Music:
- Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
- The Horrors - Skying
- Tom Waits - Bad as Me
- The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
- The Black Keys - El Camino
- Low - C’Mon
- Wilco - The Whole Love
- Megafaun - Megafaun
- Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
- The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
- Meat Puppets - Lollipop
- The Kills - Blood Pressures
- Real Estate - Days
- The Feelies - Here Before
- Wussy - Strawberry
- My Morning Jacket - Circuital
- Destroyer - Kaputt
- PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
- Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo
- Radiohead - The King of Limbs
- Justice - Audio, Video, Disco
- Fleet Foxes -Helplessness Blues
- Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
- The Field -Looping State of Mind
- Deer Tick - Divine Providence
- Russian Circles - Empros
- The Strokes - Angles
- Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
- Boris - Heavy Rocks
- Wire - Red Barked Tree
- Danger Mouse & Daniele Lupi - Rome
- TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
- Wye Oak - Civilian
- Mastodon - The Hunter
- We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach
- Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer
Favorite Movies of 2011:
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Drive
- 13 Assasins
- Senna
- The Descendants
- Winter in Wartime
- Midnight in Paris
- The Muppets
- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
- Everything Must Go
- Paul
- Our Idiot Brother
- Horrible Bosses
- Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
- Forks Over Knives
- Bridesmaids
Favorite TV Shows:
- The Wire* - which obviously isn’t from 2011, but I finally watched it last year, so it deserves being mentioned, because it’s one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
- Breaking Bad
- Game of Thrones
- Parks & Recreation
- Community
- Boardwalk Empire
- Louie
- Sherlock
- Homeland
- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations / The Layover
- Top Gear
- 30 Rock
- Modern Family
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Favorite Books Of 2012:
- Bossypants by Tina Faye
- Zone One by Colton Whitehead
- Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me by Ian Morgan Cron
Ten Favorite Non-2011 Books I Read This Year:
- Your Money or Your Life
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- No Logo
- Tender is the Night
- Cat’s Cradle
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- A Moveable Feast
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Great Shark Hunt
- The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
30 Favorite Non-2011 Movies I Saw For the First Time:
- Zodiac
- Chinatown
- The Thing
- Les Triplettes de Belleville
- L’Illusionniste
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Yojimbo
- The Corporation
- Le Samourai
- The Deer Hunter
- True Grit (2010)
- The Muppet Movie
- Mesrine: Killer Instinct
- Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
- Mystic River
- Insomnia
- Beer Wars
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Amelie
- All the President’s Men
- The French Connection
- The Conversation
- Why We Fight
- Crazy Heart
- Lemmy
- No End in Sight
- Raging Bull
- Blue Gold
- The Iron Giant
