{"id":1085,"date":"2009-01-06T14:59:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:56:50","slug":"best_of_october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/01\/best_of_october.html","title":{"rendered":"Best of October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/03\/duff_at_the_movies_2008.html\">movie <\/a>I saw in October was a three-way tie between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/an_evening_with.html\"><strong>Zach and Miri Make a Porno<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Let the Right One In<\/strong>, and <strong>Hunger<\/strong>, all of which I saw at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/big_screen_15_f.html\"><strong>Chicago Film Festival<\/strong><\/a>. In regular movie releases, I also really liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/big_screen_the_18.html\"><strong>The Duchess<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/03\/books_read_in_2008.html\">book <\/a>I read in October was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/fictionmystery.html\"><strong>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson<\/strong><\/a>. I also really liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/fiction_the_con.html\"><strong>Conversations at Curlow Creek, by David Malouf<\/strong><\/a>, my favorite Aussie author.<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/03\/duff_does_live_music_2008.html\">gig <\/a>I went to in October would be <strong>Fujiya &amp; Miyagi<\/strong>. I didn&#8217;t write up any of the October shows so here&#8217;s the quick and dirty: <strong>Liam Finn<\/strong>, was completely unlike his album, super into experimental, extemporaneous, and jam band-type style if you can be a jam band when there are only two people on stage; <strong>Catie Curtis <\/strong>sang some really nice sweet songs, but also some goofy stuff that isn&#8217;t really my thing. And <strong>Fujiya &amp; Miyagi <\/strong>was good, they sounded great, people were into it, the beats were hoppin&#8217;&#8230;.but at some point all the songs start to sound the same. Felt like we heard an hour of one long song with a great beat.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite <strong>tunes <\/strong>in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/11\/october_album_r.html\">October <\/a>were the latest albums from <strong>Keane <\/strong>and <strong>Ray LaMontagne <\/strong>and my top two favorite songs were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/favorite_song_o_4.html\"><strong>&#8220;Honey Let Me Sing You a Song&#8221; Matt Hires<\/strong><\/a> and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/twiggy_teens_co.html\">First Aid Kit cover of Fleet Foxes&#8217; &#8220;Tiger Mountain Peasant Song&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Random personal highlights:<\/em> My dad came to visit and joined wholeheartedly in my 365 project and it was outstanding.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lowlights? <\/em>Fallout at secondary browsing location continued. My Morning Jacket concert cancelled and then I wound up blowing off a Joseph Arthur concert as I just didn&#8217;t have any energy that day. Also had a weird shiatsu massage that bruised\/hurt my back so badly I could barely sit in a chair for two days afterward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best movie I saw in October was a three-way tie between Zach and Miri Make a Porno, Let the Right One In, and Hunger, all of which I saw at the Chicago Film Festival. In regular movie releases, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/01\/best_of_october.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13,8,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best_of","category-books","category-flicks","category-live","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}