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Here's some of my favorite stuff of 2008 (so far)... Movies: (1) Out of the Blue (2) Planet B-Boy (3) Paranoid Park (4) Young@Heart (5) Body of War (6) Shelter (or The Witnesses) (More to be posted after the Provincetown Film Festival in June...) Music: (1) David Ford, "Songs for the Road" (2) Colin Meloy, "Colin Meloy Sings Live!" (3) Sun Kil Moon, "April" (4) The Weepies, "Hideaway" (5) The Magnetic Fields, "Distortion" (6) Kylie Minogue, "X" And here's some of my favorite stuff from 2007... Movies: (1) Forever (2) Once (3) The Bridge (4) The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (5) There Will Be Blood (6) An American Crime (7) Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (8) Into the Wild Music: (1) Darren Hayes, "This Delicate Thing We've Made" (2) Rickie Lee Jones, "Sermon on Exposition Boulevard" (3) Young Love, "Too Young to Fight It" (4) Aqualung, "Memory Man" (5) Patty Griffin, "Children Running Through" (6) Tracey Thorn, "Out of the Woods" (7) "Once," Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (8) Curt Smith, "Halfway, Pleased" (9) Just Jack, "Overtones" (or Don Lennon, "Radical") (10) Christopher O'Riley, "Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake" (or Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd, "After the Night Falls/Before the Day Breaks") Here's some of my favorite stuff from 2006... Movies: (1) Time to Leave (2) The History Boys (3) This Film Is Not Yet Rated (4) Twenty Centimeters (5) The Queen (6) For the Love of Dolly (7) Children of Men Music: (1) Scritti Politti, "White Bread, Black Beer" (2) The Weepies, "Say I Am You" (3) "Spring Awakening," Original Cast Recording (4) Hem, "No Word from Tom" and "Funnel Cloud" (5) Merrie Amsterburg, "Clementine and Other Stories" (6) The Boy Least Likely To, "The Best Party Ever" (7) Jose Gonzalez, "Veneer" (8) Pet Shop Boys, "Fundamental" (9) Teddy Thompson, "Separate Ways" (or Nik Kershaw, "You've Got to Laugh") (10) Josh Rouse, "Subtitulo" (or Josh Ritter, "The Animal Years") BONUS RE-RUN...Pansy Division, "The Essential Pansy Division"! And here's some of my favorite stuff from 2005... Movies: (1) Junebug (2) Me and You and Everyone We Know (3) Broken Flowers (4) Mysterious Skin (5) Heights (6) Loggerheads (7) Brokeback Mountain (8) Happy Endings (9) Jarhead (10) Grizzly Man Music: (1) The Czars, "Sorry I Made You Cry" (2) Sigur Ros, "Takk..." (3) Elkland, "Golden" (4) Martha Wainwright, "Martha Wainwright" (5) "Mysterious Skin" film score (6) Kate Bush, "Aerial" (7) Sun Kil Moon, "Tiny Cities" (8) Damien Dempsey, "Shots" (9) Tori Amos, "The Beekeeper" (10) Annie, "Anniemal" (or Mozez, "So Still")