The Seamus Awards 2005

Hey Folks,
Haven't posted up anything in a while as I've been away in France working on organic farms. It was good to get away from the Whole Celtic Tiger thing for a while though I couldn't put much stuff up on my blog because of the weird keyboards. Being away for almost 5 months means I haven't seen all the movies that came out this year but you don't really expect comprehensiveness from bloggers, now do you?

Here, nonetheless, are my awards for the year.

Best Novel: Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

Best Non-Fiction Book: Collapse, Jared Diamond

Best Movie: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Worst Movie of 2005 (or any other year): Dear Wendy

Best Album (Rock) : Oceans Apart, The Go Betweens

Best Single: I predict a riot, Kaiser Chiefs

Best Album (Electronica) '64-'95, Lemonjelly

Best Concert: Elecrtric Picnic

Best Cork City of Culture Event: Frankenstein

Worst Cork City of Culture "Event": Knitting Map

Best Riot: G8, Stirling

Most Ironic piece of Merchandise: G8 T-Shirt, made in Honduras

Best Wedding: My Brothers, Patmos, Greece

The Aisling Enright award for best niece: Aisling Enright

The Michael O Leary award for most nausaeating git: David McWilliams

Hugo Chavez prize for standing up to George Bush: Hugo Chavez

Tony Blair award for Brown-Nosing George Bush: Bertie Ahern

George Bush Award for chutzpah: Draft-Dodger Dick Cheney Labelling Iraq war opponents "Spineless"

Best Football Match: Need You Ask? Liverpool 3 AC Milan 3 (Liverpool win 4-2 on penalties)

Best other football-related event: A Tie between Man Utd losing Roy Keane and their manager losing his marbles.

I'm sure there's more stuff I can think of, but I've got to look into my crystal ball and let you all know what '06 has in store for us. Last year I predicted lots of ecological disasters and turned out to be on the button with that one. So watch this space.