the stuff that rocked 2004.

though i know i'll be kicking myself shortly after posting this -- suddenly realizing all i've forgotten to add that i should've -- here's v1.0 of my year-end list:

favorite albums:
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Elliott Smith - from a basement on the hill
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born

best books:
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
Rats : Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Magical Thinking : True Stories
The Working Poor : Invisible in America

tv worth staying home for:
Lost
The Wire
The Amazing Race
Chappelle's Show
Six Feet Under

best films:*
kill bill vol 2
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
fahrenheit 9/11
LOTR: the return of the king

blogs i've come to love this year:
home of dismay
symbiotic fishes
crazy us
low culture

free online services i dig:
bloglines
del.icio.us
mapquest
statcounter
froogle

other misc things that have rocked:
M_
truman
jamie
jamie's cooking/baking
moving to baltimore
our house
our hood

thanks to everyone who reads sweetney.com...you've made my life bigger and happier, and i send you all big, moist smoochies.

happy new year, dahlinks.

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*i just watched anchorman: the legend of ron burgundy, and would probably add that here as well. and i think my guns would agree with that.

Comments

[andrea]

Happy New Year! I love ya!

[The Fat Housewife]

I just bought the Ron Burgandy movie. My name is Brick and I just ate a red candle.

[Jamie GP]

I can agree with a lot of these -- after all I was there. But I'm not down with the inclusion of Wilco... how about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the merits of Maps alone?

Not that I read as many freaking books -- HeyZeus woman.