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Best Of 2011, Guest Editors: Adam Goldberg On Raymond Chandler

As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.

The Goldberg Sisters is the new musical project from Adam Goldberg, the always entertaining actor/filmmaker whose impressive resume includes the likes of Saving Private Ryan, Dazed And Confused, Friends, Entourage, Zodiac, 2 Days In Paris and the Flaming Lips’ Christmas On Mars. The band’s 10-track, self-titled album (on Apology Music/Play It Again Sam) follows Goldberg’s 2009 musical debut, Eros And Omissions, released under the moniker LANDy. As with that project, The Goldberg Sisters finds Goldberg collaborating with Aaron Espinoza (Earlimart, Admiral Radley), though this time out, the duo was assisted by a handful of other musicians, including Goldberg’s girlfriend Roxanne Daner on violin. The result is a satisfying collection of effects-heavy, urbane psychedelia held together by Goldberg’s high-pitched, Lennon-esque croon. Goldberg will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Q&A with him.

Goldberg: Raymond Chandler kick-started my love of reading as a teenager who was biding his time until he could handle more than a drag from a cigarette and a thimble of Jack. And whose fish-out-of-water feeling about Los Angeles—where I was born and raised and raised some more when I turned back from New York, dropped out of college and came back to mommy—was mollified by his haunting murder poems. The always rainy city I thought maybe was lurking somewhere beneath the mini-malls at the center of these Beat-like yarns. Chandler complimented my brewing obsession with film noir, all things ’40s and ’50s, and lead to endeavors such as Bukowski, which lead to Fante and West and others who romanticized Los Angeles for me by de-romanticizing it. Having said all that, I don’t read much. I like to think it’s ADD or because I’m so consumed with making my own creations. But really I’m a lazy punk.

Video after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIbFzcdOKUo