TOP TENS FOR 2013

Happy New Years Eve, I will blog tomorrow on how 2013 went and my plans and thoughts for 2014.

Here are my Top Ten Lists for 2013...according to me.

You can agree or disagree, happy to debate with you!

Top Ten Albums of the 2013

1. New - Paul McCartney

2. Wise up ghost - Elvis Costello and The Roots

3. All the little lights - Passenger

4. Push the sky away - Nick Cave

5. Baby et Lulu - self titled

6. Sugar Man soundtrack

7. New Day - David Bowie

8. I awake - Sarah Blasko

9. Volume 3 - She and Him

10. Theatre is evil - Amanda Palmer

 

NB Some of these were released earlier than 2013.

 

Top Ten Concerts of 2013

 

1. Leonard Cohen

2. Bruce Springsteen

3. Paul Simon

4. Deborah Conway and Willy Zygler

5. Sarah Blasko

6. Rufus Wainwright

7. Katie Noonan

8. Dan Sultan

9. Tim Rogers...if only for the stories

10. Oliver Mann

 

Top Ten Television Shows on 2013

 

1. Parks and recreation

2. Game of Thrones

3. Breaking Bad

4. Newsroom

5. House of Cards

6. Broadchurch

7. Girls

8. The Walking Dead

9. Rake

10. Call the Midwife

 

Honourable mentions to Homeland, Offspring, Boardwalk Empire, and Keating.

 

Top Ten DVDs of 2013

 

1. Perks of being a Wallflower

2. An education

3. Skylab

4. Seven Psychopaths

5. Take this waltz

6. Performance

7. Sound City

8. Tiny Furniture

9. Safety not guaranteed

10. Ruby Sparks

 

NB These are not all releases from 2013 just ones I watched during 2013.

 

Top Ten Films of 2013

 

1. Muscle Shoals/Django Unchained

2. Frances Ha

3. Before Midnight

4. Life of Pi

5. Camille Rewinds

6. Blue Jasmine

7. Silver Linings Playbook

8. Enough said

9. Les Miserables

10. About Time

 

Hon mentions: Behind the Candelabra, Paris Manhattan, Gravity, Argo and Amour. 

 

Special place to seeing North by Northwest on the big screen!

 

Top Ten Books of 2013

 

1. One Summer - Bill Bryson

2. Object of beauty - Steve Martin

3. Ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman

4. My mother was nuts - Penny Marshall

5. The Rose Project - Graeme Simsion

6. Sense of an ending - Julian Barnes

7. Am I black enough for you - Anita Heiss

8. Let's explore diabetes with owls - David Sedaris

9. All that I am - Anna Funder

10. Moranthology - Caitlin Moran

 

Honourable mention to 100 Years of Vanity Fair and The Wes Anderson Collection