2009: A Year In Review [Part One]

Part One: Entertainment Schmentertainment - Things I truly enjoyed. And remembered. And stuff.

If 2009 was a person, it would look like this.

{As always, in no particular order.}

Moving Picture Films:

Up
District 9
Star Trek
The Road
Watchmen
Zombieland
Adventureland
Drag Me To Hell
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Inglourious Basterds
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
*At this point I had yet to see 'Up in the Air' and 'Avatar'

Sounds & Rhythms For Your Ear Holes:

Matt & Kim - Grand
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Modest Mouse - No One's First And You Are Next [EP]
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds - The Soundtrack [Various Artists]
*A Special Thanks to Reid Connell for over putting 70 albums of awesomeness on my iPod. [Especially Foxy Shazam, Wolfmother, Battles, Dead Man's Bones, Chip Connell, fun., Why?, and Yeasayer.]

One Of The Many Glowing Rectangles I Stare At Daily:

Lost
Glee
Dexter
Mad Men
The Office
Community
The Simpsons
Modern Family
The Colbert Report
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
*Arrested Development [no matter what year or what list, this will always be on it.]

Twas a fantastic year for la musica, la television [say it with an accent,] and la movie-film. Kind of. 1994 was a great year: Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, Hakuna Matata, Seinfeld, Ace of Base, Salt-N-Pepa, and so on and so forth. Lets all take the time to remember how epic 1994 was. Hmmmmm. OJ!

More tomorrow. Part 2 involves influential books and people ... as well as specifics from part 1 and runners-up.