John Martz

My Best of 2004

Another year of media consumption has come and gone, which means it’s time for year-end lists.  I’m not sticking to a rigid 10-item list, ‘cause I’m flexible like that, yo.

UPDATE:
I just got back from seeing A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s follow-up to Am�lie, and I’ve added it to the movies list.

So step inside…

Movies

1. 
   Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


2. 
   Wolfgang Becker - Good Bye Lenin!


3. 
   Michael Moore - Fahrenheit 9/11


4. 
   Todd Solondz - Palindromes


5. 
   Danny Boyle - Millions


6. 
   Chan-wook Park - Oldboy


7. 
   Shane Carruth - Primer


8. 
   Edgar Wright - Shaun of the Dead


9. 
   Trey Parker - Team America: World Police


10. 
    Brad Bird - The Incredibles


11. 
    Alexander Payne - Sideways


12. 
    Brad Silberling - Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events


13. 
    Jean-Pierre Jeunet - A Very Long Engagement

Music

1. 
   Arcade Fire - Funeral
   


2. 
   Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill


3. 
   Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand


4. 
   The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike


5. 
   The Kleptones - A Night at the Hip-Hopera


6. 
   Lambchop - Aw C’Mon / No, You C’Mon


7. 
   Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News


8. 
   Morrissey - You are the Quarry


9. 
   Ratatat - Ratatat
   


10. 
    Rheostatics - 2067
    


11. 
    Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans


12. 
    Wilco - A Ghost is Born


13. 
    William Shatner - Has Been

Comics & Graphic Novels

1. 
   Craig Thompson - Carnet de Voyage


2. 
   Chris Ware (editor) - McSweeney’s Issue 13


3. 
   Sammy Harkham (editor) - Kramer’s Ergot 5


4. 
   Charles Schulz - The Complete Peanuts 1950-1954


5. 
   Charles Schulz - L’il Beginnings


6. 
   Robert Mankoff (editor) - The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker


7. 
   Jeff Smith - Bone (One Volume Edition)


8. 
   Patrick McDonnell - Mutts: The Comic Art of Patrick McDonnell


9. 
   Jack Ziegler - How’s the Squid?


10. 
    Craig Thompson & James Kochalka - Conversation #1
    


11. 
    James Kochalka - American Elf

Art, Design & Culture Books

1. 
   Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey - Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose


2. 
   The Daily Show - America: The Book


3. 
   Peter Thaler (editor) - Pictoplasma 2


4. 
   Mark Cotta Vaz - The Art of the Incredibles


5. 
   Mel Gooding & Julian Rothenstein (editors) - ABZ


6. 
   Simon Go - Hong Kong Apothecary: A Visual History of Chinese Medicine Packaging