Idolatry 














I appreciate the idea, but disagree significantly with his ordering and picks, while nonetheless still loving most of them – which says a lot about the exceptional and consistently excellent quality of CRJ's catalogue at this point! 

Here's my 37, fresh off a fantastic concert and a new album that I was slightly lukewarm on at first but find more to enjoy and admire each time I play it:

01. "No Drug Like Me"
02. "Run Away with Me" 
03. "Tiny Little Bows" (Green Couch Session version) 
04. "Curiosity" (EP version)
05. "Want You in My Room"
06.  "Your Type" 
07. "L.A. Hallucinations"
08. "Talking to Yourself"
09. "Too Much"
10. "This Kiss"
11.  "Summer Love"
12. "Making the Most of the Night" 
13. "All That" 
14. "Emotion" 
15. "Stay Away"
16. "Far Away"
17. "Surrender My Heart"
18. "Boy Problems" 
19. "Cry" 
20. "When I Needed You" 
21. "Tiny Little Bows" (Kiss version)
22. "Curiosity" (Kiss version) 
23. "Cut to the Feeling" 
24. "This Love Isn't Crazy"
25. "The Sound" 
26. "Let's Get Lost" 
27. "Gimmie Love" 
28. "Beach House"
29. "Warm Blood"
30. "First Time" 
31. "I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance"
32. "Bends" 
33. "Higher"
34. "Tonight I'm Getting over You" 
35. "Comeback"
36. "Bad Thing Twice"
37. "Tug of War"

Perhaps the most beautiful piece of music ever composed? 

 Top Ten Documentaries














I'm sure I'm momentarily blanking on some –– and I've omitted here hybrid-/quasi-docs by Godard, Welles, Malick, Kiarostami, Panahi, et al. in favour of more conventional, clear-cut documentaries –– but off the top of my head:

01. Shoah (Lanzmann)
02. The Sorrow and the Pity (Ophuls) 
03. Karamay (Xu)
04. Night and Fog (Resnais) 
05. Into Great Silence (Gröning) 
06. How to Survive a Plague (France) 
07. Hoop Dreams (James) 
08When the Levees Broke (Lee) OJ: Made in America (Edelman) [tie] 
09. Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (Obomsawin)
10. Lost Course (Li) 

Only Love Can Break Your Heart


Fuck Kyrie Irving, the spot-on sports doppelgänger of Kanye West (hypertalented at exactly one thing, dangerously and recklessly terrible in every other respect that matters), but, to our knowledge, without the mitigating circumstances of mental-health problems. Fuck Ime Udoka, who the Celtics had the fortitude to suspend for a whole season despite having reached the Finals in his first season. And fuck the cynical, gutless, morally bankrupt Brooklyn Nets team and organization, which in its current incarnation is by far the most repugnant NBA team during my lifetime of following basketball. Steve Nash should count his blessings for being booted from this amoral shitshow.