer Steve Albini.
The Oxford American remembers author Donald Harrington.
At her Monitor Mix blog, Carrie Brownstein solicits reader advice for the music industry.
Bob Dylan has a new video for his holiday song, "Must Be Santa."
Lissie visits The Current studio for an interview and live performance.
Follow me on Twitter for links that don't make the daily "Shorties" columns.
also at Largehearted Boy:
online "best of 2009" book lists
online "best of 2009" music lists
best of the decade (2000-2009) online music lists
daily mp3 downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
tags: music books popculture indie
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Daily Downloads (EELS, Akron/Family, and more)
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads:
Akron/Family: "River" [mp3] from Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
other Akron/Family posts at Largehearted Boy
Alvin Band: "Ate" [mp3] from Mantis Preying
Alvin Band: "Temple Pressure" [mp3] from Mantis Preying
other Alvin Band posts at Largehearted Boy
ArpLine: "Parts Unknown (live from a KEXP session)" [mp3]
other ArpLine posts at Largehearted Boy
The Boat People: "Echo Stick Guitars" [mp3] from Echo Stick Guitars
other Boat People posts at Largehearted Boy
EELS: "Little Bird" [mp3]* from End Times (out January 19th)
other EELS posts at Largehearted Boy
Furcast: "Grey Is Old" [mp3] from Together EP
other Furcast posts at Largehearted Boy
Mayda: "Good Girls" [mp3] from Eyes on the Water
other Mayda posts at Largehearted Boy
Regrets and Brunettes: "Post Punk" [mp3] from At Night You Love Me
other Regrets and Brunettes posts at Largehearted Boy
Singing Bridges: "Crazy Street" [mp3] from Three Trains EP
other Singing Bridges posts at Largehearted Boy
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Free and legal mp3s of live performances at other websites:
Bobby Bare, Jr.: Daytrotter session [mp3]
other Bobby Bare, Jr. posts at Largehearted Boy
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous free and legal mp3 daily downloads
2009 Bonnaroo downloads
other music festival downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and album streams from weekly CD releases)
weekly CD release lists
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November 16, 2009
This Week's Interesting Music Releases (November 17th, 2009)
Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend is the solo debut of longtime Gillian Welch sideman Dave Rawlings, and may be the finest folk album I have heard all year.
Author Rick Moody's band, the Wingdale Community Singers releases Spirit Duplicator tomorrow.
Reissues of note include David Bowie's Space Oddity (with bonus CD) and The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour (with bonus CD). Four Blood Brothers albums are also being reissued, three with a CD of extra material.
What new music can you recommend this week? What's on your shopping list?
This week's interesting CD releases:
13th Chime: The Lost Album
Alejandro Escovedo: A Man Under The Influence: Deluxe Bourbonitis Edition (2-LP vinyl reissue with bonus tracks)
Alexandre Desplat: The Twilight Saga: New Moon - The Score
Anberlin: Anberlin - The Anthology
Bad Lieutenant: Never Cry Another Tear (vinyl)
Baroness: Blue Record (vinyl)
Beak>: Beak>
Bell Orchestre: As Seen Through Windows (vinyl)
Blood Brothers: Burn, Piano Island, Burn (reissue with bonus CD)
Blood Brothers: Crimes (reissue with bonus CD)
Blood Brothers: March on Electric Children (reissue)
Blood Brothers: Young Machetes (reissue with bonus CD)
Chief: Mighty Proud
The Company Band: The Company Band
Dan Zanes: 76 Trombones
Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend
David Bowie: Space Oddity (remastered with bonus CD) (vinyl)
Devin Townsend: Addicted
The Doors: Live in New York (6-CD box set)
The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour (remastered with bonus CD)
Fall Out Boy: Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits (CD & DVD)
A Fine Frenzy: Oh Blue Christmas
Forever the Sickest Kids: The Weekend: Friday
A Grave With No Name: Mountain Debris
The Horrors: Whole New Way (vinyl)
Janet Jackson: Number Ones
John Entwistle: Rigor Mortis Sets In (reissue with bonus tracks)
John Mayer: Battle Studies
Keane: Hopes and Fears (with bonus CD)
Kid Harpoon: Once
The Les Claypool Frog Brigade: Purple Onion (vinyl reissue)
