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2003

Favorite films

28 Days Later
American Splendor
Elf
Finding Nemo
Holes
Kill Bill Volume 1
The Last Samurai
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lost in Translation
Love Actually
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Matrix Reloaded
Mystic River
Old School
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
School of Rock
Underworld

Honorable mention

Bad Boys II
Bruce Almighty
Elephant
Holes
Hulk
Intolerable Cruelty (Coen Brothers)
The Italian Job
The Matrix Revolutions
Oldboy
Osama
Secondhand Lions
Tears of the Sun
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

All ages-ish

Finding Nemo
Freaky Friday
Holes
School of Rock
Secondhand Lions
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Uptown Girls
Whale Rider

Guilty pleasures

Open Water (sorry, brother Josh)
The Secret Life of David Gale

Holiday

Elf
Love Actually

Want to see

Capturing the Friedmans (documentary)
Luther
Monster
Open Range
The Triplets of Belleville

Not worth the time / Disappointing

Charlie’s Angels
Daredevil

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Essential music of 2003

Albums

1. British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power

2. Dropkick Murphys - Blackout

3. Muse - Absolution

4. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

5. the Raveonettes - Chain Gang of Love

6. The Strokes - Room on Fire

Honorable mention

1. AFI - Sing the Sorrow

2. Cat Power - You Are Free

3. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

4. Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys

5. Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood

6. Missy Elliott - This Is Not a Test!

7. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves

8. The New Pornographers - Electric Version

9. OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

10. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan

11. The White Stripes - Elephant

12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

My 44 greatest songs of 2003

1. Bring Me to Life - Evanescence

2. Carrion - British Sea Power

3. Every Breath Is Yours - The Waterboys

4. Fall Line - Jack Johnson

5. Fields of Athenry - Dropkick Murphys

6. Heartbreak Stroll - the Raveonettes

7. Hey Ya! - OutKast

8. Let’s Rave On - the Raveonettes

9. Remember - the Raveonettes

10. Run - Snow Patrol

11. Soul to Love - Moby

12. Stockholm Syndrome - Muse

13. Such Great Heights - The Postal Service

14. Symbol in my Driveway - Jack Johnson

15. Time is Running Out - Muse

16. Where is the Love? - Black Eyed Peas

17. Workers’s Song - Dropkick Murphys

2003 PLAYLISTS BY MONTH

January

1. Men Together Today - British Sea Power

2. Remember - the Raveonettes

3. Time Is Running Out - Muse

4. Carrion - British Sea Power

5. Soul to Love - Moby

February

1. Every Breath Is Yours - the Waterboys

2. Run - Snow Patrol

3. Falling Away With You - Muse

March

1. Fall Line - Jack Johnson

April

1. Untamed Girls - the Raveonettes

2. Something Wicked - British Sea Power

3. Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse

May

1. Hey Ya! - OutKast

2. Symbol in my Driveway - Jack Johnson

June

1. That Great Love Sound - the Raveonettes

2. We Used to Be Friends - the Dandy Warhols

3. Workers Song - Dropkick Murphys

4. Where is the Love? - Black Eyed Peas

5. Times Like These - Jack Johnson

July

1. Fields of Athenry - Dropkick Murphys

2. The Masses Against the Classes - Manic Street Preachers

3. Hysteria - Muse

August

1. Heartbreak Stroll - the Raveonettes

2. Fear of Drowning - British Sea Power

3. Stockholm Syndrome - Muse

September

1. Let’s Rave On - the Raveonettes

2. Remember Me - British Sea Power

3. Endlessly - Muse

4. Childhood Memories - British Sea Power

5. New York Was Great - the Raveonettes

October

1. The Lonely - British Sea Power

2. Such Great Heights - The Postal Service

November

1. Blackout - British Sea Power

2. Blackout - Muse

December

1. A Wooden Horse - British Sea Power

   Spiritual

2. Bring Me to Life - Evanescence

NFSW

1. A Woo

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