Recommendations

Favorite Movies 2010

Favorite Television Shows 2010

Recommended Music 2010

Cool Things

Older Favorite Movies and Television Shows

Older Recommended Music

Recommended Books (with Favorite Books of 2009 list)

FAVORITE MOVIES, TELEVISION SHOWS AND MUSIC FROM 2010 (see "Older Favorite Movies and Television Shows" and "Recommended Music" for previous lists)

Favorite Movies:

• Bhoothnath (Bollywood family comedy about "ghost Grandpa")

• Charlie Wilson’s War

• Earth Girls Are Easy (“A relationship is like a broken nail.”)

• Iron Man 2

• Kick-Ass

• Little Giants (“That’s no girl. That’s my niece. And she’s pissed.”)

• The Rising: The Ballad of Mangal Pandey

• Michael Clayton (“You don’t kill ME.”)

• Push

• The Quick and the Dead (Sharon Stone shows `em how a lady can shoot)

Favorite Television Shows (not necessarily 2010):

• BOARDWALK EMPIRE
• CASTLE (barely - not enough humor any more, and their "drama" is childish)
• CSI (barely - plots are getting ridiculous)
• FRINGE
• Leverage
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (I want my Jeff Goldblum back!)
• Law & Order: SVU (slipping)
• Law & Order: UK
• Project Runway (Mondo! Mondo! Mondo!)
• The Tudors
• Wonderfalls

Recommended Music (not necessarily 2010 - unless otherwise stated, click to hear sample on Amazon's MP3 Store):

• “La goualante de pauvre Jean” - Edith Piaf

• “Chanson D’Amour” - The Manhattan Transfer (very popular when I was a kid, found them again this year)

• “West Side Story: the Dances at the Gym” - Leonard Bernstein (found them complete/separate so I didn’t have to get the whole musical!)

• “The Road to Santiago”, “Medusa” - Heather Dale

• “Dirty Old Town” - the Pogues, the Dubliners (and every other version I can find)

• “Another Man Done Gone” - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash

• “Ojos Así” - Shakira

• “Regresa a Mí” (Unbreak My Heart) - Il Divo

• “Cold Glencoe by Rise” - Rise

• “Hycodan” - Tommy Castro

• “Crimson” - Morcheeba

• “Addicted to Love”, “My Boy Builds Coffins”, “Hurricane Drunk” - Florence + the Machine

• “In Spite of You” - Lori Crandall

• “Ray Ray’s Juke Joint”, “High Cost of Living”, “That Lonesome Song" - Jamey Johnson

• “Gunpowder & Lead” - Miranda Lambert

• “Song for Sonny Liston” - Mark Knopfler

• "Long Hard Times To Come" (theme song for JUSTIFIED TV series) - Brian "Hacksaw" Williams 

• “Tore My Heart” - Oona (not yet on Amazon, can be found on iTunes Store - Tim)

• “Grandmother Song” - Vienna Teng

• “Hallelujah” - Lee DeWyze (and just about everyone else who’s covered it, including
  the writer, Leonard Cohen) (unable to find DeWyze's version on Amazon or iTunes Store, link is to Cohen's version - Tim)

• “Punjabi Lullaby” - Sarvan (unable to find Sarvan's version on Amazon or iTunes Store - Tim)

• “Blues Is My Wailin’ Wall” - Mighty Mo Rogers

• “Moonlight Bay” - Leon Redbone

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