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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Lists - Best of 2007

It's another New Year's Day. A time for looking forward to new opportunities and the chance to put up the new calendars I got for Christmas. It also means that it's time to look back at the past year and make lists. So here goes with my best of 2007 in music and film. I know there are other things that people make lists of, but I will spare everyone in cyberspace the list of goofy YouTube videos that matches everyone else's lists anyway, and I will not catalog my favorite condiments. There is only one that really matters anyway, spicy brown mustard. So here goes:

Top 10 films for the year (subject to change when really good films that premiered on the West and East Coast finally make it here to my city in the dark days of January):

1. Paprika
2. Ratatouille
3. Into the Wild
4. Juno
5. Michael Clayton
6. The King of Kong - A Fistful of Quarters
7. Once
8. Lars and the Real Girl
9. Gone Baby Gone
10. The Lookout


Top 10 music recordings. (This is subject to change when I get around to a lot of cool stuff that I haven't gotten around to listening/downloading yet):

1. Sloan – - Never Hear the End of It
2. Arcade Fire – - Neon Bible
3. Spoon – - Ga ga ga ga ga
4. Apples in Stereo –- New Magnetic Wonder
5. New Pornographers – - Challengers
6. Los Campanesios – - Sticking Fingers into Sockets
7. Beirut – - The Flying Club Cup
8. Rasputina – - Oh Perilous World
9. Swirling Eddies – - The Midget, the Speck, and the Molecule
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows


Top songs of the year, which I will burn onto my Best of 2007 mix CD (I hope they all fit):

1. You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campanesinos
2. Running Away - Polyphonic Spree
3. You Got Your Cherry Bomb - Spoon
4. Skyway - Apples in Stereo
5. Imitosis - Andrew Bird
6. Keep the Car Running – Arcade Fire
7. Cage in a Cave - Rasputina
8. Mistaken for Strangers - The National
9. Pull Shapes - The Pipettes
10. Valerie - Mark Ronson (with Amy Winehouse)
11. The Apocalypse Song - St. Vincent
12. I Understand - Sloan
13. The Picture - Son Volt
14. '92 Suburu - Fountains of Wayne
15. My Cardboard Box - Swirling Eddies
16. Power On, Little Star - Maria McKee
17. A Sunday Smile - Beirut
18. Don't Wait for Tom - Over the Rhine
19. Bury Me Closer - Palomar
20. When Your Mind's Made Up - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
21. Myriad Harbor - New Pornographers


Top Live Concerts:

1. Polyphonic Spree, The Pageant, St. Louis
2. The Police, ScottTrade Center, St. Louis
3. The Bears, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis
4. The Lee Boys, Cornerstone music festival, Bushnell, IL
5. Bloodgood, Cornerstone music festival, Bushnell, IL
6. Over the Rhine, Cornerstone music festival, Bushnell, IL
7. Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Riverfront stage under the Arch, St. Louis
8. Apples in Stereo, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis
9. ilyAimy, St. Charles Coffee House, St. Charles, MO
10. Andrew Bird, The Pageant, St. Louis


Favorite Books I read this year (I'll do a top 15 list instead of 10 ten, because, it takes a lot of time to read a book, you know)

1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susannah Clarke
2. Crazy '08, Cait Murphy
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J,K. Rowling
4. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
5. Auralia's Colors, Jeffrey Overstreet
6. The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
7. Trackers, Kathryn Mackel
8. The Fireberd Trilogy, Kathy Tyres
9. The Legend of the Firefish, George Bryan Povlika
10. Rethinking Worldview, J. Mark Bertrand
11. Story of a Girl, Sara Zarr
12. Fantasyland, Sam Walker
13. In High Places, Tom Morrisey
14. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, George Saunders
15. Hood, Stephen Lawhead

2 Comments:

Blogger sinpixie said...

Hey, in case you didn't know, we will be back at the St. Charles Coffeehouse for another show this Friday, April 4 at 8 pm!

Full details on our myspace calendar, which is also the best way to contact us: http://www.myspace.com/ilyaimy.

Heather

5:02 PM  
Blogger sinpixie said...

hey, in case you didn't know, we are about to be back at St. Charles Coffeehouse for a show this Friday, April 4!

Calendar details at http://www.myspace.com/ilyaimy.

5:06 PM  

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