• Battlestar Galactica - Season One
  Yes - I am a convert.There’s really nothing to say except: SEE IT NOW. OK, good.
  
• Wilco - Kicking Television
  A really great collection of live material with excellent sound quality, even though it sadly lacks the majority of Senor Tweedy’s ranting.
  
• Phantom of Liberty - Criterion Collection Edition
  If you don’t really consider Bunuel a surrealist, then you didn’t see this film. One of his last, one of his craziest, you’ll never poop at the dinner table the same way again.
  
• Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream - Remastered Deluxe Edition
  My favorite Siouxsie album sounds better than ever! It was super thoughtful of them do that just for me, and now the rest of you can enjoy it too!
  
• Roman Polanski - Repulsion
  No list would be complete without some Polanski. Or something about an octopus. I love octopi/puses/peds. Almost as much as I love Roman Polanski.
  

• Kate Bush - Aerial
  Kate's older records make me want to burn down buildings. But the lady has transformed yet again into a higher state of womanhood, and she makes me slow down, and think, and wish I was barefoot hanging laundry on the line.
  
• Barbarasteele - Soul, Set, a Blaze
  I've listened to this record more than anything else over the past 5 months. It's a new kinda soul, a new kinda sex, and it's made me buy all kinds of new high heels. The live shows are not to be missed, mind you... the Boys Blaze and Miss Dana are dressed to the 9's and are ready to please. It's a full moon, a lingering scent, and a crooning fate. it's meant to be.
  
• Cocorosie - Noah's Ark
  This record makes me feel like I'm in the deep end of a warm swimming pool with a belly full of angel-food cake receiving champagne intravenously while walking on hot coals. Impossible, you say? Impossibly perfect, I'd retort.
  
• Tiga - Sexor
  I love a trashy beat, don't you? I was pleasantly surprised to recognize one of the tracks immediately, which was used by none other than Mr. Alexander McQueen for one of his runway shows. As if that wasn't enough, one of the songs is about Viki Vale, and then he goes and dedicates the track to Prince. "Who's that?!" I’ll say...
  

• The Hypstrz - Live At The Longhorn
  Finally on CD! Reissue of a 1980 LP that's one of my all-time favorites. They tear through the 60s garage rock catalog with truly wild abandon. I'm very picky about garage rock, but this is the shiniest diamond you could hope for.
  
• Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
  Great return to form by these literate popsters.
  
• Blasters - 4-11-44
  First studio CD without Dave Alvin is bluesier than their 80s stuff but still rocks reliably.
  
• Stooges - deluxe reissues of their first 2 CDs
  The remastered albums sound great, the outtakes are of high quality - great job!
  
• 101'ers - Elgin Avenue Breakdown
  Joe Strummer's first band stands on its own two feet, never mind the historical connection. Definitely worth checking out for lovers of The Clash.
  

• The Getaway DVD
  Steve McQueen packs enough firepower in his fists to handle anyone fool enough to get in his way, and delivers a shotgun blast to the gut for those not worthy of a pistol-whipping or punch in the throat. This film means business.
  
• Point Blank DVD
  Read the above and just replace “.44 Magnum” for “shotgun,” and the name Steve McQueen with filmdom’s all-time biggest and best badass, Lee Marvin. A definite “must-not-miss” for action/crime film fans.
  
• Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Criterion Collection DVD)
  Beautifully paced and acted, it’s one of the best meditations on what it means to be a “tough guy.” Jean Gabin is wearily romantic and deadly mean when double-crossing dames, a kidnapped sidekick and the theft of the loot from his “one last score” get in the way of his retirement from crime.
  
• Le Samourai (Criterion Collection DVD)
  Video Ed says: Equal measures film noir, French New Wave, police procedural, and Japanese “chambara” will net you what several film experts and critics have called “a near perfect film.” Video Danielle says: Dreamy, beautiful, dreamy! Simply and purely brilliant.
  
• Spongebob Squarepants 3rd Season DVD set
  After a hard day of French gangsters and gunshots in the gut, it’s refreshing to find Spongebob Squarepants still maintains the zaniness and absurd humor I fell in love with two seasons ago. Spongebob is, for my money, the best of the “old-timey silly” cartoon shows.