Wednesday, December 31, 2008

2008 Favorites

The Late Adopter selects...
Movies:
The Wrestler (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (dir. Stefan Forbes)
Gran Torino (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant)
The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Chicago 10 (dir. Brett Morgen)
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (dir. Chris Bell)
Christmas on Mars (dir. Wayne Coyne and Bradley Beesley)
Tropic Thunder (dir. Ben Stiller)
The House Bunny (dir. Fred Wolf)

Albums:
MGMT--Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)
Vampire Weekend--Vampire Weekend (XL)
Beck--Modern Guilt (DGC)
Primal Scream--Beautiful Future (B-Unique)
Goldfrapp--Seventh Tree (Mute)
Glasvegas--Glasvegas (Columbia)
Ting Tings--We Started Nothing (Columbia)
Fleet Foxes--Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
Brian Wilson--That Lucky Old Sun (Capitol)
Paul Weller--22 Dreams (Yep Roc)

Songs:
MGMT- 'Time to Pretend'
Vampire Weekend- 'A-Punk'
Weezer- 'Pork and Beans'
Estelle- 'American Boy'
Primal Scream- 'Beautiful Future'
Glasvegas- 'Daddy’s Gone'
Solange Knowles- 'Sandcastle Disco'
Kaiser Chiefs- 'Never Miss a Beat'
Uh Huh Her- 'Not a Love Song'
Santogold- 'LES Artistes'

1 comment:

KcM said...

Thanks much for the annual CD, by the way. :) It has been assimilated into the collection. (Only a 1-song overlap this year -- I was already on the Goldfrapp train.)

No love for the new Kanye?