Recent A/V.
Awesome. If you loved the first one, you'll probably love this one, too. I was scared that Kevin Smith didn't have IT anymore, but he totally proved otherwise. It has the same wonderful dialogue and same semi-stilted delivery, but it isn't just Clerks I in color: Dante and Randal have grown up. (Well, okay. Dante has. Mostly.)
Two more words: Pillow Pants.
CD-goodness:
The Modern Sounds of the Knitters:
This came out last year. I have NO IDEA how I missed it. It's rad. Twenty years later and the same line up -- the swoon-tastic Dave Alvin (No one -- not even Joe Ely, I think -- can rock a red bandanna like him) with X, doing country/roots/rock. Some original material, some traditional songs. At the moment, I'm especially liking "Give Me Flowers While I'm Living", "Dry River" and "Skin Deep Town".
I'm clearly on a Dave Alvin kick at the moment. As far as I know, West of the West is his most recent album. It's made up of covers of songs by California songwriters -- originally, he wanted to only use songs by people who were born in California, but he ended up broadening the pool by allowing those who'd had their first kiss or first heartbreak in CA -- the songwriters range from Tom Waits to Merle Haggard to Brian Wilson to Kate Wolf to John Fogerty.
Current Favorites: "Kern River", "Sonora's Death Row", "Between the Cracks", "Surfer Girl".