Ok now these are the movies that I actually went to see, so it's not a list of all the movies of 2009. So if anyone reads this and says, "Oh the Hangover was the greatest!" well I didn't see it so not on the list. =P
#1 Avatar - Can there be any doubt on this? No there can't it was just pure awesome!
#2 UP - I took Ayden to see this and the whole understory about Russell and his dad made me cry at least twice during the movie, I loved it.
#3 Star Trek - Thought that it was great, thank you JJ Abrams for taking it over
#4 Definitely Maybe - Ok so it's a chick flick, I liked it. I liked the line where the daughter asks why there is a happy ending when her parents are getting a divorce, and the dad says, because of you. Got me all teared up.
#5 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - I really only liked it because it reminded me why I loved the books. If you've read the books than you know that this movie was only ok
#6 District 9 - Ok so I watched this on the Blue Ray in my media room, but I'm counting it. I thought it was ok, but considering that I saw Avatar the night before, it didn't have a chance.
And that's pretty much all that I saw this year, having two kids makes getting to the movies a little tough, but in 2010 I figure to take Ayden to see, Toy Story 3 and How to train your dragon.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Top 10 most played songs from 2009
Because it's the end of the year and everyone likes making year end lists and I hate being left out, I decided that I'd make a list of my own. So what should I make, ah well I like music, and my itunes keeps track of what I have played the most during the second half of 2009 and I just love statistics so it was a natural fit. Not to mention I like feeling self important, but if you're reading this you probably already know that =).
So without further ado here is Adam's most played songs of the second half of 2009 (I'll only list the same band twice because some CD's got played a lot.
#1 Swing Life Away - Rise Against - "It's an older song, but it's melodic and I just liked it, simple and happish".
#2 Anywhere But Here - Rise Against - "Makes me think of freedom, thus I like it."
#3 Attack - 30 Seconds to Mars - "Kind of surprised that this is this high on the list with 24 plays, but I still like it, kind of aggressive."
#4 Little Bribes - Death Cab for Cutie - "It's a song about Vegas, how awesome is that?!?!"
#5 Polaris - Jimmy Eat World - "It's a song about following someone's love like the North Star to find your way, I love it."
#6 Work - Jimmy Eat World - "Makes me think of running away with Jen, as a line in the song says, "Get out of this place while we still have time."
#7 A Diamond and a Tether - Death Cab for Cutie - "I just like Death Cab and this was on the Open Door EP so it got a bit of play in 2009"
#8 The Archers Bows Have Broken - Brand New - "Brand New came up light on the play list because I think it got a lot of play earlier in the year, anyway this is a great song IMO."
#9 Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly - "Again Flogging Molly had a lot of early 09 play, this is just a fun song."
#10 Jesus - Brand New - "I think it reminds me of the bad old days, lines like, 'Jesus what did you do those three days you were dead, cause this problem is going to take more than a weekend.' There is just an angry hopelessness in the song that reminds me of my life before Jen.
And there you have it, my top songs of 2009 according to my Itunes. Granted there was a lot more play by some artists like Rise Against and Jimmy Eat World, plus the first half of the year, but it's good enough for the three people that read this.
So without further ado here is Adam's most played songs of the second half of 2009 (I'll only list the same band twice because some CD's got played a lot.
#1 Swing Life Away - Rise Against - "It's an older song, but it's melodic and I just liked it, simple and happish".
#2 Anywhere But Here - Rise Against - "Makes me think of freedom, thus I like it."
#3 Attack - 30 Seconds to Mars - "Kind of surprised that this is this high on the list with 24 plays, but I still like it, kind of aggressive."
#4 Little Bribes - Death Cab for Cutie - "It's a song about Vegas, how awesome is that?!?!"
#5 Polaris - Jimmy Eat World - "It's a song about following someone's love like the North Star to find your way, I love it."
#6 Work - Jimmy Eat World - "Makes me think of running away with Jen, as a line in the song says, "Get out of this place while we still have time."
