This list is totally self indulgent. Nobody really cares what I listen to. But if you haven't heard these albums you should go out and get yourself some. They're all really quite beautiful. And if you haven't seen these films then go treat yourself.
Rod's Top Records of 2008
1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. Margot + The Nuclear So and Sos - Not Animal
4. Ryan Adams + The Cardinals - Cardinology
5. Crooked Fingers - Forfeit / Fortune
Rod's Top Films of 2008
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (clear winner, technically released in 2007, but nobody on the planet could actually see it until 2008)
2. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky will always make great cinema, hands down)
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher + Pitt, that's all I have to say)
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks + 2 Days (one of the most beautiful and haunting films ever. who knew that Romanian cinema was this good, I'm so excited to explore more.)
5. Wendy & Lucy
6. Ballast
7. Slumdog Millionaire
8. Revolutionary Road
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