
I present to you (from utter boredom) my personal ultimate
top five list.
I'll try not to go into any hefty reviews, don't worry.
Starting with music;
SONGS5. Winterlong - Neil Young
4. Father to a Sister of Thought - Pavement
3.
Sound Check/Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz2.
Ashes to Ashes/Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie
1. Golden Brown - The Stranglers

This is the opening song for my all time favourite film (pictured below) and that's where I first heard it, I think it's absolutely fucking brilliant, the lyrics and melody go so well together that it never occurred to me that it was about heroin.
ALBUMS5. Funeral - Arcade Fire
4. Nux Vomica - The Veils
3. Crocodiles - Echo & The Bunnymen
2. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
BANDS/ARTISTS5. Blonde Redhead
4
. Neil Young/Lou Reed/Nick Cave3. Iggy Pop/The Stooges
2. Gorillaz
1. David Bowie
FILMS5. Oldboy - dir. Chan-wook Park
4. Mystery Train - dir. Jim Jarmusch
3. The Royal Tenenbaums - dir. Wes Anderson
2. Seven Samurai - dir. Akira Kurosawa
1. He Died with a Felafel in his Hand - dir. Richard Lowenstein
Some people will do anything to get out of paying the rent;Maybe it's just satisfying to find a really good Australian film (after sorting through all of the outbacks, war films, Irwins and Rabbit Proof Fences) or maybe this film would stand out for me even if it was from America but that's irrelevant (not really) and this film is excellent! It's adapted from the book of the same title and it's an argument as to which is better blah blah etc. I haven't read the whole book but what I read was good, but I don't think it delivered as much as the film, The characters in He Died With a Felafel in his Hand (hefty title to type) make it, Danny especially, the soundtrack is really really good with a couple of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds songs, a little Moby (when appropriate) and the oh-so-wonderful Golden Brown (see above). I have been trying to find a copy of this film for at least a year and a half because it's easy to watch over and over, although I do know that
this film may not be for everyone.I don't like it when people say that only the British 'get' British comedy or only the Japanese really 'get' Seven Samurai, but studies show (no they don't) that not only Australians watch Neighbours! Although this movie is nothing like the infamous soap opera, I'd like to think that the 6.9 rating on IMDb is because only Australians 'get' this, see it for yourself if you can find a copy.
ACTORS
5. Jack Nicholson
4. Bill Murray
3. Simon Pegg
2. Toshiro Mifune
1. Steve Buscemi

DIRECTORS
5. Coen Brothers
for;
3. No Country for Old Men (8/10)
2. The Big Lebowski (8/10)
1. The Man Who Wasn't There (9/10)
4. Hayao Miyazaki
for;
3. Howl's Moving Castle (8/10)
2. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (8.5/10)
1. Spirited Away (9.5/10)
3. Akira Kurosawa
for;
3. High and Low (9/10)
2. Rashômon (9/10)
1. Seven Samurai (9.5/10)
2. Jim Jarmusch
for;
3. Coffee & Cigarettes (7.5/10)
2. Down By Law (8/10)
1. Mystery Train (9/10)
1. Wes Anderson
for;
5. Bottle Rocket (8/10)
4. Life Aquatic (8/10)
3. Darjeeling Limited (8.5/10)
2. Rushmore (9/10)
1. The Royal Tenenbaums (9.5/10)

The reason I chose Wes Anderson as my favourite director is because of his consistency to make entertaining films, although dubbed utterly pretentious (which I can see), they're all funny, in an awkward kind of way. The colours in his films are vibrant and easy on the eyes and sets and settings are sort of a parody of their real world counterparts. Most of his films focus on assholes with money, which might be a little old after his last four films but he's supposedly in production of doing a remake of Roald Dahl's kids book 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox', and it's good to see some variation.
I think that all round Akira Kurosawa was the 'best' director on the list, the one who did the most for film, broke boundaries etc. But I only started watching his films a few months, and having seen only five or six (out of thirty or so) of his films, I find it hard to judge. Whereas with Wes Anderson and Jim Jarmusch I've seen every one.
Jim Jarmusch was my second choice because well, I just love his films, my favourite Jarmusch film varies between Mystery Train and Down By Law and my favourite after them varies between Coffee and Cigarettes and Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, for different reasons because they are two totally different films. Coffee and Cigarettes is a series of short segments of famous and semi-famous people talking about coffee and cigarettes, it's as simple as that, (my favourites are Strange to Meet You, Twins and Somewhere in California).
TV SHOWS
5. Monty Python's Flying Circus
4. The IT Crowd
3. Arrested Development
2. Futurama
1. Black Books

CAREERS/JOBSDespite my endless list of aspirations and to-dos, I can't think of anything other than these three, I mean there's things that seem interesting or fun at first glance, but nothing I'd go out of my way to pursue off the top of my head.
3. Corporate art whore
I sort of just made up that term, I think. What I mean by Corporate art whore is being an artist/designer for things that get reproduced, replicated and sold en masse without having to worry about how much I'll be able to sell one painting for, doing things like designing t-shirts or doing illustrations for books or albums.
2. Own a record store
This is pretty much on par with numero uno when I weigh out the goods and bads of the career, I would love to just own a big second hand store for music (vinyl/CDs), books, films (dvd/VHS) and old video games.
1. Film; writer/director
I guess the fact that I spend a lot of time watching films and browsing IMDB for things to see gave me this urge to want to make my own, I've shot a short on super 8, written a few short scripts and I own a nice Sony Handycam but that's as far as I've gone with this concept, there's much time in the future for that.