Hometown:

Reykjavík (It's in Iceland; you know?: the best place in the world. nbd!!)

About Me:

Journalist, Historian, Musician, And Filmmaker Extraordinaire!!

Here are the albums I picked as the best of the years since 1970. I listened to 1200 albums for this particular project, listening to everything worthwhile.... so it doesn't matter if you don't agree. (I had to overcome my own biases for the sake of objectivity.)


1970: BITCHES BREW (MILES DAVIS)
1971: HISTOIRE DE MELODY NELSON (SERGE GAINSBOURG)
1972: [A] EGE BAMYASI (CAN)
1972: [B] NEU! (NEU!)
1973: THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (PINK FLOYD)
1974: AUTOBAHN (KRAFTWERK)
1975: ANOTHER GREEN WORLD (ENO)
1976: STATION TO STATION (DAVID BOWIE)
1977: SUICIDE (SUICIDE)
1978: MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS (STEVE REICH)
1979: METAL BOX (PUBLIC IMAGE LTD)
1980: CLOSER (JOY DIVISION)
1981: DAMAGED (BLACK FLAG)
1982: ICE CREAM FOR CROW (CAPTAIN BEEFHEART)
1983: MURMUR (R.E.M.)
1984: DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME (MINUTEMEN)
1985: RAIN DOGS (TOM WAITS)
1986: HORSE ROTORVATOR (COIL)
1987: SONGS ABOUT FUCKING (BIG BLACK)
1988: DAYDREAM NATION (SONIC YOUTH)
1989: [A] SOUL DISCHARGE (BOREDOMS)
1989: [B] NAKED CITY (NAKED CITY)
1990: FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET (PUBLIC ENEMY)
1991: SPIDERLAND (SLINT)
1992: LOVE OF LIFE (SWANS)
1993: DEBUT (BJÖRK)
1994: BEE THOUSAND (GUIDED BY VOICES)
1995: DISCO VOLANTE (MR. BUNGLE)
1996: RICHARD D. JAMES ALBUM (APHEX TWIN)
1997: HOMOGENIC (BJÖRK)
1998: IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA (NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL)
1999: THE SOFT BULLETIN (THE FLAMING LIPS)
2000: [A] LIFT YOUR SKINNY FISTS LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN (GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR)
2000: [B] YESTERDAY WAS DRAMATIC – TODAY IS OK (MÚM)
2001: VESPERTINE (BJÖRK)
2002: YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS (THE FLAMING LIPS)
2003: WONDERFUL RAINBOW (LIGHTNING BOLT)
2004: FABULOUS MUSCLES (XIU XIU)
2005: LA FORÊT (XIU XIU)
2006: THE AIR FORCE (XIU XIU)
2007: PERSON PITCH (PANDA BEAR)
2008: THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE (FUCKED UP)
2009: EMBRYONIC (THE FLAMING LIPS)
2010: HIDE (FOETUS)
2011: BIOPHILIA (BJÖRK)

Special shout-out to the Flaming Lips for making the best piece of music I have ever heard. It came out last year and was 24 hours long, so it didn't qualify as an album. It's streaming forever [url=http://flaminglipstwentyfourhoursong.com]here[/url]. (LOL! I guess there's no embed url feature on this page.... Ó, well!!)

All Time Favorite Movies:

Look Thru The Criterion Collection.. Most Of Those Are Amazing

Best Film Ever: Dancer In The Dark.... It's not debatable....

All Time Worst Movies:

There's a lot ó' shit out there... What do people usually write for this? Thing is, I try to avoid seeing shitty movies altogether. I know what appeals to me, and if a movie doesn't meet my admittedly high standards, I just don't see it. Then again, I did see After Last Season... [Gags]

Favorite Actors or Actresses:

I'm going to say Udo Kier, and you have to deal with it.

Favorite Directors:

In No Particular Order: Todd Solondz, Woody Allen, Terry Zwigoff, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Eustache, Jean-Luc Godard, Chantal Akerman, Gaspar Noé, Gus Van Sant, Jacques Rivette, Andrei Tarkovsky, Béla Tarr, Michael Haneke, Paul Morrissey, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Altman, Luis Buñuel, *Lars Von Trier*, Akira Kurosawa, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Cronenberg, David Fincher, David Lean, David Lynch, D.W. Griffith, Elia Kazan, Francis Ford Coppola, Hal Ashby, Joel & Ethan Coen, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, Miloš Forman, Orson Welles, Quentin Tarantino, Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone, Stanley Kubrick, and François Truffaut.

Lars Von Trier's by and far the best! !