Check out my just-added List of the Best Films of 2005. It'll be updated as movie viewing demands.

(M) *Broken Flowers (Jarmusch, 2005) A

(M) /Far From Heaven/ (Haynes, 1957--- I mean 2003) A-

(M) *Red Eye (Craven, 2005) B+

(M) Gattaca (Niccol, 1997) B

(M) Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 1948) B+

(M) Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (Morris, 1997) B+

(M) The Uninvited (Allen, 1944) B

(M) *The Aristocrats (Provenza, 2005) A-

Here's all the albums from 2005 I've heard so far, ranked and such:

I LOVE . . .

ALLIGATOR - The National

I REALLY LIKE . . .

BLACK SHEEP BOY - Okkervil River
EP - Fiery Furnaces
ILLINOIS - Sufjan Stevens

I LIKE . . .

IN CASE WE DIE - Architecture in Helsinki
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
HORSES IN THE SKY - A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La Band*
FACE THE TRUTH - Stephen Malkmus
THE WOODS - Sleater-Kinney
FLIES THE FIELDS - Shipping News
NATURALLY - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
TOUCHPOOL - L. Pierre
BANG BANG ROCK & ROLL - Art Brut

I'm MIXED on . . .

WORLDS APART - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
THE GREAT DESTROYER - Low
SOME CITIES - Doves

I DON'T LIKE . . .

WITH TEETH - Nine Inch Nails
GUERO - Beck

*If the second half was as amazing as the first, this would be the album of the year. But alas . . .

Yeah

I guess we can list album stuff now? Cool. Here's my TOP TEN favorite albums of 2004:

01. JOY SHAPES - Charalambides
02. BLUEBERRY BOAT - Fiery Furnaces
03. THE MILK-EYED MENDER - Joanna Newsom
04. SUNG TONGS - Animal Collective
05. SONIC NURSE - Sonic Youth
06. EVERY NIGHT - Saturday Looks Good To Me
07. FUNERAL - Arcade Fire
08. MILK Man - Deerhoof
09. UNDERACHIEVERS PLEASE TRY HARDER - Camera Obscura
10. ANTICS - Interpol

Book

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) - pro

(M) The Company (Altman, 2003) A

(M) Copenhagen (Davies, 2002) A