#7 A Diamond and a Tether - Death Cab for Cutie - "I just like Death Cab and this was on the Open Door EP so it got a bit of play in 2009"
#8 The Archers Bows Have Broken - Brand New - "Brand New came up light on the play list because I think it got a lot of play earlier in the year, anyway this is a great song IMO."
#9 Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly - "Again Flogging Molly had a lot of early 09 play, this is just a fun song."
#10 Jesus - Brand New - "I think it reminds me of the bad old days, lines like, 'Jesus what did you do those three days you were dead, cause this problem is going to take more than a weekend.' There is just an angry hopelessness in the song that reminds me of my life before Jen.
And there you have it, my top songs of 2009 according to my Itunes. Granted there was a lot more play by some artists like Rise Against and Jimmy Eat World, plus the first half of the year, but it's good enough for the three people that read this.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Avatar
Went and saw Avatar last week in 3d IMAX and I have to say that I was just blown away. Sure the story is only ok, but it was good enough for me. What was so amazing about the movie to me was that it really transported you to another world. The feeling that I got while watching it was the same as when I watched Lord of the Rings, read Harry Potter, or even when I played WoW. It's the details of the world that are the amazing part that bring it to life. In each of those three examples it felt like I was experiencing a part of that world, not where everything I saw was it, like in most action movies where the events of the movie are basically it, nothing happens beyond the story itself. And that I think was what made Avatar so great for me. The world in the movie existed before the movie started and it will continue after the movie ended, there is more story than just the story that was told. I guess that would be where a critic would say, "Well show me the rest of the story." But you just simply can't, it's the subtility that makes the movie and the world what it is. If you jammed a bunch of story and plot into the movie then you'd lose the wonder of what was really going on.
I don't know maybe it's just me, but the movie worked, it was fun and I really enjoyed watching it, I'd say it was the shortest three hours I have ever sat through. Go see it.
Oh and only another month until Lost is back
I don't know maybe it's just me, but the movie worked, it was fun and I really enjoyed watching it, I'd say it was the shortest three hours I have ever sat through. Go see it.
Oh and only another month until Lost is back
Friday, December 4, 2009
FF - Over the top
You know what is hard? It's sitting here for the last couple weeks saying, "This show is great, you have to watch this show." and then seeing an episode like the one last night. Maybe it's just me but I felt it was way to over the top and trying way to hard to squeeze everything in for the mid season stopping point. Even better is that the show returns in March, which means that Demetri is going to bite it in like episode 2 of the return if they keep the show somewhat in sync with actual time. And I know they are trying to because it was near Christmas in last nights episode, and they are going to have an episode on the actual date of the black out. But those are just minor gripes.
So let's start off with the craziness of announcing that you might have killed 20 million people in a very open and less than secure press conference, yeah that was a brilliant move for three guys that work quantum physics, you don't think that one of them would have at least said, "You know some people might have a bad reaction to this." Sure Simon didn't want to come forward but after losing the poker game you'd think that he could have at least said, "Well let's be smart about this." Nope. As a side note, the experiments that they were talking about doing are actually taking place in Europe right now at CREN. So Symcoe just thinks that he's going to go on with normal life after coming forward, seriously can you be that stupid? Not to mention when the FBI agent shows up and wants to talk to him about what happen, "Just leave us alone." Ok now you're retarded. No matter how you slice it, that's some pretty shitty story telling, right up to the point where the fake ambulance people showed up, duh! Again, seriously, you didn't know that they weren't fake ambulance guys, that was as predictable as you can get, very very disappointing. But now we know how his son came to live with Olivia.
And let me go one further with the Oliva / Symcoe storyline, could she have fallen over herself anymore for the guy in the episode. What is up with all the commitment that she has supposedly shown to Mark only to have Mr. Physics accept some uncertified credit for a mass murder. I guess the old line from some evil person is true. "If you kill one, you're a murderer, if you kill a thousand you're a conqueror" Or something like that. Either way, what is her deal? It's bugging me. And how about his "Many Worlds" theory. While I have to admit I love the theory itself, harkens back to watching Star Trek TNG all those years, but man did he use that as a pick up line. And excuse me, don't brush back her hair. You do that to my wife and I'll very well do what his buddy Simon suggested, "Give his testicles a squeeze." FYI there were a lot of fairly over the top references like that in this episode, just wait until I get to Janis and wanting a baby, pure blogging gold!!!! Ok ok I'll keep it clean. mostly.
