Top Albums of 2010.

01. Heartland (Owen Pallett)

02. Halcyon Digest (Deerhunter)

03. Teen Dream (Beach House)

04. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West)

05. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Big Boi)

06. Have One on Me (Joanna Newsom)

07. Mines (Menomena)

08. This Is Happening (LCD Soundsystem)

09. Down There (Avey Tare)

10. The Social Network (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)

11. Everything in Between (No Age)

12. Treats (Sleigh Bells)

13. Subiza (Delorean)

14. High Violet (The National)

15. Lisbon (The Walkmen)

16. The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) (Janelle Monáe)

17. Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Brian Eno)

18. Forgiveness Rock Record (Broken Social Scene)

19. How I Got Over (The Roots)

20. One Life Stand (Hot Chip)

honorable mentions:

Bastard (Tyler, the Creator)

Lucky Shiner (Gold Panda)

Swanlights (Antony and the Johnsons)

The Suburbs (Arcade Fire)

Dear God, I Hate Myself (Xiu Xiu)

Beach Fossils (Beach Fossils)

Lasted (Benoît Pioulard)

Swim (Caribou)

Total Life Forever (Foals)

Tourist History (Two Door Cinema Club)

Champ (Tokyo Police Club)

Body Talk (Robyn)

Odd Blood (Yeasayer)

Contra (Vampire Weekend)

Love King (The-Dream)

The Orchard (Ra Ra Riot)

Cosmogramma / Pattern+Grid World EP (Flying Lotus)

The Drums (The Drums)

Before Today (Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti)

Wild Smile (Suckers)

Avi Buffalo (Avi Buffalo)

Plastic Beach (Gorillaz)

I Will Be (Dum Dum Girls)

Big Echo (The Morning Benders)

Astro Coast (Surfer Blood)

Gemini (Wild Nothing)

Brothers (The Black Keys)

Interpol (Interpol)

Love Remains (How to Dress Well)

Go (Jónsi)

Forget (Twin Shadow)

Special Affections (Diamond Rings)

There Is Love in You (Four Tet)

Causers of This (Toro Y Moi)

The Age of Adz / All Delighted People EP (Sufjan Stevens)

New Chain (Small Black)

Fang Island (Fang Island)

Electric Sunset (Electric Sunset)

Heaven is Whenever (The Hold Steady)

Clinging to a Scheme (The Radio Dept.)

Spirit Youth (The Depreciation Guild)

Crazy for You (Best Coast)

King of the Beach (Wavves)

All Day (Girl Talk)

The Monitor (Titus Andronicus)

White Magic (ceo)

A Year in Film: 2010.

01. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Thailand/UK/France/Germany/Spain/Netherlands)

02. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach, USA)

03. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, USA)

04. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, France/Italy/Iran)

05. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, USA)

06. Film socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/France)

07. The Social Network (David Fincher, USA)

08. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Bansky, USA/UK)

09. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, USA)

10. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, France/Germany/UK)

11. True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen, USA)

12. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, USA)

13. The American (Anton Corbijn, USA)

14. Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell, USA)

15. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg, USA)

16. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Alex Gibney, USA)

17. Buried (Rodrigo Cortés, Spain/USA/France)

18. happythankyoumoreplease (Josh Radnor, USA)

19. The Oath (Laura Poitras, USA)

20. Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Alex Gibney, USA)

Best Director

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives *

Sofia Coppola, Somewhere

Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine

Joel and Ethan Coen, True Grit

David Fincher, The Social Network

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Ben Stiller, Greenberg

James Franco, 127 Hours

Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine

Stephen Dorff, Somewhere *

George Clooney, The American

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Natalie Portman, Black Swan

Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy *

Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit

Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Rhys Ifans, Greenberg

Matt Damon, True Grit

Miles Teller, Rabbit Hole

Andrew Garfield, The Social Network *

Vincent Cassel, Black Swan

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Greta Gerwig, Greenberg *

Elle Fanning, Somewhere

Mila Kunis, Black Swan

Dianne Wiest, Rabbit Hole

Michelle Williams, Meek’s Cutoff

Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay

The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin *

The American, Rowan Joffe

The Ghost Writer, Robert Harris and Roman Polanski

Rabbit Hole, David Lindsay-Abaire

True Grit, Joel and Ethan Coen

Best Writing - Original Screenplay

Greenberg, Noah Baumbach *

Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami

Meek’s Cutoff, Jonathan Raymond

happythankyoumoreplease, Josh Radnor

Buried, Chris Sparling

Best Cinematography

Greenberg, Harris Savides

Somewhere, Harris Savides *

True Grit, Roger Deakins

The American, Martin Ruhe

Blue Valentine, Andrij Parekh

Best Original Score

Black Swan, Clint Mansell

The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross *

Greenberg, James Murphy

The American, Herbert Grönemeyer

The Ghost Writer, Alexandre Desplat

Keep in mind, I have not seen the following (yet): Howl, Waiting for 'Superman', I'm Still Here, Another Year, Carlos, Tiny Furniture, etc.

The Thief's Journal, Jean Genet.

"At least," I said to myself, "if my shame is real, it hides a sharper, more dangerous element, a kind of sting that will always threaten anyone who provokes it. It might not have been laid over me like a trap, might not have been intentional, but since it is what it is, I want it to conceal me so that I can lie in wait beneath it."