Best of 2004
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Film
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (imdb)
- Garden State (imdb)
- Hero (imdb)
- Kill Bill (imdb)
- Shaun of the Dead (imdb)
- The Incredibles (imdb)
- Napoleon Dynamite (imdb)
- Delicate Art of Parking (imdb)
- Motorcycle Diaries (imdb)
- The Miracle of Bern (imdb)
- The Fog of War (imdb)
- Closer (imdb)
- Ryan (imdb)
- Mind Game (imdb)
Music
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- The Organ — Grab That Gun
- The Arcade Fire — Funeral
- The Black Keys — Rubber Factory
- Sahara Hotnights — Kiss and Tell (iTunes)
- The Cinch — Shake If You Got It
- The Delgados — Universal Audio
- Annie — Anniemal
- The Von Bondies — Pawn Shoppe Heart (iTunes)
- The Hives — Tyrannosaurus Hives (iTunes)
- Franz Ferdinand — Franz Ferdinand (iTunes)
- Modest Mouse — Good News for People Who Love Bad News (iTunes)
- Felix Da Housecat — Devon Dazzle and the Neon Fever
- Elliott Smith — From a Basement on the Hill
- Death Cab for Cutie — Transatlanticism
- Joel Plaskett Emergency — Truthfully, Truthfully (homepage)
- K-OS — Joyful Rebellion (iTunes)
- Klute — No One's Listening Anymore
- Black Sun Empire — Driving Insane
- Teebee — The Legacy
- DJ Danger Mouse — The Grey Album (link)
- The Kleptones — Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots (torrent)
- Fennesz — Venice
- Brian Wilson — Smile
- Feist — Let It Die
- Green Day — American Idiot (iTunes)
Games
- Doom III (PC)
- Half Life 2 (PC)
- Final Fantasy XI (PC/PS2)
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA)
- Burnout 3 (XBOX)
- City of Heroes (PC)
- Katamari Damacy (PS2)
- Karaoke Revolution (PS2/XBOX)
- Halo 2 (XBOX)
Events
- February 25: Tim finally receives his Canadian citizenship.
- June 10: Beth and Orion are married at UBC's Cecil Green House. A good time is had by all. (gallery)
- June 28/29: Canada's Liberal Party wins its fourth consecutive term in the 2004 federal election, but this time as a minority government. (CBC)
- August 31: Apple unveils the iMac G5, which is immediately hailed as the greatest computer of all time by Mac fanboys and a surprising number of other reviewers. (apple-history.com, WikiPedia)
- October 4: SpaceShipOne makes its second manned flight above 100 km in two weeks, winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize and marking the beginning of commercial spaceflight according to many observers. (BBC News, WikiPedia)
- November 3: Republican George W. Bush wins the US election, beating Democratic opponent John Kerry by an extremely small margin. (CBC, The Onion)
- December 3: After reports of "voting irregularities," Ukraine's November 21 federal election is declared void. Tests later indicate that opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned some time during the campaign with a dioxin used in the infamous Agent Orange, leaving disfiguring scars on his face and body. (CBC, BBC)
