1. Best CD of 2001 - CDs are dead. It's all in the mp3s, and the best one is Shuggie Otis, Gospel Groove.

2. Best thing I read in 2001 - This, from an online personals ad:
"I have mystical experiences while reading critical theory, dance barefoot, paint naked, and take my education far too seriously... I just let my subsciption to Science News Weekly run out, but still have Shamballa Sun, Utne Reader, and Hip Mama (I'm not one, but eventually will be). I do an art-sport called 'contact improvisation' (not kidding) several times a week, am much happier than I look in my photo, and know the workings of my own heart intimately."

Bewley says: uh yeah...let's hang out.

3. Best Movie I saw in 2001 - It's a tie - Ghost World and American Astronaut

4. Best comedy (theater, tv, film, accidental comedy on the street, sketch...etc) I saw in 2001 - When Jon and I went to see Nocturne - I was at the urinal and some old guy in the stall was letting a couple noisy ones go. It was cracking me up.

5. Snack food of the year - Memphis Minnie's Tri-tip sandwich, sides: Mac and Cheese and sweet potatoes - that's a Bewley snack.

6. Best discovery of 2001 - Personal Hovercrafts and Osama's Mama jokes.

7. Best fashion/accessory of 2001 - Bedazzled red white and blue.

8. Dot-com you were glad to say goodbye to in the year 2001 - Petopia.com - that made no sense - but I should also say that the discontinuation of Old Navy Pets is also a much heralded event at my home. C'mon America, wake up!

9. Your personal catch-phrase for this past year - "That's so weird."

10. A prediction for the year 2002 - I'm not real clear - but I think it will involve pugs, Jack Benny, and cloning.

Paul Charney

1. Best CD - I haven't really listened to much music this year. The New Pornograpers is a band I listened to a lot this year. But I bought their cd at the end of last year.

2. Best thing I read - Finally finsihed Stephen Ambrose's Lewis and Clark's book.

3. Best Movie - Best movie is tough. But for now I am going to say Waking Life. Jeez what else came out this year?

4. Best Comedy - I think the funniest thing that happened to me was Brian Jones attemtpting to explain to me what "Upside Down fun" is. Close second a sketch that "class project" did up at the seattle sketchfest. The sketch involved them talking amongst themselves and realizing that the audience has been listening the whole time.

5. Snack food of the year - Kit Kat bites. So good. So movie friendly.

6. Best Discovery - The thing I have discovered is that Major League baseball needs a salary cap very very badly. And that Jason Giambi is a coward. He had an opportunity to be bigger than baseball, and he took the money and went to the Yankees. I discovered that baseball is dead.

7. Fashion accessory - James' Oakland Raider hat.

8. Dot-com you were glad to say goodbye to - This is hard. I think all dot-com's offered something right? But we pitched a company called rooster.com. This pretty much was b2b service for people in the agricultural world. Just found out that it's dead.

9. Catch-phrase - It's an oldy but goody "I'm not even supposed to be here."

10. Prediction for 2002 - I predict that there will be a child actor who America will fall in love with. That child may even get on the cover of a national publication like People for example.

Daniel Lee

1. Best Movies-
New releases according to the Academy*:
1. Moulin Rouge
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Lord of The Rings**
4. Together
5. The Royal Tennenbaums**
6. Zoolander
7. Ocean's Eleven
8. Snatch
9. Ghost World
10. Hedwig and The Angry Inch

*The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not the American Academy of Opthamology

**I haven't actually seen these movies yet, but am ranking them according to a precise formula defined by trailer excitement divided by the number of times I've seen Moulin Rouge (4)

Releases that might as well have been new to me since I don't live in New York or Los Angeles and was in neither of those places when these movies came out in time for last year's Oscar consideration, not that they won anything anyway (but should have because they were so awesome)...
- George Washington
- Before Night Falls

Releases that would have made my best of 2001 list, if today was "Opposite Day"
1. Pearl Harbor
2. Made
3. A.I.

