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2008 in media

the original music list

Top Albums for the year

1. Ladytron- Velocifero
2. Raveonettes- Lust Lust Lust
3. Portishead- Third
4. Nine Inch Nails- The Slip
5. Nine Inch Nails- Ghosts
6. Hearts in Bondage- 5 minutes to explode
7. Juno Reactor- Gods and Monsters
8. Black Horse- The Black Arts of Black Horse
9. Ministry- Cover Up


And Albums I didnt listen to enough to form an opinion on
The Cure- 413 dream
cruxshadows- immortal
Toadies no deliverance
Type O Negative- dead again

Discoveries included God Bullies, m83, Spectra Paris, and CSS. All in all, 2008 was a bit of a lackluster year in music. Not lacking in good music, but more like variety. There were good albums, just not very many of them.

movies

1. The Dark Knight
2. Gran Torino
3. Doubt
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. The Wrestler
6. Iron Man
7. Revolutionary Road
8. Get Smart
10. W.
11. Tropic Thunder
12. Slumdog Millionaire
13. The Forbidden Kingdom
14. Quantum of Solace
15. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
16. Appaloosa
17. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
18. Australia
19. The Incredible Hulk
20. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
21. City of Ember
22. Be Kind Rewind
23. Punisher: War Zone
24. WALL-E
25. Choke
26. Speed Racer
27. The Spirit
28. Horton Hears a Who!
29. The Day the Earth Stood Still
30. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
31. Run Fatboy Run
32. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
33. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
34. Burn After Reading
35. Wanted

I saw all of these in the theatres. Ha-ha. 2008 was an amazing year in film, dare I say, the best year of the decade. Just about every film, even the bad ones, were good (except for burn after reading and wanted, those were just irredeemably bad).

on the web, I started visiting garfield minus garfield on a regular basis, along with failblog. Twitter was just getting started, but I didnt get into it then, and I never will, ever.

This year I finaly cought up with the next generation of gaming, and bought a wii. It was great being able to revisit the classics, and try out a few classic games I didnt have the chance to really dig. Aside from virtual console, notable games included Super Paper Mario and Metroid Prime: Corruption. During the early months on the PS2, I was murdering the hours with Final Fantasy XII.


As far as TV, there was still Metalocalpyse and the Venture Bros (which was a bit lackluster that year.) On DVD I was getting reaquainted with SCTV (with varying degrees of success). And that year I ended up getting into Superjail as well.

I really cant recall too much as far as signature pop-culture trends. There was the china olympic gymnastics scandal (as usual), the election year of hate with joe the plummer, crazy racism, conservative paranoia, and this crazy religioulus bitch from Alaska who just wont go away. And there was also the tragic death of Rudolph Valentino Heath Ledger, and Dark Knight-Mania during the summer. Hmm.. so yeah, Im drawing a blank for the rest, either out of not remembering, or the rest of it being so horriffic Ive blocked it out...