Yes, yes you do. Random, arbitrary lists. Have at it.

My Unranked Top 10 Obsessions of 2009:

1. Budd Boetticher
2. Samuel Fuller
3. Anthony Mann
4. Frank Sinatra
5. Akira Kurosawa (especially his lesser-known works)
6. Unknown Film Noir
7. Jacques Tourneur
8. Haruki Murakami
9. Hiroshi Teshigahara
10. Westerns

Top six new (for me) things of 2009:

1. School
2. President
3. State
4. Haircut
5. Friends
6. Computer

Top five albums:

1. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
2. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
4. WHY? – Eskimo Snow
5. Andrew Bird – Noble Beast

quote:

1. Flaming Lips – Embryonic

This really is a great fucking album.

I love it. Obviously.

But I go back and forth between that and Animal Collective.

I am no fan of Animal Collective, or anyone else in your top 5. Truth be told, other than Embryonic and the new Mastodon record, I'm not sure that I've bought any new music this year. I've focused on the past.

1. My nephew.

2. Seeing my three favorite board members this year; Cynthia, Julio, and Jessica.

3. Graduating.

4. The Hurt Locker.

5. Watching St. Vincent perform songs off of Actor.

6. That Star Trek movie was neat.

7. Getting dumped and remaining friends with the gal and then starting to casually date other gals.

8. Really working for a paycheck. Damn, work is not easy.

9. Having Embryonic grow on me after really not liking the first two songs they performed on that pitchfork festival thing.

10. Finding some boots that I like and putting an order in for them.

Top five albums

1. Embryonic ~ The Flaming Lips
2. The Crying Light ~ Antony & The Johnsons
3. Album ~ Girls
4. Bitte Orca ~ Dirty Projectors
5. Wilco (The Album) ~ Wilco

Top five movies

1. Los viajes del viento
2. La teta asustada
3.
4.
5.

1. Some fine lovin'
2. Punishment
3. Mysticism (get it? because it's spot three?)
4. Boredom
5. Warehouse work
6. Bromance
7. Respects
8. Musics of all kinds (but preferably the kinds I actually like)

11. Watching Where the Wild Things Are with a dear friend and loving it even though I hated the book and was a little ill. Sometimes it's the company that makes the evening.

12. Tuesday and Thursday nights when I get to talk to a neat patron, even if it's always just for a little bit.

13. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

14. That time I went to In-N-Out this year and it was exceptionally good.

15. Finding my cat in the garage when I thought he ran away.

16. Becoming healthy again.

16. Finding out about Mad Men thanks to a gal who I had soo much in common with.

17. Getting a Nintendo DSi for free.

18. Spending time with college friends after graduating.

19. Those two months were Johnny and I would catch a matinee every Wednesday.

20. Becoming good friends with my older brother.

list of albums i have considered for best of the year

1 wolfgang amadeus pheonix -pheonix
2 why there are mountains -cymbals eat guitars
3 the dark night of the soul - dangermouse/sparklehorse
4 its blitz!-yeah yeah yeahs
5 phrazes for the young-julian casablancas

list of albums i would consider, were they not disqualified from the mike relton grand album prize as they have won it before

1 embryonic -the flaming lips
2 ignore the ignorant -the cribs
3 journal for plague lovers -manic street preachers
4 dark days/light years-sfa

quote:

Originally posted by TheFalloness:
I am no fan of Animal Collective, or anyone else in your top 5.

I think you might like the Dirty Projectors album quite a bit. It's one of the freshest "indie" records (I put the word in quotes because it seems to carry less meaning with each passing year) I've heard in a while.

Yeah, i think i'll change Wilco (the album) for Tarot Sport by Fuck Buttons

Also, top 5 songs:

1. Watching the planets ~ The Flaming Lips
2. Silver Trembling hands ~ The Flaming Lips
3. Surf Solar ~ Fuck Buttons
4. Aeon ~ Antony & the Johnsons
5. Lust for life ~ Girls

15 albums from 2009 I can remember caring about (in no particular order):

HEALTH - Get Color
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Calories - Adventuring
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Passion Pit - Manners
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Youth
Baroness - Blue Record
Japandroids - Post-nothing
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Mi Ami - Watersports
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights

1. Talking movies, and life in general, with Fal.
2. Acting stupid with Saul.
3. My gal.
4. Re-discovering Who's Next by the Who.
5. This awesome Citizen Eco-Drive Military watch I am wearing.

Vernon Hick Top Ten:

1. Birth of my son, Dylan Harrison Holmes. He has made my life complete. I didn't know that i was able to love someone this much!

2. Falling deeper in love with my soulmate, Allison. Being a daddy to her mommy...

3. Bush out, Obama in. "Nuff said there!

4. Meeting Booker T. Jones, Paul Weller, Ralph Stanley, George Jones and Jerry Jeff Walker this year. All nice fellas!

5. Surviving the financial shitstorm that was 2009. Being in construction AND the film industry = double bummer.

5. Producing and airing 50+ episodes of "Psychedelic Solution" on internet radio station Compound Radio. Had a blast connecting with psych fans from all over the world and got Steven Drozd to compose and perform the theme song for the show!

6. Clearing out a storage unit with 20+ years of "packratism" in it. Freedom! There was so much shit in there! Real social anthropology going on. Lots of rare Flaming Lips stuff in there including Michael Ivens' LAST HAIRDO! (no lie!) and a whole grocery bag of pink dreadlocks courtesy of Wayne Coyne, circa 1992?

7. Got to simplify my life a bit, reeled back on some of the more unnecessary stuff...

8. "Old Blue", my beat-to-shit powder blue Ford F150 pick-up survived another year! Good work girl!

9. *on hold for next two months*

10. *on hold for next two months*

(This list is in no particular order once you get past the first three...)

quote:

Originally posted by This is Vernon
8. "Old Blue", my beat-to-shit powder blue Ford F150 pick-up survived another year! Good work girl!

Hey, I remember that truck! One of the best times I've ever had riding in any truck.

Glad to see you around, sir, and good to hear all is well with la familia.

Hahahaha! I remember that!

What's happening with you these days?