What a year it has been! Without further ado, let’s unveil the cast’s picks for the best music, television, film, books, and news event! Frankly, let the record show that technically Paul and Jon followed the rules, and the X X chromosomes just couldn’t choose ONE work in some categories. Ugh…girls!
MUSIC
Paul – The Muppets, The Green Album
Danielle – The Naked and Famous, Passive me, Aggressive you
Diane – Brett Dennen, Loverboy
Jon – P J Harvey, Let England Shake
Film
Paul – Attack The Block dir/wr by Joe Cornish
Danielle – Bridesmaids dir by Paul Fieg, wr by Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo
Melancholia dir/wr by Lars von Trier
Diane – Winnie the Pooh dir by Stephen J. Anderson & Don Hall, wr by Stephen J. Anderson & Clio Chiang
Water for Elephants dir by Francis Lawrence, wr by Richard LaGravenese adapted from the novel by Sara Gruen
Jon – Red State dr/wr by Kevin Smith
Television
Paul – Doctor Who (series 6)
Danielle – American Horror Story
Diane – Portlandia
Jon – The Walking Dead
Books
Paul – The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas by Alonso Duralde
Danielle – Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Diane – Vivian Maier : Street Photographer
Jon – The Uncanny X-Force
News
Paul – (Tie) The Death of Osama Bin Laden/Rep. Gabby Giffords 20/20 interview
Danielle – (Tie) The Occupy Wall St. Movement / $trippers for Christ
Diane – The Rapture that wasn’t
Jon – (Tie) The Occupy Wall St. Movement/ The Death of Steve Jobs
Personal Moment
Paul – Anniversary with Michael at Jackson Sq
Danielle – Starting her own dance company
Diane – Finding Cool, IA. (View a new portfolio of her project Between Here and Cool )
Jon – Secretly Timid’s successful 2nd year.
Whew….what a year! So…what were some of your favs? Let’s toast to 2012!!!
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