My 100 Favorite Albums of the Decade

This is my list for best 100 albums of the decade. Making this list was a lot harder then my previous list. There are tons of repeat artists in this, but that is to be expected. I have changed some things, like added and subtracted albums from previous "top albums" lists I have done.

2000
Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasent
Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of the Bewilderbeast
Taproot- Gift
The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
Five For Fighting - Americatown
Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines
Eve 6 - Horrorscope
Pearl Jam - Binaural
Twothirtyeight - Regulate the Chemicals
best album: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
honorable mention: Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2

2001
Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
Thursday - Full Collapse
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Our Lady Peace - Happiness is Not a Fish You Can Catch
Old 97s - Satelite Rides
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Incubus - Morning View
best album: The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
honorable mention: Alien Ant Farm - ANThology

2002
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy Soundtrack
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Breaking Benjamin - Saturate
best album: Desaparecidos - Read English/Speak Spanish
honorable mention: Beck - Sea Change

2003
Third Eye Blind - Out of the Vein
Motion City Soundtrack - I am the Movie
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
The Format - Interventions + Lullabies
Criteria - En Garde
Jose Gonzalez - Veener
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
best album: Brand New - Deja Entendu
honorable mention: Something Corporate - North

2004
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who, Love Bad News
Pedro the Lion - Achilles Heel
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
The Garden State Soundtrack
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Tilly and the Wall - Wild Like Children
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
best album: The Good Life - Album of the Year
honorable mention: Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

2005
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Day
Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
My Morning Jacket - Z
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
best album: Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
honorable mention: Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness

2006
Ben Kweller - Ben Kweller
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Gin Blossoms - Major Lodge Victory
Cursive - Happy Hollow
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You
Ray LaMontagne - Til The Sun Turns Black
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
best album: The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
honorable mention: The Kooks - Inside In/ Inside Out

2007
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
The Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim
Rilo Kiley - Under the Black Light
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild Soundtrack
best album: Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
honorable mention: Bright Eyes - Four Winds EP

2008
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
The Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
She & Him - Volume One
Frontier Ruckus - The Orien Songbook
best album: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
honorable mention: Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords

2009
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses
Pete Yorn - Back and Forth
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major
M. Ward - Hold Time
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
best album: Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
honorable mention: Brand New - Daisy

My 100 Favorite Films of the Decade

So, as this decade comes to an end, I decided that I would go back and reflect on all the movies that came out and make a list of my favorites. That was extremely hard, so I ended up doing my top 10 favorite movies for each of the last ten years. Here She Goes...

2000-
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Traffic
Boiler Room
American Psycho
Best in Show
Almost Famous
Requiem For A Dream
Snatch
Memento
best picture: High Fidelity
honorable mention: A Perfect Storm

2001
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Shrek
Black Hawk Down
Vanilla Sky
The Others
Joe Dirt
Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back
Out Cold
Made
best picture: The Royal Tenenbaums
honorable mention: Zoolander

2002
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
About Schmidt
The Count of Monte Cristo
Slackers
About a Boy
Super Troopers
The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys
Rodger Dodger
best picture: Gangs of New York
honorable mention: Orange County

2003
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Mystic River
Old School
Bad Santa
Intermission
Lost in Translation
A Mighty Wind
The Cooler
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
best picture: Veronica Guerin
honorable mention: 28 Days Later

2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
In Good Company
Sideways
The Life Aquatic
Hotel Rwanda
The Motorcycle Diaries
I Heart Huckabees
The Machinist
best picture: Garden State
honorable mention: Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

2005
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Batman Begins
Brokeback Mountain
40 year Old Virgin
Crash
The Constant Gardner
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Green Street Hooligans
best pictures: The Squid and the Whale
honorable mention: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

2006
The Departed
The Prestige
Children of Men
Clerks 2
Marie Antoinette
Running With Scissors
Trailer Park Boys: the Movie
Half Nelson
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
best picture: Little Miss Sunshine
honorable mention: V for Vendetta

2007
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Knocked Up
Juno
There Will Be Blood
Into the Wild
The Darjeeling Limited
The Simpsons Movie
Persepolis
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
best picture: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
honorable mention: Lars and the Real Girl

2008
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Tropic Thunder
City of Ember
Charlie Bartlett
Role Models
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Slumdog Millionaire
best picture: The Wrestler
honorable mention: Pineapple Express

2009
The Hangover
Star Trek
Inglourious Basterds
Zombieland
Funny People
The Invention of Lying
(500) Days of Summer
Big Fan
Fantastic Mr. Fox
best picture: Up
honorable mention: Where The Wild Things Are