All blogs are required by law to produce end-of-year best-of lists.
Music, movies, moments in sport, new skin care product, etc.
I'm going to kick it off in the Comments.
I hope you will join me, because I haven't found much to like this year, and could use the recommendations.
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Movies: "Precinct B-13", "You, Me & Dupree". Jesus, what a crap year at the movies.
Politics: Reviled Gov. Jennifer Granholm beating evil Dick (Amway scion, brother-in-law to Blackwater founder)DeVos anyway.
Music: Garden of Eden, Paul Motian; Morph The Cat, Donald Fagen; Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, Neko Case
Books: End of Story, Peter Abrahams
Baseball: Kenny Rogers in the postseason
2006 was an awful year all around. Historically it'll be remembered as the year the public wised up to the morally bankrupt Bush/Cheney/Rove gang... Culturally... well, that's been bankrupt for a while, too. While the media's been busy thinking of cute conjunctive names such as "Brangelina" and "K-Fed" (or is that a single person?), I've tried to shake off the unreality of the present, by taking refuge in an unironic past. Which is a pretentious way of saying I've been listening to a lot of Merle Haggard, Buck Owens and Gordon Lightfoot, but if this post must deal with the best of 2006, I'd offer the following:
Best album: "Okonokos", My Morning Jacket. Nothing really groundbreaking, just a good old-fashioned rock-and-roll jamboree with a lot of unintellegible wailing and yelling and great, extended guitar licks. It reminds me that rock isn't meant to be smart.
Best upbeat songs for sad people: "Black Cab", Jens Lekman. It was actually released a few years ago, but re-released on "You're So Silent Jens", a compilation of EPs. "Crush in the Ghetto" and "Mexican Blue", Jolie Holland. Mentioned in a previous post.
Best jazz song: Brad Meldau's rendering of Radiohead's "Knives Out".
Best movie: "An Inconvenient Truth" or How Americans Flushed Away the Future in 2000.
Best book: None.
Best televised moment: George H.W. Bush crying in public.
Best untelevised moment: Barbara Bush beating the bejesus out of H.W. that night for crying in public.
Scott
re Jens Lekman: What "Black Cab" giveth, "Rocky's Farewell Song To The Blind Girl"(sic) taketh away.
Late additions:
Enjoyed "The Descent" on DVD
(Kevin always wants to see football movies in the theater, never horror)
"Age of Winters", The Sword
(I can no longer make it through Michigan winters without heavy metal)
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