TOP 5 LISTS

2022 | 2021 | 2020

TOP 5 SONGS OF 2022


WESTERN WIND (Carly Rae Jepson)

the hardest a song's hit me in YEARS

POP SONG (Perfume Genius)

NOBODY makes chronic illness music as good as Perfume Genius

PARTY TIME (The Northern Boys)

lyric of the year: "then i crawl in a hole like an ugly mole"

NAATU NAATU (Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, M. M. Keeravani and Chandrabose)

if you SOMEHOW still haven't seen 2022's best movie, maybe this song will finally convince you ..

QUE DIOS TE MALDIGA MI CORAZON (The Mars Volta)

THEY'RE BACK BABY!!!!

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AS IT WAS (Harry Styles)

it took me long enough, but i think i finally 'get' harry styles.
i tried!! i wanted to like adore you .. i really wanted to like watermelon sugar .. none of it clicked.
as it was? immediately clicked. i get it now. i understand guys

TOP 5 MOVIES OF 2022


RRR
dir. S. S. Rajamouli

i mean .. what else could possibly be number one right?


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NOPE
dir. Jordan Peele

round of applause for the first horror movie to ever make me cover my eyes in fear


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PINOCCHIO (the good one)
dir. Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson

every time Guillermo del Toro makes a new movie he outdoes himself. best yet


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MISTER ORGAN
dir. David Farrier

absolutely fucking HARROWING


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GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
dir. Rian Johnson

underrated character of the year: Hugh Grant as Benoit Blanc's househusband


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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
dir. Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan

super close call but ultimately this didn't make the top 5 for me because of the sheer overwhelming maximalism of it all. they weren't fucking kidding about it being everything.. everywhere.. all at once .. i really think i can only watch this like once per year


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TOP 5 SONGS OF 2021


PEACH (Future Islands)

some songs are like lighthouses. especially this one

MEET ME AT OUR SPOT (THE ANXIETY, Willow Smith, Tyler Cole)

spotify should add "song that made you cry the most" to yearly wrapped

MY NAKED BODY (Luke Buda)

personal, honest, funny, uncomfortable .. the platonic ideal of a Luke Buda track

IN A CISTERN (Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson)

lovely lovely LOVELY ambiance. had this album on constantly

LOSE CONTROL (Francis and the Lights)

didn't actually realise how much i was listening to this until it made it into my most played

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PILLS & GOOD ADVICE (Left at London)

i love a good 10 minute oddyssey of a song .. sorry. it's my prog fan background

TOP 5 MOVIES OF 2021


THE GREEN KNIGHT
dir. David Lowery

i'm famously the girl who "loves green man shit" of COURSE it's my film of the year


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MIDNIGHT MASS
dir. Mike Flanagan

letterboxd has it listed as a movie so im ALLOWED TO PUT IT ON MY LIST OK


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ENCANTO
dir. Byron Howard, Jared Bush

gonna be honest, took a star off my rating because lin manuel miranda's songwriting still grates on me at times


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THE SPARKS BROTHERS
dir. Edgar Wright

hope everyone went and listened to their whole discography after this


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DUNE
dir. Denis Villeneuve

it's not Paul anymore, IT'S DUNC!


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TOP 5 SONGS OF 2020


WONTON (The Phoenix Foundation)

there was a brand new Phoenix Foundation album this year but man .. the 10 year anniversary re-release of Buffalo was the comfort-food music I really needed in 2020. Especially Wonton.

ON THE FLOOR (Perfume Genius)

they call him Perfume GENIUS for a reason. this song is amazing

SAY NOTHING (Baxter Dury)

narrowing down my favourite track off Baxter Dury's Night Chancers album was TOUGH .. easily one of my favourite albums ever

BLINDING LIGHTS (The Weeknd)

had to remove this one from my spotify likes so i wouldn't overplay it into oblivion

DEEP IN LOVE (Bonny Light Horseman)

just lovely

HONORABLE MENTIONS:


hardest year EVER to rank, there were so many albums i loved in 2020

IT'S NOT ALWAYS FUNNY (Devendra Banhart)

little gem of a song

MY KITCHEN RULES (The Phoenix Foundation)

were it not for my 'one song per artist' rule my top 5 would just be phoenix foundation tracks this year

TOP 5 MOVIES OF 2020


BLACK BEAR
dir. Lawrence Michael Levine

benefits hugely from repeat viewings


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THE INVISIBLE MAN
dir. Leigh Whannell

GREAT MOVIE IF YOU'RE A FAN OF ANXIETY ATTACKS


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BORAT: SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
dir. Jason Woliner

i needed this


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I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
dir. Charlie Kaufman

knew i was going to love this when i started seeing people say it was BORING and MADE NO SENSE


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Hubie Halloween
dir. Steven Brill

WHY is a 2-and-a-half star Adam Sandler mobie on my 2020 top 5? idk man, it was a weird year for all of us


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