favorite list two,000 twelve end of media collect

Most likely, top 10 lists are bad for the ego and intelligence, so I’m just doing a little round up. None of this is in any particular order, although if it appears first, it’s probably a good thing as it likely means it’s been lodged at the forefront of my memory.

.

Favorite films: 

The Master, Amour, Life of Pi, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Skyfall.

.

Most disappointing films: 

Prometheus, Cloud Atlas, The Grey (although this doesn’t really count, since I couldn’t finish it.)

.

To-See List:

Safety Not Guaranteed, This is Not a Film, Searching for Sugar Man, Compliance, Pitch Perfect, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Misérables, Looper, Take This Waltz, Wuthering Heights, Red Hook Summer, Argo, Flight, Wreck-it-Ralph, Jeff Who Lives At Home, Anna Karenina, Promised Land, Hitchcock, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Lincoln, Starlet, Cabin in the Woods, Samsara, Holy Motors, The Invisible War, Shut Up and Play the Hits, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

.

Best Total Ripoff:.

Howard Shore’s Death of Gandalf music used in the Man of Steel teaser.

.

.

.

Favorite albums:

Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…, Sufjan Stevens – Silver & Gold, Tame Impala – Lonerism, Grizzly Bear – Shields, The Robert Glaspar Experiment – Black Radio, Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas, Chairlift – Something, Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!, Beach House – Bloom, Ty Segall – Twins, The Shins – Port of Morrow, Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. City, Mac DeMarco – 2, Diiv – Oshin, Actress – R.I.P.
.

Most disappointing albums:

WHY? – Mumps etc., fun. – Some Nights, Yeasayer – Fragrant World, G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer, The XX – Coexist.

.
Possibly good but def over rated, sue me:

Frank Ocean – Channel Orange, Jessie Ware – Devotion, TNGHT – TNGHT, How to Dress Well – Total Loss, Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d City,  Passion Pit – Gossamer.

.

Most Ironically Aptly Named Album:

Mumford & Sons – Babel.

.

Why though:

Bloc Party – Four, Captain Murphy, The Bob Dylan Interview in Rolling Stone Magazine, Jay-Z in every movie trailer, Rolling Stone Magazine, 2 Chainz, Any of the Titans, not leaving the novel Cloud Atlas alone, Total Recall, the website of Total Recall that might be spelled with a “k,” the first half of The Hobbit.

.

.

.

Favorite Books released in 2012:

Mary Ruefle – Madness, Rack, & Honey: Collected Lectures, Natasha Trethewey – Thrall, Jordan Seng – Miracle Work,  Ashley Farmer – Farm Town (chapbook). (I read a lot this year, but most of them were books I am still reading, most of them poetry, or older books, so this list is short.)

.

Quickest Created Meme:

Binders Full of Women

.

.