Since I brought up Simon let's talk about Simon and his super cool theoretical antenna that actually exist. He thought it up in 92 and the picture was taken in 91, seems like some scientist had the EXACT SAME IDEA HE DID. Ok now I don't know much about quantum physics and I don't really understand how the whole innovation process works, but I'm guessing that two different scientists coming up with EXACTLY THE SAME IDEA AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME is just a little too coincidental. Better guess is that, Simon at some point in the future is going to have a flashback and imprint the idea of that creation on himself previous to inventing those things in 92. I'm also going to guess that we're going to find out that the black out event had to take place for some unknown reason and that too will be messaged back in time.
Before I get to Mark and D, just a quick, OH SNAP to D's future wife. I think I remember somewhere hearing that in Korea that you were white at a funeral, I think it was MASH, but it hit me the other week what was really going on, heck I even told my wife last night that I thought it was a funeral before the actual revelation, score a point for me! woohoo!!! Anyway that's pretty F'd up but that's the sort of stuff that I really love.
Ok so on to Mark and D and their crazy adventure in Hong Kong. You know if I've learned anything from the media and movies and other stuff it's this... DON'T F WITH CHINA! I guess Mark and D don't watch tv very much and didn't get the memo and went all American cowboys over there. I'm still trying to figure out how they didn't end up dead out of all that, I mean seriously you had what I'm going to guess is a Chinese spy (oh wait she can't be, she's not Chinese) at gun point surrounded by Chinese police. I'm sorry but I don't think that some CIA agent is going to talk his way out of that, but alas it happened. And also what is the deal with Mark getting all crazy in the restaurant with a table full of armed guys that were just looking for an excuse to shoot you. Was this part of the, "I had a flashforward so I know I'm going to live bit?" I don't know it just seemed WAY over the top for me and forced. I'm not sure what else there is to say with these guys, I mean they went to China and went crazy then got sent home. Sure they found out that Mark's gun is the gun that kills D, but that hardly means that it was Mark that pulled the trigger, maybe he lost his gun in a fight with a bad guy, bad guy gets gun, D comes up from behind, bad guy turns and fires 3 times killing D. Just going to say that sounds a lot more likely, and pretty obvious.
And that leaves us with Janis and her quest to find *****. I'll keep it clean, but the first thing that popped in my head when she was asking if he knew of a good bank to get some, I was instantly thinking, "Yeah I know a place, my bedroom." But I'm a pig. But come on, wasn't that whole conversation a bit much for 8pm 7 central TV? I mean really you could have gotten around half of that if they wanted to, but it went along with the whole theme of the episode, "Over the top" The whole episode was over the top, it was trying to hard to be super cool, and in my opinion it tripped over itself. But that's it until March so maybe it will all work out.
But you know what that means that FF is now on break... My next write up will be about LOST (boom, lost sound) 2/2/2010 I have heard some stuff about the up coming season so I'll drop some spoilers in another post next week, nothing too big, but expect to see a lot of dead people return.
So let's start off with the craziness of announcing that you might have killed 20 million people in a very open and less than secure press conference, yeah that was a brilliant move for three guys that work quantum physics, you don't think that one of them would have at least said, "You know some people might have a bad reaction to this." Sure Simon didn't want to come forward but after losing the poker game you'd think that he could have at least said, "Well let's be smart about this." Nope. As a side note, the experiments that they were talking about doing are actually taking place in Europe right now at CREN. So Symcoe just thinks that he's going to go on with normal life after coming forward, seriously can you be that stupid? Not to mention when the FBI agent shows up and wants to talk to him about what happen, "Just leave us alone." Ok now you're retarded. No matter how you slice it, that's some pretty shitty story telling, right up to the point where the fake ambulance people showed up, duh! Again, seriously, you didn't know that they weren't fake ambulance guys, that was as predictable as you can get, very very disappointing. But now we know how his son came to live with Olivia.
