2 0 0 7, y'all.

Albums of the year:
1. The Stage Names / Golden Opportunities mixtape - Okkervil River
2. Cease To Begin - Band Of Horses
3. Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire
4. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? - Of Montreal
5. In Rainbows - Radiohead
6. Kala - M.I.A.
7. Armchair Apocrypha - Andrew Bird
8. The Shepherd's Dog - Iron & Wine
9. Ola Podrida - Ola Podrida
10. Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
EP of the year: my friend Seth's band The Tiny Tin Hearts' demo.
Saddest: the death rattle of Dinosaur Jr's 'Beyond' and, even though I usually hate this accusation, the actual selling out of Rilo Kiley.


Movies of the year:
1. No Country For Old Men
2. Darjeeling Limited
3. Juno
4. Paprika
5. Grindhouse (really, Planet Terror)
Overrated: Waitress
Way, way, way better than I thought it would be: Enchanted
I still don't really know if it was brilliant or terrible: I'm Not There
(I still haven't seen Atonement, Into The Wild, and lots of other lauded films. It's been a bad year for me and movie-time.)

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