Hi David and fellow Duran Duran fans. Here's my list for 2005

Albums

Kate Bush - Aerial (incredible comeback from Kate)
Depeche Mode- Playing the Angel (another comeback)
Zazie - Rodéo (she is a talented techno-pop french artist)
New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call (I know David did not like
it...I liked it :))
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it so Much Better
The Bravery - The Bravery
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
Nick Warren - Shanghai
Coldplay - X&Y

Rediscoveries

Midge Ure & Ultravox - The Very Best Of (I spent my vacations in
Scotland...the first song I heard when I arrived there was an old
Ultravox single)
Royksopp - Melody A.M.(it was the soundtrack of my trip to Scotland)
Anything and everything from Kate Bush
X-Files - One television station here (Ottawa, Canada, shows re-runs
every night...that was a great show)


Film

The Best of Youth (Italian movie made a while ago that got a prize
at the Cannes Film Festival. At last, it got released this year. It
is 6 hours long. It is about the tribulations of two brothers from
the 60's until 2003).

Horloge Biologique - A product of the flourishing Quebec movie
industry
Syriana
The Constant Gardener (the book is good as well)
Batman Begins (at last, we discovered the real Batman!)


Books

I am never up to date when it comes to books. Most of those were
probably released prior to 2005.

Thierry Ardisson - Confessions d'un baby-boomer
John le Carré - The Constant Gardener
George Jonas - Vengeance
Ian Rankin - Strip Jack
Jacques Côté - La rive noire
Georges-Marc Benamou - Le dernier Mitterand


Cool Stuff

Duran Duran Podcast (that is cool indeed!)
The Tour de France (I am an avid cyclist...july is the only time of
the year when I am glued to the tv set)
Trekking in the Highlands last September (Scots are great people,
fantastic landscape as well)


The bad shit...
The religious right is the US
Death of Peter Jennings
Mark Chapman's album (the album signed by John Lennon before his
murder) that is on sale (it is nice to collection rareties but in
that case, it crosses the line)