2014's Best Movies, Books, Concerts, and Albums

Year-end lists! I don’t mean these lists to be authoritative by any means, so come and talk to me and question my selections, I’d probably be excited to talk to you about any of these pieces of culture.

Best Movies 2014

  1. The Dance of Reality (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)

  2. Nightcrawler (dir. Dan Gilroy)

  3. Birdman (dir. Alejandro Iñárritu)

  4. The Babadook  (dir. Jennifer Kent)

  5. Gone Girl (dir. David Fincher)/ Nymphomaniac (dir. Lars Von Trier) ((TIE))

Best Books 2014

  1. In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods - Matt Bell

  2. 10:04 - Ben Lerner

  3. Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay

  4. Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust

  5. Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals - Patricia Lockwood

  6. Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon

  7. The Blazing World - Siri Hustvedt

  8. More Curious - Sean Wilsey

  9. Autobiography of a Corpse - Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

  10. The Empathy Exams - Leslie Jamison

Best Concerts 2014

  1. Neutral Milk Hotel @ Crystal Ballroom 4/6

  2. Kevin Drumm @ Yale Union 10/18

  3. Yob @ Hoverfest 8/23

  4. Darkside @ First Ave 1/18

  5. Parquet Courts @ Pickathon 8/3

  6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ State Theatre 6/21

  7. Madalyn Merkey @ Reed College Chapel 3/22

  8. Killer Mike @ Doc Marten’s Store 8/15

  9. Godflesh @ Hawthorne Theater 4/18

  10. Deafheaven @ Triple Rock Social Club 6/23 & Holocene 12/2

  11. St Vincent @ Crystal Ballroom 3/24

  12. Lubomyr Melnyk @ Yale Union 2/28

  13. Mac Demarco @ Pickathon 8/2

  14. Cold Specks @ Doug Fir 11/23

  15. Mutual Benefit @ Bunk Bar 10/11

Best Albums of 2014

  1. Swans - To Be Kind

  2. Cold Specks - Neuroplasticity

  3. Sun Kil Moon - Benji

  4. Run the Jewels - RTJ2

  5. Lubomyr Melnyk - Windmills

  6. Perfume Genius - Too Bright

  7. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra blah blah blah - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything

  8. Modern Baseball - You’re Gonna Miss It All

  9. Arrange - Their Bodies in a Fog

  10. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused

  11. Neil Cicierga - Mouth Sounds/Mouth Silence

  12. Fire! Orchestra - Enter!

  13. EMA - The Future’s Void

  14. Battle Trance - Palace of Wind

  15. Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch

  16. Pharmakon - Bestial Burden

  17. Horse Lords - Hidden Cities

  18. tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack

  19. Aram Bajakian - There Were Flowers Also In Hell

  20. Jawbreaker Reunion - Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club