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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
More Best of 2004 Garbage
Best Film
This one’s easy. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind just devastated me with how it mixed the incredibly imaginative with the incredibly poignant. I already knew both Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry were masters of thinking of and then perfectly executing ideas that are gloriously off-the-wall. It was with this movie that their ideas concerning human behavior and living life are just as brilliantly put forth as concepts like memory erasing machine. This really is a film I could watch over and over again.
Best Book
I really, really, really want to put Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude here, a book I read in 2004 but came out last year, because it just might be one of the greatest books I have read ever. Instead I’ll list an old favorite of mine, David Sedaris and his latest, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. The stories in here weren’t as “bwa-ha-ha” as what you would find in Me Talk Pretty One Day or Naked but they were great to read just the same. In fact, I liked reading Sedaris be more serious, although never completely serious, in his stories because it proved he can still tell his readers a good yarn regardless of how funny it is. I love “Repeat After Me,” where Sedaris and one of his sister’s deal with the fact that their lives are going to be turned into a movie in their own way, which is to say that don’t really deal with it. Now if I could just catch one of his speaking engagements.
Best Album
Cripes, as much as I love music I don’t really listen to anything put out past the year I was born in. I still do try to keep my ear to the ground and see what the kids are listening, at least when I can afford CDs or when Soulseek isn’t acting up. Franz Ferdinand’s self-titled album was wonderful in how it featured post-punk music in a completely danceable way. To think that a bunch of guys from Scotland with nothing but guitars and drums could make something that comes close to be considered “dance music” seems like an anachronism, but the guys in the band keep saying that what’s they’re going for. The melodies accompanying those rhythms sound just fine to me. Any time a part of a song that stays with you after the song is long gone from the radio or CD player is one of the truly magical things in life. Franz Ferdinand do it better than most these days.
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