List of Lists
December 16th, 2008
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The blog largehearted boy has posted an extensive list of links to “best of the year” lists, for both books and music. An excellent resource.
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Side One Track One’s Top Albums and Songs
December 7th, 2008
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Another excellent blog with another excellent tops list. John over at s1t1 has mp3s up for his top 50 (!) songs and for his top 10 albums. His taste is generally spot on–he has a penchant for a sort of blues infused pop, but he ranges beyond that. Just direct songbird to his site and you’ll get a kick ass mixtape, learning something in the bargain. Good stuff.
Gorilla vs. Bear’s Albums of 2008
December 2nd, 2008
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The end of the year is a great time for music lovers, not only because of the plethora of fall releases still sinking in, but also because of the appearance of thousands of “best of the year” lists. One of my favorite music blogs, gorilla vs. bear, just released their 2008 list and I highly recommend it. Great picks on there, and great sample tracks. If you don’t follow these guys, you should. (Oh, and they’re from Dallas to boot.)
Criterion Top Ten Lists
December 1st, 2008
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The Criterion Collection is one of the best things humanity has going for it. I would own every one if I had the money. But beggars must be choosy. Fortunately, Criterion has a bunch of famous film buffs list their top ten Criterion films just in time for the holiday season. A great bunch of films that will have you adding to your Amazon wish list like crazy.
Times Online: Top Fifty Literary Translations of the Last 50 Years
July 22nd, 2008
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More lists! This one is bound to have many unread greats on it, especially for Anglocentric jackasses like myself. One through twelve below, and the rest here.
1. Raymond Queneau – Exercises in Style (Barbara Wright, 1958)
2. Primo Levi – If This is a Man (Stuart Woolf, 1959)
3. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – The Leopard (Archibald Colquhoun, 1961)
4. Günter Grass – The Tin Drum (Ralph Manheim, 1962)
5. Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths (Donald Yates, James Irby, 1962)
6. Leonardo Sciascia – Day of the Owl (Archibald Colquhoun, 1963)
7. Alexander Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Ralph Parker, 1963)
8. Yukio Mishima – Death in Midsummer (Seidensticker, Keene, Morris, Sargent, 1965)
9. Heinrich Böll – The Clown (Leila Vennewitz, 1965)
10. Octavio Paz – Labyrinth of Solitude (Lysander Kemp, 1967)
11. Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita (Michael Glenny, 1969)
12. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude (Gregory Rabassa, 1970)