The Revolution Starts Now
I've added a whole new level of tedium this year by linking you to sound clips from my favorite albums and IMDB profiles of my favorite movies.
Favorite new 2004 albums:
1. Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
2. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic
3. Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man
4. Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
5. Ron Sexsmith - Retriever
6. David Byrne - Grown Backwards
7. Cake - Pressure Chief
8. Magnetic Fields - I
9. Candy Butchers - Hang On Mike
10. Brian Wilson - Smile
11. They Might Be Giants - The Spine
12. Badly Drawn Boy - One Plus One Is One
13. The Uncle Devil Show - A Terrible Beauty
14. Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
15. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
16. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
17. Donovan - Beat Café
18. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
19. John Wesley Harding - Adam’s Apple
20. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
Favorite non-2004 albums heard for the first time in 2004 (including new editions of albums that I had previous versions of):
1. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (3 disk set)
2. Elvis Costello - Goodbye Cruel World (Rhino 2 disk set)
3. Bonzo Dog Band - Cornology
4. The Soft Boys - Invisible Hits
5. The Aerovons - Resurrection
6. Robyn Hitchcock - Invisible History
7. Heavenly - Operation Heavenly
8. Dan Bern - Smartie Mine
9. Joan Baez - Diamonds And Rust
10. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
Favorite new 2004 movies - big screen (some were released outside the US in 2003):
1. The Same River Twice
2. Goodbye Lenin
3. Fahrenheit 911
4. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
5. The Corporation
6. Supersize Me
7. The Yes Men
8. Shrek 2
9. Two Brothers
10. A Very Long Engagement
Favorite 2004 movies - independent documentaries:
1. Counting Sheep
2. The Future Of Food
3. Control Room
4. Oil On Ice
5. Outfoxed
6. Hijacking Catastrophe
7. Orwell Rolls In His Grave
8. Surplus
Favorite non-2004 movies seen for the first time in 2004:
1. Ruggles Of Red Gap - 1935
2. Penguin Pool Murder - 1932
3. Cinema Paradiso - 1989
4. The Cameraman - 1928
5. The Bad And The Beautiful - 1952
6. Love Is On The Air - 1937
7. Being John Malkovich - 1999
8. Journeys With George - 2002
9. Dodsworth - 1936
10. Percy - 1971
Favorite new 2004 (or close enough) books:
1. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
2. Enslaved By Ducks - Bob Tarte
3. The Exception To The Rulers - Amy & David Goodman
4. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In the Night-time - Mark Haddon
5. One With Nineveh - Paul & Anne Ehrlich
6. Power Down - Richard Heinberg
7. Banana Republicans - Rampton & Stauber
8. Meat Market - Erik Marcus
9. The Geese Of Beaver Bog - Bernd Heinrich
10. Stiff - Mary Roach
Favorite non-2004 books read in 2004:
1. Dominion - Matthew Scully
2. The Red Queen - Matt Ridley
3. Vulture, Nature’s Ghastly Gourmet - Wayne Grady
4. The Alphabet vs. The Goddess - Leonard Schlain
5. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
6. Kingbird Highway - Kenn Kaufmann
7. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
8. London - Edward Rutherfurd
9. Lamb - Christopher Moore
10. The Automated Alice - Jeff Noon
11. A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
12. The Serial - Cyra McFadden
13. A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
14. An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan
15. The Collector - John Fowles
Favorite TV shows seen in 2004:
1. Colonial House
2. Now With Bill Moyers
3. Nature
4. Globetrekker
5. The Daily Show
6. Frontline
7. Democracy Now
8. Arrested Development
9. The Simpsons
10. Wife Swap
Favorite radio shows:
1. Democracy Now
2. Flashpoints
3. The Majority Report
4. The Al Franken Show
5. Sunday Salon with Larry Bensky
6. Across The Great Divide
7. KPFA Evening News
8. KPFA Morning Show
9. Morning Sedition
10. The Mike Malloy Show
Favorite "new" restaurants:
1. Red Veg - London, England
2. Pansa - London, England
3. Collegiata - Catania, Italy
4. Lo Sparviero - Palermo, Italy
5. Malai Thai - SF
6. Sultan’s - East Lansing, MI
7. Siam Orchid - Orinda
8. Café Yulan - Mountain View
9. Silk And Spice - London, England
10. Casalinga - Catania, Italy