{"id":787,"date":"2008-03-06T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=787"},"modified":"2011-08-28T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T20:23:28","slug":"best_of_january-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/best_of_january-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Best of January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/12\/duff_at_the_movies_2008.html\">movie <\/a>I saw in January was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/01\/big_screen_aton.html\">Atonement<\/a><\/strong>, which was both really beautifully costumed and filmed AND the most faithful screen adaptation I think I&#8217;ve ever seen of a book.  Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/12\/books_read_in_2008.html\">book <\/a>I read in January was a tie between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/short_stories_y.html\"><strong>You Must Be This Happy to Enter, by Elizabeth Crane<\/strong><\/a> (short stories), who I&#8217;ve read and enjoyed before but this time I felt took the bar even higher, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/poetry_native_g.html\"><strong>Native Guard, by Natasha Trethewey<\/strong><\/a> (poetry), an xmas gift from my pops, really beautiful and entrancing poems about her personal history as well as civil war history.<\/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 January was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/in_concert_bon.html\"><strong>Bon Iver<\/strong><\/a>.  It was the only gig I went to in January but it was really, really good (and I&#8217;m going to see him again in April! And you know I only go see the same artist again that soon if I LOVED it).<\/p>\n<p>My favorite <strong>tunes <\/strong>in January were <strong>Cat Power &#8220;Jukebox&#8221;<\/strong>, <strong>Matt Costa &#8220;Unfamiliar Faces&#8221; <\/strong>(quirky and fun!), and an old album <strong>Chris Bell &#8220;I Am the Cosmos&#8221;<\/strong>, which I picked up in San Fran.  Bell (now deceased I believe) was in <strong>Big Star<\/strong>, who I started listening to last summer thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/musicmemoir_lov.html\">Rob Sheffield <\/a>(yes I am a loser and didn&#8217;t know about that band back in the day).  Also enjoying tunes from Zoey Deschanel and M.Ward (as &#8220;<strong>She &#038; Him<\/strong>&#8220;), Crowded House offspring <strong>Liam Finn<\/strong>&#8216;s debut <strong>I&#8217;ll Be Lightning<\/strong>, and another San Fran purchase <strong>Tracy Johnson <\/strong>(which to me is good old-fashioned female-vocaled pop music!).<\/p>\n<p><em>Random personal highlights:<\/em> Brunch in Chicago with <strong>Carrieoke <\/strong>and <strong>Cathy<\/strong>!!!; dinner with <strong>Cinnamon<\/strong>; rainy weekend in San Fran visiting Ms <strong>Silvia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lowlights? <\/em> <S>A month and a half later, I don&#8217;t remember any so they must not have been that bad!!<\/S>Oh, I know! Four to six hour flight delays in both directions.  Airports = hell on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best movie I saw in January was Atonement, which was both really beautifully costumed and filmed AND the most faithful screen adaptation I think I&#8217;ve ever seen of a book. Lovely. The best book I read in January was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/best_of_january-3.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-787","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\/787","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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}