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Favorite People of 2008
Kristen Bell*
Blake Lively & Leighton Meester
James McAvoy
Britney Spears
Justin Timberlake
Favorite Movies of 2008
CIA Superior: What did we learn?
CIA Officer: Uh...
CIA Superior: Not to do it again.
CIA Officer: I don't know what the fuck it is we did, but...
Peter: How are things going with the lady?
Darald: Not awesome. She's complicated, like the Da Vinci Code, except harder to crack.
Saul: How about in the park, when I said you were my friend... you didn't say anything back.
Dale: Well, that's easy. It's because we're not friends. You are my drug dealer. The only reason I know you is because I like the drugs you sell. If you didn't sell drugs, I would have no idea who you are, and I wouldn't be here right now. I would be fantastic!
Saul: Oh.
Dale: I'm sorry, that sounded really mean... just to hear that, that sounded really mean.
Saul: No, I see. The monkey's out of the bottle now!
Dale: What? That's not even... a figure of speech.
Saul: Pandora can't go back into the box - he only comes out.
*insert baseball scene with Muse playing in the background*
Cathy: Wesley!
Wesley: What is it?
Cathy: What do you mean what is it? Listen. How the hell am I supposed to sleep with all that fucking racket? When are we going to move so that we don't have to wake up to that shit?
Wesley: I kind of like it. It helps to drown out the sound of your annoying fucking voice. Now please, let me sleep.
Favorite Songs of 2008
Dead & Gone - T.I. featuring Justin Timberlake
I turn my head to the East I don't see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the West, still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the North, swallow that pill that they call pride
That old me is dead and gone but that new me will be alright
The Devil Never Sleeps - Iron & Wine
Dreaming again of a train track ending at the edge of the sea
Dog at the barbed wire barking at my buzz cut friends and me
No one on the corner had a quarter for the telephone
Everybody bitching, “There’s nothing on the radio”
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
No one on the corner has swagger like us
Hit me on my banner prepaid wireless
We pack and deliver like UPS trucks
Already going to hell, just pumping that gas
Time Bomb - The Format*
Starting now I’m starting over
I’m gonna sleep with the next person I meet
Starting now I’m starting over
You swore "together forever"
Now you're telling lies
Well tell me your words
They got no, they got no concept of time
Womanizer - Britney Spears
Daddy-O, you got the swagger of a champion
Too bad for you
You just can't find the right companion
I guess when you have one too many, makes it hard
It could be easy, who you are
That’s just who you are, baby
Favorite Albums of 2008
Circus*
Britney Spears
Exclusive
Chris Brown
Feed the Animals
Girl Talk
Paper Trail
T.I.
Viva la Vida
Coldplay
Favorite TV Seasons of 2008
Bones: Season Four
Booth: Parker had a nightmare.
Brennan: About severed fingers?
Booth: No, it was a singing frog.
Brennan: I don't see the connection, but then I'm one of those people that thinks when you dream about a banana, it's probably just a banana.
Chuck: Season Two
Ellie: Any ideas about what you are gonna do next?
Chuck: Yeah, a few!
Ellie: If you say "Pilot of the Millennium Falcon" I will hit you.
Chuck: Why would I say that? That's absurd! I'm gonna be a Ninja assassin!
Ellie: No, try again!
Chuck: Hmm, Olympic...
Ellie: No!
Chuck: Secret Agent!
Ellie: This is what happens if you sit in front of the television set too long.
Doctor Who: Series Four*
Rose: Right! You two! You can put that stuff down, or run for your lives. Do you like my gun?
Friday Night Lights: Season Three
Julie: What happened to you?
Eric: I was defending your mother's honor.
Julie: With your face?
Gossip Girl: Season Two
Blair: Oh my effing God!
Gossip Girl: Cheers to that, Blair. Nothing says welcome home like a bottle of bubbly... or a scandal bubbling.
Greek: Cycle Three
Casey: I kind of like...Max.
Rusty: I should warn him.
Casey: What do you mean?
Rusty: Cause you date like Sherman marched, Casey. With scorched earth, and broken spirits left in your wake.
Lost: Season Four
Juliet: You know he kissed me.
Kate: What?
Juliet: The other day, when you came back from the other side of the island, Jack kissed me. It was nice. But it wasn't for me, it was for him. I'm pretty sure he was trying to prove something.
Kate: Prove what?
Juliet: That he doesn't love someone else.
Mad Men: Season Two
Doctor: So, Mr. Draper, you haven't had a physical in quite some time.
Don: Yeah. I eat a lot of apples.
