Wondering what the bands been reading, listening to and watching in 2005?

Check out the SFK Recommends list below:

LISTENING

JANUARY 6th, 2005

  • Aha Shake Heartbreak — Kings Of Leon
  • Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus — Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
  • Audit In Progress — Hot Snakes

FEBRUARY 14th, 2005

  • Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse (DVD) — Aimee Mann

MAY 26th, 2005

  • The Shins — Chutes Too Narrow
  • Butterfly Boucher — Flutterby
  • The Rolling Stones — Forty Licks (double best of album)
  • Dappled Cities Fly — A Smile
  • Beck — Guero
  • The Life Aquatic — Soundtrack

July 21st, 2005

  • Ryan Adams and The Cardinals — Cold Roses
  • The Drones — Wait long by the river and the bodies of your enemies will float by
  • Surjan Stevens — Seven Swans

August 18th, 2005

  • M.I.A — Arular
  • Wilco — Summerteeth
  • Kate Bush — The Whole Story

September 23rd, 2005

  • The Rolling Stones — A Bigger Bang
  • Hot Hot Heat — Elevator
  • Big Heavy Stuff — Size of the ocean
  • Slayer — Decade of aggression
  • DJ Shadow — Endtroducing
  • Kashmir — The Aftermath (Live CD/DVD)

WATCHING

JANUARY 6th, 2005

  • I Heart Huckabees ^ Directed by David O Russell

FEBRUARY 14th, 2005

  • Closer ^ Directed by Mike Nichols
  • Huckabees ^ Directed by David O Russell
  • Garden State ^ Directed by Zach Braff
  • Breakfast With Hunter ^ Directed by Wayne Ewing

MAY 26th, 2005

  • The Life Acquatic ^ Directed by Wes Anderson

AUGUST 18th, 2005

  • Kinsey ^ Directed by Bill Condon
  • Maria Full of Grace ^ Directed by Joshua Marston

SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2005

  • Broken Flowers ^ Directed by Jim Jarmusch
  • Hour of the wolf ^ Directed by Ingmar Bergman

READING

JANUARY 6th, 2005

  • ‘The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch’ — by Phillip K Dick
  • ‘Atoms of Silence’ — by Hubert Reeves
  • ‘Ubik’ — by Pillip K Dick
  • ‘Cryptonomicon’ — by Neal Stephensen
  • ‘Quicksilver’ — by Neal Stephensen

MAY 26th, 2005

  • ‘The Confusion’ — by Neal Stephensen
  • ‘The System of the World’ — by Neal Stephensen

July 21st, 2005

  • ‘The Dancing Wu-Li Masters’ — by Gary Zukav
  • ‘Hey Rube – Bloodsport, The Bush doctrine and the downward spiral of Dumbness’ — by Hunter S. Thompson

August 18th, 2005

  • ‘The Collapse of Globalism’ — by John Ralston Saul
  • ‘Bedside Lovers (and other goats)’ — by Joe Bennett

September 23rd, 2005

  • ‘Gravity’s rainbow’ — by Thomas Pynchon
  • ‘A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again’ — by David Foster Wallace
  • ‘Infinite Jest’ — by David Foster Wallace