2004: What I Loved/Liked

I was trying to think of a best movies I saw this year & best albums I listened to...but like my Top 25 Movies Ever list, it would just keep changing and changing so I am just going to run them down, in no order of importance with one exception...

Favorite Movies of 2004

Before Sunset & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

These two movies are without peer. There were other movies I liked, that I loved that I saw this year but those two changed my perspective.

The Rest
Maria Full of Grace
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Shrek 2
Spider-Man 2
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
I Heart Huckabees
Napoleon Dynamite
Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
The Bourne Supremacy
Shaun of the Dead
Team America: World Police
Alfie
Dodgeball
The Incredibles
Anchorman
Garden State
Dawn of the Dead
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Mean Girls

There are a lot of movies I'm ashamed I never got to see this year like Collateral, Saw, Open Water or Sideways (I may rectify that tonight)


My Favorites CDs/Downloads of 2004

I don't have one album. I do have one song tho.

I don't think it's because it's an amazing song or anything but it's the song I felt the most given where I am right now and frankly, where I want to be next year.

John Legend - "Ordinary People"
Song
Lyrics

Albums:
The Alchemist - 1st Infantry
Anita Baker - My Everything
Aya - Strange Flower
Bj�rk - Medulla
Brandy - Afrodiasic
Clara Hill - Restless Times
De La Soul - The Grind Date
Foreign Exchange - Connected
Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
Interpol - Antics
Jill Scott- Beautifully Human
John Legend - Get Lifted
Jon B - Stronger Everyday
Kanye West - College Dropout
Lalah Hathaway - Outrun the Sky
Lewis Taylor - The Lost Album
Lil' Wayne - The Carter
Madvillain - Madvilliany
Magic Number - That Day
Martin Luther - Rebel Soul Music
MF Doom - MM Food
MURS - 3:16 the 9th Edition
N.E.R.D. - Fly or Die
Nas - Street's Disciple
Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
R. Kelly - Happy People
Rashaan Patterson - After Hours
Rapahel Saddiq - As Ray Ray
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
The Roots - The Tipping Point
Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow
Slum Village - Detroit Deli
Snoop Dogg - Rhythm & Gangsta: The Masterpiece
T.I. - Urban Legend
Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity
Tortured Soul - Introducing Tortured Soul
Usher - Confessions (Special Edition)
Van Hunt - Van Hunt

Weird Thinking

You ever have a totally out of place thought during a serious moment?

I was watching the coverage of the Tsumani and seeing all that death and destruction...all those people floating in the water, some alive, most dead.

And before the enormity of the incident hit me, the first thought I had was...

"God, I need to learn how to swim."

I'm going to hell, aren't I?

R.I.P. iPod Ver. 2.0

Wednesday, I was delighted to receive a $200 iTunes gift certificate from my boss. I started to buy music and transfer it onto my iPod still contemplating the possibilities...

Then, it happened.

Not noticing that my iPod had been plugged in correctly, it died in the process and I was greeted with a series of error messages.

When I turned my iPod on again, it was empty

Nothing.

21 GB of music.

Over 3,000 songs imported over the last year.

Gone.

I felt like a family member had died and my girlfriend broke up with me during the funeral.

I almost wanted to go home sick for the day.

For anyone who has an iPod and uses it to its fullest capacity, they know how much work goes into it.

Most people just load their music and listen to it never really exploring the potential of iPod/iTunes.

I had some 30 playlists for every whim I might want, such as...

"Paisley Park"

"Adventures in Neo-Soul"

"Prince vs. Michael Jackson"

"No Skips Allowed"

(yes, I realize how corny I am)

I just don't have the energy to do all that again.

At least not yet...

So for now I say goodbye.

Goodbye to the 90's songs I'll never find again, playlists that got me through days of work and rough nights of sleep.

Until I fuck this up again.

What I want for Christmas...

What's the point of having a website if I can't make demands of my friends?

• Arrested Development: Season One
  
• Greg the Bunny
• Locas: A Love & Rockets Tale by The Hernandez Bros.
• Bone: Volume One by Jeff Smith
• Banana Republic nylon expandable messenger bag
• The Originals by Dave Gibbons
• The Wire: Season One
• Altec Lansing inMotion iM3 Portable Audio System (for the iPod)

Well...get to shopping!

Tuskegee Experiments '04

I'm Speechless

And of course, The UK tells us what is happening in our own country...but we were the first to report Julia Roberts' twins birth.