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Friday, December 08, 2006

other end of the year awards

keep in mind, living in the hinterlands, some of these items might not have been from this year, but this year is when i discovered them....

movie: the wild blue yonder (w. herzog, director)
tv: scrubs; little people, big world
book: the laws of simplicity - john maeda
book (fiction): special topics in calamity physics - marisha pessl
concert: richard thompson
movie soundtrack: marie antoinette
video game: tetris ds
sentient being: simba PC040950.JPG
magazine of the year: dwell
radio show of the year: jazz on 3 - jez nelson - bbc3
video of the year: weird al - white and nerdy
blog/record label of the year: greenleaf music
cookie (biscuit) of the year: tim tam
podcast of the year: ricky gervais
person of the year: karl pilkington


your choices?

4 Comments:

At 8:10 PM, Anonymous JenBen said...

how do you know your cat is sentient?

 
At 9:48 PM, Blogger Mike said...

dictinary.com defines sentient as:
1.having the power of perception by the senses; conscious.
2.characterized by sensation and consciousness.

while i am not sure of all the other aspects, he can definitely hear the cat food can opening and smell the food, so i think he qualifies under definition 1...

 
At 10:38 PM, Anonymous JenBen said...

oh, sorry, I was going by the Star Trek definition wich includes self-awareness. Silly me ;)

 
At 9:08 AM, Blogger Mike said...

well, he's that too...

 

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