My 2008 Lists
New Films
Number Ones: Ballast, Still Orangutans, Loos Ornamental, Wendy & Lucy, Still Life, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, Summer Hours, Pineapple Express
Right Up There: Momma's Man, Flight of the Red Balloon, Chop Shop, The Juche Idea, Synecdoche, New York, Let the Right One In, Milk, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, The Last Mistress, The Edge of Heaven, Paranoid Park, Captain Ahab, Shotgun Stories, Role Models, Hamlet 2, I've Loved You So Long
Satisfying: Pierre Rissient, Ashes of Time Redux, Profit Motive & The Whispering Wind, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Son of Rambow, Timecrimes, Kung Fu Panda, Reprise, Sparrow, Christopher Columbus: The Enigma, Cthulhu, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Boarding Gate, Yella, Days in Between
Oddly Appealing: Opera Jawa, Eat for This Is My Body, Great Speeches from a Dying World, In the City of Sylvia, La France
There Were Moments: Rachel Getting Married, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Blind Mountain, Be Kind Rewind
Others: Alexandra, Chelsea on the Rocks, The Pool, Continental
Old Films
Solid Gold: Young Mr. Lincoln, Sunrise, Le Cercle Rouge, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Dead Man, Pulp Fiction
Hal Ashby at Northwest Film Forum: The Landlord, Being There, Bound For Glory, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Harold & Maude
Otto Preminger at Film Forum: Anatomy of a Murder, Laura, Daisy Kenyon
Charlie Chaplin: Monsieur Verdoux
(Post-)Modernism: Muriel, Last Year at Marienbad, The Immortal Woman, La Chinoise, Masculine Feminine, Vivre sa vie
Recently Neglected: Tropical Malady, La Promesse, Clerks II, Worldly Desires, My Neighbor Totoro
Ridley Scott at the Egyptian: Alien, Blade Runner
Recorded Music
Growing, Antony, Foals, Junior Boys, TV on the Radio (Tunde Adebimpe singing Neil Young in Rachel Getting Married), Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, "Happy House," Los Campesinos!, harmony, Bradford Cox, Jan Jelinek, Four Tet, Gang Gang Dance, "Graveyard Girl" live, Caribou, "wonky," Fuck Buttons, "Supreme Balloon," Truckasauras, The Clientele, Vampire Weekend, Villalobos, The Dodos, "Street Flash"/Water Curses, Hamilton Leithauser, "The Good Old Days," Shocking Pinks, James Pants' Stones Throw podcast
Live Music
Atlas Sound & co., Caribou & Fuck Buttons, Simian Mobile Disco, Truckasauras, Sera Cahoone, Los Campesinos, Beachwood Sparks, Iron & Wine, Comets on Fire, The Dodos, Man Man, Gang Gang Dance, Deerhunter, M83
Stuff I Obviously Need To Hear
Portishead, Flying Lotus, MGMT, Advisory Circle, Santogold, Nico Muhly, ...
Tracks from Lists
Mala "Alicia" (from Fact Magazine)
Books
The Extra Man (Jonathan Ames)
The Somnambulist (Jonathan Barnes)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
Personal Days (Ed Park)
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Shortcomings (Adrian Tomine)
The Broom of the System (David Foster Wallace)
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The Physics of Baseball (Robert K. Adair)
The Conscience of a Liberal (Paul Krugman)
Born Standing Up (Steve Martin)
Consider the Lobster (David Foster Wallace)
Black Postcards (Dean Wareham)
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Let's Talk About Love (Carl Wilson) [33 1/3]
Master of Reality (John Darnielle) [33 1/3]
If You're Feeling Sinister (Scott Plagenhoef) [33 1/3]
Having made this a year-zero of sorts for beer, this is a list culled from everything I had this year (2009 will be just "new" stuff). It doesn't include tasting samples or your truly obvious local year-round standbys, but basically everything else better than good. Besides alphabetization, higher is better than lower.
Alaskan Smoked Porter
Deschutes Black Butte XX
Dogfish Head 90-Minute Imperial IPA
Duvel
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
New Belgium Giddy Up!
