Best Music Things of the Month

Best Song - Lower Dens - Brains - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI2o-BuQ8eE

Best Album - Dr. Dog - Be The Void - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmq7MSwUUAQ

Best Album Runnerup - Grimes - Visions - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5H-YlcMSbc

Catchiest Tune - Gotye - Somebody I Used To Know - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

Best Thing I Expected to be Good - Josh Ritter - Bringing In The Darlings - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzMN0TTpblg

Please Don't Talk To Me About My Items, Really Nice Whole Foods Lady

(and make me inadvertently pretend to be part of a couple by using the word *we* no seriously I did that)

• Cajun Sesame Sticks from bulk
• Grated Parmigiano Reggiano
• Slice Lemon Icebox Pie
  
• Half Loaf Parmesan Basil Bread, sliced
• Red Wine
• Abita Mardi Gras

Movie highlights (January 2012)

The best things about some of the movies I saw this month:

• The American:  
• George Clooney's timepiece
• runner-up: the first 10 or minutes or so

• Haywire: 
• Awesome/ridiculous hair and make-up in later acts
• Runner-up: the deer (I like to think an homage to The Long Kiss Goodnight)
• Bonus: ask Jon about his favorite part

• The Artist:  
• Jean Dujardin's smile 
• Runners-up: George and the dog at the table; Peppy and the coat on the hatstand 
• Bonus:  Old man who clapped at the end. As he left the theater, he asked other people (i.e., strangers):  "Wasn't that incredible?!" Then, to all: "That was the best movie I've seen in 40 years! It showed the human spirit!"

• Tiny Furniture
• Laurie Simmons, the actor/writer/director's mother, as Siri, her mother. 

• The Iron Lady:
  
  • (Meryl Streep was pretty amazing, but a movie should not be a pointless one-woman stage production, so she loses out to) awesome Viserys as her young husband
  • Runner-up: the Dr. Strangelove scene (which actually looks more like Star Wars, or a cartoon)
  • Bonus: ask DJ about his favorite part 

• The Descendants:  
• The preview for Coriolanus
• Bonus: it made me go home and watch Citizen Ruth again to re-appreciate Alexander Payne.

• Citizen Ruth:  
• Laura Dern's facial expressions
• The kicking. Oh my, the kicking.