Tim Curry does the Rock, I do the Blog.

This started playing on the radio at Penny Lane, Evansville's only non-Starbuck's coffee shop, earlier this evening. I had heard it years ago, but forgotten about it until just now. Don't ask me why this of all things was playing, but thank God for it.

My thoughts on 2009, Part Three

Top 4 Most Disappointing Movies of 2009

4. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Now, it's not like I ever expected a movie about the least-interesting, yet inexplicably popular X-men to be any good, but I had expected something more than this. This was such an empty, careless effort. The story is "Wolverine walks from fight scene to fight scene as decades pass with no consequence" and you can almost taste the apathy from everyone involved. It's like the writer, director and cast all suddenly realized that they were in a movie about Wolverine.

3. 9 - As my previous movie lists have established, small-budget movies make me drool. I wanted "9" to be good, but it isn't. It isn't bad. It isn't anything memorable or notable. It's a sequence of pretty cool action scenes and occasionally-beautiful animation with terrible dialogue and a story that starts nowhere, goes nowhere, and ends nowhere. I felt like I was watching a video game I couldn't play, but would have liked to.

My thoughts on 2009, Part One

Initially I was going to do the cliche thing and make a series of "Top -X- -Ys- of '09" lists for music, movies, video games, and what all else, but there are numerous things going against that. I only purchased two new albums this year, and only played three or four new video games worth discussing, so I couldn't pick a uniform number. Also, even if I could, I just don't care enough too. It's a lot of effort naming and ranking things for a list I doubt anybody will actually take too seriously.

Let's try something else instead, a countdown of lists. This way it's unique and interesting and I don't have to do as much work. So here we go:

Cameron's Top 9 "Top n-1" Lists of 2009, and Note That I am Aware That There are a Lot I Have Not Seen/Listened to/Whatever.

Top 9 Movies of 2009

9. District 9 - Impressive visuals and an excellent sci-fi allegory done cheap and done right. The declarations of this "stealing 'Avatar''s thunder" were hyperbolic but understandable.

8. Adventureland - "Superbad" director Greg Mottola has solidified his place as the new John Hughes with this warm and relatable, if not always laugh-out-loud funny comedy.

7. The Hurt Locker - Very few movies have been made on the War on Terror, but this intense depiction of bomb diffusing in Iraq does a lot to fill that void.

All I got for Christmas was a chance to beef up my site content.

"It's a Pagan holiday, Charlie Brown."

This blog's still in its early stages, so just bear with me while I fiddle about with posting links, editing images, and giving readers more lists of things to skim through for their/my amusement.

Anyway, I hope everyone reading this had a kickin' rad Christmas/whatever holiday you celebrate/honestly, it's probably Christmas, right? I know I did. Honestly, this was one of the better Christmases in memory for me. I didn't sit around bored all day in a silent room with a silent family, since now that I'm in college suddenly my relatives and I have things to discuss. It's always good to see aunts and grandparents and cousins and a great aunt? whose name I can't remember (but it's alright, I don't think she knew mine either).