The Best of 2015!

MUSIC

[COMING SOON]

TV

Favorite show? It’s still Arrow! For the second year in a row. Couldn’t quit it even if I tried. The Flash follows pretty quickly after, I think.

OTP’s of 2015:

• Oliver/Felicity (Arrow) – I could write an essay about these two, but I’m going to be calm. I AM CALM.

• Ross/ Demelza (Poldark) – By the third episode I was hooked, the fourth I was already gone.

• Isabelle/Galavant (Galavant) – Just for the adorz. And pretty exploding faces.

• Danny/Riley (Baby Daddy) – FINALLY. FINALLY. And…. FINALLY!!

• Wade/Zoe (HoD) – The feels. All the fluff and feels.

• Rafael/Jane (JtV) – I won’t stop rooting for these two. Sorry Michael!

TV thoughts from 2015:

• Miranda and Gary!

• …. Galavant! This stupid, goofy show still makes me smile. Really looking forward to Season Two in a few day!

• How many times did I watch the fourth episode of Poldark? I stopped counting. Ugh, that show.

• Anyone watch that Australia show Wonderland? ‘Cause those last few moment, thou! I’m pretty disappointed it got canceled, but at least they gave us that!

• I only hated one episode of the Flash last season (and that was because of Ray), which was my least favorite thing about season three of Arrow. Ray. (He might be my least favorite character of the year?! I still have a lot of anger over how they used him).

• AHS: Freak Show felt like a huge waste of time. Wondering if I should bother with Hotel or not.

• Young & Hungry really needs to quit it with the on/off Josh/Gabi stuff. Unlike Baby Daddy (FINALLY ending the terrible love triangle!), it’s starting to really repetivety and not in a good way.

• Parks and Recreation ended. I remembered I like it a lot. The episodes, not the show ending.

• Mindy’s development on The Mindy Project? I’m a huge fan of that. Danny? Not so much.

• I rewatched the last season of Hart of Dixie, and I kind of feel in love with it again. Prefect end to the series.

• Worst TV mother of the year award goes to Jane the Virgin. The best might go to Donna Smoak, but I’m pretty biased.  

• But, speaking of Jane the Virgin, I really like how they are writing Petra this season. You can’t help but root for her, which is a complete turnaround from last season.

• Once Upon a Time had some great stuff with Merlin & the Origins of the Dark One. The Rest? I could care less about. Lately I seem to only like the episodes that have nothing to do with the main characters.

• Kayvan Novak stole it with SunTrap, and Shiri Appleby on UnReal.

• I finally watched Beauty and the Beast just in time for the latest season.

• Chewing Gum on E4, was really raunchy and still kind of great.

• Still a little sad over the Finn/Rae break up on MMFD, but still a great finale to the series.

• I hope they make more episodes of Citizen Khan, oh and Step Dave. I know they are from two different countries, but still. More episodes.

• So far Sleepy Hollow season three is making up for the meh that was Season Two.

• I think I liked the end of Haven, more then I like the rest of the season.

• Still not over Kevin, and so, so not over Charlie on Supernatural. And what the hell is Castiel even doing anymore?

• New Girl engagement? Yes.

• wtf is Castle right now. I don’t even know.

• FEMALES ARE STRONG AS HELL.

MOVIES

I didn’t watch enough movies this year to warrant a top ten apparently, so here is just a list of some thoughts.

• The DUFF: I like rom-coms, and this is so up my alley.

• Kingsman: The Secret Service? This came out in 2014, okay, but I’m not English, so, yeah. This was a pretty great film.

• Boy Meets Girl: The acting isn’t the best, but if you get past that, so, so good.

• After the Ball: I haven’t watched this last ten times since I’ve discovered it – nope.

• Star Wars: The Force Awakens? It’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I really don’t think I need to say any more.

• Why is Mad Max: Furry Road, even called Mad Max? He has like zero presence in this film. It’s all about the ladies.

• Cinderella: Plot- meh. Everything else? SO MUCH PRETTY. Awards for all the pretty. 

• Avengers: Age of Ultron? On the surface I really liked this, but if I when I dig into it, I start to nickpick almost everything.  That Hawkeye subplot? So not a fan of that.

• Crimson Peak: see Cinderella.

• Jupiter Ascending: nope. Just nope.

• Pitch Prefect 2: not nearly as awesome as the first, but not completely terrible.

The Best of 2014!

[pretty version to come one day].

MUSIC

Top Songs

1.Reflections – Misterwives

2. Riptide – Vance Joy

3. Creed – Owlle

4. Stolen Dance – Milky Chance

5. Dibby Dibby Sound ft. Ms Dynamite

6. Of the Night – Bastille

7. Ghost – Skip the Use

8. Let Go for Tonight – Foxes

9. Coming of Age – Foster the People

10. Pumpin Blood – NONONO

11. Sun Models ft Madelyn Grant - ODESZA

12. Cheap Sunglasses (ft. Matthew Koma) – RAC

13. Far Alone (ft. E-40 & Jay Ant)

14. Moustache – Twin Twin

15. Hooked on a Feeling – Blue Swede

16. Let Go (ft. Kele  & Mndr) – RAC

17. Younger (Kygo Remix) – Seinabo Sey

18. Say My Name – ODESZA

19. Night Owls Early Birds – Foxes

20. Beggin for Thread – Banks

21. Bang Bang (ft. Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj) - Jess J

22. Got Love – Tove Lo

23. Problem ft. Iggy Azalea – Ariana Grande

24. Welcome to New York – Taylor Swift

25. All My Love (ft. Ariana Grande) – Major Lazer

TV

I may have marathoned all The Office episodes during January, so theres that. 

Favorites: Lets be honest. I have an Arrow obsession, but when I wasn't watching that: Teen Wolf, The Mindy Project, Hart of Dixie, Bones, Baby Daddy, White Collar, The Flash, Jane the Virgin, Wonderland [AU], My Mad Fat Diary, and Some Girls [UK].

MOVIES

Films saw in Theaters: Winter's Tale, The Lego Movie, Noah, The Other Woman, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Divergent, How to Train Your Dragon 2, X-Men: Day of Future Past, The Fault in Our Stars, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Big Hero 6, The Box of Life, and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. 

Favorite movies watched 2014: About Time (2013), Austenland (2013), Pulling Strings (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), One Small Hitch (2013), The Other Woman (2014), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Romancing the Stone (1984), Big Hero 6 (2014), and Dr. Cabbie (2014).

The Best of 2013!

Music:

[Top 25]

1. Don’t You Worry Child- Swedish House Mafia

2. Girls – Santigold

3.  Ho Hey – The Lumineers

4. Feel So Close – Calvin Harris

5.  Where’s You Head At – Basement Jaxx

6. Closer – Tegan and Sara

7. Beautiful Ones – Suede

8.  Radioactive – Imagine Dragon

9. Who See – Igranka

10. Pompeii – Bastille

11. Say Nothing – Example

12. You, My Everything – Ellie Goulding

13. No Angels (ft. Ella) – Bastille

14. Magnetic – Jessie J

15. Get Lucky  - Daft Punk

16. Speak Out Now – Oh Land

17. Tennis Court – Lorde

18. Strong – London Grammar

19. Work – Iggy Azalea

20. Elastic Heart (ft. The Weeknd & Diplo) – Sia

21. Rather Be ft. Jess Glynne- Clean Bandit

22. Made of Steel - Lune

TV:

*not included: Elementary, Les Revenants, Drop Dead Diva, New Girl, Castle, HIMYM,  etc

This year I went to the cinemas a lot: I saw the first two Hobbit films, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Beautiful Creatures, Jack the Giant Slayer, Warm Bodies, Iron Man 3, Epic, This is the End, Despicable Me 2, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Mortal Instruments, & Thor: The Dark World.

I wish I could have seen: Not Another Happy Ending, About Time, Frozen.

BOOKS:

The Best of 2012!

