THE BEST OF 2004!

Last year I was too tired to do it, but now this year, being home sick and all, I have been able to review the past year of Blog entries to pull together my 2004 "Best Of". The format is very loose. Basically, I would be here till 2008 if I tried to put my choices in some kind of order, so what this will be is my choosing my top movie, dvd or gig of the year and then just listing the other choices in no particular order. I was going to write a little bit about each thing, but you can go back on the Blog and read my thoughts on each. Anyway, I may have missed some stuff, please remind me if I did. Here goes:

ALBUMS:

1. MANIC STREET PREACHERS "Lifeblood" (*ALBUM OF THE YEAR*)
2. KASABIAN s/t
3. RAZORLIGHT "Up all Night"
4. IAN BROWN "Solarized"
5. THE LIBERTINES s/t
6. SAINTFACE "Apartment Stories"
7. COLDER "Again"
8. MORRISSEY "You are the Quarry"
9. TWILIGHT SINGERS "Blackberry Belle" and "She Loves You"
10.RYAN ADAMS "LOVE IS HELL"
11. DIE WARZAU "Convenience"
12. GUSTAVO CERATI "Canciones Elegiadas 93-04
13. GWEN STEFANI "Love Angel Music Baby"
14. U2 "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"
15. DURAN DURAN "Astronaut"

Special Mention: REVENGE "One True Passion V2.0", quite possibly my favourite reissue ever.

Looking forward to albums in 2005 from: Oasis, Nine Inch Nails, In Loving Memory, Nick Cave Box Set, Revenge Live Album, New Order, The Damage Manual, Razorlight (New Single), Home Video...

GIGS:

1. KASABIAN at Bowery (*GIG OF THE YEAR*)
2. MUSE at Curiosa
3. AM PACIFIC in someone's house in Los Feliz
4. Various SAINTFACE performances, though gigs at Piano's comes to mind
5. MORRISSEY at Radio City
6. MORRISSEY at The Apollo
7. JOHN CALE at Limelight
8. MUSE at Webster Hall
9. SKINNY PUPPY at Irving
10. MINISTRY at BB King's
11. TWILIGHT SINGERS at London Scala (Best of of the Dulli gigs we saw this year)
12. BLUES EXPLOSION at Irving
13. PRIMAL SCREAM at Shepherds Bush, London (close second for Gig Of The Year)
14. ASH DJ set
15. TWILIGHT SINGERS at Irving Plaza

Looking forward to gigs in 2005 from: Duran Duran, Ian Brown, Kasabian, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Razorlight...

FILM (Im having trouble choosing which was my fave movie of the year, so this is just a list of the stuff I loved):

1. FINDING NEVERLAND
2. GARDEN STATE
3. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
4. GIRL NEXT DOOR (Best Movie No One Saw)
5. BREAKING NEWS
6. OCEANS TWELVE
7. SHREK 2
8. SPIDER-MAN 2
9. RUNNING ON KARMA
10. THROWDOWN (*HK MOVIE OF THE YEAR*)
11. NEW POLICE STORY
12. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
13. ONE NIGHT IN MONGKOK
14. HUCKABEES
15. LIFE AQUATIC
16. THE INCREDIBLES
17. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

Looking forward in 2005 to: BATMAN BEGINS, CONSTNATINE, and, like you have to guess it, REVENGE OF THE SITH!

TV:

1. JACK AND BOBBY (*TV SHOW OF THE YEAR*)
2. 24
3. LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
4. NYPD BLUE
5. SMALLVILLE
6. SOUTH PARK
7. CLONE WARS
8. BOSTON LEGAL
9. WILL AND GRACE
10. THE APPRENTICE

Looking forward in 2005 to: 24 Season 4, the end of NYPD BLUE, CLONE WARS Season 3.

DVDS:

1. STAR WARS ORIGINAL TRILOGY COLLECTION (*DVD OF THE YEAR*)
2. FREAKS AND GEEKS
3. 24 SEASON 3
4. TRAINSPOTTING ULTIMATE EDITION
5. THE OFFICE
6. 21 JUMPSTREET SEASON 1
7. RIC FLAIR
8. RISE AND FALL OF ECW
9. DURAN DURAN Reissues
10. THE STONE ROSES

Fun events of the year (in no order):

1. Wrestlemania at the Garden (thanks Matt)
2. Brithday in London/Paris (thanks Irene)
3. Being at the announcement of Episode 3 title REVENGE OF THE SITH in San Diego (Thanks George)
4. Ro-Ro, Lulu and Izzy (Thanks to respective parents of said children)
5. Michael Saintface at Morrissey Apollo show (Thanks Michael)
6. Harry Potter Premiere (Thanks Matt)
7. Dodgeball (the first round I was at, everything after sucked)
8. Charles joins band(s) (Thanks Charles)
9. Irene V. Dad in Pizza Off (Thanks Irene and Dad)
10. MOG-Quiz
11. G's almost bar Fight (Thanks to douche who started shit)
12. Sneaking past thousands of STAR WARS maniacs to buy a SITH shirt at San Diego (Thanks lucas cash register chick)
13. Watching THE BROWN BUNNY with G and Lurch (Thanks Gallo)
14. Ben gets Rock Star treatment for me at Apple and fixes semi destroyed laptop (Thanks Ben)
15. Seeing Mani of the Roses/Primals and Pete Doherty arrive at Shephers Bush before The Primals gig (Thanks Jared for being late)
16. Eurorail to Paris (Thanks Chad)
17. Dovemeadows Wedding (Thanks Liz and Peter)
18. First time at Darkroom (F&G Bday) (thanks all)
19. Mrs. Louche sending me old school Chemlab shirt (Thanks Maja)
20. GTA (Thanks Evan)
21. Getting into STAR WARS DVD press event (thanks Evan!)
22. Booster Gold on Justice League cartoon.
23. Doug the Coward in Glamour (Thanks Lurch)
24. G calls to tell me about IAN BROWN gig next year (Thanks G)

Apologies to all who attended the Twilight Singers show at Warsaw. Sorry.

Thanks to all who made 2004 awesome and thanks in advance to everyone who is going to make 2005 even better.

F