1. the yummy fur @ the echo LA [1/17]
2. girls with guns & skeleton television @ the stork club oakland [1/30]
3. girls @ great american music hall [2/14]
4. el perro del mar @ cafe du nord [3/2]
5. metric @ the fox theatre oakland [3/24]
6. bear in heaven @ bottom of the hill [3/25]
7. air @ the fox theatre oakland [3/26]
8. go sailor w/ lots @ the rickshaw stop [3/27]
9. camera obscura @ great american music hall [4/21]

1. Confessions of a Teen Sleuth - Chelsea Cain
2. Goodbye Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 4: Time of Your Life - Joss Whedon
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 5: Predators and Prey - Joss Whedon

new releases seen: 97

1. Drag Me to Hell
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Moon
4. Whip It
5. Confessions of a Shopaholic
6. Adventureland
7. Observe and Report
8. Jennifer's Body
9. Star Trek
10. Zombieland

Honorable Mention:

A Single Man, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Movie Seen With No U.S. Release:

Troubled Water (Norway, 2008)

Best Teen Movie

Bring It On [Cinco]: Fight to the Finish

Best Performance

Isabelle ...

1. the yellow dress w/ fancy dan band @ dog-eared books [3/4]
2. primal scream @ the fillmore [3/17]
3. the vaselines @ bimbos [5/11]
4. a camp @ the independent [6/14]
5. jarvis cocker @ the fillmore [7/28]
6. sonic youth @ the independent [8/3]
7. the yellow dress w/ foxtails brigade @ ATA [8/28]
8. an evening with fran healy and andy dunlop of travis @ swedish american hall [10/8]
9. echo and the bunnymen @ the fox theatre oakla...

1. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
2. Summer of Fear - Lois Duncan
3. Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Cameron Crowe
4. Flowers in the Attic - VC Andrews
5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 2: No Future For You - Brian K Vaughan
6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 8) Volume 3: Wolves at the Gate - Drew Goddard
7. Angel: After The Fall - Brian Lynch
8. Zelda: A Biography - Nancy Milford
9. Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
10. The Sh...

new releases seen: 69

1. WALL-E
2. Timecrimes
3. Reprise
4. Let The Right One In
5. Paranoid Park
6. The Wrestler
7. Towelhead
8. Happy-Go-Lucky
9. Milk
10. Tropic Thunder

Honorable Mention:

The Dark Knight, Changeling

Best Movie Seen With No US Release:

The Christmas Tale (Spain, 2005)

Best Teen Movie:

Twilight

Best Performance:

Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

1. goldfrapp @ the warfield [4/26]
2. sigur ros @ greek theatre berkeley [10/3]

1. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
2. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
3. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
4. Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure - Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
5. A Gift of Magic - Lois Duncan
6. They Never Came Home - Lois Duncan
7. Don't Look Behind You - Lois Duncan
8. Gallow's Hill - Lois Duncan
9. I know What You Did Last Summer - Lois Duncan
10. My Happy Life - Lydia Millet
11. Hardboiled and Hard Luck - Ban...

new releases seen: approx. 70

• There Will Be Blood
• Superbad
• The Lookout
• Music and Lyrics
• Zodiac
• Enchanted
• Ratatouille
• No Country For Old Men
• The King of Kong
• Rescue Dawn

Honorable Mention

Hot Fuzz, Knocked Up, Spiderman 3, Juno, The Mist, 1408

1. jarvis cocker @ the fillmore [4/28]
2. the good the bad & the queen @ the grand ballroom [4/29]
3. fields @ cafe du nord [4/30]
4. cocorosie @ bimbos [5/1]
5. travis @ the fillmore [5/2]
6. bjork @ shoreline amphitheatre [5/17]
7. the arcade fire @ greek theatre berkeley [6/1]
8. the pipettes @ Troubadour LA [6/11]
9. the long blondes @ the echo LA [6/15]
10. sonic youth (daydream nation!) @ berkeley community theatre berkeley [7/19]...

1. The Lord of the Rings Part One: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Pure Drivel - Steve Martin
3. The Dead Fathers Club - Matt Haig
4. I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence - Amy Sedaris
5. The Listeners - Christopher Pike
6. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
8. Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume
9. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
10. The Golden Compass - Philip Pull...

new releases seen: approx. 50

• Half Nelson
• Brick
• Clean
• L'Enfant
• The Descent
• Slither
• The Hills Have Eyes
• Marie Antoinette
• Children of Men
• Snakes on a Plane

Best Performance

Laura Dern, Inland Empire