MUSIC:

1.     We are Young ft. Janelle Monae – Fun

2.     Telephone Banking – Clean Bandit

3.     Rivers and Roads – The Head and the Heart

4.     One Spring Morning – Akron/Family

5.     The Third of the Storms (ft. Sam Sparro) –Mike Simonetti

6.     All Fired Up – The Saturdays

7.     Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu – Benny Dayal, Anushka Manchanda, Shefali Alvaris

8.     Be My Guest – Gaitana

9.     Take a Walk – Passion Pit

10. Roll with the Wind – Alexander Rybak

11.  Up Up Up – Givers

12. Billionaires – Your Twenties

13. Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men

14. Glad You Came – The Wanted

15. Babel – Mumford and Sons

16. Starships – Nicki Minaj

17. A&E – Clean Bandit

18. Earthquake ft. Tinie Tempahs – Labrinth

19.  Want U Back – Cher Llyod

20. Thrift Shop ft. Wanz- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

21. Spinnin for London 2012 – Dionne Bromfield & Tinchy Stryder

22.  Die Young – Ke$ha

23. Diamonds – Rihanna

24. Bangarang ft. Sirah

25. Paradise – Coldplay

Extended:

26. Mozarts House – Clean Bandit

27. High Hawk Season – The Mountain Goats

28. Rail Guddi – Jassi Sidhu

29. Shera Di Khom –Ludacris

30. Veer da Viha – Jassi Sidhu

31. Is it the Sea? – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

32. Beat of my Drum – Nicola Roberts

33. Crystal Ball- Grimes

34. Uk Shanty – Clean Bandit

35. Take Care – Tom Rosenthal

36. Legacy (ft. Derrick Carter) – Youseft

37. Forgets Slowly – Tom Rosenthal

38. Wild One – I Am Harlequin

39. Default – Djago Django

40. Disperate Youth – Santigold

41. True Romance – Motion City Soundtrack

42. Lights – Ellie Goulding

43. 30 Days – The Saturdays

44.  My Heart Takes Over – The Saturdays

45. Should’ve Known Better – Soluna Samay

46. Euphoria – Loreen

47. Stay – Tooji

48. Aphrodisiac – Eleftheria Elefheriou

49. OPA – Giorgos Alkaios & Family

50. Garden of Your Mind – Symphony of Science

51. Fela Igjen – Alexander Rybak

52. Fairytale – Alexander Rybak

53. Shuffle – Bombaby Bicycle Club

54. Into the Open Air- Julie Fowlis

55. Keep Your Head Up – Andy Grammer

56. Bad Girls – M.I.A.

57. Gimme Sympathy – Metric

58. Home – Philip Philips

59. Give Your Heart a Break- Demi Lovato

60. Good Time ft. Carly Rae Jepsen – Owl City

61. Call Me Maybe- Carly Rae Jepsen

62. I will wait – Mumford and Sons

63. Lover of the Light- Mumford and Sons

64. Dirty Paws- Of Monsters and Men

65. Price Tag/Don’t You Forget About Me – Pitch Prefect OST

66. San Franciso – The Mowgli’s

67. Titanium ft. Sia – David Guetta

68. Levels – Avicii

69. Super Bass – Nicki Minaj

70. In Your Imagination – Symphony of Science

71. Electric Shock – F(x)

TV:

*missing: New Girl, OUAT, Friday Night Dinners, Me and Mrs. Jones, Leverage. Baby Daddy

FILMS

*missing: Albatross, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Cockneys vs. Zombies

BOOKS:

2011 "Best OF"

As usual, my favorites for the year 2011!

