2008: Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye

Favorite Records of 2008
10. High Places - High Places
9. Beach House - Devotion
8. TV On the Radio - Dear Science,
7. DJ/Rupture - Uproot
6. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
5. No Age - Nouns
4. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
3. Women - Women
2. Times New Viking - Rip it Off
1. The Walkmen - You & Me

Favorite Songs of 2008 (old and new)
Street Hassle - Lou Reed
Farewell Transmission - Songs: Ohia
Ambulance Blues - Neil Young
For Emma - Bon Iver
Act Nice and Gentle - The Black Keys
The Helicopter Spies - Swell Maps
Weather Report - The Tenors
Celebrate the Body Electric - Ponytail
You Left the Water Running - Ken Boothe
Illumination - Broadcast
Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon
Auntie's Lock/Infinitum - Flying Lotus
With My Hands Out - Mount Eerie
Parting Song for the Torn Sky - Crystal Antlers

Best Live Shows of 2008
1. Lucky Dragons - The Hemlock Tavern
2. SXSW - No Age and Fucked Up on some bridge at 3am; Mess with Texas free show with Pissed Jeans, No Age, White Denim, Islands, and The Breeders; Mika Miko and Monotonix at some dive bar
3. Boris with Michio Kurihara - Great American Music Hall
4. Built to Spill - The Fillmore
5. San Francisco Electronic Music Festival - Richard Teitelbaum, Sharkiface
6. Treasure Island Music Festival - Fleet Foxes, Dr Dog, Spiritualized, Two Gallants, Port O'Brien, Tokyo Police Club, The Dodos, Okkervil River
7. Bon Iver and Phosphorescent - The Independent
8. The Dirty Projectors - The Independent
9. Outside Lands Music Festival - Radiohead, Beck, The Black Keys, Black Mountain
10. Vampire Weekend - Amoeba Records in SF

Favorite Movies:
The Dark Knight
Son of Rambow
Iron Man
Rambo

Dammit I didnt see enough movies this year.
My to see list is long, hopefully I can cram it all in before 2009:
Let the Right One In
Happy Go Lucky
Synechdoche
Milk
The Wrestler
The Reader
Rachel Getting Married
The Class
Wendy and Lucy
Timecrimes

Disappointments:
Slumdog Millionare
Vicky Christina Barcelona (though Penelope Cruz was H.O.T!)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Burn After Reading
Quantum of Solace