2005 in Brief

My computer is under fire so I have to make this brief from another terminal:

2005- WHAT I LIKED:

Star Wars Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith. The movie, the DVD, it was all good. Star Wars is finally over on the big screen.

U2 at the HSBC.

Live 8. The show and the DVD. That we forced MTV to do a "do over" becuase they hosed us out of our music was a triumph of taste and judgement.

My Morning Jacket, Z. A magnificent album. The best American album of the year.

My Name is Earl and Office Space on NBC. The future of televised comedy.

Battlestar Galactica. The best cult TV show since Buffy, which was the best cult show since X-Files, which was the best show since Star Trek: TNG. It might even be better than Farscape.

Wilco, Kicking Television. The best live album of the year.

The Flaming Lips, VOID (Video Overview in De-eceleration). Fun music videos and music video home movies in delicious and delirious surround sound.

U2 Live in Chicago 2005. The best live DVD of the year.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling. Dark, heartbreaking.

John Fogerty and John Mellencamp at Darien Lake. Fogerty was mind boggling.

The Peoples History of the United States, by Howard Zinn. It done blew my mind.

Mercury Rev, The Secret Migration. Beautiful.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and FIFA 2006 on PS2. Bloody brilliant.

Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run boxed set. Now I truly understand the power of the Boss.

And finally The Tragically Hip, Hipeponymous. The Hip in a nutshell, or a boxed set as it were.


And looking ahead to 2006, new Flaming Lips, new Hip and the Hip on tour, and maybe, just maybe Playstation 3. Eliot Spitzer being our next governor too wouldn't hurt either.