America's Best Reviewed Minivan

About Me

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Icons of Style (Al Davis, Riley Mason, Dean Wareham, etc.)

Battle rappers -- especially Japanese ones

Pervs who've gotten busted on Dateline (something tells me I'm gonna meet a few of those on here, whether I want to or not)

The Blogosphere

Music:

Favorite records of 2006 (in alphabetical order):
Alex Smoke
Paradolia
American Watercolor Movement
It Takes Fifteen To Tango In My Book, What Book Do You Read
Benoit Pioulard
Precis
Booka Shade
Movements
Camera Obscura
Let's Get Out of this Country
Chihei Hatakeyama
Minima Morelia
Comets On Fire
Avatar
Ellen Allien and Apparat
Orchestra of Bubbles
Espers
Espers II
Ghostface Killah
Fishscale
Herbert
Scale
Isan
Plans Drawn In Pencil
James Yorkston
Year of the Leopard
Joanna Newsom
Ys
Josephine Foster
A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Junior Boys
So This Is Goodbye
OM
Conference of the Birds
Skygreen Leopards
Disciples of California
Sunset Rubdown
Shut Up I'm Dreaming
Vetiver
To Find Me Gone

Movies:

Favorite films of 2006
(as of 2/11/07):
1. Johnny To
Election
2. Hans Canosa
Conversations With Other Women
3. Kelly Reichardt
Old Joy
4. Allen Coulter
Hollywoodland
5. Joey Lauren Adams
Come Early Morning
6. Andrew Bujalski
Mutual Appreciation
7. James Marsh
The King
8. Christopher Nolan
The Prestige
9. So Yong Kim
In Between Days
10. Jesper Ganslandt
Falkenberg Farewell

Television:

Charlie Rose

Hardball

Kids in the Hall

The Office

The Wire

The (white) Rapper Show

Yo Momma

Heroes:

Lester Bangs

Eugene Debs

Jean-Luc Godard

Kathleen Hanna

Malcolm X

My Blog

LA Film Festival, Day Two

Movies seen:Katie Galloway and Po Kutchins' Prison Town, USA: On the surface, it plays like a cross between one of those anti-Wal Mart docs and the prison shows on MSNBC every Friday night. After the...
Posted by America's Best Reviewed Minivan on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:19:00 PST

LA Film Festival, Day One*

Movies Seen: Alejandra Sánchez and José Antonio Cordero's Bajo Juarez: kinda scruffy looking and about 15 minutes too long. would've been better suited as an hourlong PBS documentary. Worth a rental o...
Posted by America's Best Reviewed Minivan on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:18:00 PST

Thank you, friends!

Hey there,I just wanted to thank everyone who listened the "Top 20 Indie Albums of 2006" episode of my downloadable radio show, 120 Megabytes. It turned out to be a (relatively) huge success, with mor...
Posted by America's Best Reviewed Minivan on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:24:00 PST

120 Megabytes counts down the Top 20 Indie Albums of 2006

At long last, the moment we've all been waiting for has arrived -- 120 Megabytes' countdown of the year's top 20 indepedently released albums. I've divided the show into two parts, the first covering ...
Posted by America's Best Reviewed Minivan on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:46:00 PST

Episode 4 of 120 Megabytes -- up and ready to go!

Hey everyone,The latest installment of my radio show is up and ready for your listening pleasure. Before you feast your ears, however, I've got a few things I wanna say. First off, I'd like to give a...
Posted by America's Best Reviewed Minivan on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:16:00 PST

Episode 3 of 120 Megabytes -- out now!

Hello,Here's the third installment of my downloadable new music show, 120 Megabytes. In my humble opinion, this show turned out pretty nicely -- my best yet. Here are the streams:120 Megabytes: Epi...
Posted by America's Best Reviewed Minivan on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:53:00 PST

Episode 2 of 120 Megabytes -- Available for download NOW!

Hey everyone,Here's the second installment of my bi-monthly downloadable radio show, 120 Megabytes. I've added a few extra streams, so potential listeners of varying Internet speeds / hard drive spa...
Posted by America's Best Reviewed Minivan on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:39:00 PST

120 Megabytes - My New Music Show

Here it is -- the inaugral edition of 120 Megabytes, my bi-monthly (meaning twice a month, not once every two months) look at upcoming releases from the world of independent music. This premiere ep...
Posted by America's Best Reviewed Minivan on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:01:00 PST