a list of the year end lists.

the 25 dumbest quotes of 2005.

funniest:

“I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can’t play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it’s called.” –Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, urging President Bush to make public Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’s White House records, Oct. 5, 2005

dumbest:

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” –George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

best reviews of the worst tracks of 2005 – fucking hilarious.

Naturally, it gets bad every year, but was there something special about this one? To choose only 15 was an overwhelming task. Just consider what didn’t make the cut: Goldie Lookin’ Chain, the Bloodhound Gang, 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop”, Bo Bice, Louis XIV, Bowling for Soup, Juelz Santana’s “There It Go (The Whistle Song)”, Kelly Osbourne, CocoRosie, Panic! At the Disco, Ninja High School, Moby’s Hotel, “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk”, Audioslave, the Darkness, the Bravery, Liz Phair, the Mars Volta, and Neil Diamond’s hysterically absurd “Hell Yeah”. That’s not even everything. That’s not even close. But while some will take issue with the 15 selections ultimately chosen, I have no doubt that the shit’s abominable.

offbeat stories of the past year. my fave:

Local lawmakers in the US state of Virginia threw out a bill that would have banned young people from wearing baggy falling-down trousers, which are currently all the rage. “Underwear is called underwear for a reason” said the congressman who sought the measure.

since gofugyourself is on holiday hiatus, here’s people’s “top style moments of 2005″. um, apparently chris martin’s multicoloured plasters pass for “style”…

and finally, the best movies of 2005 as decided by slate and time, the vast majority of which i am unlikely to ever see since they don’t make it across the pond… however i did see “mysterious skin”, which, while good, is one of those films that gets more points for “bravery” than anything else, and i did think “war of the worlds” was a very effective thriller when seen in the theatre. “crash” felt incredibly manipulative, though unlike others, i don’t for a moment doubt the veracity of the social subtext. i’ll be lucky to see “brokeback mountain” or “memoirs of a geisha” before we leave. but it’s fun to tease myself with all the good stuff i’m missing out on.

in contrast, here’s rotten tomatoes list of the worst movie of 2005. sadly, i haven’t seen any of those either, but I *have seen* both “miss congeniality 2: armed and fabulous” (it was on one of my many plane flights) and “the pacifier” kerryn subjected us to the dvd), both of which make the dark horizons worst of 2005 list.

well, at least i’m not completely in the dark…

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