2. Best CD -
(tie) Pernice Brothers The World Won't End/The Shins Oh Inverted World.

3. Best Song -
"Unison," Bjork, Vespertine.

4. Live Show of the year -
Bjork at the Paramount Theatre, Oakland.

5. Best Thing I Read -
The Onion's coverage of September 11th.

6. Best Comedy - Abby Paige's uncontrollable hysteria at the Van Gogh Gogh's show, Seattle Sketchfest.

Maura Madden

1. Best CD(s) -
(I can't pick just one.)
Silkworm - 'Developer,' 'Firewater,' and 'Lifestyle.'
Pinback - 'Blue Screen Life.' Boostamonte - 'Boostamonte.' The Sea and Cake - 'Nassau.' 764-hero -- 'Weekends of Sound.' Modest Mouse - 'This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about.'

2. Best thing I read -
Still reading... Grapes of Wrath. It's by this guy named John Steinbeck. The kids love him, and so do I.

3. Best Movie -
2001: A Space Odyssey. Yeah, and it's 2001. Trippy, dude.

4. Best comedy (theater, tv, film, accidental comedy on the street, sketch...etc) I saw in 2001 -
Brian dancing like a harem girl in the performance hall of the spiritual center in Ukiah. Oh, or when Paul didn't see the screen door at the retreat and crashed through it in an enthusiastic and spaztic attempt to get all up in the hot tub.

5. Snack food of the year! -
Candy, candy, candy. Or apples. Yeah, apples. See, Momma, I'm healthy!

6. Best discovery of 2001 -
Chicago and New Orleans.

7. Best fashion/accessory of 2001 -
My brown crocheted hat. If you haven't seen me wearing it, you haven't seen me. Mad by a flava girl at Storyville. Damn, the hat gets compliments!

8. Dot-com you were glad to say goodbye to -
I love the internet and am only sad to see Web sites fail.

9. Your personal catch-phrase for this past year -
"Also for you!" (This phrase is said in response to someone telling you that they have something for you. i.e. "There were many cute boys at that party for you!" To which you reply, "Also for you!" with a loud and unidentifiable Eastern European accent. Without the accent, don't bother.)

10. A prediction for the year 2002 -
I will rock.

11. Best friends -
My lobster babies, Christine, Mir, Becky, Jen and Bev, Kit Cat, Double A, the New York crew (especially Cas and Mark E.), my fammy fam, Anne, Hungarian Dave, and everyone who gives me love. Much love goes back to you.

Abby Paige

1. Best CDs -
Clem Snide 'Your Favorite Music,' Scud Mountain Boys, 'Massachusetts,' Red Clay Ramblers 'Live.'

2. Best things I read -
All About Love by bell hooks, Life Work by Donald Hall, In the Memory House by Howard Mansfield.

3. Best Movies -
Together, Moulin Rouge, The Royal Tenenbaums, In the Mood for Love.

4. Best comedy -
Being sprayed with 7-Up by vindictive waiter at Yum Yum House and accidentally dumping macaroni in a coworkers cubicle at a menial temp job. Oh wait that was last year. Oh well. Nothing that funny happened this year. Comedy that was not an accidental homage to Meg Ryan: Brian Regan, Lily Tomlin, Bill Irwin, David Shiner, and the 30 Helens.

5. Best New Snackfood -
Pirates Booty

6. Best Old Snackfood -
It's still cheddar cheese, people (better luck next year, Baked Lays!)

7. Dot-com you were glad to say goodbye to -
I dont have one, but my favorite dot-coms that are still going strong are Bullsballs.com and Mike Dust's Lunch. The internet is definitely changing everything.

8. Your personal catch-phrase for this past year -
'aw goorl'

9. A prediction for the year 2002 -
I will finally get my PhD in Endocrinology!!!

10. Hottest Fitness Craze of 2001 -
Fitness.

Brian L. Perkins

1. best recorded musics 2001 (singles) -
'you're so damn hot,' okgo (2002)
'held down,' de la soul (2001)
'yul brenner,' da jicks (2001)
'a new drink for the old drunk,' crooked fingers (2000)

2. best recorded musics 2001 (album) -
'the moon and anarctica,' modest mouse (2000)
'a streetcar too far,' the pickpocket ensemble (2000)
'how the west was one, cali agents,' planet asia and rasco (2000)
'is this it?,' the strokes (2001)
'time travel is lonely,' jon vanderslice (2001)
steve-o, 'the red cd' (2001)

