Since the new year, I’ve read several best-of-’07 posts in other blogs and thus have been inspired enough to give a bit of thought to what I saw or heard last year. Want to hear it? too bad. Here we go.

Movies:
Ok, i’ll be honest, we’re not big movie goers, especially since becoming parents. Even before that, we had a hard time finding the time to spend at the theater. Plus, you know that person who talks through the movie—asking irrelevant questions with obvious answers—and and kicks the seat in front of him/her? Well, without fail, I’m that person being kicked. With that, we saw two movies in the theater that were released in 2007. The Bourne Ultimatum and Juno. Both movies just splendid, especially Juno, and fall into my top 10 of 2007…top 2, in fact. We saw Superbad and Knocked-Up on DVD and have, but have not watched the latest Pirates of The Caribbean movie (great, now you know the level of our cinematic standards). I’d like to see the latest Coen Brothers movie, but will likely wait for the DVD. If anybody has any recommendations to fill in our top 10, we’d love to know what’s worth seeing.

Music:
Music, on the other hand, is almost always on in one form or another at home and I spend the bulk of my workday with larger than necessary headphones clamped to my head—mostly to drown out co-workers’ irrelevant questions with obvious answers, but also because I like music a lot. It gets me through most days. Also, Charlie enjoys dancing* along to whatever we happen to be listening to at home…including NPR talk radio, which is weird, but yet, so is his dancing. Anyway, 2007 brought us a lot of great music: Here are the top-ten that charlie enjoys dancing to:

*littlewhiteboy-style

10 : Iron & Wine The Shepard’s Dog

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9 : Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

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8 : Beirut The Flying Club Cup

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7 : Wilco Sky Blue Sky

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6 : The National Boxer

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5 : Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha

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4 : The Shins Wincing The Night Away

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3 : LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver

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2 : Band Of Horses Cease To Begin

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1 : The Avett Brothers Emotionalism

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Some runners up—ties for 11th place are: Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature, Radiohead - In Rainbows, M.I.A. - Kala, The Juno Soundtrack, Tegan and Sara - The Con and since this is music Charlie dances to, I will also include For The Kids Three. Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible is a great album, but they failed to make my top 10 because I happened to see them perform every song from the album live and their lousy performance tainted their album for me.

There you have it. Again, if anybody has anything that you think Charlie should be dancing to but is not, let’s ‘hear’ it.