December 2009
I Broke Even in 2009
Nothing tremendously good happened. Nothing tremendously bad happened. Nothing really changed. Not a great way to go through a year, but after the ups and downs of 2008 it wasn’t such a bummer.
Tonight’s plans: nothing good. nothing bad. How fitting.
I kind of want to drop them though, and go on some weird adventure. Start out the new year with a risk.
I'll tell you why Nine is failing at the box...
mykicks:
I haven’t seen it yet, so I’m not gonna say it’s because it’s a bad movie (though it is getting lousy reviews). Nor will I say it’s because it’s a musical (or more specifically, a musical not as beloved by the “common folk” as Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, or Chicago).
Nine is failing because of Nicole Kidman. Literally everything she touches turns to shit. She can’t make a movie a hit to...
RE: Mario Lopez Post
Just realized: I don’t have a coffee table, and I don’t have many guests.
Listen. I don’t care about tumblarity. I do not care about tumblarity. I simply do not care for tumblarity.
BUT OMG I WAS SO CLOSE TO BREAKING 100 (shut up) FOR THE FIRST TIME (in a long time, maybe) AND HOLIDAYS AND NOW “3”
I had to make an emergency run to the Clerk of Courts to pay a $16 fine and show them my car insurance card so my license doesn’t get suspended over the holidays. TWO AND A HALF FUCKING HOURS.
My phone was dead too, so I couldn’t call work.
I thought i’d be in a lot of shit.
Not really. By the time I walked in at 4:30 my only instructions were to make sure and post something...
Police say Cook even did drugs while... →
This is Kind of My Top 10 Albums of 2009 Post
I don’t know if I let music down this year, or it let me down. I feel like I didn’t listen to as many full albums this year. But it turns out I still listened to a fair amount. It’s just that a lot of them were disappointing. Maybe I am an old man.
I will try and listen to more albums (there must be better ones out there) and make up my mind on this in May 2010 or 2011, but...
Forget Stocking Stuffing: Meet Jewish singles and mingle at the Matzo Ball.
Ani Rotzeh Funny: Storytelling for the new Jew.
Faith and Flag Football: Jewish Family Sports Day
Jews Got the Beat: Bayfront Park hosts the Aviv Music Festival.
Back when I was just a Calendar section freelancer for New Times I got assigned to write up a lot of Jewish events. I never thought anything of it. Plus what...
When you realize the internet has completely...
I’m sort of bummed my dashboard already has an RIP Luanne image AND Candle in the Wind lyrics. Not together, but it’s just not the same.
Ghostly's 110: Our Favorite Albums of the Decade →
It’s like picking through the WVUM stacks all over again.
25 Songs I Enjoyed in 2009
So, despite my whining, putting together a list of songs was pretty easy. Though, I can’t shake the feeling there are at least 25 other songs I’d like more out there that passed me by in this, my most musically oblivious year ever.
Self imposed rule of one song per artist (usually erred on the obvious). So here’s your mix of indie-hits-yr-sick-off, disco and other assorted gay...
“Somehow, we imagine that “cool” is alive in New York and Miami, but that neither...”
– OMGah. Taken to task by Guest of a Guest on “cool” for my kind-of-lazy piece yesterday, but whatever constant deadline means I take my chances on coming of as a douche.
Golf porn on ritzy Fisher Island →
Funny piece in this weeks New Times by Gus.
Fisher Island is this crazy island off the tip of South Beach filled with whiney rich people. In 2008 it was the most expensive Zip Code in the country, one of the Whitest areas in Miami-Dade, and has been home to Oprah, Julia Roberts, Florida’s Governor’s Beard Wife, and Mel Brooks. At one point it was apparently co-owned by Richard...
The "Pitchfork Top 100 Tracks of 2009" Abridged...
11. The-Dream - Rockin’ That Shit
10. Drake - Best I Ever Had
9. Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
8. Matt & Kim - Daylight aka That song from that Bacardi Mojito commercial
7. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
6. That “Maps” Band - Heads Will Roll
5. Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
4. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
3. Lily Allen - The Fear
2. Karen O and The Maps - Zero
...
So the public option is dead, for now anyway. Adding to a list of half-failures and non-action that can partially or fully pinned on the Obama Administration with regards to “the liberal agenda.”
Secretly wondering when we’ll start seeing that sure-to-come batch of “What Would Hillary Do?”/”Was Obama Really Ready for the 3 AM Call?”/”Should We Have...
Download Firefox.
OMG I LOVE FIREFOX!
Weird things happen that slow down Firefox that could probably be easily fixed by deleting the cache and resetting some shit.
Reuse Safari.
OMG I LOVE SAFARI!
Weird things happen that slow down Safari that could probably be easily fixed by deleting the cache and resetting some shit.
Download Chrome.
OMG I LOVE CHROME!
“I’m not going to name any races,” Darren said. “But you do see a lot of...”
– It is really hard to out-douche Christian Audigier in an article about how big a douche Christian Audigier is, yet leave it to an LA night club owner (of course) to do it while he’s explaining why he won’t let people in who wear Christian Audigier.
WatchI pretty much repeat quote #2 in my head a lot, except replace “bookstore” with “online” and “literature” with “music, movies and Karl Lagerfeld.”
Meg: sadly “Mayor Bee” is not included in this. :(
Best of 2009 Music Lists...
This is the first year in five years where I spent no time as a college radio DJ, and the first in two where I’ve spent no time as a college radio music director.
Given the fact I never followed through with my plan to find some sort of steady music writing freelance gigs I just haven’t had much reason to keep up with music with the same drive I did previously. Basically, if I put...
That reminds me
Back in Middle School there was a 6th grade math teacher pretty much everyone thought was gay, and I am 99% sure everyone was right.
So he started showing up holding hands with the Art teacher, Ms. Sturhan, at places where middle schoolers are apt to congregate, like the mall and the movie theaters.
That didn’t really stop the rumors either, and everyone just through it was a sad attempt...
“Hot lesbian sex! Two hot sexxxy young lady teachers loved each other very much...”
– Gawker
You don't know this yet
but my brain has already arranged us to be married, but you are seriously ruining it by loving Twilight.
And why haven’t you applied to law school yet like I decided? I don’t know what I’m more worried about: you or our Manhattan apartment.
