These are the fifteen best movies, albums, television shows and books of the century so far, according to the Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators Editorial Board. They are presented below without comment to acknowledge the utter inanity of such lists. Goodbye.
The BPoFD 15
1. Synecdoche, New York – 2008
2. There Will Be Blood – 2007
3. The Royal Tenenbaums – 2001
4. American Psycho – 2000
5. Lost in Translation – 2003
6. Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days – 2007
7. Little Miss Sunshine – 2006
8. O, Brother Where Art Thou? – 2000
9. In Bruges – 2008
10. The Master – 2012
11. Greenberg – 2010
12. Cloud Atlas – 2012
13. WALL-E – 2008
14. Upstream Color – 2013
15. Amelie – 2001
1. Yeezus, Kanye West – 2013
2. The Monitor, Titus Andronicus – 2008
3. Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective – 2009
4. In Rainbows, Radiohead – 2007
5. 808s & Heartbreak, Kanye West – 2007
6. Is This It?, The Strokes – 2001
7. Funeral, Arcade Fire – 2004
8. Visions, Grimes – 2012
9. Sunbather, Deafheaven – 2013
10. Tomboy, Panda Bear – 2010
11. Good Kidd, M.A.A.D. City, Kendrick Lamar – 2010
12. The Meadowlands, The Wrens – 2003
13. Turn on the Bright Lights, Interpol -2002
14. Beyonce, Beyonce – 2013
15. Bon Iver, Bon Iver – 2011
1. Mad Men – 2007
2. LOST – 2004
3. Friday Night Lights – 2006
4. Six Feet Under – 2001
5. The Office – 2005
6. Louie – 2010
7. Breaking Bad – 2007
8. Arrested Development – 2003
9. Deadwood – 2006
10. 30 Rock – 2006
11. Parks and Recreation – 2009
12. Bored to Death – 2009
13. Hannibal – 2013
14. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – 2005
15. Enlightened – 2011
1. Remainder, Tom McCarthy – 2005
2. Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill – 2014
3. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen – 2010
4. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt – 2013
5. Tenth of December, George Saunders – 2013
6. The Instructions, Adam Levin – 2010
7. The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz – 2007
8. 10:04, Ben Lerner – 2014
9. 2666, Roberto Bolano – 2004
10. The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg – 2010
11. Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris – 2007
12. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimar McBride – 2013
13. We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas – 2014
14. A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers – 2012
15. Everything Matters!, Ron Currie Jr. – 2009
baby pictures of famous dictators 