Indeed, it is that time of year again when a cultural reckoning is required. Did you have any favourite films this year and what was cooking up a storm on the music front? Just like a friendly chinwag round the internet campfire, all are welcome to spend their two-pennies worth, please share your own Best Of’s for the Year 2009 and leave a comment.
I shall kick things off with my choices:
Best singles:
- Laura Marling – Alas I cannot swim (came out in 2008)
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
The xx – xx
Wilco – Wilco
Wildbeasts – Two Dancers
Yeasayer- All Hour Cymbals
Bubbling under
Tunng- Good Arrows (came out in 2007) / The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love / School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms / Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz / Polar Bear – Polar Bear / Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs / The Antlers – Hospice
Best Films(roughly in order, best first)
- Fish Tank
The Damned United
Mesrine Killer Instinct
The Class
Moon
Caramel (2007)
Sleep Furiously
Coraline
Doubt
35 Shots of Rum
Frozen River
Let the Right One In
The Reader
An Education
Inglorious Basterds
Slumdog Millionaire
Syndoche new york
Public Enemies
State of Play
…. sadly there were others but they didn’t even make the cut.
scatterdrum is a personal blog by Gill Moore. Gill is a professional photographer based in Manchester in England.
She works for commercial and editorial clients together with shooting personal projects. This side of her work often includes exhibiting, publishing and working with like-minded collaborators on an environmental theme.
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