For Sale, Please Buy!

Here's a bunch of stuff I've culled from my collection. Have a look! I'll include a youtube link for the easy shopping/more obscure stuff, if available. Most stuff is G/VG or better. Friend prices (cheap).

Bananarama / Venus (remix)

Discoconductor / Boogie Jams EP (house/disco/boogie)

The Police / Don't Stand So Close to Me '87

Basement Jaxx / Bingo Bango (Latin and Club mixes, 2x12 pack)

Basement Jaxx / Hush Boy (mixes)

Gwen Stefani / Hollaback Girl (mixes w/ acapella)

Trick Daddy / Shut UP (w/ instr and aca)

David Banner / Like A Pimp (w/ instr)

Tweet / Call Me (w/ inst, aca)

Prodigy / Out of Space (OG and mixes)

Krapulax / Pantone EP (house/disco)

Britney Spears / Remixed sampler (has a Justice remix!)

Modjo / Chillin' (Balearic french touch house jammer)

Nelly Furtado / Turn Off the Light (Timbaland rmx, instr, aca)

Frou Frou / Breathe In (remixes)

Sunday Brunch / Things You Said (swedish deep house)

The Barmy Army / Sharp As a Needle (UK football weirdness)

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam / Let the Beat Hit 'Em (remixes)

Total / I tried (Bad Boy records)

Gnarls Barkley / Crazy (w/ inst)

Moka Only / Imagine Me

Outkast / So Fresh, So Clean (stankonia remix, w/ acapella)

Beyonce / Me, Myself, and I (mixes) X2

Donell Jones / U know What's UP (inst, aca)

Truth Hurts / Addictive (has inst)

The System / Don't Disturb This Groove

Usher / U Got It Bad (Soulpower remix)

Faith Evans / All Night Long (mixes)

Murphy Lee / What the Hook Gon' Be (has inst)

Lil' Jon / I Don't Give a Fuck (includes inst)

Rah Digga / Imperial (has inst)

Mariah Carey / Fantasy (mixes)

Ginuwine / So Anxious (inst, aca)

Trick Daddy / I'm a Thug ( isnt )

DJ Frank Delour / We Gon' Parrty (AV8 party breaks)

Ciara / OH (inst, aca)

Faith Evans / Faithfully album sampler (has "Burnin' Up")

Tweet / Oops (inst, aca)



Swollen Members / Strength EP

Ciara / 1,2 Step (inst, aca)

Spektrum / Horny Pony (plus mixes)

Franz Ferdinand / Take Me Out (Morgan Geist, Optimo club mixes)

Foremost Poets / Moonraker (King Unique remixes, aca)

Wuz / Use Me vol. 1 (french house)

Urban DK / Done Some Damage EP (UK breaks/electro)

Foxy / Get Off lp

Fatboy Slim / You've Come A Long Way, Baby 2XLP (promo ding damage, minimal)

Huey Lewis and the News / I Want A New Drug (Dance mix!)

NEW LISTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 12/18!

hello, my name is Doris

As the end of the year looms (please end!), more and more critics' lists are released into the wild. Many are captured and studied to see what they are made of. Most have similar components (Moonlight, Toni Erdmann). Some are missing parts that every other list has. Some are made up of components that no other list has. Very rarely are two the same. Let's dissect these lists I've discovered.

Rogerebert.com polled its critics and editors and came up with this list to consider. They run a great site over there, so if you're a film fan you should check it out. Most of last week's top 10 make and appearance here. Love & Friendship, which will definitely be in my personal top 10, is mentioned and I like that. I also like that the site's review of La La Land is so glowing, which reminds me that I need to update my letterboxd diary.

1. Moonlight (10)
2. Paterson (9)
3. La La Land (8)
4. Manchester By the Sea (7)
5. Elle (6)
6. Toni Erdmann (5)
7. 13th (4)
8. Cameraperson (3)
9. Love & Friendship (2)
10.I, Daniel Blake (1)

Good old Newsweek published their list on Thursday. It's wildly different than any of the other lists that I've come across this year so far. Four titles that no other organization has mentioned are given notice here. Only two of last week's top finishers are in this list, but they liked Hello, My Name Is Doris and I did, too.

1. Allied (10)
2. Arrival (9)
3. Captain Fantastic (8)
4. Christine (7)
5. Edge of Seventeen (6)
6. Hail! Caesar (5)
7. Hell or High Water (4)
8. Hello, My Name Is Doris (3)
9. Jackie (2)
10. Julieta (1)

Ty Burr of The Boston Globe handed his list in last week and The Fits gets its first mention as one of the best of 2016. I didn't get to see it when it played here in Austin, but I've heard great things. More points for Moonlight!

1. Moonlight (10)
2. Paterson (9)
3. Manchester By the Sea (8)
4. OJ: Made in America (7)
5. Jackie (6)
6. The Fits (5)
7. La La Land (4)
8. The Handmaiden (3)
9. I Am Not Your Negro (2)
10. Cameraperson (1)

Lastly, the Los Angeles Times critics released their picks over the weekend. Of the three critics the paper employs, only two will be polled here. The lead critic, Kenneth Turan, put out a top 10 list with 16 titles that made no sense. I've chosen not to include it here. It's insane. His associates' lists are as follows. More points for Moonlight!

Mark Olson

1. Moonlight (10)
2. The Lobster (9)
3. Silence (8)
4. Certain Women (7)
5. Things to Come (6)
6. Manchester By the Sea (5)
7. Elle (4)
8. Christine (3)
9. OJ: Made in America (2)
10. 20th Century Women (1)

Justin Chang

1. Silence (10)
2. Moonlight (9)
3. Toni Erdmann (8)
4. OJ: Made in America (7)
5. Everybody Wants Some!! (6)
6. My Golden Days (5)
7. Paterson (4)
8. I Am Not Your Negro (3)
9. Manchester By the Sea (2)
10. Certain Women (1)

So let's see where everything besides Moonlight lands when we add it all up for the end of the week. Some things have moved around and the top contender put even more distance between itself and the rest of the competition. Mad Max: Fury Road did the same thing last year and stayed on top the whole way through. Toni Erdmann jumps from fifth to second and Hell or High Water drops a few.

WEEK ENDING 12/19

Moonlight (130 total points)
Toni Erdmann (70)
Manchester By the Sea (67)
La La Land (64)
OJ: Made in America (58)
Elle (38)
Paterson (38)
Arrival (36)
Hell or High Water (31)
I Am Not Your Negro (25)

MOONLIGHT LEFT OFF ANOTHER LIST!

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter joins the minority of critics leaving Moonlight out of their top 10s. Owen Glieberman over at Variety has been the only other US critic seen by this poll to leave Barry Jenkins' picture out the top picks. McCarthy is also the first to mention Silence, Martin Scorsese's upcoming epic. Here are his rankings:

1. OJ: Made in America
2. La La Land
3. 13th
4. Toni Erdmann
5. I Am Not Your Negro
6. Elle
7. Manchester By the Sea
8. The Handmaiden
9. Silence
10. Hell or High Water

Meanwhile, over at Vogue, their critic has published an unranked list of 10 best for 2016. Since it is unranked, that means that each title recieves two points each. The only new contender to arrive with this list would be Mike Mills' 20th Century Women. The list is as follows:

Moonlight
Toni Erdmann
OJ: Made in America
20th Century Women
La La Land
The Handmaiden
I Am Not Your Negro
A Bigger Splash
Arrival
Aquarius

MORE BEST OF 2016 LISTS SURFACE! SOME FROM EUROPE!

Starting late this year means that I missed the debuts of some lists, two from highly respected European publications. They're down below. The lists keep coming, too. Film Comment and The Playlist (my favorite film site) have given us their lists this week. Most of the current favorites appear, with one rolling a turkey by topping three of the lists. Let's see how it breaks down.

Let's get the well-respected, willfully obscure, very French Cahiers Du Cinema list out of the way first. It's the first list I've seen this year that totally leaves out Moonlight, but that may be due to international release dates (which is why Carol, last year's runner-up, is on this list). It's also the first list to have titles that I've never heard of before now and upon further research, it turns out some are comedies! Vive le France.

1. Toni Erdmann (10)
2. Elle (9)
3. The Neon Demon (8)
4. Aquarius (7)
5. Ma Loute (6)
6. Julieta (5)
7. Staying Vertical (4)
8. La Loi De La Jungle (3)
9. Carol (-)
10. Le Bois Dont Les Reves Sont Fait (1)

Sight and Sound, the film publication of the British Film Institute, dropped their list this week. No big surprises here, but with two of her movies here, it does provide more evidence that Isabelle Huppert is possibly the world's greatest actress and if you've seen The Piano Teacher, you already knew that. More points for both Erdmann and Moonlight.