New Belgium Le Fleur Messeur
New Belgium Lips of Faith: Eric's Sour Peach Ale
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Russian River Salvation
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Aktien St. Martin
Anchor Porter
Chimay Grande Reserve
Corsendonk Christmas Ale
Delirium Noel
Deschutes Abyss '08
Deschutes Cinder Cone Red Ale
Deschutes Hop Fest Pale Ale
Elysian The Great Pumpkin
Elysian Night Owl Pumpkin Ale
Elysian Dragonstooth Stout
Elysian Bifrost Winter Ale
Elysian Prometheus IPA
Hale's Cerberus Tripel
Hitachino Nest Espresso Stout
Hoegaarden
Lindemans Peche Lambic
Lindemans Framboise Lambic
New Belgium Abbey Grand Cru
New Belgium Old Cherry
New Belgium Frambozen
North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Ommegang Abbey Dubbel
Ommegang Rouge
Oskar Blues Gordon
Pike XXXXX Stout
Port Wipeout IPA
Rogue Chocolate Stout
Rogue Mocha Porter
Russian River Damnation
Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat
Stone Ruination IPA
Duchesse de Bourgogne
Number Ones: Ballast, Still Orangutans, Loos Ornamental, Wendy & Lucy, Still Life, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, Summer Hours, Pineapple Express
Right Up There: Momma's Man, Flight of the Red Balloon, Chop Shop, The Juche Idea, Synecdoche, New York, Let the Right One In, Milk, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, The Last Mistress, The Edge of Heaven, Paranoid Park, Captain Ahab, Shotgun Stories, Role Models, Hamlet 2, I've Loved You So Long
Satisfying: Pierre Rissient, Ashes of Time Redux, Profit Motive & The Whispering Wind, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Son of Rambow, Timecrimes, Kung Fu Panda, Reprise, Sparrow, Christopher Columbus: The Enigma, Cthulhu, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Boarding Gate, Yella, Days in Between
Oddly Appealing: Opera Jawa, Eat for This Is My Body, Great Speeches from a Dying World, In the City of Sylvia, La France
There Were Moments: Rachel Getting Married, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Blind Mountain, Be Kind Rewind
Others: Alexandra, Chelsea on the Rocks, The Pool, Continental
Old Films
Solid Gold: Young Mr. Lincoln, Sunrise, Le Cercle Rouge, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Dead Man, Pulp Fiction
Hal Ashby at Northwest Film Forum: The Landlord, Being There, Bound For Glory, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Harold & Maude
Otto Preminger at Film Forum: Anatomy of a Murder, Laura, Daisy Kenyon
Charlie Chaplin: Monsieur Verdoux
(Post-)Modernism: Muriel, Last Year at Marienbad, The Immortal Woman, La Chinoise, Masculine Feminine, Vivre sa vie
Recently Neglected: Tropical Malady, La Promesse, Clerks II, Worldly Desires, My Neighbor Totoro
Ridley Scott at the Egyptian: Alien, Blade Runner
Recorded Music
Growing, Antony, Foals, Junior Boys, TV on the Radio (Tunde Adebimpe singing Neil Young in Rachel Getting Married), Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, "Happy House," Los Campesinos!, harmony, Bradford Cox, Jan Jelinek, Four Tet, Gang Gang Dance, "Graveyard Girl" live, Caribou, "wonky," Fuck Buttons, "Supreme Balloon," Truckasauras, The Clientele, Vampire Weekend, Villalobos, The Dodos, "Street Flash"/Water Curses, Hamilton Leithauser, "The Good Old Days," Shocking Pinks, James Pants' Stones Throw podcast
Live Music
Atlas Sound & co., Caribou & Fuck Buttons, Simian Mobile Disco, Truckasauras, Sera Cahoone, Los Campesinos, Beachwood Sparks, Iron & Wine, Comets on Fire, The Dodos, Man Man, Gang Gang Dance, Deerhunter, M83
Stuff I Obviously Need To Hear
Portishead, Flying Lotus, MGMT, Advisory Circle, Santogold, Nico Muhly, ...
Tracks from Lists
Mala "Alicia" (from Fact Magazine)
Books
The Extra Man (Jonathan Ames)
The Somnambulist (Jonathan Barnes)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
Personal Days (Ed Park)
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Shortcomings (Adrian Tomine)
The Broom of the System (David Foster Wallace)
---
The Physics of Baseball (Robert K. Adair)
The Conscience of a Liberal (Paul Krugman)
Born Standing Up (Steve Martin)
Consider the Lobster (David Foster Wallace)
Black Postcards (Dean Wareham)
---
Let's Talk About Love (Carl Wilson) [33 1/3]
Master of Reality (John Darnielle) [33 1/3]
If You're Feeling Sinister (Scott Plagenhoef) [33 1/3]
Having made this a year-zero of sorts for beer, this is a list culled from everything I had this year (2009 will be just "new" stuff). It doesn't include tasting samples or your truly obvious local year-round standbys, but basically everything else better than good. Besides alphabetization, higher is better than lower.
Alaskan Smoked Porter
Deschutes Black Butte XX
Dogfish Head 90-Minute Imperial IPA
Duvel
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
New Belgium Giddy Up!
New Belgium Le Fleur Messeur
New Belgium Lips of Faith: Eric's Sour Peach Ale
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Russian River Salvation
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Aktien St. Martin
Anchor Porter
Chimay Grande Reserve
Corsendonk Christmas Ale
Delirium Noel
Deschutes Abyss '08
Deschutes Cinder Cone Red Ale
Deschutes Hop Fest Pale Ale
Elysian The Great Pumpkin
Elysian Night Owl Pumpkin Ale
Elysian Dragonstooth Stout
Elysian Bifrost Winter Ale
Elysian Prometheus IPA
Hale's Cerberus Tripel
Hitachino Nest Espresso Stout
Hoegaarden
Lindemans Peche Lambic
Lindemans Framboise Lambic
New Belgium Abbey Grand Cru
New Belgium Old Cherry
New Belgium Frambozen
North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Ommegang Abbey Dubbel
Ommegang Rouge
Oskar Blues Gordon
Pike XXXXX Stout
Port Wipeout IPA
Rogue Chocolate Stout
Rogue Mocha Porter
Russian River Damnation
Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat
Stone Ruination IPA
Duchesse de Bourgogne
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008
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