Friday, December 24
A Different Top 20
Each year, Forced Exposure compiles Top Ten lists from all their employees and posts them on their site. These top tens aren't necessarily albums or even musically-related, and they certainly didn't all come out this last year. They are, instead, ten things that each employee enjoyed over the course of the year. I think that's a more interesting way to do a list, so I'm copying the idea and expanding it to twenty things that I enjoyed this year. The lists contains music, films, DVD collections, books and other weird objects that entertained me or inspired me over the course of 2004. And so here it is, my Top Twenty of 2004, in alphabetical order (for alphabetical reasons). Happy Festivus!
Alchemy & Mysticism—The Hermetic Museum (I purchased my copy at the British Library)
William Basinski--Everything (including Silent Night, which I just got and haven't reviewed yet)
The Battle for Algiers (Criterion release)--DVD release of the year
"My Father, My Heart" from Bosavi, Rainforest Music From Papua New Guinea
Dead Like Me
MC Chris' "Fett's Vett"
Taylor Deupree & Christopher Willits's "Seasons Centers Studies"
Egschilgen's "Eruu Cagaan Bolimor"
Father Ted—The Complete Scripts (found a copy in Dublin)
Daniel F. Galouye's Dark Universe
Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Viršulegu Forsetar"
Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Bob Odenkirk's "The Happiest Place on Earth" from Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret
Patton Oswalt's "The Apocalypse" and his bit on Robert Evans from Feelin' Kinda Patton
Pan Sonic's "Säteily / Radiation" (disk 4 of Kesto)
My brand new Powerbook G4
The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu (Brian Browne Walker's translation—the best I've encountered)
"The End of an Act" from the Team America Soundtrack
My Tivo
Upright Citizens Brigade—Complete First Season DVD