Lissie: Why You Runnin' EP (vinyl)
The Lovely Feathers: Fantasy Of The Lot (vinyl)
Lovvers: Think EP
Matt and Kim: Matt and Kim (vinyl reissue)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Summer of Fear (vinyl)
Miles Davis: Live In Vienna 1973
Morrissey: Swords (2-CD deluxe edition)
Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More
Norah Jones: The Fall
Nurse With Wound: Space Music (vinyl)
OneRepublic: Waking Up
Patrick Watson: Just Another Ordinary Day (reissue)
Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City (2-CDs & DVD)
Rakim: The Seventh Seal
Real Estate: Real Estate
Rod Stewart: Storyteller (4-CD box set)
The Rolling Stones: In the 1960s (dvd)
Rush: Working Men
Ryan Trevor: Introducing Ryan Trevor (vinyl)
Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club (remastered 2-CD & DVD edition)
Spandau Ballet: Heart Like A Sky/Through The Barricades
Steve Martin: The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo (vinyl)
Sun Ra: New Steps (remastered)
Tape Deck Mountain: Ghost
Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures
tUnE-yArDs: BiRd-BrAiNs
Various Artists: Atlantic Records: The Time Capsule (11-disc box set)
Various Artists: Forge Your Own Chains, Vol. 1: Psychedelic Ballads And Dirges 1968-1974
Various Artists: Hoodwinked: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists: Psychedelic States - Mississippi In The 60's
Various Artists: Refugees: Charisma Records Anthology 1969-1978 (3-CDs)
Various Artists: Score: 20 Years of Merge Records - The Remixes
Various Artists: Trapped in a Scene: UK Hardcore 1985-89
Vic Chesnutt: Skitter on Take Off (vinyl)
Vermillion Sands: Miss My Gun EP
We Shot the Moon: A Silver Lining
The Who, The Mods and the Quadrophenia Connection (dvd)
The Wingdale Community Singers: Spirit Duplicator
Yello: Touch Yello
Yes: Relayer (vinyl reissue)
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous CD & DVD release lists
Try It Before You Buy It (music from this week's CD releases)
tags: music cd list indie album releases
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This Week's Interesting DVD Releases (November 17th, 2009)
Star Trek fans should be happy tomorrow with the 2009 feature film on store shelves in a variety of formats, along with The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Vol. 2 and The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series, Vol. 2.
Other feature films of note out tomorrow include Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control and the Criterion Collection release of Downhill Racer.
The complete (four season) Farscape series is in stores tomorrow, as are the individual seasons. The complete HBO series Rome is also available tomorrow, as is a repackaged complete collection of the Sopranos.
Modern classics Fight Club and The Professional are available in Blu-ray format this week as well as Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy and Clerks.
What new releases are you picking up or adding to your Netflix queue this week?
This week's interesting DVD releases:
7th Heaven: The Ninth Season
7th Heaven: Seasons 1-9
American Venus
Avant-Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954
Ben 10: Alien Force, Vol. 5
The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Vol. 2
The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series, Vol. 2
Basement Jack
The Beatles: Composing Outside the Beatles
Bill Engvall: Aged and Confused
The Black Crowes: Cabin Fever
Bleach, Vol. 22
Bruno
The Canyon
Chasing Amy [Blu-ray]
Clerks [Blu-ray]
Dane Cook: ISolated INcident
Darwin's Darkest Hour
The Devil Went Home and Puked: The Robert Pollard Rock Show
Downhill Racer (The Criterion Collection)
Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box One
Drawn Together - The Complete Series
Evangelion: 1.01 You Are (Not) Alone - Movie
The Exiles
Farscape: The Complete Season 1
Farscape: The Complete Season 2
Farscape: The Complete Season 3
Farscape: The Complete Season 4
Farscape: The Complete Series
Fight Club [Blu-ray]
Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution
Franklyn
Galaxy Quest [Blu-ray]
Girl Seeks Girl
Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition)
Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
How to Be
Humpday
Hunchback of the Morgue
Indigo Girls: Live at the Roxy
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
Intrepid Descent
Is Anybody There?
