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  Mikey 04:15:51 pm on January 20, 2008 | 4 | # |
  Tags: 2007, best of, Movies

  All the 2007 releases that I’ve seen, from worst to best, broken out into categories.

  Passes the time
  TMNT
  The Simpsons Movie
  Eye In The Sky

  Entertaining enough
  Live Free or Die Hard
  Transformers
  Ocean’s Thirteen
  American Gangster

  Interesting
  The Lookout
  Waitress
  Black Snake Moan
  King of Kong
  
  On the way to greatness, but got derailed in the end
  Knocked Up
  3:10 to Yuma
  Sunshine

  Well made
  Hot Fuzz
  300
  Zodiac

  A cut above
  Rescue Dawn
  Eastern Promises
  The Bourne Ultimatum
  Ratatouille

  Way cute
  Juno

  Exploitation cinema
  Death Proof (Grindhouse)

  Lo-fi love story
  Once

  Super vulgar and super funny
  Superbad
  
  Superbadass!
  No Country for Old Men

  Leftovers from 2006
  The Lives of Others
  After the Wedding

   

• Mikey 10:39:03 pm on January 10, 2008 | 1 | # |
  Tags: 2007, best of, Feist, Kanye West, Meiko, Modest Mouse, Music, Wilco

  In no particular order

  Meiko - Meiko

  Single: Piano Song

  My favorite cuts: Reasons to Love You, Sleep

  Member of my “Jenny Lewis All-Stars”* (top 5 female, indie singer/songwriters likely to have or already have had their music on a prime-time TV show, ie: Grey’s Anatomy) Solid album overall. Could very well be my favorite from 2007.

  Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

  Single: Dashboard

  My favorite cuts: Missed The Boat, We’ve Got Everything

  Kanye West - Graduation

  Single: Stronger

  My Favorite Cuts: Stronger, Everything I Am

  Feels like two Kanye albums in one, and splits neatly right after Can’t Tell Me Nothing. Starting with Barry Bonds we hear a more experimental Kanye.

  Feist - The Reminder

  Single: 1 2 3 4

  My Favorite Cuts: 1 2 3 4, My Moon My Man

  I used to think Let It Die was better. That notion may have been pre-mature. Also a member of the Jenny Lewis All-Stars.

  Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

  Single: You Are My Face

  My Favorite Cuts: Sky Blue Sky, Hate it Here

  OK, this is my favorite of 2007.

  Honorable Mentions

  MAE - Singularity

  Radiohead - In Rainbows

  Sara Bareilles - Little Voice

  Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

  Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

  Guilty Pleasure: The Graduate - Anhedonia

  Song Everyone Loves: OneRepublic - Apologize

  Franz Ferdinand award for catchiest song: Metro Station - Shake It

  Disappointing

  Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City

  Dashboard Confessional - Shade of Poison Trees

   
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  Tin 01:00:34 am on January 16, 2007 | 0 | # |
  Tags: 2006, best of, Music

  What’s a New Year without the annual music review, right?

  John Mayer - Continuum; The Village Sessions
  Don’t act like you didn’t see this one coming.

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