1. Toni Erdmann (10)
2. Moonlight (9)
3. Elle(8)
4. Certain Women (7)
5. American Honey (6)
6. I, Daniel Blake (5)
7. Manchester By the Sea (4)
8. Things to Come (3)
9. Paterson (2)
10. The Death of Louis XIV (1)

Published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Comment is an excellent magazine. I should subscribe. Their list also gives weight to the Huppert theory. They also love Chantal Akerman. They weren't crazy about La La Land. Also, how did I miss Certain Women? More points for Erdmann and Moonlight!

1. Toni Erdmann (10)
2. Moonlight (9)
3. Elle (8)
4. Cemetary of Splendor (7)
5. Certain Women (6)
6. Paterson (5)
7. Manchester By the Sea (4)
8. Aquarius (3)
9. Things to Come (2)
10. No Home Movie (1)

Finally, The Playlist gave us their year-end best of list yesterday. It's my favorite film website and I think they've had a pretty good year. Their festival coverage is pretty much exhaustive and they are pretty even-handed when it comes to their criticism. The fact that they include four of my favorite movies of the year so far makes me feel smart. Nice to see The Lobster mentioned. More points for Erdmann and Moonlight!

1. Moonlight (10)
2. Arrival (9)
3. Paterson (8)
4. La La Land (7)
5. The Lobster (6)
6. Jackie (5)
7. Manchester By the Sea (4)
8. Green Room (3)
9. The Handmaiden (2)
10. Toni Erdmann (1)

Toni Erdmann gained some serious points this round, but the Moonlight juggernaut continues to dominate the polls. We'll see if any more lists come out this week to shake things up.

A LATE START TO A GREAT RACE FOR NUMBER ONE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR

Hello again, friends!
I am back again to compile and poll each cinematic awards and top-10 list I can find. You can check out how I do it here and here. One change in awarding points this year: films that win Best Picture awards like, say, the IFP Gotham Awards, are awarded 5 points for that win. That's the only change. So let's get to it!

Sorry for being late, but I wasn't ready for the onslaught that the first two weeks in December brought us! So many critics' associations, awards ceremonies, and publications had their favorites lined up early and ready to show the world. Jeez, I remember when I could sit in on advance critics' screenings...so great. Anyhoo, since there are so many, I can't go through and post each one individually. Just hooking up links for trailers for each movie mentioned would take about 5 million minutes! However, here are links for each of the lists and awards that figured into this week's poll:

American Film Institute
IFP Gotham Awards
LA Film Critics' Assn.
NY Film Critics' Circle
National Board of Review
Slate
Variety (Glieberman, DeBruge)
New York Times (Dargis, Scott, Holden)
The New Yorker
US Weekly

Let's see how things are shaking out so far...

1. Moonlight (69)
2. La La Land (34)
3. Manchester by the Sea (32)
4. OJ: Made in America (30)
5. Hell or High Water
Toni Erdmann (26)
7. Sully (17)
8. Arrival (16)
9. American Honey (13)
10. Little Sister (10)

As anyone who pays attention to this sort of thing expected, Moonlight is this year's frontrunner to be the Number One Best Movie of the Year. It's an amazing film and the critics all want to marry it. It's doing good business, as well. One thing, though, it's still a long shot for winning the Oscar for Best Picture. This week's runner-up, La La Land, is being held up as a lock for Best Picture. It hasn't opened here yet so I cannot personally vouch for it. All signs point to me loving it. Probably the biggest surprise entry into the race is OJ: Made in America. The documentary has made it into a top five spot on four lists this week. Will it have the legs that the Juice had in his youth? In the last spot is Little Sister, but don't expect it to hang in there long as it was only mentioned once: a #1 vote by that nerd at the New Yorker. And, lastly today, I would encourage you to go out and see some of these movies while you can! By the end of the week, I will have seen seven on this week's list!

OSCAR NOMINATIONS! LET THE RACE BEGIN (but no browns)!

I stole image this from Movieweb

Jim from "The Office" and his friends got up early this morning to announce the nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards. Most went along with what most were predicting, but there were a few surprises. Some got nods that few saw coming, and some we thought were shoo-ins got swept under the red carpet. Another thing to notice is the lack of melanin in just about every category. I mean, the only people nominated from the very good Straight Outta Compton are the white screenwriters! From what I can tell, the only person of color nominated at all was R&B sensation The Weeknd. For his song in the terribly-reviewed hit Fifty Shades of Grey. That song isn't even that good. And only Sylvester Stallone for that VERY well-recieved boxing sequel?? ANYWAY, here's the complete list of nominees. Over the next few weeks we'll take a look at the Big 5 categories individually, along with a few of the other big deal categories. Get your office pool started now!!

Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
Boy And The World
Inside Out
Shaun The Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

Best Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Sound Mixing
Bride Of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared
The Revenant

Best Costume Design
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant

Best Song
"Earned It" from Fifty Shades Of Grey
"Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction
“Til It Happens To You” from The Hunting Ground
“Simple Song 3” from Youth
"Writing's On The Wall" from Spectre

Best Documentary Feature
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look Of Silence
What Happened Miss Simone
Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom

Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins - Sicario
Edward Lachman - Carol
Emmanuel Lubezki - The Revenant
Robert Richardson - The Hateful Eight
John Seale - Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Live-Action Short Film
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay
Shok
Stutterer

Best Documentary Short Film
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond The Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres Of The Shoah
A Girl In The River
Last Day Of Freedom

Best Animated Short Film
Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay's Super Team
We Can't Live Without Cosmos
World Of Tomorrow

Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Production Design
Bridge Of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant

Best Foreign Language Feature
Embrace Of The Serpent
Mustang
Son Of Saul
Theeb
A War

Best Score
Carter Burwell - Carol
Ennio Morricone - The Hateful Eight
Thomas Newman - Bridge Of Spies
Johann Johannson - Sicario
John Williams - Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Film Editing
Hank Corwin - The Big Short
Margaret Sixel - Mad Max: Fury Road
Tom McArdle - Spotlight
Stephen Mirrione - The Revenant
Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey - Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Adapted Screenplay
Drew Goddard - The Martian
Nick Hornby - Brooklyn
Adam McKay & Charles Randolph - The Big Short
Phyllis Nagy - Carol
Emma Donoghue - Room

Best Original Screenplay
Matt Charman, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - Bridge Of Spies
Alex Garland - Ex Machina
Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve - Inside Out
Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer - Spotlight
Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savage, Alan Wenkus - Straight Outta Compton

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara - Carol
Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs

Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale - The Big Short
Tom Hardy - The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight
Mark Rylance - Bridge Of Spies
Sylvester Stallone - Creed

Best Actor
Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
Matt Damon - The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett - Carol
Brie Larson - Room
Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn

Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - The Revenant
Adam McKay - The Big Short
George Miller - Mad Max:Fury Road
Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight

Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge Of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

THE #1 BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR IS...

When I started this blog, it was to cast light on the disparity of critics everywhere. Not that disagreement is bad, quite the opposite: it means there's stuff out there worth arguing about. Most years there's a favorite, but it would be hard to say which was the absolute best movie of any given year. That's why I decided that maybe a points system would help to shed some sort of competitive light on all the movies released over the course of one year. Think of each publication's list as a race unto itself. Like, the Village Voice top 10 is akin to the Coca-Cola 600.
So, after going over 35 races in which 79 films were lucky enough to be mentioned, three came out way ahead. Of these three, one leaped into the lead early and never looked back, leaving every other film eating dust and spray paint.
THE NUMBER ONE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR IS:

1. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (199 total points, 13 #1 votes)
2. CAROL (163, 4)
3. SPOTLIGHT (140, 7)
4. INSIDE OUT (63)
5. THE ASSASSIN (54, 2)
6. SON OF SAUL (53, 1)
7. ANOMALISA (46)
8. BROOKLYN (44, 1)
EX-MACHINA (44)
10. TANGERINE (38)

As you can see, there was no way Mad Max was not going to be the #1BMotY. Thirteen first place finishes! That's how much motherfuckers loved this movie. Spotlight was next in #1 finishes, but too many absences from other lists is what did it in. Carol took advantage of that and got second or third in just about every list it was mentioned (which was just about all of them). Inside Out rode a late wave of love that put it just ahead of early frontrunner The Assassin. A big plus for me was for seeing Tangerine with a top ten finish. Such a fun and heartfelt movie and that Mya Taylor should be a star.
If you haven't already, you should avail yourself of the chances to see these great movies! Many of the top 10 finishers are playing now and others are readily available for viewing at home. I'm unsure about The Assassin, as it hasn't really played in many places as of yet, but I'm sure someone knows a work-around for Netflix Asia! Many of the 69 other titles mentioned are already available for streaming on all sorts of movie sites. When a movie is mentioned for the first time on this blog, it's linked to a trailer. Click on that one and then check out canistream.it to see if you can watch if from the comfort of your own La-Z-Boy.
I hope you can find something awesome to watch!

Thanks for reading! Stay tuned!