The Office: Season Five
Dwight: What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany’s at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier, it’s priceless. As I’m taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It’s her father’s business; she’s Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning the cops come, and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada - I don’t trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard: I have a son, and he’s the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris, by the Trocadéro. She’s been waiting for me all these years, she’s never taken another lover. I don’t care. I don’t show up. I go to Berlin. That’s where I stashed the chandelier.
True Blood: Season One
Jason: I don't even know why they suspected me. I think somebody heard I'd been with Maudette.
Sookie: Had you?
Jason: No.
Sookie: Are you sure? She was a woman.
Favorite Episodes 0f 2008
Bones: 3.15 - The Pain in the Heart
Chuck: 2.02 - Chuck vs. the Seduction
Doctor Who: 4.12/13 - The Stolen Earth/Journey's End*
Entourage: 5.12 - Return to Queens Boulevard
Friday Night Lights: 3.06 - It Ain't Easy Being J.D. McCoy
Gossip Girl: 2.06 - New Haven Can Wait
Mad Men: 2.13 - Meditations in an Emergency
The Office: 5.06 - Customer Survey
Torchwood: 2.01 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
True Blood: 1.11 - To Love is to Bury
Biggest Failure
College Football
I don't even know where to begin with this shit. Only in the dimented world of college football can we have a "championship" game between two teams that definitely don't deserve to be there. It just goes to show you that voting is compeltely biased towards teams that are ~hot~ at the end of the season. Isn't this supposed to be about the merits of the teams and not how much they beat the last team by? And to add insult to injury, let's have the two teams that should have played for the championship play inconsequential, overrated teams instead of each other.
Runner-up: Heroes - Really!? Really!? You have that much talent and...really!?
Biggest Disappointment
Fringe
J.J. Abrams is a god. Every show, every movie he has ever been involved in has been gold. His three big shows are some of my all-time favorite shows. Color me excited when I learned of his new show. Too bad it was too convoluted in science gobbldey-gook for it to be understood. Then let's move the storyline along at a snail's pace. Ruin the interest all-together. I'm not saying the show is bad...just that it doesn't live up to the standards that have been set by Abrams' previous work.
Runner-up: Tropic Thunder - I'll probably get flak for this, but I hated this movie. It wasn't funny at all. It took everything in my power to watch the entire thing and not give up. Aside from the occassional quip by RDJ, I was thoroughly bored.
Best Comeback
Britney Spears
So we watched her grow up. We watched her go crazy. We watched her make a comeback. I don't care about the haters, I grew up idolizing Britney and her naughty school girl uniform so I'm psyched that she's back to being a bamf. I'd much rather watch her in the spotlight than any of the Miley Cyruses (and subsequent male versions) out there in the world today. It's Britney, bitch!
Runner-up: Robert Downey, Jr. - Iron Man ftw, y/y?
Best Win
Barack Obama
Country in the shitter? Check. Candidate promising change? Check. History made? Check. Proceed to 2009.
Runner-up: Tina Fey as V.P. candidate Sarah Palin - This is a duh Allison! moment (cookies to whoever gets the reference)
I go to UNC and that's Barack playing with our badass basketball team. That's why I chose that pic instead of another one where he's being equally badass.
Shit I forgot the first time around... (and doesn't fit in my nice little format)
Alexander Skarsgård
Eric > Bill. Alex > Stephen. Sweden > England. Comprendre? GOOD.
Ashley Greene
ILH. End of story.
Atonement
I don't know how I forgot this. I love this movie to pieces. I bought it the first day it came out on DVD. And I'm pretty sure I watched the clip of James McAvoy remembering/screaming at Briony like ten million times lmfao.
Generation Kill
I hate stuff about the current "overseas conflict" but this mini-series was too fucking amazing to not love it. Plus...Alex with all those tatoos was so not hard to look at.
Iron & Wine
They didn't release a new album this year, but....I saw them in concert...got to meet Sam Bean...and fucking Kristen Stewart infiltrated the horrific music on the Twilight OST and got one good song into the movie (even if I don't like them being associated with shit like Paramore).
Kaya Scodelario
Bitch is fierce. Effy Stonem is my homegirl. I think I might piss myself while I wait for series three to start.
* Denotes overall favorites - movies excluded as I don't watch enough to have a super!favorite.
~ Not all things were prominent in 2008. I tried to keep to things that were released in '08, but some were not but were big in my life in '08.
This was a year in the making and took me three fucking weeks to put together. It's dedicated to my friends list as you guys listened to me bitch about this from day one lmfao. HERE IT IS. I told you it was huge.
Also! There are no books on here because a) I read a lot of books b) it would be extremely hard to pick out my favorites and c) Pride & Prejudice and every other Jane Austen piece would probably be the list if I had to choose.