Year End Favorites

So it's 2016 New Year's Eve. I decided to compile several lists of favorites, not just for this year but my all-time favorite music artists and film score composers. Why? Just because I feel like it.

Music artists/ Groups:

1. Nina Simone
2. The The
3. Beastie Boys
4. Supertramp
5. Violent Femmes
6. New Order
7. Pixies
8. Dead Can Dance
9. Beck 

Film Composers:

1. Ennio Morricone
2. Thomas Newman
3. Carter Burwell (Coen Bros.)
4. Danny Elfman (Tim Burton)
5. Michael Kamen (Brazil)
6. Ryuichi Sakamoto
7. David Holmes
8. Alexandre Desplat
9. Antonio Sanchez (Birdman)

Cities

1. Portland, Oregon
2. Portland, Maine
3. Madison, Wisconsin
4. Asheville, North Carolina
5. Chattanooga, Tennessee
6. Burlington, Vermont
7. Santa Cruz, California
8. Seattle, Washington
9. Boulder, Colorado

And one more thing... 

A note that I reposted last year from Neil Gaiman:

Be kind to yourself in the year ahead. 

Remember to forgive yourself, and to forgive others. It's too easy to be outraged these days, so much harder to change things, to reach out, to understand.

Try to make your time matter: minutes and hours and days and weeks can blow away like dead leaves, with nothing to show but time you spent not quite ever doing things, or time you spent waiting to begin.

Meet new people and talk to them. Make new things and show them to people who might enjoy them. 

Hug too much. Smile too much. And, when you can, love.