Folks are posting their 2003 bookslists, and it’s time for me to follow suit.
These are books, music, and movies I found and liked during 2003. That doesn’t mean they were released in 2003.
Books of Note
- Oliver Morton, Mapping Mars
- Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
- Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward
- Gwyneth Jones, Midnight Lamp
- Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear
- Timothy Ferris, Seeing in the Dark
- Charles Stross, Singularity Sky
- Janna Levin, How the Universe Got Its Spots
- Michael Lewis, Moneyball
- Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom
- Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- Richard Powers, The Time of our Singing
The Singles
Where possible, linked to the iTunes Music Store, or eMusic.
- Blur, ‘There’s No Other Way’, collected in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale
- Bebel Gilberto, ‘Sem Contencao‘, Tanto Tempo
- Fountains of Wayne, ‘Bright Future in Sales’ and ‘Bought for a Song’, from Welcome Interstate Managers
- Jonatha Brooke and the Story, ‘Where Were You?’, from Plumb
- Laura Cantrell, ‘Don’t Break the Heart’, from When the Roses Bloom
- ‘Tenshi no Yubikiri (Angel’s Pledge)’, from Kareshi Kanojyo no Jijyo OST vol. 1
Movies and TV
- Kareshi Kanojyo no Jijyo (His and Her Circumstances), vol 1-5
- FLCL, vol 1-3
- A Touch of Zen
- Update Lost in Translation, how did I forget this one?
- Intollerable Cruelty
- Bubba Ho-Tep
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Get Carter (1971)
- Millenium Actress
- Perfect Blue
- Reservoir Dogs
- The Vision of Escaflowne, vol 1-8
- The Wings of Honneamise
His and Her Circumstances (a.k.a. Kare Kano) was the find of the year. A high school comedy with kids who are way more introspective than I remember being in school. Funny, and visually inventive.
FLCL was described to me as “Cowboy Bebop on acid.” But it was produced by the same studio (Gainax) that produced Kare Kano. The visual vocabulary from Kare Kano applied to science fiction. Gloriously mad.
Intollerable Cruelty, while a lesser Coen Brothers’ movie, was better than most of the 2003 crop.
Nope, Return of the King, was fun, but it did not rock my world.
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