Best Movies of 2013

A bunch of really great movies came out this year. These were my favorites:

1. Inside Llewyn Davis

2. Mud

3. Room 237

4. Frances Ha

5. Upstream Color

6. American Hustle

7. Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

8. The World’s End

9. Stories We Tell

10. Gravity

11. The Bling Ring

12. Blackfish

13. The Place Beyond the Pines

14. The East

15. Prince Avalanche

Other movies I saw this year:

Coffee Town

The Kings of Summer

This Is the End

The Way, Way Back

Other movies I'm planning to see:

12 Years a Slave

The Act of Killing

Blue Jasmine

Don Jon

Fruitvale Station

Her

Leviathan

Mistaken for Strangers

Much Ado About Nothing

Nebraska

No

Oldboy

Short Term 12
The Spectacular Now

To the Wonder

We Steal Secrets

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Albums and Songs of 2013

2013’s Best Albums

1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

2. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

3. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze

4. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe

5. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight…

6. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

7. Volcano Choir - Repave

8. Haim - Days Are Gone

9. Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse

10. Phosphorescent - Muchacho

11. Local Natives - Hummingbird

12. Mikal Cronin - MCII

13. Mutual Benefit - Love’s Crushing Diamond

14. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - The Speed of Things

15. The Front Bottoms - Talon of the Hawk

More albums I liked (just not as much as my top 15):

Explosions in the Sky - Prince Avalanche (original soundtrack)

John Wizards - John Wizards

Junip - Junip

Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium

Phoenix - Bankrupt!

Telekinesis - Dormarion

[various artists] - Inside Llewyn Davis (original soundtrack)

Yo La Tengo - Fade

Even more albums I liked (but which I haven’t listened to enough to put them on a list without feeling like a total charlatan):

Bill Callahan - Dream River

Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Deerhunter - Monomania

Disclosure - Settle

James Blake - Overgrown

Kanye West - Yeezus

The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle

Savages - Silence Yourself

Typhoon - White Lighter

2013’s Best Songs:

1. Awful Sound (Oh Euridice), Arcade Fire

2. Humiliation, The National

3. Hannah Hunt, Vampire Weekend

4. The Day You Died, Phantogram

5. It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus), Arcade Fire

6. Shame Chamber, Kurt Vile

7. Step, Vampire Weekend

8. Pink Rabbits, The National

9. Tiderays, Volcano Choir

10. The Mother We Share, Chvrches

11. Calling Cards, Neko Case

12. CMF, Caspian

13. Power Lines, Telekinesis

14. The Wire, Haim
15. Planet Phrom, Ducktails

Best Albums and Movies of 2012

2012’s Best Albums:

1. Father John Misty - Fear Fun

2. Cat Power - Sun

3. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance

4. Tame Impala - Lonerism

5. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

6. Beach House - Bloom

7. DIIV - Oshin

8. P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here

9. The Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now

10. Passion Pit - Gossamer

11. Grizzly Bear - Shields

12. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself

13. The Helio Sequence - Negotiations

14. mewithoutYou - Ten Stories

15. Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams

16. The Walkmen - Heaven

17. Wild Nothing - Nocturne

18. La Sera - Sees the Light

19. POP ETC - POP ETC

20. Japandroids - Celebration Rock

2012’s Best Movies:

1. The Master

2. Moonrise Kingdom

3. Looper

4. Sound of My Voice

5. Beast of the Southern Wild

6. The Cabin in the Woods

7. Damsels in Distress

8. Seven Psychopaths

9. Django Unchained

10. Lincoln

11. Sleepwalk with Me

12. Argo

13. The Queen of Versailles

14. Silver Linings Playbook

15. 21 Jump Street