Since this is the season for lists I thought I'd sloppily sum up the year behind and the year ahead. Actually, these are more piles then lists since there's no particular order.
My Favorite Movies of 2005:-Brokeback Mountain
-Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The WereRabbit
-Mirror Mask
-King Kong
-Shopgirl
-Off The Map
-Yes
-The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
-Batman Begins
-The Brothers Grimm
-The Squid And The Whale
-Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire
-Sin City ("The Hard Goodbye" segment)
My Favorite Albums of 2005:-Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine
-Beck: Guero
-Fruit Bats: Spelled In Bones
-Sufjan Stevens: Illionois
-Maude Maggart: Sings Irving Berlin
-Emiliana Torrini: Fisherman's Woman
-Sigur Rós: Takk
-Feist: Let It Die
-Gorillaz: Demon Days
-The Polyphonic Spree: Thumbsucker
-The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
Non-New Bands I Discovered and/or Started Buying A Lot Of in 2005:-The Shins
-Iron & Wine
-Cat Power
-Air
-Tom Waits
-The Zombies
-They Might Be Giants (yeah...I was mostly absent from the 90's musically)
-Yo La Tengo (see above)
-The Flaming Lips (ditto)
-The Beach Boys
-Solo Beatles stuff (how the fuck did I go 25 years without owning Ram or Plastic Ono Band?)
Concerts (and one play) I Had Fun At in 2005:-The Polyphonic Spree with Jon Brion opening
-Beck (twice!) with Cat Power opening the first time and La Tigre the second time
-Sondre Lerche
-Nellie McKay (three times!)
-Tenacious D & Friends (Fiona Apple, David Cross, Sarah Silverman and some other dudes)
-Ryan Adams (actually I've bitched and moaned about this concert a lot, he's a real asshole...but in retrospect it was a fun show to mock for months afterwards)
-Theater of the New Ear: Anomolisa & Hope Leaves The Theater by Charlie Kaufman and Carter Burwell
-Dave Matthews Band (barely, I think my love for the band is finally wearing off, but it was the second row seat that got me)
Stuff That Bugged Me in 2005:-Sin City (the other segments)
-Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
-Corpse Bride
-Fantastic Four
-Elizabethtown
-Crash (why is everyone praising this awful movie?)
-War Of The Worlds
-Munich
-Dave Matthews Band: Stand Up (it gets harder and harder to like a band that's hasn't had a good album since '98)
-Ben Folds: Songs For Silverman
-Rilo Kiley's Sunset Junction concert
Movies I'm Looking Forward To in 2006:-Superman Returns
-A Scanner Darkly
-The Fountain
-Tideland
-The Inside Man
-The Wendell Baker Story
-Idiocracy
-Art School Confidential
-Lady In The Water
-Caótica Ana
-The OH In Ohio
-For Your Consideration
-The Film Is Not Yet Rated
-Sicko
Music I'm Looking Forward To in 2006:-Radiohead's got a new album this year AND might be scoring "A Scanner Darkly" !!
-Sondre Lerche is releasing TWO new albums
-Nellie McKay left Sony which delayed her album "Pretty Little Head" (original release date: Jan 3rd) but hopefully it will be out in a few months
-Suzanna Choffel's "Shudders & Rings"
-Polyphonic Spree's "The Fragile Army"
-Cat Power's "The Greatest" (and she'll be in LA February 22nd)
Stuff That Scares Me in 2006-Cars (I love Pixar...and the new trailer is better...but I just don't know)
-X-Men 3 (the trailer looks like kids playing make-believe in the backyard and the Beast make up looks LAUGHABLE...and Brett Ratner)
I can't think of anything else...what did I miss?
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