Relative Boredom Prompts Hysteric Blogging and Listitis

Some lists for those living in carmenless squalor, these can help channel the carmen of the now:

Best Movies of 2008:

1. Synecdoche, NY

2. Wall-E

3. The Wrestler

4. In Bruges

5. Shotgun Stories

6. Milk

7. Tropic Thunder

8. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

9. The Dark Knight

10. Iron Man

Best Songs of 2008:

1. Inni mer syngur vitleysingur by Sigur Ros

2. Skinny Love by Bon Iver

3. Mykonos by Fleet Foxes

4. Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 2 by My Morning Jacket

5. Illyena by The Mars Volta

6. Things Ain't The Way They Used to Be by The Black Keys

7. Robocop by Kanye West

8. Golden Age by TV on the Radio

9. Death and All His Friends by Coldplay

10. The Wrestler by Bruce Springsteen

The Best Albums of 2008 (Abridged for Lack of Purchased Albums)

1. Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust by Sigur Ros

2. The Bedlam in Goliath by The Mars Volta

3. Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes

4. Dear Science by TV on the Radio

5. 808s and Heartbreak by Kanye West

6. For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver

7. Viva La Vida by Coldplay 

8. Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses

9. Attack & Release by The Black Keys

The Best Books Read by Carmen in 2008:

1. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson 

2. Then We Came to The End by Joshua Ferris

3. Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders

4. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran-Foer

5. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster