{"id":956,"date":"2008-08-02T20:35:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T20:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=956"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:43:49","slug":"best_of_june_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/best_of_june_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Best of June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just in time to write up Best of July&#8230; I mean, once I get the individual reviews of that stuff up. So slackerass I am this summer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/03\/duff_at_the_movies_2008.html\">movie <\/a>I saw in June was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/big_screen_want.html\">Wanted<\/a><\/strong>, which I just loved. But I also thought <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/big_screen_the_16.html\">The Fall <\/a><\/strong>was visually stunning.<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/03\/books_read_in_2008.html\">book <\/a>I read in June was a tie between <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/fiction_lush_li.html\">Lush Life by Richard Price<\/a> <\/strong>(gritty, real and modern day) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/fiction_life_cl.html\">Life Class by Pat Barker <\/a><\/strong>(artistic and historical). I also really enjoyed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/short_stories_d.html\">Dark Roots by Cate Kennedy<\/a><\/strong>, dark short stories, and I just cannot get enough of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/fantasy_ravens.html\">Patricia Briggs<\/a> <\/strong>sci fi\/fantasy stuff this year.<\/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 June was definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/in_concert_sea.html\"><strong>Sea Wolf<\/strong><\/a>. Soooooo wonderful live.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite <strong>tunes <\/strong>in June&#8230;.were mostly things I bought in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/april_album_rev.html\"><strong>April<\/strong><\/a>. When I look back through my posts, I was listening to a lot of: <strong>Joe Purdy<\/strong>, <strong>Joseph Arthur, Fleet Foxes, Meg Hutchinson, Mason Jennings<\/strong>, the aforementioned <strong>Sea Wolf <\/strong>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/album_someone_s.html\"><strong>Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Random personal highlights:<\/em> Amy&#8217;s whirlyball birthday party (whirlyball! so much fun!); Weis [college roommate] here for a weekend; out to dinner with Cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lowlights? <\/em> I&#8217;m sure there were some (primarily secondary browsing location and stress related presumably) but thankfully all I can tell you right now by looking at my calendar is that I was too lazy to go to the Printer&#8217;s Row Bookfair this year (either day!) and that&#8217;s pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time to write up Best of July&#8230; I mean, once I get the individual reviews of that stuff up. So slackerass I am this summer. The best movie I saw in June was Wanted, which I just loved. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/best_of_june_2.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-956","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\/956","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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}