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: It's A Very Sunny Christmas
Kevin Smith Box Set (Clerks | Chasing Amy | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) [Blu-ray]
Kujibiki Unbalance Complete
Lil Wayne: The Carter
The Limits of Control
Luxury Car
Mad Dog Morgan
Margaret Cho: Beautiful
Melody
Michael Jackson: Fan's Camera Footage
Michael Jackson: The Interviews, Vol. 1
Michael Jackson: The Interviews, Vol. 2
Michael Jackson: Mega Box
Michael Jackson: Press Conferences and Store Signings
Michael Jackson: Thank You for the Music: The Final Word
Monk: Best of Monk
Montreal Canadiens - 100th Anniversary Collector's Set
My Brilliant Career [Blu-ray]
My Sister's Keeper
The New Year Parade
The Open Road
Penance
Princess Princess Complete
Prisoner
The Professional [Blu-ray]
The Rolling Stones: In the 1960s
Rome: The Complete Series
Rush: Working Men
Samurai Princess
Scrubs: The Complete Eighth Season [Blu-ray]
Sex, Lies, and Videotape [Blu-ray]
Silent Scream
Skills Like This
The Sopranos: The Complete Series
The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 5
Star Trek (2009 feature film)
Sting: A Winter's Night...Live from Durham Cathedral
ThanksKilling
Thirst
Train
Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE: Season 1 [Blu-ray]
Vampire Party
Wagon Train - The Complete First Season
The Who: The Who, The Mods and the Quadrophenia Connection
Wild Child
The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle: The 40th Anniversary Concert
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous CD & DVD release lists
Soundtracked (directors and composers discuss their film's soundtrack)
tags: movies dvd list indie film
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November 16th Updates to the Best of the Decade (2000-2009) Online Music Lists
Today's additions to the list of the online best of the decade (2000-2009) music lists:
The CDP (top music videos)
Everything Under the Sun (top songs)
GISGISGIS (favorite songs)
Glen Thoughts (songs)
It's Not The Band I Hate, It's their Fans (albums)
My Ol' Blog: Nothing More, Nothing Less. (favorite albums)
News.com.au (Australian breakout acts)
News.com.au (bad songs)
News.com.au (hits & flops)
The Site Formerly Known As (top songs)
Theme for Great Cities (top songs)
also at Largehearted Boy:
list of the online best of the decade (2000-2009) music lists
daily updates to the list
Online "Best Of 2009" Music Lists
Online "Best Of 2008" Music Lists
Online "Best Of 2007" Music Lists
Online "Best Of 2006" Music Lists
Online "Best Books of 2009" Lists
Online "Best Books of 2008" Lists
other lists at Largehearted Boy
Daily Downloads (free & legal mp3 downloads)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
musician/author interviews
tags: music cd list lists indie 2000s albums
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November 16th Updates to the Best of 2009 Online Music Lists
Today's additions to the list of the online best of 2009 music lists:
Blogronaut (albums)
A Cold Sweat (top country albums)
Creative Review (vinyl art sleeves of the year)
Dropkick's Kiosk (great Latin American albums)
EuropeCrazy (hated songs)
Get the Lot (best albums)
Headphone Commute (best EPs)
Hipsterblog (top albums)
Metacritic (best albums)
The Puppy Who Lost His Way (top albums)
Ready or Snot (favorite albums)
The Rock 'N' Roll Oatcake (top albums)
also at Largehearted Boy:
other daily updates to the list
Online Best of 2009 Music Lists
Online Best of the Decade (2000-2009) Music Lists
Online Best of 2009 Book Lists
2008 Online "Best Of" Music Lists
2007 Online "Best Of" Music Lists
2006 Online "Best Of" Music Lists
Online "Best Books of 2008" Lists
other lists at Largehearted Boy
Daily Downloads (free & legal mp3 downloads)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
musician/author interviews
tags: music cd list lists indie 2000s albums
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November 16th Updates to the Online Best of 2009 Book Lists
Today's updates to the list of online "best of 2009" book lists:
The Atlantic (books of the year)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's alphabet & counting books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's biography & history books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's fiction picture books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's graphic novels)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's historical fiction books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's non-fiction picture books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's poetry books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's pop-up & novelty books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's realistic fiction books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's science books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best young adult novels)
Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life (best books)
Guerrilla Girls on Tour (best books)
Horn Book Magazine (books)
Jessy Randall (best poetry books)
Let It Read (best books)
National Outdoor Book Awards (outdoors books)
Old Musty Books (most enjoyable books for reasons other than the story)
Stiletto Online (top selling books in South Africa)
also at Largehearted Boy:
Online "Best Books of 2009" Lists
Online "Best Books of 2008" Lists
daily updates to the list
Online Best of the Decade (2000-2009) music lists
2009 Online Year-end Music Lists
2008 Online Year-end Music Lists
2007 Online Year-end Music Lists
2006 Online Year-end Music Lists
other lists at Largehearted Boy
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Anitiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
guest book reviews
musician/author interviews
52 Books, 52 Weeks
tags: books literature list lists indie 2009 fiction nonfiction
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Shorties (Tegan and Sara, Michael Moorcock's Doctor Who Novel, and more)
Prefix interviews Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara.
