The dreaded year-end lists!
Please give me your personal Top 5 list of 2005. It can be anything: albums, films, personal experiences, accomplishments, missed goals, news items, sports stories. Whatever! The possibilities are endless...
I'll start with a simple one since I am big music freak.
My Top 5 albums of 2004
5. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
4. DFA Compilation #2
3. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
1. Interpol - Antics
Originally posted by darvlay2004 has been a swamped year, but my ultimate highlight is, without a doubt, the moment I met you Darvlay! My world has changed drastically and I'm not myself anymore.😞
The dreaded year-end lists!
Please give me your personal Top 5 list of 2005. It can be anything: albums, films, personal experiences, accomplishments, missed goals, news items, sports stories. Whatever! The possibilities are endless...
I'll start with a simple one since I am big music freak.
My Top 5 albums of 2005
5. Animal Collective - ...[text shortened]... lation #2
3. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
1. Interpol - Antics
Originally posted by MarcusrBest shows I saw this year:
Ditto. Top 5 gigs of the year in no particular order:
Throbbing Gristle
Pixies
Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra
Wolf Eyes
Devendra Banhart
Pixies
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
My Morning Jacket / Sleepy Jackson
Hives / Reigning Sound
Animal Collective
Clinic
Most disappointing show:
Liars
Originally posted by darvlayWhat was the Arcade Fire?
The dreaded year-end lists!
Please give me your personal Top 5 list of 2005. It can be anything: albums, films, personal experiences, accomplishments, missed goals, news items, sports stories. Whatever! The possibilities are endless...
I'll start with a simple one since I am big music freak.
My Top 5 albums of 2004
5. Animal Collective - ...[text shortened]... lation #2
3. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
1. Interpol - Antics
Originally posted by MarcusrFor Marcusr, from Pitchforkmedia.com:
Top 5 gigs of the year in no particular order:
Wolf Eyes
...On July 28th, Olson [of Wolf Eyes] sustained some serious-ass head trauma while opening for Sonic Youth in Minneapolis. Earlier in the tour, Olson had purchased a giant medieval mace at a small shop in Montana, which he'd been using onstage. "It's got like 30 spikes on it and chains. I've been jammin' it for the gigs and stuff like that, and the first time I played [with it] in Seattle, I banged my hands up pretty bad, because it's really hard to control. I thought I had it down, but in Minneapolis, it was our first gig with our buddies Hair Police, so we were all really excited, really drunk and stoned and everything."
Within five minutes of the gig starting, Olson had managed to clock himself in the head with the treacherous implement: "We get out there and I start swingin' it, and I feel it hit the back of my head, and I'm like, 'Oh, that kinda sucks.' And we start to jam, a minute into the jam, and I look over at [guitarist] Aaron [Dilloway] and he's smiling at me. And I'm just like, 'Why the f-ck would Aaron be smiling at me at the gig,' you know? And I had my sunglasses on, and all of a sudden it was just a big wave of red."
Olson, who said his years of skateboarding had trained him to take these kinds of injuries in stride, was nonplussed: "I was just kinda like, 'Oh whatever.' But it just kept bleedin' and like my equipment and everything just was covered in blood, and I was kinda startin' to freak out, 'cause Thurston and all the roadies kept tossin' me towels and they just kept gettin' covered up with blood. So like after the first song, I pull over Nate and I'm like, 'Man, do you think I'm alright?' And he looks at the cut and he's kinda quiet, and he's like, 'It looks cool, man, just keep jammin'."
By the end of the 40+ minute set, Olson was starting to seriously feel the effects: "I barely made it through the set and I stumbled off. I couldn't really think or talk. So my buddy took me to the ER, and they were gonna call the cops on me 'cause they thought I was a drug addict. They finally got me in and it was like a young ER dude and he was all into Sonic Youth and stuff like that and I told him the story and he's like, 'Well, you know, we gotta put about five staples in your head. They numbed it up, which was the worst part. It was like six shots right in the cut. Then they cleaned it out, and it was like this big, gnarly staple gun. And they just hammered 'em in. It was pretty weird."
One thing I was unclear on-- how do you play a mace, exactly? "I was able to practice and get my technique down because you can't really play anything with it 'cause it's so hard to control, so you just gotta kinda hang out and act the fool with it. It was just... that night, I was just kinda too drunk and I didn't extend my arm enough so it just whipped me in the back of the head. They're really bad cuts 'cause they're impact cuts. Nothing's really sharp, so it just hurt really bad."
Top 5 Movies of the Year. This has actually been a really good year. Amongst all the stupid Friday-night specials, there's been plenty of great movies to choose from. I looked through my ticket-stub collection and I went to see 33 movies in 2004, and who knows how many from Blockbuster!!! 😉 Anyways, I'm still yet to see The Avaitor or Million Dollar Baby, which seem like movies I might have added had I seen them, so meh. Anyways, here it is:
5. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
I didn't like the first two flicks at all. At ALL. I loved the books, like most people, and I just figured that since I loved the books so much that none of the movies would ever be able to add to that nor top it, until I saw this little razz. It's darker than the book ever intended to be, and truly brings the story to life the way the first two should have. Christopher Columbus is a curse to J.K. Rowling. You'd assume she'd have already used some black magic on the b**tard or something!
4. The Incredibles
Pixar always hits 'em out of the park, and this one is worth being mentioned on anyone's list. It's not quite Toy Story or Finding Nemo, but it's got that slight touch of Disney magic that we'll only ever see in Pixar films from now on, it seems. Also, I still have a slight theory that the movie's director, Brad Byrd, has a... how do I put this lightly.... well, arse-fetish, but you have to see the movie to really pick up on it. 😀
3. The Polar Express
I must be making myself look like a pansy with all these G-rated flicks, but it's just amazing to me that this movie got passed over. (Ha, Passover!) This is a WONDERFUL Christmas movie that I can only hope will get as much normal rotation as "It's A Wonderful Life" gets every Christmas. Like "It's A Wonderful Life", this is at times a very dark movie that will fighten some small children, but I guarentee you it will leave them with a lasting memory, just as movies like "The Wizard of Oz" has done for most of us.
2. The Passion of The Christ
Sorry, but I'm gunna have to hold back on really talking about this one for fear of sparking another religious debate, which I've had too many of this year already. This is a very powerful movie and I loved the story. I don't need to believe every story I read or see on a screen to enjoy it, which is a point that most people seem to miss.
1. Hero
This year I watched as many kung-fu flicks as I could, and ironically enough the top two that I saw were the two that EVERY kung-fu fan in America saw, Hero and House of Flying Daggers. I liked Hero a slight bit more, since it tells a better story and has wonderful emotional development throughout. After you've seen the whole movie you'll not only think Jet Li is going to become a universal actor but also that it's title fits this film perfectly. It's title is hanging over our heads at every moment, and this movie holds both our interest and our excitement the whole way.
Hope it was worth the read.
-Kev