BEST OF 2014

As per usual, this list has nothing to do with 2014 except that maybe I enjoyed it, or discovered it this last year. In no particular order. Also, I have done more brain damage this year, so I don't remember much.

CHILDISH GAMBINO-CUZ THE INTERNET

Who would have thought that the nerdy kid from Community would actually be funny and musically talented? This album definitely takes a lot from other artists but blends it all beautifully. Stevie Wonder, Drake, Kanye, some trap, some soul, clever lyrical content....and it doesn't wear out after a few listens. Look forward to more. His movie Mystery Squad is also really good.

MIKE TYSON MYSTERIES

This is amazing, totally in  the mystery solving style of the late 60s Hanna Barbera cartoons, with guests like Cormac McCarthy and Buzz Aldrin. Voiced by Mike himself with Norm McDonald as the pigeon.

NICHOLS

A James Garner show no one ever heard of from before Rockford Files? A western in the style of Rockford with a lot of the same actors including the guy that played Angel? Yes, it's true. It saved my life. And the whole series is on Youtube.

EL MICHELS AFFAIR-ENTER THE 37th CHAMBER

Wu-Tang instrumentals by a classy soul band? Someones getting laid somewhere.

PERVERTS GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY

This is the weirdest documentary ever. I've seen it a few times and I'm still not sure what it is but the host is mesmerizing. And the style of cutting from classic films to the narrator actually sitting in the sets is mind blowing. Somehow he ties together John Wayne, Coca Cola, Beethovens 9th and 'They Live' to show us how we are living under the Jackboot of "Democracy".

LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS

Yeah, I know. I slept on this. But all this Dap shit is soooooooo good. It's like time travel. Charles Bradley is almost as great. Lee just has a bit of an edge.

BILL COSBY

Fuck I hate old Bill Cosby. He's so cranky and righteous and right wing and unfunny. So I was so happy to find out he's been drugging and raping women for years. He turns them to Jello and stick them with his puddin pop while they're unconscious! Brilliant! Evil! Now I can hate him for a good reason. What's weird is that I,Spy has become one of my favourite TV shows. It's really good.

PHILIP K. DICK

I had read Scanner Darkly quite a few times and it was in my top 10 novels for sure but for some reason never tried any others. Last year I dabbled in sci-fi, but this year I was crazy for Dick. The Valis Trilogy, Time Out of Joint, Game Players Of Titan, Ubik, and I've got so many more to go. Mind blowing, heart wrenching, funny and readable. Thank you Jesse for introducing me to PKD.

ANGEL OLSON
I listened to a lot of sad girl music this year. I'm a sad girl on the inside I guess. This is the Kit, Regina Spektor and Angel Olson. She's something special. Mad regrets I didn't get to see her show in Victoria. Sometimes my sad girl life gets in the way. The new album 'Burn Your Fire For No Witness'
is definitely worth getting. Punk, Country, Folk, and she's beautiful.

ROOM 237
This was the year of Kubrick for me. Yeah, I might have seen this in 2013 but I watched it so many times this year as well as a few Kubrick docs and all his films again at least once. (except Eyes Wide Shut, I don't wanna see Nicole Kidman fucking anyone else but me). At first you're laughing at these conspiracy morons and then they overlay The Shining backwards and forwards at the same time and your mind just explodes. FUCKING GENIUS. The moon landing was fake after all.....now what are the hidden meanings in Barry Lyndon?

THROWBACK MIXTAPE! DJPLAN IN 2008

         http://degenerateplanet.podomatic.com/entry/2015-01-04T12_16_59-08_00

B'more. electro, mash-ups, baille funk. Everything that still seemed fresh in 2008. As well as a djplan original : New Wave Hooker Girls. 

I couldn't find a track list but maybe I'll remember who all this is by....some of it is from vinyl but some of it I don't remember at all.....

