Happy New Year! Not that anyone asked, or probably cares, but here are my annual Top 5 lists. While I first saw/heard/read these last year, it doesn't mean they were released in 2000:
TOP 5 MOVIES
Croupier (coolest leading man since From Russia With Love)
Requiem For A Dream (...this is your brain on Aranofsky)
Chuck & Buck (nostalgia gone haywire)
Two Family House (the best Marty movie in years)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Kurosawa meets Fuller)
TOP 5 VIDEOS
Last Night (what will you be doing the night the world ends?)
Black Rain (Hiroshima from the bombed perspective)
Guinevere (Sarah Polley fixation- reaching epidemic proportions)
Metroland (suffocating in suburbia?)
The Celebration (family values)
TOP 5 LP'S/CD's
Scientists- s/t (FINALLY reissued and well worth the wait)
Nash Kato- Debutante (guitar rock sans irony/turntables)
Green Day- Warning: (they keep getting better)
John Doe- Freedom Is... (we can all relate to this guy)
Lazy Cowgirls- Somewhere Down The Line (unrepetant, down and dirty rock & roll)
TOP 5 BOOKS
Snow Falling On Cedars- David Guterson (sociology lesson/whodunnit)
A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens (Sydney Carton rocks)
Map of The World- Jane Hamilton (like getting kicked in the stomach)
Turn of The Century- Kurt Anderson (media saturation in 2000- the horror)
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter- Carson McCullers (my stomach can't take much more abuse)
Please feel free to e-mail back with a list of your own. I'm always on the lookout for great watching/listening/reading material.
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