Music:

1, Rio- Hey Marseilles

2.  Ready to Start- Arcade Fire

3. Furr- Blitzen Trapper

4. Fake Empire- The National

5. The Mending of the Gown- Sunset Rubdown

6. Odessa- Caribou

7. Never Hear Surfer Music Again- Free Blood

8. Wreckin’ Bar- The Vaccines

9. Enzymes- Freelance Whales

10. Like a G6- Far East Movement

11. Who’s That Chick?- David Guetta ft. Rihanna

12. With You- Crystal Fighters

13. Firework- Katy Perry

14. Higher- Taio Cruz

15. Young Blood- The Naked and the Famous

16. United Provineces of India- Cornershop

17. Damn These Vampires- The Mountain Goats

18. Elevator- Sky Ferreira

19. Alligator Sky- Owl City

20. The Painter- I’m from Barcelona

21. Party Rock Anthem- LMFAO

22. I’m Stranded- The Saints

23. Shake it Out- Florence + the Machine

24. The Rhythm of the Night- Corona

25. Don’t Stop (Color on the Wall)- Foster the People

26. The Black Bird- Los Campesionos!

27. The Symphony- Snow Patrol

28. Minds Without Fear ft. Vishal & Shekhar- Imogen Heap

29. Suck on my ID- Reptar

30. Junk of the Heart- The Kooks

TV

I ventured into some Aussie and New Zealand TV this year and I am so glad I did.

Still watching: HIMYM, Castle, Bones, The Big Bang Theory, House, Chuck, Doctor Who, Merlin, Misfits, Primeval, Downton Abbey, & Raising Hope

New favs: White Collar, Fringe, Packed to the Rafters, The Almighty Johnsons, Shameless (UK), Miranda, Hart of Dixie, & New Girl

Movies

I fell short of my 365 movies by 145, whoop, but in my defense. I was a full time student, and I took three classes over the summer break. Next year?

Favorite 2011 releases: Arthur Christmas, Fright Night, Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides, Super 8, Paul, Hanna, Rango, & Killing Bono

Favorite older releases: Back to the Future I & II, Rebecca, Ponyo, Good Will Hunting, L’Illsionniste, Tamara Drewe, True Grit, Starter for 10, Cario Time & Jab We Met,

Wish I could have seen: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Decoy Bride, Dirty Girl, Parked, Albatross & The Descendants    

The 2010 Edition of "THE BEST OF"

just a list of my favorite music/tv/movies of the year!

Music:

Once upon a time I listened to music. All I have this year is a list of my favorites (most of them discovered via movies/tv shows):

A Life Less Ordinary- Motion City Soundtrack

Just Say Yes- Snow Patrol

Tik Tok- Ke$ha

Good Morning Charlie – Oceanic Six

Cousins- Vampire Weekend

Telephone- Lady Gaga

Something Good Can Work- Two Door Cinema Club

Rolex Sweep- Skepta

Echoes- The Rapture

XXXO- M.I.A.

The Dog Days Are Over- Florence + The Machine

Spotlight FT. Tanya Lacey- Tinchy Stryder

Bulletproof- La Roux

Pretty Young Things- Bodyrox

Change of Seasons- Sweet Thing

Sigh no More- Mumford and Sons

Teenage Dream- Darren Criss

Hometown Glory (High Contrast Remix)- Adele

Spanish Sahara- Foals

Out At the Pictures- Hot Chip

Until We Bleed (with Lykke Li)- Kleerup

Paradise Circus- Massive attack

TV:

It was all MERLIN, DOCTOR WHO and Misfits with me, and of course marathoning TNG, DS9 all the time.

Recurring favorites: Bones, Psych, Lost, How I Met Your Mother, Chuck, Glee

British Favs: New Series of Skins, Merlin, Doctor who, and Misfits

New loves: Big Bang Theory

MOVIES:

This year I watched 215 films. I didn’t actually have a goal of how many I was planning on watching, but I’m setting a goal for the next year (250). This year I watched a lot of British Cinema, and managed to find a few random Bollywood and other foreign films in the mix (thanks to a cinema class I took in the spring). I didn’t really go the theaters much, and I’m going to use the poor college excuse. Plus, you can find mostly anything on the internet.

Favorite 2010 releases: Leap Year, Letters to Juliet, Toy Story 3, Cemetery Junction, Charlie St. Cloud, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, Wild Target, Easy A, 4.3.2.1, Chatroom, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Tangled, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec

Older Releases: Whip It, Gran Torino, In Bruges, Hot Fuzz, Dil Bole Hadippa!, Cherrybomb, Heartless, Cashback, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Ondine, 3 Idiots, Let the Right One In.

