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In one week, we'll play at Les Bains-Douches in Besançon.

Here are my 9 favourite albums released this year:

The Dø - Both Ways Open Jaws
(Please) Don't Blame Mexico - Concorde
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Veronica Falls
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
Austra - Feel It Break
Baxter Dury - Happy Soup
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island
White Denim - D

Here are my 37 favourite films this year (in an autobiographical order):

Michel Gondry - The green hornet
Lilian Franck + Robert Cibis - Pianomania
Hiromasa Yonebayashi - The secret world of Arrietty
Tom Hooper - The King's speech
Denis Villeneuve - Incendies
Darren Aronofsky - Black swan
Rafi Pitts - The Hunter
Philippe Le Guay - Les femmes du 6e étage
Raphaël Jacoulot - Avant l'aube
Frederick Wiseman - Boxing Gym
Hiner Saleem - Si tu meurs, je te tue
Shlomi Eldar - Precious Life
Gore Verbinski - Rango
Gastón Duprat + Mariano Cohn - El hombre de al lado
Martin Provost - Où va la nuit
Xavier Durringer - La conquête
Gianni di Gregorio - Gianni e le donne
Asghar Farhadi - A separation
Alain Cavalier - Pater
Kelly Reichardt - Meek's cutoff
Kim Jee-Woon - I saw the devil
Dominik Moll - Le Moine
Na Hong-jin - The Yellow Sea
Pedro Almodóvar - La piel que habito
Lars Von Trier - Melancholia
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
Paolo Sorrentino - This must be the place
Nanni Moretti - Habemus papam
Dominique Abel + Fiona Gordon + Bruno Romy - La fée
Lynne Ramsay - We need to talk about Kevin
Jafar Panahi - This is not a film
Maïwenn - Polisse
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Once upon a time in Anatolia
Robert Guédiguian - Les neiges du Kilimandjaro
Djinn Carrénard - Donoma
Christian Rouaud - Tous au Larzac
Aki Kaurismäki - Le Havre

Here are some art shows I particularly enjoyed this year (mostly in Paris):

Sciences et curiosités à la cour de Versailles - Château de Versailles
L'Orient des femmes - Musée du Quai Branly
Henry Moore - Musée Rodin
Stanley Kubrick - Cinémathèque française
Dogon - Musée du Quai Branly
Odilon Redon - Grand Palais
Manet, inventeur du moderne - Musée d'Orsay
Enluminures en terre d'islam entre abstraction et figuration - BnF Richelieu
Estivales africaines - BnF Mitterrand
Edvard Munch, l'oeil moderne - Centre Pompidou
Au royaume d'Alexandre le Grand, la Macédoine antique - Musée du Louvre
Roma + Klein - Maison européenne de la photographie
Paul Klee Polyphonies - Cité de la Musique
Diane Arbus - Jeu de Paume
Expressionismus & Expressionismi - Pinacothèque
Yayoi Kusama - Centre Pompidou
Danser sa vie - Centre Pompidou

(Please) Don't Blame Mexico chose among their friends for this Christmas playlist. You will find great contributions of established acts such as John Hale or Mina Tindle, but also newcomers, like Shorebilly.


PLAYLIST PDBM#51 DE NOËL by (P)DBM

At the end of this video, you might hear a song you know.

VAT is going to increase in France on January 1st 2012. As a consequence, Amazon decided to make musicians and labels earn less on records. That is why you should buy your Christmas presents now.


Of course, you can also buy them here and here.