Erin's Top Five

Album of the Year: The Greatest, Cat Power

Top 5 Albums:

1. The Greatest- Cat Power
2. Destroyer's Rubies- Destroyer
3. Post War- M. Ward
4. Show Your Bones- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. Let's Get Out of this Country- Camera Obscura

Honorable Mention: 6. Rabbit Fur Coat- Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins 7. Pieces of the People We Love- The Rapture
8. EP- Dr. Dog 8. Classics- Ratatat 9. Bitter Tea- Fiery Furnaces 10. The Life Pursuit- Belle & Sebastian


Song of the Year: Pieces of the People We Love- The Rapture

Artist/Band of the Year: Destroyer/Cat Power

Worst Album of the Year: The Hold Steady- Boys and Girls in America
(Wow, that's a terrible album (see Kyle's rant). Then again, I haven't heard the new K Federline...)


Guilty Pleasure: Dick in a Box- Justin Timberlake, SNL and the Indian Thriller (see top YouTube picks)

MOVIES!
Movie of the Year: The Departed


Top 5 Movies:

1. The Departed
2. Children of Men
3. Borat
4. Jackass II, the new Bond movie
5. The Descent


Actor of the Year: Borat

Actress of the Year: Not Scarlett Johansson


Worst Movie of the Year: You, Me and Dupree

The thought-it-was-a-joke-when-I-first-heard-about-it Movie of the Year: Snakes on a Plane (Just look at that poster! What?!?)


TV Show of the Year: Survivor


1. Survivor (addicting. never watched it before this season.)
2. Lost ( Sawyer and Kate getting it on? Meow.)
3. Project Runway
4. Arrested Development (goodbye old friend)
5. Grey's Anatomy

Top DVD pick-up: Arrested Development, season two & three

Guilty Pleasure of the Year: America's Next Top Model

Best Episode of the Year: Survivor, when they sent Candice to exile island for like the fifth straight day. She was crying and wandering around like a baby.

Best Scene of the Year (movie):
Departed: when Martin Sheen is thrown off the roof ("any of you micks got a light?")
Casino Royale: naked Bond being hit on the balls by huge, knotted rope
The outtakes from Talladega nights were funny. The movie wasn't.

Top YouTube Clips:

1. Indian Thriller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbvP7dT3Dx0
(have to give credit to Jon Sours for finding this jewel)
2. Dick in a Box: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_KDBCFrxwc
3. Arnold cumming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN253RLDdM8

4. Truman Capote and Jimmy Stewart's favorite country song (Stewart runs out of air at the end of his song!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veIso82-o7w
5. James Brown interview (RIP) ("What'd you say lady?" people in the studio laughing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veIso82-o7w

Top Top Five List quote:
Kyle for "National Lampoon's Emo Vacation" and coining "sub-Braff"


Honorable Mention: Tim: "I like soft, derivative fluff as much as the next 12 year old girl, but Jesus"

*Sorry mine were so late!