Best of 2014?

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 4:16pm

All of the "Best Of The Year" lists are out, so why not do our own half-assed version? Lists can be boring, true, but I like reading them to see what I've missed - which is usually a lot, and most I've never even heard of.

Here are some of my choices, for what it's worth.

What did you enjoy this year? Books, Music, Film, etc.

Joan As Policewoman, The Classic
James Vincent McMorrow, Post Tropical
Kylie Minogue, Kiss Me Once
Lykke Li, I Never Learn
Hozier - Hozier
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (Thanks, FN!)
First Aid Kit - Stay Gold

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 4:32pm

Music:

This is All Yours - Alt J
Hozier - Hozier
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
They Want My Soul - Spoon
The Physical World - Death From Above 1979
Sadnecessary - Milky Chance

Books:

All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Museum of Extraordinary Things - Alice Hoffman
The Martian - Andy Weir

Movies:

The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Skeleton Twins
The Lego Movie
The Wind Rises
The Normal Heart
Mr. Turner

[Kad]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 4:50pm

The Lego Movie
Bob's Burgers
Tilda Swinton in Snowpiercer
Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig's lipsync scene in The Skeleton Twins
Stephen Colbert's farewell
Birdman
Chris Pratt becoming the cool older brother to America

[madbrian]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 5:49pm

JK Simmons in Whiplash

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 6:01pm

I try not to rank things I love, so in no particular order:

"The Comeback"
"Boyhood" by Richard Linklater
"Hedwig & The Angry Inch" with Neil Patrick Harris
"Too Bright" by Perfume Genius
"Twelfe Night" on Broadway (I saw it in January so it counts)
The National in concert
"The Best of Dina Martina"
Polyphonic Spree in concert
"Assymetic" by Mac Rogers at 59E59
Sandra Bernhard at The Crown & Anchor, Provincetown
Under the Radar Festival 2014
"The Gifts of the State and Other Stories: New Writing from Afghanistan" edited by Adam Klein

Honorable mention: "Big Hero 6," if only the last third of the film were as devastating as the first two.

Updated On: 12/22/14 at 06:01 PM

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 6:42pm

"Before The Dawn" Kate Bush Live On Stage!

I'd call it a dream come true, but I genuinely never even dreamt it would ever happen.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 6:47pm

You win the year, basically.

[South Florida]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 7:02pm

Jay, my ripped guys post? You loved that.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/23/14 at 4:31pm

Stuff I Enjoyed 2014:

Neil Patrick Harris in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH.

Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD
Paul Thomas Anderson's INHERENT VICE
Some French Guy's STRANGER BY THE LAKE

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/23/14 at 4:34pm

Alain Guiraudie?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/23/14 at 4:54pm

I LOVED STRANGER BY THE LAKE. It was my life story and if my boss saw I posted that he wouldn't care. Just sayin'.

Also, the movie Obvious Child. Loved it.

[broadway86]

Posted: 12/24/14 at 9:14am

"Hannibal" (NBC)
"True Detective" (HBO)
"Fargo" (FX)

"Morning Phase" - Beck
"X" - Ed Sheeran
"1000 Forms of Fear" - Sia
"Sonic HighWays" - Foo Fighters

Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
The Babadook (Jennifer Kent)
Birdman (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)

Updated On: 12/24/14 at 09:14 AM

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/24/14 at 9:51am

Orange is the New Black season 2
Side Show on Broadway
How to Get Away with Murder
Idina Menzel in concert at Radio City Music Hall