Sweet, double postage. Also sweet, my browsers blows. I might've mentioned this before, wait, no, I'm sure I've mentioned this before so I'll stop.
I'm not going to do a top 5 (or 10) films for 2003, I didn't see enough for me to feel comfortable doing so. (Translation: I'd have to include most every new movie I saw in 2003.) The best movie I saw in the theaters was The Sea, an Icleandic film that I think was released in 2001 or so (in Iceland, that is.) The best legit 2003 film I saw was, well, I dunno. That's the other reason I'll keep quiet. Maybe I'd say American Splendor, but it seems to me I'm forgetting something from about February.
But I will do a top 10 CD list. Again, I haven't listened to but a meaningless percentage of the albums released, but, well, I'm still fairly happy with my list for 2002 (and I think 2001 but I'm not sure on that one.)
Honorables: Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own; Cursive - The Ugly Organ; Kaito UK - Band Red; The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side; Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People; Spiritualized - Amazing Grace.
10. The White Stripes - Elephant - their fourth best album.
9. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
8. The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
7. stellastarr* - stellastarr*
6. Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts - I hesitated, I had gotten the idea that this was their "mature album," which normally means that now they're safe, mellow, uninteresting; that now they suck. This is Placebo's most mature album but not in any of those ways.
5. Grandaddy - Sumday
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell - Yes, "Maps" is a good song, but an album of songs in that vein would not be on my list. An album of songs like "Black Tongue" and "No No No" is quite emphatically.
3. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
2. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
1. The Decemberists - Her Majesty, the Decemberists - And catching them at like 4pm at Bumbershoot was an afterthought, a well we wanna get here early to be able to make sure to get wristbands to see the Mouse and, well, they weren't who I thought they were. And now the only reason their other album Castaways and Cutouts isn't right up here too is because it was originally release in 2001 or 2002.
