Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Favorites from 2011 (aka, the 2011 Davie Awards)

I always post a "best of" for each year, where I rank my favorite movies, albums, TV shows, etc.  This year it became too much of a drag, and I put the whole thing off.  I've decided to just post some lists, without rankings--although you could view it as a rough, but not definitive, order--of some of my favorite media released in 2011, as well as some pre-2011 items that I experienced for the first time last year.  Enjoy.  Happy very belated 2012.


Music:
  • Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
  • The Horrors - Skying
  • Tom Waits - Bad as Me
  • The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
  • The Black Keys - El Camino
  • Low - C’Mon
  • Wilco - The Whole Love
  • Megafaun - Megafaun
  • Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
  • The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
  • Meat Puppets - Lollipop
  • The Kills - Blood Pressures
  • Real Estate - Days
  • The Feelies - Here Before
  • Wussy - Strawberry
  • My Morning Jacket - Circuital
  • Destroyer - Kaputt
  • PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  • Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo
  • Radiohead - The King of Limbs
  • Justice - Audio, Video, Disco
  • Fleet Foxes -Helplessness Blues
  • Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
  • The Field -Looping State of Mind
  • Deer Tick - Divine Providence
  • Russian Circles - Empros
  • The Strokes - Angles
  • Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  • Boris - Heavy Rocks
  • Wire - Red Barked Tree
  • Danger Mouse & Daniele Lupi - Rome
  • TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
  • Wye Oak - Civilian
  • Mastodon - The Hunter
  • We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach
  • Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer




Favorite Movies of 2011:
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Drive
  • 13 Assasins
  • Senna
  • The Descendants
  • Winter in Wartime
  • Midnight in Paris
  • The Muppets
  • If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • Everything Must Go
  • Paul
  • Our Idiot Brother
  • Horrible Bosses
  • Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
  • Forks Over Knives
  • Bridesmaids





Favorite TV Shows:
  • The Wire* - which obviously isn’t from 2011, but I finally watched it last year, so it deserves being mentioned, because it’s one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
  • Breaking Bad
  • Game of Thrones
  • Parks & Recreation
  • Community
  • Boardwalk Empire
  • Louie
  • Sherlock
  • Homeland
  • Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations / The Layover
  • Top Gear
  • 30 Rock
  • Modern Family
  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia






Favorite Books Of 2012:
  • Bossypants by Tina Faye
  • Zone One by Colton Whitehead
  • Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me by Ian Morgan Cron




Ten Favorite Non-2011 Books I Read This Year:
  • Your Money or Your Life
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • No Logo
  • Tender is the Night
  • Cat’s Cradle
  • A Confederacy of Dunces
  • A Moveable Feast
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • The Great Shark Hunt
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway





30 Favorite Non-2011 Movies I Saw For the First Time:

  • Zodiac
  • Chinatown
  • The Thing
  • Les Triplettes de Belleville
  • L’Illusionniste
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  • Yojimbo
  • The Corporation
  • Le Samourai
  • The Deer Hunter
  • True Grit (2010)
  • The Muppet Movie
  • Mesrine: Killer Instinct
  • Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
  • Mystic River
  • Insomnia
  • Beer Wars
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Amelie
  • All the President’s Men
  • The French Connection
  • The Conversation
  • Why We Fight
  • Crazy Heart
  • Lemmy
  • No End in Sight
  • Raging Bull
  • Blue Gold
  • The Iron Giant



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