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		<title>The Bestest 2010 Filmage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Ruxin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write this while sitting on a plane back from Sundance, where I managed to see eight films in 48 hours. To be at Sundance and dedicate yourself to films intensely, even for a few days,  is one of the most liberating experiences I can imagine for a few reasons. Beyond the abundant quality and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bestest 2010 &#8211; Tunage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year everything old seems particularly new again. Perhaps that is because I am now officially over forty, and I have been paying more attention to what is in the past than I ever did before.  There was a time not so long ago that bands were empowered to communicate directly with fans through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bestest 2009 – Filmmage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Ruxin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seemed to be fewer films that will stand the test of time this year than in the past, but that is not to say there weren’t a handful of gems. For me the most important filmic discovery was jaw dropping accessibility provided by Netflix “Watch Now.” I started the year with a Roku box, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bestest 2009 – Tunage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Ruxin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The business of music seems to be forever spiraling towards something that seems like a bottom, despite the fact the black hole is still largely out of site. This doesn’t keep artists and fans from uniting in that universal bliss flowing from the discovery of a wonderful song at the perfect time to make everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bestest 2008 &#8211; Tunage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Ruxin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike the film business that has now left hugely fallow patches during the year in favor of timely Oscar release consideration, the music business is now so diverse and alive with new approaches that great records emerge daily, finding audiences across the internet through hugely viral discovery methods: Twitter, imeem, Facebook, Myspace, Last.fm, Blip.fm and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bestest 2008 &#8211; Filmmage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Ruxin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some ways it is frustrating being a film fanatic these days. For the first three quarters of the year, good studio films slowly drip into the market, with most of them held back until December so they remain fresh when the Award season begins. During the empty Spring and Fall periods all the great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bestest 2007, Tunage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Ruxin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunage Despite the relentless negativity and uncertainty that surrounds the current state of the music business the artists and the art that emerged in 2007 were nothing less exceptional. More and better records seemed to ooze from every pore of the digital underbelly. The long tail is officially alive and well, and thanks to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bestest 2007, Filmmage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Ruxin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filmmage Despite the greedy, bickering, and seemingly unsolvable problems that have managed to suck much of the air out of the this year&#8217;s awards season, 2007 is beginning to feel like one of the strongest movie years of the decade: A happy split between genuinely mass audience popcorn epics, and smallish indie movies that focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bestest 2007, Bookishness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Ruxin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Bookishness: or more accurately two great books Absurdistan: A Novel - Gary Shteyngart The second book by master satirist gary Schtenygart is, almost inexplicably, even funnier than his astounding debut novel, &#8220;The Russian Debutants Handbook.&#8221; In it, a spoiled but oddly lovable Russian trust fund twenty-something, is exiled from the states after a joyous existence through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bestest 2006 &#8211; Bookishness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Ruxin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bookishness Night &#8211; by Ellie Wiesel Like &#8220;The Painted Bird&#8221; before it, this thin, horrifying memoir of the concentration camps at the end of WWII, the realities of this author&#8217;s survival and existence read like a surreal fiction. Sixty years later, the cloud of Nazi Germany still feels like a blanket trying to shake free. [...]]]></description>
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