And let me go one further with the Oliva / Symcoe storyline, could she have fallen over herself anymore for the guy in the episode. What is up with all the commitment that she has supposedly shown to Mark only to have Mr. Physics accept some uncertified credit for a mass murder. I guess the old line from some evil person is true. "If you kill one, you're a murderer, if you kill a thousand you're a conqueror" Or something like that. Either way, what is her deal? It's bugging me. And how about his "Many Worlds" theory. While I have to admit I love the theory itself, harkens back to watching Star Trek TNG all those years, but man did he use that as a pick up line. And excuse me, don't brush back her hair. You do that to my wife and I'll very well do what his buddy Simon suggested, "Give his testicles a squeeze." FYI there were a lot of fairly over the top references like that in this episode, just wait until I get to Janis and wanting a baby, pure blogging gold!!!! Ok ok I'll keep it clean. mostly.
Since I brought up Simon let's talk about Simon and his super cool theoretical antenna that actually exist. He thought it up in 92 and the picture was taken in 91, seems like some scientist had the EXACT SAME IDEA HE DID. Ok now I don't know much about quantum physics and I don't really understand how the whole innovation process works, but I'm guessing that two different scientists coming up with EXACTLY THE SAME IDEA AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME is just a little too coincidental. Better guess is that, Simon at some point in the future is going to have a flashback and imprint the idea of that creation on himself previous to inventing those things in 92. I'm also going to guess that we're going to find out that the black out event had to take place for some unknown reason and that too will be messaged back in time.
Before I get to Mark and D, just a quick, OH SNAP to D's future wife. I think I remember somewhere hearing that in Korea that you were white at a funeral, I think it was MASH, but it hit me the other week what was really going on, heck I even told my wife last night that I thought it was a funeral before the actual revelation, score a point for me! woohoo!!! Anyway that's pretty F'd up but that's the sort of stuff that I really love.
Ok so on to Mark and D and their crazy adventure in Hong Kong. You know if I've learned anything from the media and movies and other stuff it's this... DON'T F WITH CHINA! I guess Mark and D don't watch tv very much and didn't get the memo and went all American cowboys over there. I'm still trying to figure out how they didn't end up dead out of all that, I mean seriously you had what I'm going to guess is a Chinese spy (oh wait she can't be, she's not Chinese) at gun point surrounded by Chinese police. I'm sorry but I don't think that some CIA agent is going to talk his way out of that, but alas it happened. And also what is the deal with Mark getting all crazy in the restaurant with a table full of armed guys that were just looking for an excuse to shoot you. Was this part of the, "I had a flashforward so I know I'm going to live bit?" I don't know it just seemed WAY over the top for me and forced. I'm not sure what else there is to say with these guys, I mean they went to China and went crazy then got sent home. Sure they found out that Mark's gun is the gun that kills D, but that hardly means that it was Mark that pulled the trigger, maybe he lost his gun in a fight with a bad guy, bad guy gets gun, D comes up from behind, bad guy turns and fires 3 times killing D. Just going to say that sounds a lot more likely, and pretty obvious.
And that leaves us with Janis and her quest to find *****. I'll keep it clean, but the first thing that popped in my head when she was asking if he knew of a good bank to get some, I was instantly thinking, "Yeah I know a place, my bedroom." But I'm a pig. But come on, wasn't that whole conversation a bit much for 8pm 7 central TV? I mean really you could have gotten around half of that if they wanted to, but it went along with the whole theme of the episode, "Over the top" The whole episode was over the top, it was trying to hard to be super cool, and in my opinion it tripped over itself. But that's it until March so maybe it will all work out.
But you know what that means that FF is now on break... My next write up will be about LOST (boom, lost sound) 2/2/2010 I have heard some stuff about the up coming season so I'll drop some spoilers in another post next week, nothing too big, but expect to see a lot of dead people return.
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