Brian's Top 5

Brian’s Top 5 2006

Album of the Year: Destroyer’s Rubies

Top 5 Albums of the Year:
1) Destroyer’s Rubies - Destroyer
2) Let’s Get Out Of This Country – Camera Obscura
3) The Greatest – Cat Power
4) Gulag Orkestar - Beirut
5) Post-War – M. Ward
Honorable Mention: Ys -Joanna Newsom; Nine Times That Same Old Song – Love Is All

Song of the Year: Painter in your Pocket - Destroyer

Artist/Band of the Year: Destroyer

Worst Album of the Year: At War With The Mystics – The Flaming Lips

Guilty Pleasure of the Year (song, artist, or album): Since You’ve Been Gone/Maps – performed by Ted Leo (not sure when this was released, but it sure got me through the day at the AMA)

Movie of the Year: Shortbus

Top 5 Movies of the Year:
1) Shortbus
2) Children of Men
3) The Departed
4) Brick
5) Match Point
Honorable Mention: Borat; Jackass: Number Two

Actor of the Year: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed)

Actress of the Year: Pamela Anderson Lee Rock (Borat)

Worst Movie of the Year: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

TV Show of the Year: Lost

Top 5 TV Shows of the Year:
1) Lost
2) The Office
3) Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
4) Jeopardy!
5) Ellen



Top DVD Pick-up of the Year: Season 6 Six Feet Under

Guilty Pleasure of the Year (TV or movie): Studio 60

Best Episode of the Year (TV): Two for the Road – Lost Season 2 – 5/3/06
(Michael’s Killing Spree)

Best Scene of the Year (movie): Shortbus’ Finale

Favorite Book: The Day of the Locust – Nathaneal West
HM: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers