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Obligatory Top Ten List of 2005

  
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
05:15 / 22.12.05
This is in no particular order (except for the last, which is number one):

1) Damien Rice - O --Yes, I know it came out last year or something like that, but I just discovered it. For all that, I love it; it's like having a thoughtful depressing British movie soundtrack in your head all the time.

2) "In California" - Neko Case --This is a cover by someone I don't know, but whatever the case, when Miss Case sings it, it's the most heartbreaking of love letters.

3) Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling -- Oh, like you weren't waiting to see what was going to happen next. Easily the saddest death in literature this year (and no, it's not the boy wizard).

4) Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire -- Talk about King Kong, talk about Brokeback Mountain, talk about Chronicles of Narnia all you want, but this is was the movie I was waiting to see. Lived up to great expectations (pardon the Dickens reference) despite Mike Newell at the helm, and isn't Daniel Radcliffe coming along nicely?

5) Comedians of Comedy tour -- Brian Posehn, Patton Oswalt, and Zach Galifianakis on tour. What's not to laugh about? Especially when you see Patton drunk off his ass in your local dive without his pants on.

6) New Pornographers - Twin Cinema -- Easily the best pop album that isn't a pop album in my book. Catchy, weird, and damn, there's that Neko Case again.

7) Lost -- This show gets better and better, and more complex than a Chinese puzzle box. This is the kind of thing TV execs should stay cottoned onto.

8) The Historian - Elizabeth Kostovaa -- Yeah, sure, it moves slower than your aunt on the buffet line, but when much like that instance, it's so weirdly rewarding when you get to the end.

9) Serenity -- the best little science fiction movie that could. And tried. And didn't. Nonetheless, Nathan Fillion remains my future ex-husband. "I'm serious. There could even be tears."

10) My last trip to New Orleans -- I went on vacation one week before Katrina. For those of you who don't know, I used to live there. I went back because I hadn't in a long while. I did, and it was the city that I had loved for most of my life. I took lots of beaautiful b&w pics. I rekindled my love affair with probably one of the most unique cities in America. A week after I left, it was left to rot by the American government. I was heartbroken and cried for a long long time. I still dream of how it used to be when I know it might never be the same again. If Tom allows it, I will post those pics I have on here.
 
 
Mirror
13:17 / 22.12.05
Hrm. This list doesn't seem quite destroyer-ish enough to me.

Particularly the Harry Potter bits. Gotta say that *my* hopes were left quite unfulfilled by this year's addition to the Potter filmography.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
16:44 / 22.12.05
1) The Brief history of the Dead - not yet published but I saw an advance copy. Extract here

2) Sky High. Unexpectedly excllent superhero kids' film seen on the plane. There's a character called Warren Peace whose mum was a superhero and father was a supervillain. How cool is that?

More when they come to me.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
06:34 / 24.12.05
Bless you, Whisky Priestess, for having an interest in this crap thread, anyway. I was counting on the love of people making lists.
 
 
P. Horus Rhacoid
07:25 / 24.12.05
Hmm. Hard to isolate specific things. It's been an up-and-down year. Anyway, here goes, in no particular order.

1) My musical taste has expanded wildly this year and I have discovered way too many great bands to even try to figure out which ones I like most. It's been great.

2) The class I took on subcultures last semester. Frightfully interesting subject matter, one of the best professors I've ever had. We got to watch Quadrophenia in class, and it was entirely relevent. What's not to love?

3) Living on my own last summer, because I feel like I'm finally independent from my parents. Which is an entirely false feeling because, you know, they're paying for it. But still.

4) Okay not to suck up, but: this place. I haven't exactly lit the place up with my tremendous intellect or scintillating wit- the only non-conversation thread I think I've started which didn't sink like the Titanic was about the worthy, philosophically thought-provoking subject of dolphins singing the theme from Batman- but it has led directly to me thinking more critically about myself and the world, and that's a great thing. It's also given me an environment where I think I can express myself more genuinely than I can with most of the people I know which has been immensely valuable.

5) Going to London for a semester. The second half sucked because I was in a cramped house full of passive-aggressive people who I wanted to kill by midterms, plus I was pretty significantly depressed for a portion of it, but still- foreign place! Foreign city! Cool foreign city! Plus I could drink legally which was nice.

6) George W is fucking up right and left- no change there- but people are actually taking notice. Obviously I'm cringing at the things he's doing, but I always cringe at them so people noticing is helping close the year out in warm, fuzzy style after it started so poorly (ie with his inauguration).

7) WE3. When 2 says 'Is home.' You know what I'm talking about. Tears, every time.

8) My sport. I play on a couple different competitive teams; most of my friends come from one or the other. I've only been playing for a couple years but I can't imagine what it was like not playing. It's gotten me through some rough patches and pretty much shapes my life, as much as school does.

9) I feel like I should put a book on here but I honestly can't think of one to single out. I read a bunch, they were good. So, books.

10) All the cool people I've met (there have been lots), comics I've read, TV and movies I've seen, etc. Also my family.

10 (alternate ending)) Shaq becoming a Miami police officer. Too good to be true!

Well golly gosh, it's past 4 in the morning. Barbelith, you are a Bad Influence.
 
  
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