The Guardian reports that Michael Moorcock will write a Doctor Who novel.
DOA interviews Matt Dowling of Deleted Scenes.
Pitchfork reviews Robert Pollard's latest 100-track outtakes compilation, Suitcase 3.
The Art of Manliness lists the 50 best books for boys and young men.
The Sydney Morning Herald profiles singer-songwriter Greta Gertler and her alternative means for funding her debut album.
To make the orchestral pop album, Gertler estimates she will need a relatively modest $16,000 (''I never had that much money personally so, to me, it sounds like a lot of money'') but she decided not to go the Public Enemy route of selling shares in a future album, with its possibility of a financial return for investors, much like film financing. Instead she turned to the online site Kickstarter, which organises and formalises the process across a number of artistic disciplines.
The Collagist excerpts from Xiaoda Xiao's novel, The Cave Man.
Drowned in Sound reviews music singles released this week.
The 24-track Daptone Gold compilation is on sale at Amazon MP3 for $2.99.
One of my favorite literary websites, The Nervous Breakdown, has been redesigned.
I Love Rob Liefeld has posted a meta-list of the best comics of 2008.
This week Five Chapters is serializing a new short story by Josh Weil.
Follow me on Twitter for links that don't make the daily "Shorties" columns.
also at Largehearted Boy:
online "best of 2009" book lists
online "best of 2009" music lists
best of the decade (2000-2009) online music lists
daily mp3 downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
tags: music books popculture indie
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Daily Downloads (Lissie, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and more)
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads:
Benji Cossa: "Sunset (demo)" [mp3]
other Benji Cossa posts at Largehearted Boy
Jason Boesel: "Hand of God" [mp3] from Hustler's Son (out January 12th)
other Jason Boesel posts at Largehearted Boy
Lissie: "Everywhere I Go'" [mp3] from Why You Runnin'
other Lissie posts at Largehearted Boy
Ofeliadorme: several tracks [mp3]
other Ofeliadorme posts at Largehearted Boy
Snow Patrol: "New Sensation (INXS cover)" [mp3] from Late Night Tales
other Snow Patrol posts at Largehearted Boy
Surfer Blood: "Swim" [mp3] from Astro Coast (out January 19th)
other Surfer Blood posts at Largehearted Boy
Tindersticks: "Black Smoke" [mp3] from Falling Down a Mountain (out January 25th)
other Tindersticks posts at Largehearted Boy
Various Artists: 1,328 free and legal songs at Amazon MP3
Virgin of the Birds: "Chemicals Change (Lovely Sparrows cover)" [mp3]
other Virgin of the Birds posts at Largehearted Boy
Free and legal mp3s of live performances at other websites:
Clock Hands Strangle: Daytrotter session [mp3]
other Clock Hands Strangle posts at Largehearted Boy
Jen & Abby: Luxury Wafers session [mp3]
other Jen & Abby posts at Largehearted Boy
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: 2009-11-14, New York [mp3]
other Pains of Being Pure at Heart posts at Largehearted Boy
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous free and legal mp3 daily downloads
2009 Bonnaroo downloads
other music festival downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and album streams from weekly CD releases)
weekly CD release lists
tags: music download indie mp3
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November 15, 2009
36 Down, 16 To Go "The Vegan Monologues" (52 Books, 52 Weeks)
The Vegan Monologues is a book vegans, vegetarians, and even meat eaters can enjoy. Ben Shaberman's essays are filled with humor, self-deprecation, and incredible honesty as he shares his vegan lifestyle and life choices. Never preachy but always informative and entertaining, The Vegan Monologues is an impressive essay collection.
For one month, enter the coupon code "LHB001" at Atomic Books and receive 15% off this title.
My next book is Achewood Volume 2: Worst Song, Played On Ugliest Guitar, by Chris Onstad.
also at Largehearted Boy:
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2009 Edition)
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2008 Edition)
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2007 Edition)
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2006 Edition)
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2005 Edition)
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2004 Edition)
Online "best of 2009" book lists
Online "best of 2008" book lists
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
tag: books literature non-fiction
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