hello 2005

Well rather than muse about the evenings excellent events i thought i'd put up my favourite albums, films etc... (based on number of plays/watches and impact) just to make me think about it and so i can remember some of 2004's joys. So:

Albums
1. Modest Mouse- Good news for people who love bad news (partly just because i like the name but i love the originality of this album and how it jumps around styles all the time meaning i played it a lot)
2. Joanna Newsome- The milk-eyed mender (a harp player who sings a bit like a 12 year old, love or hate but i'm very much in the love camp)
3. Sufjan Stevens- Seven swans (really simple and well crafted songs)
4. Elliot Smith- From a basement o n the hill (last release before his death makes this quite a personal listen in places)
5. The Walkmen- The rat (single off Bows and Arrows which i played to death since about April)

Films
1. Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (at least 5 times)
2. Garden State (three)
3. Hero (once)
4. Shaun of the Dead (three)
5. 21 grams (once)

(and of the blockbusters, Day after tommorrow and of course Mean girls)

TV
1. Six Feet Under (the onlt tv show i can remember being obsessed with. Well, that and MTV2)
2. The O.C (kept me sane while doing my masters)

Books
1. The Lemony Snicket books (got them for Christmas and am already on the fifth one)