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Just for fun, here's some of my favorite stuff from 2008...

Movies:

(1) Out of the Blue
(2) Encounters at the End of the World
(3) The Wrestler (or The Wackness)
(4) Planet B-Boy
(5) Paranoid Park (or My Winnipeg)
(6) The Universe of Keith Haring
(7) WALL-E (or Wendy & Lucy)
(8) Young@Heart
(9) Body of War
(10) Shelter (or Ciao)

Music:

(1) David Ford, Songs for the Road
(2) Colin Meloy, Colin Meloy Sings Live!
(3) Cyndi Lauper, Bring Ya to the Brink
(4) Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
(5) Sun Kil Moon, April
(6) The Weepies, Hideaway
(7) Mates of State, Rearrange Us
(8) The Magnetic Fields, Distortion
(9) Will Young, Let It Go
(10) Ne-Yo, Year of the Gentleman (or Kylie Minogue, X)


Here's some of my favorite stuff from 2007...

Movies:

(1) Forever
(2) Once
(3) The Bridge
(4) The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
(5) There Will Be Blood
(6) The Bubble
(7) An American Crime
(8) Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
(9) Into the Wild
(10) Broken English

Music:

(1) Darren Hayes, This Delicate Thing We've Made
(2) Rickie Lee Jones, Sermon on Exposition Boulevard
(3) Young Love, Too Young to Fight It
(4) Aqualung, Memory Man
(5) Patty Griffin, Children Running Through
(6) Tracey Thorn, Out of the Woods
(7) Once, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(8) Curt Smith, Halfway, Pleased (or Bettye LaVette, The Scene of the Crime)
(9) Just Jack, Overtones (or Don Lennon, Radical)
(10) Christopher O'Riley, Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake
(or Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd, After the Night Falls/Before the Day Breaks)


Here's some of my favorite stuff from 2006...

Movies:

(1) Time to Leave
(2) The History Boys
(3) This Film Is Not Yet Rated
(4) Twenty Centimeters
(5) The Queen
(6) For the Love of Dolly
(7) Children of Men

Music:

(1) Scritti Politti, White Bread, Black Beer
(2) The Weepies, Say I Am You
(3) Spring Awakening, Original Cast Recording
(4) Hem, No Word from Tom and Funnel Cloud
(5) Merrie Amsterburg, Clementine and Other Stories
(6) The Boy Least Likely To, The Best Party Ever
(7) Jose Gonzalez, Veneer
(8) Pet Shop Boys, Fundamental
(9) Teddy Thompson, Separate Ways (or Nik Kershaw, You've Got to Laugh)
(10) Josh Rouse, Subtitulo (or Josh Ritter, The Animal Years)
BONUS RE-RUN...Pansy Division, The Essential Pansy Division!


And here's some of my favorite stuff from 2005...

Movies:

(1) Junebug
(2) Loggerheads
(3) Me and You and Everyone We Know
(4) Mysterious Skin
(5) Heights
(6) Brokeback Mountain
(7) Broken Flowers
(8) Happy Endings
(9) Jarhead
(10) Grizzly Man

Music:

(1) The Czars, Sorry I Made You Cry
(2) Mysterious Skin Film Score
(3) Kate Bush, Aerial
(4) Sigur Ros, Takk...
(5) Elkland, Golden
(6) Martha Wainwright, Martha Wainwright
(7) Sun Kil Moon, Tiny Cities
(8) Damien Dempsey, Shots
(9) Tori Amos, The Beekeeper (or Bettye LaVette, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise)
(10) Annie, Anniemal (or Mozez, So Still)