Best of 2007

December 23, 2007 · 6 comments

I am pleased to present the second annual JakeBouma.com "Best of" list. Feel free to argue with my choices in the comments. Here's the list for 2006.

Music

1. Army of Me - Citizen
2. Matt Nathanson - Some Mad Hope
3. Andy Davis - Let the Woman
4. Anberlin - Cities
5. Kanye West - Graduation
Honorable Mention: Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger, The Alternate Routes - Good and Reckless and True, Eric Hutchinson - Sounds Like This, William Fitzsimmons - Goodnight

Movies

1. Once
2. Atonement
3. Bourne Ultimatum
4. 3:10 to Yuma
5. Sweeny Todd
Honorable Mention: Ratatouille, American Gangster, I Am Legend, Oceans 13, No Country for Old Men

Books

1. Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From A Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation by Andrew Root (Review forthcoming)
2. Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church by James K. A. Smith
3. Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr (Review forthcoming)
Honorable Mention: The Courtier and the Heretic by Matthew Stewart, The Primal Teen by Barbara Strauch

Television

1. Chicago Cubs games
2. Heroes
3. Man Vs. Wild
4. The Colbert Report
5. Project Runway

Websites/blogs

1. Google Reader (seriously, I live a different life because of it)
2. Twitter
3. Bleed Cubbie Blue
4. IAmJoshBrown
5. Rethinking Youth Ministry

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  • Kelly

    Khaled Hosseini made it on the the list two years in a row. He is doing something right. As far as the music goes I would have had a hard time picking five. I really love Emerson Hart’s Cigarettes and Gasoline and the Robbie Seay Band’s Give Yourself Away. Perhaps more honorable mentions.

  • http://www.andrewjstone.com/blog/ Andrew

    Awfsome story:

    Army of Me opened for the O.A.R. show I booked a year or so ago… end of the night, we settled the the co-promoter and managers of both bands at the same time, and somehow the lead singer (i believe his name was vince) managed to get his hands on our finance girl’s email address, as well as her assistant girl.

    He proceeded to harass both of them via email that night, and continued to do so for months. Like, trying to get one to travel to shows and and the other to go to DC to meet up with him and stuff. Total creepster. To this day, whenever we see them in some semi-famous situation we joke that they should have taken him up on it.

    Hopefully doesn’t ruin your impression of the band… and if it makes you feel any better, i’ve watched Modest Mouse members bail from 2nd floor bathrooms of busted house parties with suspiciously podwery upper lips, i’ve seen Fall Out Boy members throw up in vans (yeah, they still rocked vans then), and i’ve seen Jack’s Mannequin / Something Corporate members drunkenly skateboard down in to traffic, and then massively break important bones while trying to jump a curb. The road is undoubtedly a very lonely and boring place.

  • http://pistolpete.wordpress.com Pistol Pete

    Your post reminded me yet again how out of touch with modern culture I am. The only three things I recognized on your list were: Ratatouille, Google Reader, and iamjoshbrown. Oh well, there’s hope for me yet, as long as I keep hanging out with hipsters like you.

  • http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog josh

    wow! i’m honored! i got to be a top blog. this can only be a sign of good things to come! merry christmas man!

    (sorry to use so many exclamation points)

  • Seth

    Yeaaah Atonement! I loved the movie, reading the book now…it’s great!!

  • http://www.rethinkingyouth.blogspot.com brian kirk

    Thanks for including us in your end of the year review. Glad we have been helpful. Keep up the great blog!