Tuesday, January 6, 2009

best ofs. 2008 version...part one.

1. best book i read about an historical event i knew nothing about: The Given Day
2. best book i read about boogers: CRUST
3. best series of books i read written by a friend: Joe Pitt series and Hank Thompson series. (Shameless plug for new book here)
4. best restaurant: Salt, in baltimore's fells point area, serving the best duck fat fries i've ever eaten. a delicious way to stop your heart. (close second: walter foods)
5. best movie i paid to see in a movie theater: iron man. (a close second: rachel getting married)
6. best movie i snuck into: the diving bell.
7. best netflix: the foot fist way, bubble, joe strummer, the visitor, young at heart, the band's visit, planet earth, in bruges, the orphanage, the proposition, away from her, cool hand luke.
8. best cable alternative: hulu.com
9. best food: joe's sauce (close second: momofuku pork butt)
10. best place i vacationed: truro
11. best place i worked: baltimore
12. best korean spa to go to on a budget in nyc: juvenex.
13. best place to accidentally take home a man's cashmere overcoat: 21 Club
14. best birthday celebration: mine

1 comment:

SKL said...

While I didn't love the movie like you did, I did think this monologue was dead on and heartbreakingly painful. And I take back that I would never think of the movie again as parts of it have stuck with me. Mostly the scenes like this where the emotions seemed so naked.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/movies/awardsseason/04hold.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink