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2002 Films

Favorites

28 Days Later
About a Boy
About Schmidt
Adaptation
Catch Me If You Can
Cidade de deus (City of God)
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Equilibrium
Far From Heaven
Gangs of New York
The Hours
In America
Minority Report
Punch-Drunk Love
Spider-Man
Spirited Away
Underworld

Honorable mention

25th Hour
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Igby Goes Down
John Q
L'auberge Espagnole
Laurel Canyon
The Magdalene Sisters
Morvern Callar
One Hour Photo
Orange County
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Reign of Fire (Christian Bale & Matthew McConaughey take on dragons)
Secretary

All ages

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Guilty pleasures

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Holiday

coming soon

Want to see

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Inuit)
Bubba Ho-Tep (Bruce Campbell)
Cypher
Deathwatch
The Good Girl
The Good Thief
Imposter
Infernal Affairs
Open Range (Kevin Costner Western comeback)
Paid in Full (Rock-a-Fella Records documentary)
The Quiet American
Russian Ark
The Slaughter Rule
Solaris
Treasure Planet (Disney sci-fi animation)

Not worth the time

coming soon

ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2002

11 Favorite Albums

  1. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes

  2. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow

  3. Clinic - Walking With Thee

  4. DJ Shadow - The Private Press

  5. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

  6. Idlewild - The Remote Part

  7. Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around

  8. Joseph Arthur - Redemption’s Son

  9. Moby - 18

  10. Sigur Ros - ( )

  11. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight

  12. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

Honorable mention

All-American Rejects - The All-American Rejects
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Chevelle - Wonder What’s Next
David Bowie - Heathen
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Cornershop - Handcream for a Generation
Elf Power - Creatures
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Bryan Ferry - Frantic
Grandaddy - Concrete Dunes
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper
Neko Case - Blacklisted
Ours - Precious
Pedro the Lion - Control
The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of...
The Postal Service - Give Up
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Tom Waits - Alice
Weezer - Maladroit

