Bradley’s Almanac

2004: The Rest Of The Best Of

Posted on January 31, 2005 at 2:32 pm | No Comments

Following up on my favorite music of 2004, here are a few quick lists of the other random things that occupied my time last year. Figured I’d post this before ’04 is more than a month behind us….


Favorites in film…

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  • Garden State

  • House of Flying Daggers

  • Sideways

  • Infernal Affairs

  • Ong Bak : Thai Warrior

  • The Incredibles

  • Hero

  • The Twilight Samurai

    • The also-appreciated… The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Spider-Man 2, The Bourne Supremacy, Hellboy, Saved!, Fahrenheit 9/11, Robot Stories, Team America: World Police, Criminal, Shaun of the Dead, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Napoleon Dynamite, and Undertow.

    The letdowns… Donnie Darko: Director’s Cut (echo = yes, inxs = nononono), Silver City (was no Lone Star), Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow (lotsa flash, zero substance), Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (sooo sleeeepy).

    The flat-out terrible… The Butterfly Effect, Troy, Stepford Wives, Wickah Pahk, Troy, Starsky & Hutch, Open Water, and Troy. (thank the prophets they were all free)

    also saw a couple great plays last year… Pullman’s His Dark Materials and Mamet’s Oleanna in London

    Favorites in comics…

  • Bendis / Oeming: Powers

  • Whedon / Cassaday / Martin: Astonishing X-Men

  • Wood / Cloonan: Demo

  • Vaughan / Harris: Ex Machina

  • Vaughan / Guerra: Y the Last Man

  • Bendis / Maleev: Daredevil

  • Willingham & Co.: Fables

  • Rucka & Co.: Queen & Country

  • Thompson: Blankets

  • Diggle / Jock: The Losers

  • Bendis / Gaydos / Bagley: Alias / The Pulse

  • Brubaker / Phillips: Sleeper

  • Cooke: The New Frontier

    • Favorite hardcover collection… The first five years of James Kochalka’s American Elf

    Favorite daily webcomic… surprise, it’s American Elf

    Favorite minicomic… Kochalka / Thompson: “Conversations #1”

    Favorites in print…

  • Chris Ott & Joe Pernice – their 33 1/3 Series contributions

  • Neil Gaiman – American Gods

  • Howard Frank Mosher – Waiting for Teddy Williams

  • The Daily Show – America The Book

  • Robert B. Parker – Stone Cold / Melancholy Baby

  • George Pelecanos – Shoedog

  • Greg Rucka – A Gentleman’s Game

    • Looking forward to in ’05… Rucka’s 2nd Queen & Country novel, George RR Martin’s “A Feast For Crows” (Jul. 26), the first Warren Ellis novel.

    Favorite video games…

    (aka “the games I actually had time to play in 2004“)

  • Half Life 2 (PC)

  • Doom III (PC)

  • GTA: San Andreas (PS2)

  • FarCry (PC)

  • Halo 2 (XBox)

  • Call of Duty: United Offensive (PC expansion pack)

    • Favorites on TV…

  • The Wire

  • The Amazing Race

  • Da Ali G Show

  • Justice League Unlimited

  • Lost

  • The Daily Show

  • Arrested Development

  • 24

  • Wonderfalls

  • Angel

  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force

  • Sealab 2021

  • Alias

  • Significant Others

    • Biggest gift… Farscape returns briefly

    Biggest tease… Enterprise flirts with goodness

    Biggest disappointment… the assimilation & dumbing down of The Screen Savers

    Biggest bummer… the undeserved end of Angel

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