best of 2003

January 3, 2004 &bull movies, music

Welcome to mps75.com’s second annual “best of last year” list. I’m parting ways with last year’s format and am adding a few more items for some of the categories. It’s just too hard to pick only one “winner” for some of these categories.

Top five movies of 2003
Lord of the Rings — Return of the King
Lost in Translation
Mystic River
Kill Bill

Biggest movie disappointment in 2003
The Matrix Revolutions

Favorite musician of 2003
Miles Davis*

Biggest album disappointment in 2003
Hail to the Thief — Radiohead

Top books read in 2003
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Good Poems by Garrison Keillor

Biggest book disappointment in 2003
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe**

Best city visited in 2003
San Luis Obispo, California

Worst city visited in 2003
Barstow, California

Biggest 2003 resolution failure
Decrease napping

Predicted biggest 2004 resolution failure
Decrease napping

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*Yeah, I know. He’s dead — but only in body.

**Tom Wolfe is, in my not-so-humble opinion, one of the most overrated writers of the 20th century! See A Man in Full for more evidence! I’ve wasted hours on two of his rags — never again!

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