Saturday, January 09, 2010

Best of 2009 Part 2

Lets get right to it... read the last post if you are confused why there's old stuff here

Best 40 Songs of 2009:
1. Paper Planes, MIA
2. Stain, Nirvana
3. Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues, McLusky
4. America, Niblick Henbane
5. Puss N' Boots, New York Dolls
6. Toolmaster of Brainerd, Trip Shaekspear
7. Talk Dirty to Me, Poison
8. Don't Hand Me No Lines, Georgia Satelites
9. Lake Street is For Lovers, Lifter Puller
10. Feed My Family, Jen
11. Stab, Pine Box Boys
12. My War, Black Flag
13. I Don't Care, Black Flag
14. Cherry Bomb, The Runaways
15. True Believers, The Bouncing Souls
16. Seven Nation Army, The Flaming Lips
17. California Songs, Local H
18. Same Old Situation, Motley Crue
19. Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen
20. Katmandu, Bob Segar
21. Rocky Mountain Time, John Prine
22. All I Want Is You, Barry Louis Polisar
23. Hair, Atmosphere
24. If You Don't Love Me, Warren Zevon
25. Saving Grace, Tom Petty
26. Ain't No Rest For the Wicked, Cage the Elephant
27. How Bizzare, OMC
28. The Wrestler, Bruce Springsteen
29. Friends in Low Places, Garth Brookes
30. Must Have Got Lost, J Giles Band
31. Radio Nowhere, Bruce Springsteen
32. Skyway, The Replacements
33. Muswell Hillbilly, The Kinks
34. All My Life, Foo Fighters
35. Drinking and Driving, Black Flag
36. Flirting with Disaster, Molly Hatchet
37. Dracula's Lament, Jason Siegel
38. Half Cocked Concepts, P.O.S.
39. Sexyback, Justin Timberlake
40. Too Drunk to Fuck, Dead Kennedys

Top 5 TV Shows I started watching in 2009:
1. The Soup
2. Sledge Hammer
3. America's Funniest Home Videos
4. Man Vs Food
5. MonsterQuest

Top 5 Graphic Novels Read in 2009
1. Sandman: The Doll's House, Neil Gram
2. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume II, Alan Moore
3. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Alan Moore
4. Sandman: Dream Country, Neil Gram
5. Batman: Year One, Frank Miller

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Best of 2009 Part 1

Okay here is my best of 2009 list. I'm going to start with Books and movies and I'll finish the rest later.
Oh, and for those of you who didn't read my best of the year list last year you should know that I use the Stockdale method of ranking, which means I will not be ranking the best movies/books that CAME OUT this year, I'll be ranking the best movies/books I SAW this year.
Anyway here are the lists:

Best 25 Movies of 2009:
1. The Hangover
2. Watchmen
3. Inglorious Bastards
4. Gone Baby Gone
5. Star Trek
6. Gran Torino
7. Citizen Kane
8. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
9. Ride the High Country
10. Street Fight
11. Taken
12. I Love You Man
13. The Curious Case of Benjiman Button
14. Forgetting Sara Marshall
15. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
16. The Wrestler
17. Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
18. Valkarie
19. Last House on the Left
20. Slumdog Millionaire
21. Terminator Salvation
22. Hancock
23. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
24. Tyson
25. John Tucker Must Die

Worst Movie of 2009:
Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor



20 Best Books of 2009
1. Brisinger, Christopher Paolini
2. Eldest, Christopher Paolini
3. Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
4. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
5. Sleeping in Flame, Jonathan Carroll
6. Top Dog, Jerry Jay Carroll
7. Hannibal, Thomas Harris
8. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
9. The Big Red One, Samuel Fuller
10. Top Dog, Jerry Jay Carroll
11. Black Sunday, Thomas Harris
12. Hannibal Rising, Thomas Harris
13. Timequake, Kurt Vonneguet
14. Intensity, Dean Koontz
15. Legion, William Peter Blattey
16. Ring, Koji Sanzuki
17. Ferenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
18. White Fang, Jack London
19. 1776, David McCullough
20. Mouthful of Rocks, Christian Jennings

Worst Book of 2009:
Interview with the Vampire

Stay Tuned for the lists of the best songs, best TV shows, and best graphic novels.