Great SweetsFor anyone with a sweet tooth, I present the best icy, sugary, fruity, chocolaty, and bacony desserts I indulged in this year:
1. NYC Icy
2. Crack Pie
3. Cat Head Cupcakes from Ruthy’s Bakery
5. Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Mix
6. Pig Candy
Great FoodWow, as much as I might miss being able to go out to restaurants lately – we really ate well this year! From Spain to Connecticut to Flushing, from my spiciest meal to date to fried fish bones to arms length lobster rolls.. there was so much tastiness in 2010 that I just had to include some honorable mentions on top of the short list.
1. Barcelona
3. Traif
5. Soba-ya
6. Fatty Cue
Honorable Mentions: Paulie Gee’s and Imperial Palace
Great LadiesMy short list of style icons are a fiery bunch sure to inspire your closet and your attitude:
3. Peggy Moffit
4. Jadin Wong
5. Nina Simone
6. Meiko Kaji
Great MenIt was a tough year for loss. My favorites in the fields of art, fashion, and literature passed away this year. They rank among the best male style icons of my 2010:
3. JD Salinger
6. Hipgnosis
Great HunksFrom drinking thespians to silent funny men – bring on the parade of babes.
1. Oliver Reed
2. Franco Nero
3. David Warner
6. Brian Jones
Great AlbumsChoosing just a few best albums of the ones I enjoyed this year was tough and I am sure I’d pick another bunch depending on my mood – but after much deliberation here are some great listens, some of which you have probably heard a million times, others that might be a new surprise.
2. Opium
3. Cannibal Holocaust Soundtrack
4. Stretchin’ Out In Bootsy’s Rubber Band
Great SongsHere’s a playlist of some of the best songs that I’ve been into this year. There’s a healthy dose of early nineties r&b as well as some lovely romantic classics.
1. Pony
2. Blue Bayou
3. Silly Ho
5. Dirty Girl
6. Too Close
Great BooksI didn’t read quite as many books this year as usual, but have still come up with a pretty great short list for your literary enjoyment. So here’s the best of the picks for the next time you want to curl up with a good read.
2. Clockers
3. No One Belongs Here More Than You
4. Lunar Park
5. Christian Lacroix on Fashion
6. somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
Great MoviesTime to reflect and give a run down of the very best of the recommendations I’ve given over the year. So here’s my list of the top movies to see, a mix of old and new, funny and strange – the very best for the next time you want to stay in with popcorn and a whole bunch of movies (perfect actually for this after New Years weekend):
1. Hausu
2. Amadeus
5. Videodrome
Album ArtistsIf you can remember the image of an album cover from the seventies and eighties that’s got a touch or more of photo surrealism then Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell, and Peter Christopherson, aka Hipgnosis was probably behind it. The British design group basically dictated what the enduring face of rock and roll would look like for a decade.
Not only were they behind iconic albums like The Dark Side of the Moon and Houses of the Holy but some of my personal favorites – Scorpions’ Lovedrive and 10cc’s How Dare You! (favorites in album art only – The Scorpions cold never live up to their controversial covers).
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