{"id":485,"date":"2007-07-10T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=485"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:22:19","slug":"best_of_may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/best_of_may.html","title":{"rendered":"Best of May."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Better late(r) than never, oui?<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2007\/12\/duff_at_the_movies_2007.html\">movie <\/a>I saw in May BY FAR was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/big_screen_grin.html\"><strong>Grindhouse<\/strong><\/a>!!!  It was a completely satisfying, entertaining and exhilarating trip to the theater and shame shame shame on those of you who didn&#8217;t go it!!!  The studios will just keep on putting out mediocre bullshit movies if people don&#8217;t go see the ones that are actually good!<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2007\/12\/books_read_in_2007.html\">book <\/a>I read in May was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/musicmemoir_lov.html\"><strong>Love Is a Mix Tape <\/strong><\/a>which I loved, loved, loved.  I mean, LOVED.<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2007\/12\/duff_does_live_music_2007.html\">concert <\/a>I went to in May was a close one but I&#8217;m going to have to give the nod to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/in_concert_blac.html\"><strong>Black Rebel Motorcycle Club<\/strong><\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/in_concert_arca.html\"><strong>Arcade Fire <\/strong><\/a>was also good, but not quite as good as the first time I saw them, so I&#8217;m giving them a close second.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/tunes\/\">tunes <\/a>in May were:  the Buffy: &#8220;Once More, With Feeling&#8221; soundtrack (who can resist???);  the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/bonus.html\"><strong>Travis <\/strong><\/a>album, which I am listening to incessantly and hello I get to see them Live in about a week!!!; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/finally_giving.html\"><strong>Elvis Perkins<\/strong><\/a>.  I also really enjoy the singles &#8220;Mama Who Bore Me&#8221; and &#8220;Totally Fucked&#8221; from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/ew_940_action_m.html\">Spring Awakening<\/a> soundtrack; &#8220;Find Love (Let Go)&#8221; a new single by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/04\/in_concert_josh.html\">Kyle Andrews<\/a>, &#8220;Ordinary Days&#8221; new single by Dolores O&#8217;Riordan (who&#8217;s a Cranberries member I think); and <a href=\"http:\/\/fuelfriends.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/angels-love-you-more-broken-radio-video.html\">&#8220;Broken Radio&#8221; by Jesse Malin which features Springsteen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Random personal highlights:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/redsilvia.typepad.com\/photos\/maryland_2007\/index.html\">Maryland<\/a>!; three nights at <a href=\"http:\/\/2ndstory.serendipitytheatre.org\/\">Second Story<\/a>; The <a href=\"http:\/\/jstrizzy.typepad.com\/blog\/\">Strizzy <\/a>wedding!!! and wandering DC with Ame.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lowlights? <\/em> Thankfully after a month between, I don&#8217;t remember what any of them were!  Woot!  Here&#8217;s to forgetting the bad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better late(r) than never, oui? The best movie I saw in May BY FAR was Grindhouse!!! It was a completely satisfying, entertaining and exhilarating trip to the theater and shame shame shame on those of you who didn&#8217;t go it!!! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/best_of_may.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best_of","category-books","category-flicks","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}