So we should know within two weeks whether or not we made the top 12.  Either way, once we do, we can go public with a link to it.  Hold tight kids.

I went to see KMFDM last night, so this is relevant to my interests. Good job everyone.

I am fairly VFX dumb, so my directive to Teague was just make it full frame and beat it with the VHS stick.  Viola.

....yup.

Still laughing.

My thing was that I was very much into the story, and in the last 20 minutes it told me thy the story I cared about is not what I should have cared about.

Yeah, I accidentally deleted it when I was cleaning out my channel.  Re uploading in a sec.

I never felt like Mike Mills got the respect he deserved as a director.  He's had some indie movie's become modest hits, but damn, can that boy direct.  It's rare that you see a documentary completely work as a music video.

All I Need by Air
Dir: Mike Mills

Dave, you beautiful man.

I LOVE Dizzee Rascall.  I saw him and The Streets play at the Wiltern back in '04, and him by himself at the Shortlist Awards.  Boy in Da Corner is a tremendous debut.  I was really vexed that I didn't put more hip hop, specifically UK Garage/Hip Hop.

Here are my 10 entries, in no particular order.  Youtube clips when I feel like it.  By definition, these are albums that I can put in now and still feel the same about them as I did when I first heard it.  No skipped tracks, and they all still make regular rotation in my itunes.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
There are a few albums that as soon as you hear them, open up the possibilities of what music can be.  This is the first album I would just sit in my room and do nothing but listen to it, trying to suss out the different elements in the sound scape. 

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
I was a huge Portishead and Tricky fan (Pre-Millenium Tension ALMOST made the list), but this is an album you put in, and before you know it it's already over, and you're far more chill.  It's equal parts creepy and sexy, and can fit into almost any environment, like here, in a compilation of classic Film Noir

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
While there were more influential Hip Hop albums I've listened to (Stroght Outta Compton, and Fear of a Black Planet come to mind) and overall better tracks (Pete Rock and CL Smooth's T.R.O.Y. is the greatest hip hop song ever, and I'll choke anyone who disagrees), this is the album that I can listen to today that feels timeless, while being very much of it's time.  It's also crazy amounts of fun.

TV on the Radio - Young Liars
While it's true that both Dear Science and Return to Cookie Mountain are probably better albums, the face that this 5 track EP contains 5 of their best songs helps.  This was another instance of a band taking all of it's influences, consuming them, and ejecting something entirely new.  Both sonically and lyrically ("I will by calmer than cream/making maps out of your dreams) I have yet to hear anyone like them.

But don't take my word for it.  Here is Trent Reznor and Peter Murphy performing a TVOTR song with TVOTR because they are such big fans of theirs.

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Top to bottom a great and revolutionary album.  Influenced by 80's electro, Joy Division, Bauhaus, and heroin probably.  Everyone's heard it, so no need for a clip.

Zero 7 - Simple Things
This album launched a few careers, and soundtracked a few movies.  If there was ever an album that felt like a season, this would be the official soundtrack to winter.  Props to this video which was shot documentary style of couples in love in central park, and then roto'd.  Same crew that did Waking Life.

Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
I first heard Prodgy in 1993 when I went to Germany and saw the video for Out of Space.  While Experience was practically worn out in my tape and later cd player, I think their most recent album is easily their best.  They have gained so much skill at what they do, and now that they're in their 40's, they lack all ability to give fucks.  This is from just a couple years ago, and they are still very much they cyberpunk anarchists they always were.

Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
I used to hate DM growing up, primarily because the Armenian girls I went to school with were convinced that I looked like a young Martin Gore (after high school, however, that same fact got me laid at least twice).  Again, most people would list about 3 or 4 albums ahead of this one, but this is a deceptively strong album with a tone that was so different from it's Brit Pop peers.  The bass line and synth here are like a slow motion dogfight.

Orbital - Orbital II
I'll be free to admit I got turned onto Orbital because of the Mortal Kombat soundtrack.  But as soon as I got this album I DEVOURED the entire catalog and musically I was never the same.  This kicked off Eddie's club and rave days.  Thankfully all pictures have been destroyed.

Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Fun trivia, my Mom used to be a folk singer and songwriter who was signed to a small indie folk label for a while.  While she loved her Queen and Bon Jovi when I was a kid, I would periodically here this one, by sorta tragic figure Nick Drake.  Beautiful album, recorded in two days by himself in his apartment.  He turned in the masters and 48 hours later he was dead.  Enjoy!

I was never a huge fan of the blocking in the Buffy choreography, but Sophia Crawford has such awesome fast-twitch reflexes that she makes every kick seem spontaneus.  Her switch kick and turning side and hook kicks in particular are super crisp.  It always made me sad when they would show Sarah Michelle actually hit a bag because, TKD Brown Belt or no, that chick CANNOT punch.

That would certainly be an awesome movie to both make and view.  With that said, I am very much of the opinion that filmmaker has a responsibility to construct the world from their viewpoint, first and foremost.  As we all know, in Joss Whedon's worldview, it's simply a given that men and women start on level playing fields.  In Ayn Rand's, it's very different, as illustrated by the dominant Alpha Male characters, and near rape fantasies by the women in  The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

So overall, I agree with Bathilda that it would be nice to take one of these super hero movies and start with gender relations as they are in our world, and move on from there.  It would be refreshing.  I just don't think that the fact that the Avengers DOESN'T do that makes it a bad choice.