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2004

Favorite films

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Collateral
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hotel Rwanda
The Incredibles
Kill Bill Volume 2
The Machinist
The Notebook
The Passion of the Christ
Sideways
Spider-Man 2
The Village

Honorable mention

13 Going on 30
The Butterfly Effect
Fahrenheit 9/11
Finding Neverland
Friday Night Lights
The Girl Next Door
Million Dollar Baby
Ocean’s 12
Primer
Ray
The Terminal

All ages-ish

Finding Neverland
Howl’s Moving Castle
The Incredibles
Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events

Guilty pleasures

Cellular
The Day After Tomorrow
The Girl Next Door

Holiday

Christmas With the Kranks
The Polar Express

Documentary

Fahrenheit 9/11

Want to see

2046
The Aviator
Baadasssss!
Before Sunset
Closer
Downfall
Kinsey
My Architect
Riding Giants
Tarnation
Touching the Void
Undertow
Vera Drake
When Will I Be Loved

Disappointing / Overrated / Not worth the time

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Troy (enjoyed, thanks to Eric Bana, but so much less than it should have been)

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Essential music of 2004

Albums

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Interpol - Antics
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows

Honorable mention

Ed Harcourt - Strangers

The greatest songs of 2004

Act Iii Scene 2 (Shakespeare) by Saul Williams"
All These Things That I've Done - the Killers
The Bucket - Kings of Leon
Change Your Mind - the Killers
Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand
Evil - Interpol
Fit But You Know It by The Streets (E)
Jacqueline by Franz Ferdinand
Mr. Brightside - the Killers
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) by Arcade Fire
Next Exit - Interpol (E)
Not Even Jail - Interpol
The Rat by the Walkmen
Rebellion (Lies) by Arcade Fire
Sooner by Asobi Seksu
This Fire - Franz Ferdinand
Wake Up by Arcade Fire

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2004 PLAYLISTS BY MONTH

January

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) by Arcade Fire
The Rat by the Walkmen
Not Even Jail - Interpol
Change Your Mind - the Killers

February

This One’s for You - Ed Harcourt
Sooner by Asobi Seksu

March

coming soon

April

Come On Home - Franz Ferdinand

May

Somebody Told Me - the Killers
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand

June

Jacqueline by Franz Ferdinand
Mr. Brightside - the Killers

July

This Fire - Franz Ferdinand
Velvet Snow - Kings of Leon
Fit But You Know It by The Streets (E)

August

Act Iii Scene 2 (Shakespeare) by Saul Williams
C’mere - Interpol
The Dark Of The Matinee - Franz Ferdinand
The Bucket - Kings of Leon

September

All These Things That I've Done - the Killers
Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand
Born in the 70s - Ed Harcourt
Length of Love - Interpol
Rebellion (Lies) by Arcade Fire
Open Book - Ed Harcourt
Thinking of a Dream I Had - The Walkmen