DJPLAN : BUTTER SOFT BALLER MIXTAPE

A healthy but mellow mix of sometimes happy, sometimes sad tracks ranging from moombahton and moombahsoul to house and a hard ass climax. Enjoy. 

https://soundcloud.com/djplan/djplan-butter-soft-baller

HARPER DECLARES JIAN GHOMESHI A TERRORIST

"Wow, JG actually created more terror in Canada this week than the crackhead I hire to shoot up the hill" Harper was quoted in my dreams last night. Just before Burton Cummings and the guy from Nickelback bukkaki'd all over his stupid face. Then Jian showed up and everyone was terrorized by his presence. Then I woke up and had some coffee.

DEGENERATE PLANETS FAVOURITE COPS OF ALL TIME

Since the police and RCMP have been eating so many bullets lately, we at DP thought instead of picking up a M134 Minigun and jumping on the bandwagon, we would instead pay tribute to our favourite cops of all time. They are not all one dimensional, anal, power hungry cocks after all....

1.BAD LIEUTENANT

One of the best movies ever. Harvey Kietel makes you think you are watching a documentary. What makes him a great cop is not the drugs, drug dealing, stealing, mouth rape of teenagers, but the forgiveness of the rapists at the end. What a guy.

2.BUFORD T. JUSTICE 

My Dad loved this guy. I love him too. He is so much more foul mouthed than Ralph Cramden. "There's no way, no way that you came from my loins. Soon as I get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch yo mamma in da mouth."

3.BARNEY FIFE

Barney would carry one bullet in his pocket just in case there was trouble. He also took the deadly art of judo for a few years. He had a serious respect for the law that the Sheriff never quite understood.

4.BELKER

He was so undercover that he didn't bathe and he barked like a dog. They don't make cops like this anymore. If they do I am unaware because they are in so deep. Maybe I'm  undercover. maybe you are. I just blew your mind.

5.DENNIS BECKER

Rockford was always using Becker for running plates and Becker became to butt of his coworkers jokes for having a n ex-con for a friend. Sometimes he would deny it. Then Rockford would solve a case for him

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6.STEVE MCGARRET

Definitely a control freak. Also, the hardest working police chief in the history of Five O. When he wasn't shooting it out with Red Chinese spies, or busting Howlie coke smugglers, he was going undercover! Police Chiefs are supposed to be black, balding and fat and yell a lot while their wives cheat on them, not go undercover! WTF? Strong work McGarret...also his secret gay relationship was Dano was groundbreaking.

7.NORDBERG

Self explanatory. 

8.McQ

Putting Harry Callahan on this list would have been to obvious so instead you get McQ. The Fat Elvis of violent cops.

9.WINSLOW

A cop that makes sounds might have more uses in the field than you think. He can make sounds that confuse the bad guys. 

10.K9 JERRY LEE

I would have put Hooch on this list but he was just the dog of a dead guy helping Tom Hanks. K9 was an actual cop. Did you know if you kill a police dog you go down for a police homicide? Those motherfuckers don't even carry a badge or read you your rights! They just bite you! Fuck a police dog! Except loveable Jerry lee obviously.

BEST OF 2013

Half the things I discovered that were good this year were old so I'm including those anyway.

OS MUTANTES

I guess I'd heard these guys before but never got into them until this year. Brazil psychedelic superstars from the 60s that have reunited.

THE FREE DESIGN

New York sunshine pop, I guess they were featured on Peanut Butter Wolfs Badd Santa Mixtape but I didn't really check them out til this year. They are so happy it almost makes you sick. They are like camp counsellors drunk on power....they have an album called "Kites Are Fun'

HULU PLUS

This is Awesome. Fuck Netflix. Simon and Simon, The Fall Guy and the Criterion Collection. It's a commplete pain in the ass to get this in Canada but entirely worth the effort and expense. They have Return to the Planet of the Apes cartoon, I,Claudius, and I Love Lucy. What other tv shows are there? Well, Rockford, but they have that too.....

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