3. best live musics 2001 -
okgo at the fillmore
crooked fingers, damian jurado, and jon vanderslice at cafe du nord
city soul at the i spy (seattle)

4. best readables 2001 -
robot dance party, baxter holland
the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, michael chabon
painting by numbers, komar and melamid

5. best filmics 2001 -
you can count on me (2000)
lolita (1962)
the american astronaut (2001)
south park: bigger, longer, and uncut (1999)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
lesson one (2000)
o brother, where art thou? (2001)

6. best filmics ever -
actions in action and control corridor (1996)

7. worst pieces of shit in the history of human endeavor -
a.i.(2001)
planet of the apes (2001)
chocolat (2000)

8. best comedy 2001 -
seattle sketchfest (30 helens, troop, the third floor, the class project, and kasper hauser)
david cross at the punchline
fresh robots
OKGO bulletin board @ hollywoodandandvine.com
international male catalog

9. best drinkage 2001 -
henry weinhards orange cream soda; stewarts orange cream soda; thomas kempers orange cream soda;

10. best sf foodness 2001 -
memphis minnies' southern star
rosamunde beer sausage with beef chili and red onions
bepples apple pie
regular chicken burrito, taqueria el farolito

11. best events 2001 -
the return of an enjoyable sf (thank you, dot-com crash)
burger joint opening in the lower haight
nite skool at the bird kage
bk wednesday
acquisition cd burner at KML HQ
KML fall retreat

12. best bartender 2001 -
renee at docs clock

13. best discovery 2001 -
The internet. Have you heard of this thing? It's going to change everything, and make us all rich. seriously.

14. best business idea 2001 -
www.cybershelter.com - revolutionizing the way homeless people communicate online.

15. best fashion accessories 2001 -
baditude
sweet dance moves
vinyl wrist band with metal star, courtesy of morgan brayton

16. best verbals 2001 -
'tuh tra nah nah'
most anything rappified by chilly gonzales
most anything spokinated by baxter holland

17. best game 2001 -
set
that new game we play in rehearsal, whatever that is

18. best spontaneous karaoke party with homemade pasta 2001 -
chris holmes post-chicago comedy fest late night jam

19. best host in the history of the world -
amanda gibson

20. predictions 2002 -
KML gets theater
OKGO goes platinum
BLP makes movie
GW Bush remains stupid

21. personal wishlist 2002 -
trip to Iceland
a new novel by david foster wallace
the emergence and implementation of a peaceful and viable alternative to hyperconsumptive global capitalism.

Marc Vogl

1. Best CD -
1-10. Killing My Lobster 'Allegro Con Chutzpah'
(I bought ten copies.)

Also 1-10. Dakota Floyd I heard them practice in a shoebox in Cleveland and they blew me away like Clint Eastwood. The shit is TIGHT! Listen at here and buy their EP at Rags to Records.

2. Best thing I read -
Haruki! Haruki! Haruki! Haruki Murakami

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - The most sumptuous literary brunch I've munched since Infinite Jest.
Hard Boiled Wonderland - An awesome entre.
Sputnik Sweetheart - A heartbreaking dessert.
Underground - a non-fiction after-dinner drink, and utterly arresting and disturbing and probably important to read while terrorist attacks are on the brain.

3. Best Movie -
Downtown 81 - Jean Michel Basquiat was a kid with a sense of humor and a rock band.
Amelie - it got me. I was got.
Ghost World - 2 words: blues hammer.
American Astronaut - dance number assassins + extended wet suit joke
Sexy Beast - if everyone acted this well every movie would be awesome.
George Washington - super heroes in the sticks where movies look like dreams.
Brother - Beat Takeshi lays on the beat down. Japanese tough guy nihilism goes to smell A.
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky) - hope you're not in a rush. The house is burned down twice on the DVD.
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr) - hope you're really not in a rush. Fans of melancholy Europe and the single take scene this is for you (coming to the Castro Feb 1-7).
Goldchains, 'I come from San Francisco' (Fleischer) - You've got to see it.

