Arts The Year in Arts from the News Desk
posted by on December 17 at 14:43 PM
Best book I read in 2007:
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen. Written in 1931.
Best book I read in 2007 that came out in 2007:
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century by Alex Ross.
Best Music I heard in 2007:
It’s a 3-way tie: Muddy Waters Juke Box Hits 1948-1952; Van Morrison and Them two studio albums 1964 and 1965; and Shostakovich’s 7 Songs, Op. 127.
Best Music I heard in 2007 that came out in 2007:
Chris DeLaurenti’s Favorite Intermissions. Yes, he’s a Stranger writer, so this is a conflict of interest, but the real world liked it too.
Best Movie I saw in 2007:
I’m having a hard time remembering everything I saw. And the year’s not over yet, and I think I’m seeing Red River this week, and I’m still dying to see The Godless Girl, which Annie says features a teenage riot beyond Ziggy Stardust dimensions (hand over that DVD, Brendan.)
But when it comes to new movies I’d have to say Dance Party USA by director Aaron Katz, which came out in 2006 actually. So, maybe Superbad? Nah. It was good, but the cop duo got boring.
For old movies that I’d never seen until this year: Peter Whitehead’s The Fall.
Also saw some great stuff on YouTube: The 1976 triple overtime NBA finals game between the Phoenix Suns and the Boston Celtics, the 1965 Who playing I Can’t Explain on teen beat TV, and actual footage of Anne Frank leaning out of her second story window.
Whoops, did I type in livejournal.com on accident?
You should review "Only Yesterday" on Slog sometime.
Another slow monday.
Superbad? Really? I rented that movie this weekend, and thought I was so bad I refused to watch the whole thing. So boring! Seen this movie done way better so many times in the 80s.
Whoa--where's the Anne Frank footage? I couldn't find it on youtube.
Them Featuring Van Morrison is perhaps the most played CD in my collection. My 12 year old son listed it as his all-time favorite in a second grade essay.
I'm going to go with Destroy Everything You Touch by Ladytron, for best thing I heard in 2007.
@5,
The footage may be at the official Anne Frank museum site.
It's breath taking to see her in live action.
It's a brief glimpse. The silent home movie footage is being taken by her neighbors where there's a wedding party going on. So, the footage is actually of the young couple.
Anne F. appears for a few seconds as a curious neighbor watching from her apt. upstairs. She looks to be about 11 or 12. Hilarious, she loses interest (?) and starts shouting up to the window above her, with her hands flying.
The camera moves off her.
Thanks for the tip on Dance Party USA, just looked up the trailer and it looks worth seeing.
Superbad was a disappointment. Almost agree with #4.
What about some fucking art Josh? Did you see anything you liked? What about shows? Performances? Christ. Ever go to galleries? Sweet.
To provide you with an experience similar to that of this post, Mr. Feit invites you to watch him attempt to fellate himself while listening to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Or you can drop a deuce in your undergarments, stick them in the microwave for a minute, take them out, and inhale deeply.
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