Year End Wrapup?

[King Bob]

Isn't it time to say what was best of 2005? I know Mark and Gene must have some opinion. I don't really buy that many new albums, so perhaps I'm unqualified to say much. About the best thing I got this year was the Hank Williams singles box set. I found a lot of great songs that I had never heard before. And the Eno reissues sound good and have nice packaging. I also liked Fischerspooner's Odyssey and Bloc Party's Silent Alarm

And I don't want to hear how the Green Day album was great! I think that's a case of the emperor's new clothes. All style and no substance from the wannabe Clash.

[El Dingo]

Best Movie: Sin City

Best Album: The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" DVD-Audio reissue remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound.

Best Book: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Best Dog: Artemis (3rd straight year! WTG Artie!)

Best Drink: Irish Whisky (300th straight year! WTG Irish Whisky!)

Best TV Show: My Name is Earl

Best Wife: Dee Dee (sorry guys - tell your SOs to try harder in 2006)

Best Kids: NONE! Seriously, kids are OK when they turn 12 or so, but infants/toddlers belong in blenders or chicken coops or something).

Best Location: The Coast of Wales (May visit Spain/Portugal this year so look out Wales!)

Most fun 2005 event: Watching the Bush regime start to atrophy. Here's hoping for total implosion in 2006!

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Since, El Dingo decided to go wild (Wild Dingos? That's a given), I decided to move this to the media category. Although issues would have worked as well.

As for music, I liked the U2 "Vertigo" album. I love Kanye West's " Golddigger" and of course "Fountains of Wayne Hotline " by Robbie Fulks.

More info to come.

[Drunk Monk]

Best cd: Sinead O'Connor ~ Throw Down Your Arms

Worst cd: Willie Nelson ~ Countryman

Best track: Damian Marley ~ Welcome to Jamrock

Best live music moments:
Phil & Friends ~ Cold Rain and Snow, just before NYE
U2 ~ City of Blinding Lights
String Cheese Incident ~ Thriller, Halloween, Vegoose
Damien Marley ~ Welcome to Jamrock, RotR
Alpha Blondy, RotR
Jerry Day at the Greek
Stone Love ~ SNWMF

Worst live music moments:
Flaming Lips, Vegoose
KMEL Jam

Best film:
Mirrormask

Worst film:
Little Manhattan (saw it on the plane ride back from Hawaii, what a downer)

Best DOOM movie gathering:
Unleashed, just because it was actually in a theater

Best drink: Guinness

Best location: Na Pali, Kauai

Best radio show:
Anything with me and iron crotch

Best porn mag:
Anything with me and iron crotch

Worst t-shirt:
Anything with me and iron crotch

Best T-shirt:
Year of the cock

[Drunk Monk]

best cinematic fight scene:
Jackie's flypaper fight in The Myth

best new hottie:
Mallika Sherawat, The Myth

best new male hottie:
how should i know? now don't get all brokeback on me, boys.

best real life fight scene: TIE
drunk monk & legbone vs. psychotic break in eel river
drunk monk & legbone vs. tripper who jumped off the balcony at new years

best shocker:
ken's engagement

worst DOOM event:
the forum crash - don't let it happen again, greg

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Best Dog: We all know the best dogs live on Montecito

Best Drink: Diet Coke. It's causing memory loss even as I speak.

Best T-Shirt: Jesus Loves You, He's just not in love with you.

Best New Gift bought for Self: The Shredder. It makes a great evil noise. I just can't be in the same room with it alone.

Best New Gift: Wacom Tablet. Wacom is way cool.

Best line from the Boss: " I don't care what it says on the Blueprint, that's not what I want"

Best Book: PHP5 and Flash integration. Kidding. Too many books blurring into another. Although "City of Falling Angels" wasn't bad.

Best Movie: Kung Fu Hustle.

Best View: Sailing down the Golden Horne across the Marmara away from Istanbul at Sunset or Sailing into Venice as the sun broke through the clouds.

Best TV shows: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Lost.

Best Emoticon: :axe:

[Drunk Monk]

best premiere ever: KA

best tv show: boohbahs

best way to annoy your office workers: go to boohbahs website and let the music loops play over and over and over

[The Queen]

Best new adjective: Grippy

Best dressed: Me, June 5th, Grand Princess Formal Night.

Best weight loss program: Mine - thinking of writing it up into a book called The Couch Potato's Guide to Weight Loss.

Best psychotic episode: McCrae, the feral cat. After terrifying himself by knocking over a bottle of vitamins, racing across the living room and launching himself headfirst into the glass door behind the vertical blinds.
Yeah, he's fine.

[King Bob]

I thought the forum was broke again, so I reposted in Music. Well, I'll think about other media.

Now I think the best dog is Hazel, the schnoodle, but I realize you will have other ideas. (And schnoodle is a fun word.)

On TV, I must admit I like Gilmore Girls (the wife introduced me long ago and I got hooked) and Ghost Hunters on SciFi (the one about TAPS, not the one with the stupid psychic in the UK) and of course the show on HBO about the Moonlight Bunny Ranch. I had hopes for Supernatural, but it didn't hold up.

I only saw a few movies in the theater, but I think the best was A Very Long Engagement, which I saw on New Years Day 2005. The worst was definitely the final Star Wars.

I think my favorite DVDs were Dodgeball and Anchorman, both delightfully stupid.

I can't fully compare since I haven't heard Sirius, but XM blows away regular radio. You can actually hear all kinds of music (well I've never heard Chinese Opera, but I don't want to either).

The best video game is still Tetris!

And this is the best website of course.

[The Queen]

For what it's worth: my cousin Jill Soble is a producer for that HBO Bunny Ranch series. She also works for Playboy TV. Next time I run into her, should I ask for souvenirs for you?

[King Bob]

Of course! But I can only wish for a talking keychain.

[The Queen]

...when Jill was producing LAPD: Life on the Beat, she gave me a pin/tie clasp with little dangling handcuffs.

I'll see what I can do.

[Drunk Monk]

best new swag kickdown person: cindi's cousin jill

best surprise revelation on this thread: king bob likes gilmore girls

worst disturbing trend: the new fye store has a reggaeton section but no reggae section

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Cindi's cousin Jill is married and doesn't live in the same house as her husband. She has a great rent controlled apartment she doesn't want to give up but is too small for the both of them.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Best Whisky: Bowmore 30 Year old
second best whisky: That special Talisker that HK has
third best whisky: Fiddich Gran Reserva
fourth best whisky: weel, ayed say thut annythin' frum Scotland wuz in faccct superior. Sorry, Irish whisky, pick a windae, yer leavin'! Except Middleton; tha' one ken stay.

Best pets: Other people's
Best kids: See above
Best City, Other Than San Francisco: Amsterdam.
Best Ride: Hwy 1 between SF and The Lost Coast, Hwy 99 (Klamath River hwy between I-5 and 101/Eureka).
Best stroll: Chrissy Field, from Ft. Point to the creek