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Dan Carlson
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I'm a twentysomething white male with ambitions to be a professional film critic and generally spend my days getting paid to watch movies and write about it. A compulsive reader and stubborn cineaste, I take an often contrary stance to my more fundamentalist peers and upbringing by celebrating the pursuit of the good, and the Good, in life, love, art and film. If you watched enough episodes of certain TV shows — for starters, "The Hungry and the Hunted," "The Cut Man Cometh," "The Body," "The Zeppo," "Waiting in the Wings," "Out of Gas," "April Is the Cruelest Month," "20 Hours in America," "Colonial Day," "An Echolls Family Christmas," "Look Who's Stalking," "The Garage Door," "Charlie Gets Crippled," "Wind Sprints," and "Corner Boys" — you would understand me completely, and you'd also realize that much of my worldview and philosophical insights are heavily influenced by fictional works/programs, and many of the good things I've said in my life are just a regurgitation of someone else's imaginings, or at any rate a heartfelt attempt to interpret them. I guess I was made to be a film critic.

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November 29, 2006

Wednesday Listmania

By Dan Carlson

My 26 Desert Island Albums:

1. Old 97's — Too Far to Care

2. The Refreshments — Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy

3. The Jayhawks — Rainy Day Music

4. Wilco — A.M.

5. Whiskeytown — Strangers Almanac

6. Son Volt — Trace

7. Dave Matthews Band — Before These Crowded Streets

8. Denison Witmer — Safe Away

9. Fountains of Wayne — Welcome Interstate Managers

10. Ryan Adams — Heartbreaker

11. Ryan Adams — Jacksonville City Nights

12. Counting Crows — August and Everything After

13. Sufjan Stevens — Illinois

14. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers — Honky Tonk Union

15. Bob Dylan — Blood on the Tracks

16. Wilco — Being There

17. Bright Eyes — I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

18. Tom Waits — Closing Time

19. Johnny Cash — Live at San Quentin

20. Mike Doughty — Haughty Melodic

21. Bob Schneider — I'm Good Now

22. Dixie Chicks — Home

23. Tift Merritt — Bramble Rose

24. Kasey Chambers — The Captain

25. Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band — The Mountain

26. Gram Parsons — GP/Grievous Angel

My Top 10 Female Acts:

1. Lucinda Williams

2. Dixie Chicks

3. Emmylou Harris

4. Tift Merritt

5. Kathleen Edwards

6. Kasey Chambers

7. Jenny Lewis

8. Alison Krauss

9. Tres Chicas

10. Caitlin Cary

My Top 3 Songs for the Shower:

1. "Long Black Veil," Johnny Cash

2. "Still Feeling Blue," Gram Parsons

3. "Green and Dumb," Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers

Five Great TV-Music Moments That Get Me Every Time

1. "Blue," Angie Hart — "Conversations With Dead People" ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")

2. "Sloop John B," Beach Boys — "The Sword of Orion" ("Sports Night")

3. "A Place Called Home," Kim Richey — "Shells" ("Angel")

4. "I Don't Like Mondays," Tori Amos — "20 Hours in America, Pt. 2" ("The West Wing")

5. "I Hear the Bells," Mike Doughty —"Look Who's Stalking" ("Veronica Mars")

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— Francois Truffaut

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