Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing...
MUSIC: Madvillain - Madvillainy
Hey there people-persons. My WoW server is down tonight, so you get a new post. Lucky you. Back in the regular again after the holidays and busier than ever...at work that is...otherwise there ain't much goin on in my world right now...but that's ok for now. Nothing is good sometimes.
So since nothing is going on, here's some best of 2004 junk to peep(in order, too):
Music(albums):
1. Kanye West - The College Dropout
2. Diplo - Florida
3. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
4. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Maroons - Ambush (woulda been higher but it's too short!)
Music(mixes):
1. DJ Green Lantern - Beastie Boys: New York State of Mind
2. Diplo - Live at 3D
3. Diplo and M.I.A. - Piracy Funds Terrorism vol. 1
4. DJ D-Sharp - Lateef the Truthspeaker: Truth Spoken mixtape vol. 1
5. Illaphilla - Cranberry (I still listen to it regularly, so sue me:P)
Film:
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. Kill Bill vol. 2
4. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence / The Incredibles (tie)
5. Anchorman
Words:
1. The Dark Tower 1-3 - Stephen King (they didn't come out this year but the series ended and I didn't start them so this year, so :P)
2. Alias - Brian Michael Bendis (no, not the ABC show, the comic series, now collected in 4 TPB's)
3. Supreme Power - J. Michael Straczynski
4. America: The Book - The Daily Show
5. Identity Crisis - Brad Meltzer
Games(based purely on the fun factor and the fact that I didn't play too many this year):
1. Magic: The Gathering - Champions of Kamigawa
2. World of Warcraft
3. Magic: The Gathering - Unhinged
4. Halo 2
5. Metroid: Zero Mission
The Lame Awards(in no order after number one):
1. Sarah (ahem)
2. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (by all accounts this shouldn't be here, but I was underwhelmed and never feel the urge to pick it up and give it another go)
3. Bjork - Medulla (with a few exceptions, yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn)
4. Jersey Girl (come back, Kevin!)
5. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (too quirky for it's own good. feh)
6. The new Punisher series (if it wasn't broke, why break it? and why am I still buying it?)
7. The new artist on The Pulse (looks like a paintbrush's abortion)
8. Still no Chinese Democracy (yes, I'm the one guy still waiting)
9. The election/the war/etc.
10. Still no Extraordinary Machine (what the fuck, Sony?)
The Unlame Awards(also in no order after number one):
1. Support (thank you)
2. My job
3. Monthly Japanese brunch with new friends from my old job
4. Optical mice
5. http://boomselection.info/
6. Dave Chappelle and Patton Oswalt
7. Winning
8. Losing, understanding why, and learning your lesson
9. Internet Porn (a decade long, a decade strong)
10. My new computer (see #9)
'Til next time,
Sell dat candy, make dat money.
