Blanket Top Ten List of 2008

Top 10 Albums of 2008
1) "Jukebox" -- Cat Power
2) "The Cool" -- Lupe Fiasco (okay, it was a 2007 album, but, like 12/31/2007)
3) "Flight of the Conchords" -- Flight of the Conchords
4) "Renaissance" -- Q-Tip
5) "Vampire Weekend" -- Vampire Weekend
6) "Humanimals" -- Grand Ol' Party
7) "Paper Trail" -- T.I.
8) "Pressure" -- Blaze
9) "The Stand-Ins" -- Okkervil River
10)"Volume One" -- She and Him

Top 10 Movies of 2008
1) Wall-E
2) Sychedoche, NY
3) Slumdog Millionaire
4) Frozen River
5) Burn After Reading
6) The Dark Knight
7) The Visitor
8) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9) Wire Walker
10)Milk

Top 10 Television Shows of 2008
1) The Wire
2) Friday Night Lights
3) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
4) The Shield
5) The Office
6) 30 Rock
7) Mad Men
8) The Riches
9) Dexter
10) South Park (fall season)

Top 5 Books of 2008 (or at least the ones I read)
1) Lush Life -- by Richard Price
2) American Pastoral -- by Philip Roth
3) Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth -- by Chris Ware
4) The Emperor's Children -- by Claire Messud
5) On The Road -- by Jack Kerouac as read by Matt Dillon

Top 5 Stage Plays of 2008
1) The American Dream and The Sandbox -- Edward Albee
2) Tobacco Road -- Novel by Erskine Caldwell, Adapted by Jack Kirkland
3) Remains -- Chiara Atik
4) Sundays in the Park with George -- Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine
5) U.S. Drag -- Gina Gionfriddo (at the Ion Theatre Co.)