(post below of my favorites seen this year)

Movies I wished I had a Chance to see/haven’t tracked down yet: The oxford Murders, Cairo Time, Morning Glory, London Boulevard, Tamara Drewe, It’s kind of a Funny Story

The 2009 Edition of the "Best of"

Every year I make a list of my favorites.

So yea, here it is. And in comparison to my previous ones, this is pretty pitiful.

MUSIC.

Songs (no order, and well I couldn’t pick between some)

1. The Rake’s Song- The Decemberists (only the Decemberists could make you love a song with this subject matter)
2. Microphone- Coconut Records
3. Nothing to Worry About- Peter Bjorn, and John
4. Ulysses/No You Girls- Franz Ferdinand
5. I Got You Dancing- Lady Sovereign
6. Got Nuffin- Spoon
7. Laughing With- Regina Spektor (it grew on me. I didn’t like it at first)
8. Hello Seattle- Owl City (in my defense, I called Owl City about five months before they hit the airwaves).
9. We Are Golden-Mika
10. Lisztomania/1901- Phoenix (probably my most played song this year)
11. Good Girls Go Bad- Cobra Starship (it’s fun)
12. Aha!/Between the Sheets – Imogen Heap
13. Lollipop (Squeak E. Clean & Desert Eagles Remix) – The Chordettes
14. Hell- Tegan and Sara
15. Crying Lightning- Arctic Monkeys
16. DFTBA – Hank Green (Um, because its just freakin’ awesome)
17. Bang, Bang- Rye Rye & MIA
18. Don’t Stop Believin’ – Glee (ha)
19. Happy up Here/The Girl and the Robot- Royksopp
20. Moth’s Wings- Passion Pit (this is a surprise for me, since I was all about the Reeling/Sleepyhead earlier this year).
21. Daniel- Bat for Lashes
22. I’m on a Boat – The Lonely Islands (brilliant).

23. Walking on the Sun – Empire of the Sun

I should make a top albums list, but that would show you how awful I was with music this year. So I’m just going to mention my favorites out of the few I brought this year: Passion Pit- Manners, Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Peter Bjorn & John- Living Things, and Tegan and Sara- Sainthood.

TV

I actually watch a lot of TV… but its British. Uh yea, but I was totally all over the second series of Merlin this fall (I'm waiting to see if NBC will pick it up again this year, if they don't it'll be a shame). I'm still pretty obsessed with Bones. And I still watch LOST, although not as closely as everyone else does. I started watching How I Met Your Mother, and then managed to watch three and a half season within a couple of days. This season has been a little off for me so I hope they do something with that soon. I watch Castle once and awhile because Nathan Fillion is in it. I watch some other shows, but this list will probably become boring so there.

MOVIES

I was actually surprised by the amount of movies I watched from this year, (most of them not in theaters). My favorites were probably Star Trek (it would be wrong not to put this on the list after I saw it like ten times), The Hangover (before you say anything given the genre this was meant to be in, it was actually pretty brilliant), Up (the first ten minutes of this movie was brilliant all on its own), and Sherlock Holmes. I saw a bunch that I thought were “OKAY” but I’d probably never watch again, like The Inglorious Basterds, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and Angels and Demons. With Inglorious Basterds there were elements I really loved, likewise the Men Who Stare at Goats, but over all eh. Angels and Demons was better as a book. In terms of my romantic comedy guilty pleasures The Proposal and the Ugly Truth were instant classics. I saw a ton of other films, but I’m not really going to go into reviews of all that stuff. However I did watch the original first five Star Trek movies this summer. 


Movies I wanted to see? Whip It. New York, I love you. And The Princess and the Frog.

2008 Edition of the "Best Of"

MUSIC

My music taste gets better every year, I believe. Yes some artists such as Rihanna, and Justin Timberlake have people judging in my sanity (mainly Hannah) but who cares. You have to enjoy music, if you take it too seriously it loses its joy. 