The greatest songs of 2002

  1. Across the Universe by Rufus Wainwright

  2. All My Little Words - Magnetic Fields

  3. American English - Idlewild

  4. Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious

  5. Come Into Our Room - Clinic

  6. Complicated - Avril Lavigne

  7. Countin’ on a Miracle - Bruce Springsteen

  8. Country Yard - The Vines

  9. Days Like This - the Polyphonic Spree

  10. Do You Realize?? by the Flaming Lips

  11. Don’t Let It Get You Down - Spoon

  12. Emerge - Fischerspooner

  13. Fight Test - the Flaming Lips

  14. Fred Jones Part 2 - Ben Folds

  15. Girl on the Wing - the Shins

  16. Grace Cathedral Hill - the Decemberists

  17. Green Grass of Tunnel - Múm

  18. Hands Around My Throat - Death in Vegas

  19. Harmony - Clinic

  20. In My Heart by Moby

  21. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bryan Ferry

  22. It’s the Sun - the Polyphonic Spree

  23. Josie - Blink 182

  24. Leif Erickson - Interpol

  25. Let the Drummer Kick by Citizen Cope

  26. Light & Day / Reach for the Sun - The Polyphonic Spree

  27. Lovelife - Atmosphere

  28. The Luckiest - Ben Folds

  29. The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash

  30. My Paper Heart - The All-American Rejects

  31. Natural Blues - Moby

  32. The New Year - Azure Ray

  33. Next Time - Little Wings

  34. Not the Same - Ben Folds

  35. One More Sad Song - the All-American Rejects

  36. Possibilities - Weezer

  37. Priests And Paramedics by Pedro the Lion

  38. The Red - Chevelle

  39. Relative Ways - …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

  40. Reno Dakota - Magnetic Fields

  41. The Scientist by Coldplay

  42. Seventeen - Ladytron

  43. Sky is Falling by Blackalicious

  44. She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5

  45. Silent Sigh - Badly Drawn Boy

  46. Soldier Girl by the Polyphonic Spree

  47. Stay Positive - the Streets (E)

  48. Such Great Heights - the Postal Service

  49. Tickets to What You Need - Badly Drawn Boy

  50. To Hell With Good Intentions - Mclusky

  51. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 - the Flaming Lips

  52. You Held the World in Your Arms - Idlewild

  53. Waitin’ on a Sunny Day - Bruce Springsteen

  54. Walk On Me - Ben Kweller

  55. The Way We Get By - Spoon

  56. Weird Divide - the Shins

  57. Welcome - Clinic

  58. What’s a Simple Man to Do? - Steve Earle

  59. When the Music Stops by Eminem (E)

  60. Without Me by Eminem (E)

2002 PLAYLISTS BY MONTH

January

  1. Days Like This (Keep Me Warm) - the Polyphonic Spree

  2. Harmony - Clinic

  3. Across the Universe by Rufus Wainwright

  4. Hurt - Johnny Cash

  5. Into the Fire - Bruce Springsteen

  6. The New Year - Azure Ray

  7. Fight Test - the Flaming Lips

  8. Leif Erickson - Interpol

  9. Stay Positive - the Streets (E)

February

  1. Do You Realize?? by the Flaming Lips

  2. Such Great Heights - the Postal Service

  3. In My Heart - Moby

  4. Silent Sigh - Badly Drawn Boy

  5. The Luckiest - Ben Folds

  6. Goddess of Love - Bryan Ferry

  7. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits - Magnetic Fields

  8. Natural Blues - Moby

  9. Reno Dakota - Magnetic Fields

  10. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side - Magnetic Fields

March

  1. Don’t Let It Get You Down - Spoon

  2. If Only - Dave Matthews Band

  3. Tickets to What You Need - Badly Drawn Boy

  4. Clinic - The Bridge

  5. What’s a Simple Man to Do? - Steve Earle

  6. Countin’ on a Miracle - Bruce Springsteen

  7. Sikh in a Baja VW Bug - Grandaddy

April

  1. It’s the Sun - the Polyphonic Spree

  2. Nice Weather for Ducks - Lemon Jelly

  3. Waitin’ On a Sunny Day - Bruce Springsteen

  4. Deaf Kids - the Books

  5. Next Time - Little Wings

  6. Girl on the Wing - the Shins

  7. Fred Jones Part 2 - Ben Folds

  8. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 - the Flaming Lips

  9. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? - Moby

  10. Let the Drummer Kick - Citizen Cope

  11. Sky is Falling by Blackalicious

  12. The Way We Get By - Spoon

  13. Walking With Thee - Clinic

  14. Grace Cathedral Hill - the Decemberists

  15. Not the Same - Ben Folds

  16. Nobody Loves Me - Bryan Ferry

  17. Walk On Me - Ben Kweller

  18. For the Dishwasher - Grandaddy

  19. Worlds Apart - Bruce Springsteen

May

  1. The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash

  2. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bryan Ferry

  3. Complicated - Avril Lavigne

  4. To Hell With Good Intentions - Mclusky

  5. Seventeen - Ladytron

  6. Emerge - Fischerspooner

  7. Lovelife - Atmosphere

June

  1. Light & Day / Reach for the Sun - The Polyphonic Spree

  2. She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5

  3. My Paper Heart - The All-American Rejects

  4. Country Yard - The Vines

  5. Possibilities - Weezer

  6. Josie - Blink 182

  7. Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious

  8. Down Fall - TRUST Company

  9. Nothing - A

  10. Comfortable Liar - Chevelle

  11. Without Me by Eminem (E)

  12. One More Sad Song - The All-American Rejects

  13. No, Not Now - Hot Hot Heat

  14. Weird Divide - the Shins

  15. Please - Apples in Stereo

  16. Hands Around My Throat - Death in Vegas

July

  1. When the Music Stops by Eminem (E)

  2. Get In Or Get Out - Hot Hot Heat

  3. Welcome - Clinic

August

  1. The Red - Chevelle

  2. You Held the World in Your Arms - Idlewild

  3. Pet Eunoch - Clinic

  4. Send the Pain Below - Chevelle

  5. Sunlight Bathes Our Home - Clinic

September

  1. Soldier Girl by the Polyphonic Spree

  2. All My Little Words - Magnetic Fields

  3. Come Into Our Room - Clinic

  4. American English - Idlewild

  5. Relative Ways - …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

October

  1. Ja Nun Hons Prins - Bryan Ferry

  2. I Walked With the Zombie - Elf Power

  3. The Scientist - Coldplay

  4. Priests And Paramedics by Pedro the Lion

November

  1. Everloving - Moby

  2. Green Grass of Tunnel - Múm

December

  1. coming soon

Spiritual

Hurt - Johnny Cash

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