Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Top Fives of 2009

Top 5 Songs that got me through 2009:
1) No Dice - Beirut (Realpeople Holland)
2) Everything Is Alright - Motion City Soundtrack
3) RoboCop - Kanye West
4) Swim - Jacks Mannequin
5) Hold On - The Lovehammers

Top 5 Events of 2009:
1) Cashes Rivers @ G.D.P.
2) Booze Cruise '09
3) Girl Talk @ People's
4) Phoenix Trip
5) Recording with Cashes Rivers @ Sonic Factory

Top 5 Movies that I saw in 2009:
1) It Might Get Loud
2) The Hangover
3) (500) Days of Summer
4) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
5) Star Trek

Top 5 TV Shows from 2009:
1) Battlestar Galactica - Series Finale
2) LOST - Season 5
3) Heroes - Season 4
4) Scrubs - Series Finale? Or not.
5) How I Met Your Mother

Top 5 Albums I added in 2009:
1) Owl City - Ocean Eyes
2) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3) Passion Pit - Manners
4) Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles
5) Paramore - Brand New Eyes

Top 5 Biggest Disappointments of 2009:
1) 311 - Uplifter
2) The lack of the mint Hershey's kisses for the 2nd consecutive Christmas season.
3) Still in same apt (Cool roomie, crappy room.)
4) My guitar playing skillz
5) My inability to grow facial hair that doesn't say 'pederast'

Top 5 Improvements in 2009:
1) Presidents of the United States of America
2) Guitar Amp (Sears Silvertone 1484)
3) My VB playing skillz
4) Salary
5) Windows 7


**Apologies for any songs, events, etc. that I might have overlooked that deserved to be on the above lists.**

6 comments:

middleson said...

now THAT is a blog post.
well done sir.
i like the wide ranging focus of your lists.
good reflections.
i like the disappointments/improvements ones.
let's seek a new habitat this year.

homebase said...

well, look at that, I can post now. :)

Nic said...

A great way to summarize 2009! Love the new layout - looks like you have put a lot of work into it!

middleson said...

yay for working comments!

the new layout is a massive improvement. well done.

homebase said...

massive improvement agree, but I liked the pool shot.. kinda cool. Left handed pool shot--:) and now the Cashes Rivers link works too. Nice for the new year.

middleson said...

just a sidenote, that the left-handed pool shot is me. surprise! caboose & i both shoot left-handed.