4. Best comedy (theater, tv, film, accidental comedy on the street, sketch...etc) I saw in 2001 -
Erik Watermans backyard video party - Buddy Cianci hosted and Tenacious D made a special appearance.
Mustaches for Kids - charity is serious business; Mike Zurer's in particular this piece de resistance: mouth mouse
Jorge Just covering 'Bohemian Rhapsody' on a karoke machine at Chris Holmes house somewhere on the Southside of Chicago at 4 in the morning. This is the kind of magic you wish you could bottle and then sell lots of bottles of.

Wandering with Drew Bamford through a mid-night typhoon in Paris. That was some ludicrous shit.

5. Best discovery of 2001 -
Sushi in general. Sushi Zone on Pearl @ Market in particular.
What rock have I been under since 1973? Aint no party like an unagi party.

6. Best fashion/accessory of 2001 -
1964 Plymouth Valiant.

7. Epiphany for the 2k1 -
I actually do like San Francisco weather. I dont just like to complain about it I actually like it. I went to New York in July and after 7 nights of waking up sweaty (in Steve O's bed no less, but thats another story) I was kinda over the Gershwin-style mid-summer humidity. And visiting Seattle in early December was not exactly the kind of climactic Shangri-la I have a hankering for either; which puts me back squarely in the temperate zone: SF. I like it. And while were talking local highlights, how bout those A's? Huh? Can I get a what-what? Plucky, scrappy, small-market team thats going to make Giambi regret he traded in his BART pass for pinstripes. Also: dollar dog Wednesdays.

8. Your personal catch-phrase for this past year -

'Edging towards legitimacy.'

9. Best Habit Formed in 2001 -
Putting my keys, wallet, and cell phone down in the same place everytime I come home. This will add years to my life. Provided I never move.

10. Prediction for 2002 -
I will spend more on motor oil than gas (see fashion accessory).

Jon Wolanske

1. Best CD -
'Is This It' - The Strokes. Sometimes the hype exists to be believed. The basslines alone make this record air-instrumentable.
Ryan Adams - 'Gold.' Could be mistaken for Jeff Tweedy's younger brother. Song for song, pound for sonic pound, I think it's the best earnest songwriting of the year.
The Vince Guaraldi Trio - 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' It's in my stereo right now - and I admit I am a bit obsessed with it.
okgo - 'unreleased demo.' All that shit I said about The Strokes? Fuhgettabout it. These guys will rock your ass so hard you will have to get it retrofitted.

2. Best thing I read -
The Onion's September 26 issue. Please someone give these guys a major award.
[Regrets] Extending an Apology - Harper's Magazine - Fall 2001 Education Issue.
The Aenid, by Brian L. Perkins.
The final long chapter of The Corrections.

3. Best Movie -
Memento - My vote for most oddly touching film of the year, strongest argument yet for the Polaroid camera's addition to any urban dweller's everyday routine, and best use of cheekbones. It also may contain my favorite movie moment from the past year (besides Waking Life's 'Holy Moment') when Guy Pierce pushes the glass door of the motel instead of pulling it open.
In the Mood for Love - What an elegant couple. I would give a lot for that guy's wardrobe.
Oh and I also really enjoyed the film George Washington.

4. Best comedy (theater, tv, film, accidental comedy on the street, sketch...etc) I saw in 2001 -
The gas pumps/Wham! Montage from Zoolander.
Charles Nelson Reilly's many slowburns in 'Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly'.

5. Snack food of the year! -
The indestructable Rice Krispie Treat.

6. Best discovery of 2001 -

My father actually made it all the way across country on a freakin' motorcycle!
He is 60 years old. He lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

7. Best fashion/accessory of 2001 -
The red ribbon currently on my bag.

8. Dot-com you were glad to say goodbye to -
Braintrust. Or did it say goodbye to me? Oh yes. It said goodbye to me. Still, that incident was the best thing that could've happened to me last year.

9. Your personal catch-phrase for this past year -
The Yahoo! Instant Messenger Clown Face.

10. A prediction for the year 2002 -
San Francisco will come to its senses and realize that it needs small arts organizations back in a big way and/or my father will not be attempt to ride out west on a motorcycle.