End of year review: Our showbiz chums

As well as finding out what’s been exciting somethingyousaid.com’s contributors this year, we thought we’d also ask a handful of our showbiz buddies what they’ve been digging. So we called on model, dancer and designer Simone Kerr, singer/songwriter and author Jim Bob, actress Sara Malakul Lane, The AU Review’s founder Larry Heath and singer/songwriter Annie Hardy (pictured above with our editor Bobby). Here’s what has been floating their boats: 

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SARA MALAKUL LANE
LA-based actress Sara Malakul Lane has had a busy 2013, including filming a bunch of movies and starring on the cover of FHM. Keep up to date with her on Instagram.  Here are the albums, songs and films that she enjoyed throughout the year: 

BEST ALBUMS OF 2013
1. Beyonce’s surprise album
2. Kanye West – Yeezus
3. Lorde – Pure Heroine
4. Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 experience
5. Jay Z – Magna Carta

BEST SONGS OF 2013:
1. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines
2. Justin Timberlake – Mirrors
3. Vampire Weekend – Diane Young
4. Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball
5. Pink feat: Nate Ruess – Just Give Me a Reason

BEST FILMS OF 2013:
1. Fruitvale Station
2. The Place Beyond the Pines
3. Blue Jasmine
4. World War Z
5. Sharknado

BEST TV SHOWS OF 2013
1. House of Cards
2. Top of the Lake
3. Breaking Bad
4. Game of Thrones
5. The Killing

WHAT WAS YOUR HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR?
2013’s highlights were mainly about work: filming Jailbait this summer (there’s a review coming on the site this week), also filming Cowboys and Dinos in Bozeman, Montana in the spring, Getting my 3rd FHM cover, hanging out in Bangkok (twice) with my family, getting my first tattoo, leaving my treacherous twenties behind. I’m ending the year with an amazing project, Sunchoke, a psychological thriller with some really talented actors and filmmakers behind it. I am excited to be spending Christmas and New Years in NY.

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JIM BOB
Jim is the London-based lead singer of Carter USM, a solo artist and an acclaimed writer, set to release his third novel in 2014. Keep up to everything that Jim has got going on by following him on Twitter. Here are his top picks from 2013:

BEST ALBUMS OF 2013
1. The Next Day – David Bowie
2. The Bear – Chris T-T
3. Wise Up Ghost – Elvis Costello and The Roots
4. The Stand-In – Caitlin Rose
5. Once I Was an Eagle – Laura Marling

BEST SONGS OF 2013
1. Gulls – Chris T-T
2. Black Tambourine – Withered Hand
3. Where Are We Now? – David Bowie
4. I Was Cruel – Caitlin Rose
5. Reflektor – Arcade Fire

BEST FILMS OF 2013
1. Alpha Papa
2. Gravity
3. Silver Linings Playbook
4. Behind the Candelabra
5. The Way Way Back

BEST TV SHOWS OF 2013
1. Breaking Bad
2. Broadchurch
3. Game of Thrones
4. Top of the Lake
5. Ripper Street

WHAT WAS YOUR HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR? 
Getting another book deal for my new novel.
The Championship Play Off Final – Crystal Palace v Watford.
Recording and playing live with an Orchestra.

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SIMONE KERR
Australia-based Simone Kerr is an international model, dancer and designer. This year she launched Balletto Body, her collection of dance and active wear. Here’s what she was watching and listening to during her hectic year:

BEST FILMS OF 2013
1. Silver Linings Playbook
2. Hunger Games
3. Gravity
4. Captain Phillips
5. The Great Gatsby

BEST TV SHOWS OF 2013
1. Game of Thrones
2. Mad Men
3. American Horror Story: Asylum
4. Modern Family
5. House of Cards

BEST ALBUMS OF 2013
1. Muse, The 2nd Law (released late 2012, we’ll allow it though!)
2. Lorde, Pure Heroine
3. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampire of the City
4. Haim, Days are Gone
5. Arctic Monkeys, AM

BEST SONGS OF 2013
1. Madness, Muse
2. Royals, Lorde
3. Diane Young, Vampire Weekend
4. The Wire, Haim
5. Needle, Born Ruffians

WHAT WAS YOUR HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR?
Launching my own brand of dancewear online! 🙂

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ANNIE HARDY
It’s been a funny ol’ year for Giant Drag‘s Annie Hardy. Having finally released her band’s sophomore album, seven years after the debut, she simultaneously called an end to the band. However, her farewell tour of the UK was so great that she u-turned and has decided to carry on the band and go even harder than ever before. Great news! Keep up to date with her on Twitter. Anyhoo, here are her selections from 2013:

BEST ALBUMS OF 2013
I didn’t listen to much besides my own music, and…
1. Bangerz – Miley Cyrus
2. Shredding Leeds, Live in England 2006 – Giant Drag
3. Any of the 20 plus LPs Buckethead released each QUARTER this year which I only discovered when on Wikipedia seeing if there’s one record I even listened to all the way thru this year.
4. Slave Vows – The Icarus Line
5. Waking Up Is Hard To Do Full – Giant Drag

BEST SONGS OF 2013
1. We Can’t Stop – Miley Cyrus
2. Unbelievable Psycho Boy – Annie Hardy and the Psychos
3. The 51 minute freestyle musical by PnP – “Slum Rump Cum Dump” career topper
4. That Britney Spears Joint from The Smurfs movie (serious)
5. Drake, whatever one, big deal.

BEST FILMS OF 2013
Did not see one.

BEST TV SHOWS OF 2013
Fuck cable, Full Psycho TV on Ustream  is where it’s at.
1. Band Car, The Only Live Improvised Music Show broadcast out of a moving car!
2. In Bed With Giant Drag on Full Psycho TV
3. Waking Up Is Hard To Do With Giant Drag
4.Band Car Adventure with Annie and Dexy
5. Razor Adventure

WHAT WAS YOUR HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR?
Accepting, loving and being my true self for the first time to such a degree whilst on the Giant Drag Farewell Tour. I finally understood why I was doing this to begin with and why I definitely can’t stop, and probably shouldn’t even change the name so I won’t. I think that and each and every poisonous vulture pariah that I called a friend disappearing right when I needed them most were key to my growth. Most important things to achieve nirvana (imho are…) Radical Honesty, Extreme Transparency, Forgiveness and Openness and introspection. Get your awakening on bitchez!

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