7 "albums" from 2010 that Lysa actually enjoyed ...

LYSA with a Y, Jersey City NJ

... and in this order :
1. Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Record
2. No Age: Everything in Between
3. Liars: Sisterworld
4. The Morning Benders: Big Echo
5. Beach House: Teen Dream
6. Deer Hunter: Halcyon Digest
7. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

7 "albums" from 2010 that Rex actually enjoyed.

REX LITWIN, Lancaster PA

In no particular order...
1. American Slang -The Gaslight Anthem
2. Volume 2 -She & Him
3. Autumn Ghosts -The Gifted Children
4. The Dark Leaves -Matt Pond PA
5. Wake Up the Nation -Paul Weller
6. Similies -Eluvium
7. Rockaway Beachboys -The Ramouns

Honorable mentions go to
The Secret Sisters
Bryan Ferry
and of course The Jingleberries!
Hoping for a full length from the J-berries this year!!!
Thank you for your time,
Rex

7 Things Andrea Liked in 2010 That Weren't Made in 2010

ANDREA BILLER-COLLINS, Lancaster PA
MOVIES:
1. Night Nurse (1931)
2. Gilda (1946)
3. The Red Shoes (1948)
4. Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
BOOKS:
5. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
6. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler
TV:
7. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
(I know, I’m years behind)

Pops' 2010 SEVEN pt.4: For Reals, Yo

POPS GUSTAV, Jersey City NJ

1) Karl & Lysa’s European Vacation
2) Being Secret Country’s primary artist
3) Watching Lysa in WJ and the Sweet Sacrifice
4) Buying, learning about and drinking wine (spo-de-o-de, drinkin’ wine)
5) Finally getting my internet presence cleaned up, reorganized and rejuvenated (see links box at right)
6) Action figures a-go-go!
7) No funerals!

Pops' 2010 SEVEN pt.3: On the Page

POPS GUSTAV, Jersey City NJ
1) 75 YEARS OF DC COMICS: THE ART OF MODERN MYTHMAKING by Paul Levitz
    a giant book for giant nerds such as I
2) FROM THE ASHES by Bob Fingerman
    and not just because Lysa and I are characters in it.
3) HITCHCOCK PIECE BY PIECE by Laurent Bouzerau
4) THE PEANUTS COLLECTION by Nat Gertler
5) SHAZAM! THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE WORLD’S MIGHTIEST MORTAL by Chip Kidd & Geoff Spear
6) IDIOT AMERICA by Charles P. Pierce
7) PARIAH by Bob Fingerman (again!)

Not a very literate man am I.

Pops' 2010 SEVEN pt. 2: Video

POPS GUSTAV, Jersey City NJ

1) DEXTER Season 5
Not quite as explosive as Season 4, but still my favorite show on the tee-vee
2) INCEPTION
Christopher Nolan is now officially my favorite current filmmaker
3) LOUIE
The most discomfiting comedy on TV. Depressing and hilarious at the same time!
4) BATMAN: UNDER THE RED HOOD
5) FRINGE
6) THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Criterion Blu-Ray
7) TIE: THE SARAH SILVERMAN PROGRAM (R.I.P.) / THE VENTURE BROS.

NOTE:
HALL OF FAME PERENNIALS: THE DAILY SHOW / THE COLBERT REPORT

 

Pops' 2010 SEVEN pt.1: Audio

POPS GUSTAV, Jersey City NJ

1) The Hold Steady, HEAVEN IS WHENEVER
2) Paul F. Tompkins, THE POD F. TOMPKAST, particularly The Great Undiscovered Project
3) Secret Country, WOMEN, WHISKEY AND NIGHTLIFE
4) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, THE BRUTALIST BRICKS
5) Hans Zimmer, INCEPTION soundtrack
6) Screaming Females, CASTLE TALK
7) The Like, RELEASE ME

Seven Books Jeff Was Supposed to Read and Did Read but Can No Longer Prove He Read

JEFF MAIORE, Hoboken NJ

1. Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
2. Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground
3. Pynchon's V.
4. Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables
5. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel
6. Ford's The Good Soldier
7. Nin's Children of the Albatross