Music: 1. Broadcast "Haha Sound" 2. Khanate "Things Viral" 3. Pram "Dark Island" 4. Enslaved "Below the Lights" 5. Kylie Minogue "Body Language" 6. Sunn O))) "white1" 7. Ulver "A Quick Fix of Melancholy" 8. Merzbow "Puroland" 9. Bohren und der Club of Gore "Black Earth" 10. Axis of Perdition "The Ichneumon Method" Movies: 1. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) 2. Hulk (Ang Lee) 3. Gerry (Gus van Sant) 4. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes) 5. ken park (Larry Clark) 6. Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker) 7. The Ring (Gore Verbinski) 8. Respiro (Emanuele Crialese) 9. Ju-on (The Grudge) (Takashi Shimizu) 10. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) DVD of the year (I have not seen the Brakhage Anthology yet...): "Mystics in Bali" by H. Tjut Djalil, on the impeccable Mondo Macabro label. Concerts: 1. The Musical Box Plays Genesis "Selling England by the Pound" @ Brussels 2. The Musical Box Plays Genesis "Foxtrot" @ Cologne 3. Reynols @ Worm, Rotterdam 4. Broadcast, somewhere in Rotterdam 5. Mastodon @ Effenaar, Eindhoven 6. Thrones/Sunn O)))/Isis @ Kontich, Belgium 7. John Zorn's Electric Masada @ Blue Note Festival, Ghent, Belgium 8. Prong @ Effenaar, Eindhoven 9. Melt-Banana @ Paradiso, Amsterdam 10. Naked City @ Theater Carre, Amsterdam In fact, I thought the Electric Masada show was WAY better than the Naked City gig. The NC gig was under-rehearsed to say the least. It was Mike Patton's finest hour, but I really couldn't get into Frisell's playing. I walked out of his gig at the Blue Note Festival in Ghent a couple of weeks later. The worst concert of the year, though, was Tomahawk @ Paradiso, Amsterdam. Never before have I seen Patton performing so badly. Frankco