Unfortunally, my freaking iPod has crashed again (3 times within this week), deleting all my playlists (for those you have seen my iPod know I go purely off the million playlists I have) so I'm going to have to do my best to remember. 


TOP 25 via iTunes (by plays including older songs) before crash:
Carolines a victcum- kate nash
Electric feel- mgmt
Robin hood- andy price
Big love- Fleetwood mac
Shake it- metro station
Too cool- camp rock ost
Freeze ray- neil Patrick harris
Tessellate- Tokyo police club
Mansford roof- vampire weekend
Oxford coma-vampire weekend
l.e.s. artist- santogold
juno- Tokyo police club
viva la vida- coldplay
walking with a ghost- tegan and sara
in a cave-tokyo police club
anyone but you- the moldy peaches
that's my name- the ting tings
violet hill- coldplay
glad its over-wilco
anywhere I want to be- the konks
see you again- miley cyrus
we are rockstars- does it offend you yeah?
Paper planes- m.i.a.
Play my music- the jonas brothers
Time to pretend-mgmt

TOP 25 via ME (2008's only):
[Atempted but failed order of favourites]
[Note I haven't heard the full albums for many of these artists]

1. Human- The Killers
2. Oxford Coma- Vampire Weekend
3. Viva La Vida- Coldplay
4. Creator- Santogold
5. Electric Feel- MGMT
6. Tessellate- Tokyo Police Club
7. Great DJ- The Ting Tings
8. Beat that My Heart Skipped- Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
9. The Show- Lenka
10. Knickerbocker- Fujiya & Miyagi
11. I'm not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend to Dance- The Black Kids
12. Take Back the City- Snow Patrol
13. Love Lockdown- Kanye West
14. Nude- Radiohead
15. Black Kettle Black- Tilly and the Wall
16. Always Where I need to be- The Kooks
17. Cath- Death Cab for Cutie
18. Sentimental Heart- She & Him
19. Ways to Make it Through the Wall- The Los Campesinos
20. Black Rosary- Flowers Forever
21. Sleepyhead- Passion Pit
22. Standing Next to Me- The Last of the Shadow Puppets
23. Nada Surf- See These Bones
24. 1 2 3 4- Plain White T's
25. Money for that- Shiny Toy Guns

TOP 5 ALBUMS via Me (no order):
Vampire weekend-s/t
Santogold- s/t
Death Cab for Cutie- Narrow Stairs
Coldplay- Viva La Vida or Death and All of His Friends
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip- Angles

Honorable Mentions:
MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
Tokyo Police Club- Elephant Shell
The Killers- Day & Age
Kate Nash- Made of Bricks (2007 release in the UK, possible the US too, not sure). 

Possible HM (haven't heard it enough and completely different from their last its warping my mind):
Season of Posion- Shiny Toy Guns


TV

I don't really have any new new tv shows on this list, but I have a bunch of new shows I discovered this year, that I became completely obessed with: Bones, Roswell, Firefly, and million British shows (Doctor Who, Kingdom, Skins, Robin Hood, Torchwood....). And Saturday Night Live within the last three months).

Older Shows I keep watching:
Reaper
Lost [this show really just keeps getting better]
Pushing Daises
Chuck [ditto]

I was enjoying Heroes until this third season- WTF is going on? so freakin dumb, I haven't watched it since October. & I was growing tired of Ugly Betty. 

MOVIES:

With inflated prices, lack of anything good, and being so busy, I didn't get much time to go the theaters this year, but here are the I really liked; 27 Dresses, Wanted, Hancock, Indy Four & Mama Mia. I also saw Twilight, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, & Made of Honor, but I didn't really like any of those, except Twilight made me laugh like crazy. Also I enjoyed Slumdog Millionare, but I streamed it online.

Favorite DVDed:
Death at a Funeral
The Darjeeling Limited
St. Trinian's
The Mummy 3 [actually liked it a bit, surprisingly]. 

Films that looked brillant that I really wanted to see:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight (no comment that I still haven't seen it, alright?)
W