Goodbye!

Hey guys, I've had a lot of fun running this blog over the past couple years, but I've got a lot on my plate now and don't have as much time for watching movies or listening to music, let alone writing about the experiences.  I think I'm gonna be calling it quits, but seeing as I inaugurated this blog with a list of 20 items, here's a few more movie and hip-hop related lists of that variety.

Top 20 directors:

Robert Bresson
Hong Sangsoo
Howard Hawks
Naruse Mikio
Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
Werner Herzog
Nicholas Ray
Raul Ruiz
Oshima Nagisa
Chris Marker
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean Renoir
Werner Schroeter
Eric Rohmer
Orson Welles
Alain Resnais
Josef von Sternberg
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Anthony Mann
Paul Verhoeven

Top 20 rappers:

Ghostface Killah
Raekwon
Kool G Rap
Andre 3000
Kanye West
Nas
Snoop Dogg
GZA
Ice Cube
Prodigy
Hittman
Jay-Z
MF Doom
Lil B
Cappadonna
Jean Grae
Kendrick Lamar
Killa Sin
Dres
Lauryn Hill

Top 20 films:

Floating Clouds (1955)
Gloria! (1979)
Eika Katappa (1969)
The Searchers (1956)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Stalker (1979)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
India Song (1975)
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
Twentynine Palms (2003)
Night and Day (2008)
Tropical Malady (2004)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
The Devil Probably (1977)
Like You Know It All (2009)
Le fond de l'air est rouge (1977)
Othon (1970)
Contempt (1963)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The New World (2004)

Top 20 hip hop albums:

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (Raekwon)
Supreme Clientele (Ghostface Killah)
Doggystyle (Snoop Doggy Dogg)
The Infamous... (Mobb Deep)
Fear, Love, and War (Killarmy)
Aquemini (OutKast)
Original Gangster (Ice-T)
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Lauryn Hill)
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West)
Ironman (Ghostface Killah)
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Wu-Tang Clan)
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (Black Sheep)
To the East, Blackwards (X Clan)
Entroducing.... (DJ Shadow)
Wu-Tang Forever (Wu-Tang Clan)
Long Live the Kane (Big Daddy Kane)
Hittmanic Verses (Hittman)
808s and Heartbreak (Kanye West)
Operation Doomsday (MF Doom)
Hell Hath No Fury (Clipse)