the best of 2013

i don't know about everyone else, but my year end best of lists always look different six months down the road than they did at the end of the calendar year. there's always a ton of movies i wanted to see but hadn't had the chance to that squeeze their way into the top ten. and with music, releases that drop towards the end of the year might make an awesome first impression but don't age well or maybe i needed to spend more time with an album before it really hits me and finds a place in my top five. so my goal in the future is to post a timely best of list in the first week of the new year and then follow up in the first week of july with an adjusted best of list that is hopefully a better representation of the previous year. considering i never posted lists for last year at all, the following is my definitive best of 2013 lists. thanks for reading.

best of 2013 - movies
20 - kick-ass 2
19 - 2 guns
18 - ender's game
17 - machete kills
16 - despicable me 2
15 - elysium
14 - oblivion
13 - world war z
12 - the wolverine
11 - thor: the dark world
10 - the wolf of wall street
9 - the hobbit: the desolation of smaug
8 - gravity
7 - pacific rim
6 - rush
5 - captain phillips
4 - prisoners
3 - star trek into darkness
2 - the hunger games: catching fire
1 - the world's end

best of 2013 - music
14 - frank turner - tape deck heart
13 - a wilhelm scream - partycrasher
12 - john mayer - paradise valley
11 - the wonder years - the greatest generation
10 - the dangerous summer - golden record
9 - kanye west - yeezus
8 - balance and composure - the things we think we're missing
7 - the swellers - the light under closed doors
6 - queens of the stone age - ...like clockwork
5 - foxing - the albatross
4 - the joy formidable - wolf's law
3 - crash of rhinos - knots
2 - touche amore - is survived by
1 - the national - trouble will find me

best of 2013 - comics
- these are my favorite series from the world of comics, in no particular order...
the wake - scott snyder / sean murphy
saga - brian k. vaughan / fiona staples
infinity - jonathan hickman / various artists
thor: god of thunder - jason aaron / esad ribic
uncanny avengers - rick remender / various artists
avengers - jonathan hickman / various artists
new avengers - jonathan hickman / various artists
batman - scott snyder / greg capullo