Every year I compile a list of my favorite releases in music, movies, television, and more as the Davie Awards. This list is always posted at the beginning of the following year for two reasons: One, it doesn't make sense to me to post a "best of" list before that year is over (unlike most publications that publish their lists in December), and two, waiting as long as possible gives me more time to absorb all the possible candidates.
Favorite Albums:
Favorite Concert:
Favorite Movies:
Films missed that might have made the list: True Grit, Mesrine pt.1 & pt. 2, The Illusionist (L'Illusionniste), The Fighter, Inside Job, 127 Hours
Favorite TV Shows:
Favorite Book:
Here's looking forward to 2011!
Favorite Albums:
- The National - High Violet
- Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
- Grinderman - Grinderman 2
- Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
- The Black Keys - Brothers
- The Greenhornes - **** (Four Stars)
- The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
- Spoon - Transference
- Four Tet - There is Love in You
- Beach House - Teen Dream
- The Walkmen - Lisbon
- Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks
- Weekend - Sports
- The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
- The Books - The Way Out
- Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk
- Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
- LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
- Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
- Deftones - Diamond Eyes
- The Magnetic Fields - Realism
- Jónsi - Go
- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang - The Wonder Show of the World
- Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
- Massive Attack - Heligoland
Favorite Concert:
- Yo La Tengo with Wussy - @ the Southgate House, Newport, KY
Favorite Movies:
- The Social Network
- The King's Speech
- A Prophet
- Mother
- The Tillman Story
- The Good, the Bad, the Weird
- Toy Story 3
- Exit Through the Gift Shop
- Restrepo
- Inception
- Carlos
- Winter's Bone
- Gasland
- The Town
- Black Swan
Films missed that might have made the list: True Grit, Mesrine pt.1 & pt. 2, The Illusionist (L'Illusionniste), The Fighter, Inside Job, 127 Hours
Favorite TV Shows:
- Breaking Bad
- Mad Men
- The Pacific
- Modern Family
- Boardwalk Empire
Favorite Book:
- War by Sebastian Junger
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (read in 2009-10)
- With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Post Office by Charles Bukowski
- Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
- You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Helmet for My Pillow - Robert Leckie
- A History of the World in Six Glasses - Tom Standage
Here's looking forward to 2011!
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