Popshifter‘s Best Of Lists
Published on January 30th, 2009 in: Best Of Lists, Books, Current Faves, Issues, Movies, Music, Retrovirus, Top Five Lists, Top Ten Lists, TV |Best Of 2008
By Danny R. Phillips
Not all selections are from 2008 but many are; they are in no specific order.
Albums
Justin Townes Earle, The Good Life
Firewater, The Golden Hour
The Dillinger Four, C I V I L W A R
The Dirtbombs, We Have You Surrounded
The Breeders, Mountain Battles
The Gits, Best of The Gits
Hunter S. Thompson, The Gonzo Tapes (five-CD box set)
The Architects, Vice
Kate Nash, Made of Bricks
The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely
Alkaline Trio, Agony and Irony
Movies
What We Do Is Secret (the story of The Germs), directed by Rodger Grossman
Punk’s Not Dead, directed by Susan Dynner
Iron Man, directed by Jon Favreau
Tropic Thunder, directed by Ben Stiller
The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan
A Christmas Story, directed by Bob Clark
Buy the Ticket, Take The Ride: Hunter S. Thompson On Film, directed by Tom Thurman
The Black Keys Live at The Crystal Ballroom (concert DVD), directed by Lance Bangs
Halloween, directed by John Carpenter
Four Christmases, directed by Seth Gordon
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, directed by Alex Gibney
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival—The Criterion Collection, directed by D.A. Pennebaker
The Gits, directed by Kerri O’Kane
Last Days, directed by Gus Van Sant (weird fucking movie that made little to no sense)
Books
Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at The Table
Jack Kerouac, Big Sur; On The Road (The Original Scroll); Desolation Angels
Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt
Best Music Writing 2008, Da Capo Press
Everett True, Hey Ho, Let’s Go: The True Story of The Ramones
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Omnibus Press
Robert Graysmith, Zodiac
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Mike Evans, The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey through the Beat Generation
Lester Bangs, Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste
Suzy Shaw & Mick Farren, BOMP: Saving The World One Record At A Time
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Jim DeRogatis, Milk It!
Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life: A Memoir
The Letters of Allen Ginsberg, Edited by Bill Morgan
Maria Raha, Cinderella’s Big Score
Mikal Gilmore, Shot In The Heart
Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Television
House, M.D.
Prison Break
Life
The Office
St. Louis Cardinals Baseball
The Drak Pack, cartoon from my childhood
Burn Notice
Family Guy
Robot Chicken (Star Wars episode, of course)
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4 Responses to “Popshifter‘s Best Of Lists”
February 7th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
No need to be ashamed about not knowing an album exists – especially since Galas is not exactly mainstream. If you lerned of it via my list I am extremely pleased! You can buy it online or mayspecial order it from your local mom n’ pop shop. I was lucky enough to see her perform two different programs at the Chicago Museum of Modern Art and she was intense and incredible.
I too have been listening to the Electric Six a lot this year. I haven’t seen Synecdoche, New York and am incredibly interested. I like the music very much. I wonder if Mr Manning ever passes used books along to others. I sure need some self help, but find I can’t help myself. Catnip Dynamite is a gem. I think I will start a band called The Sarah Palin Experience, but not record or play — just stand in close proximity to instruments.
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