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 2009 List of a Mélange of Things or LOAMOT: 1. Best film: Up in the Air Jason Reitman is quickly becoming one of my favorite directors, from Thank You for Smoking to Juno to this wonderful little film, Up in the Air. The film kind of... directly addresses our own personal fears on love, loneliness, and life. At least it did for me. George Clooney plays the title character, Ryan Bingham, with this suaveness yet, despite the hedonistic attitude towards his vagabond life, he's actually drowning. There's this one scene where he has this look of absolute pain and anguish, and it tore me apart. The sadness and realization that perhaps any hope he had or has will remain as is, that the way he chooses to live his life is to ignore the truth, that the one thing he's looking for will always elude him. This film is both light and dark, funny and tragic, romantic and real, stylish and witty. I think it's good because... it's all of those things at once. Also, the close up rapid shots of daily activities, a la Edgar Wright, made me smile. Oh, you director friends. » Runners-up: Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Hurt Locker, Up, Avatar, An Education 2. Best album: Kid Cudi, "Man on the Moon: The End of Day" My ears perked up when I first heard this album. It was so different from most hip-hop and rap albums I've listened to. It has this... dreamy and ethereal quality, mixed with indie sounds that seems to be the new way for hip-hop and rap. Innovative and one of a kind, this album feels before its time. Plus, if you can sample Lady Gaga on a track and have both Common and Kanye rap on it, then that's quite something. » Runners-up: Local Natives, "Gorilla Manor", Mumford & Sons, "Sigh No More", The Avett Brothers, "I and Love and You", Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack 3. Best book: A Homemade Life I love the way Molly writes, full of heart and wit. The way she crafts her stories somehow always makes me smile, whether happily or sadly. I also had the chance to meet her in person at the book signing in New York, and she's just as lovely in person. Plus, all her recipes are wonderful! One of my favorite quotes from her book is: "It's going to sound silly, I know, but I think that what it all comes down to is winning hearts and minds. Underneath everything else, all the plans and goals and hopes, that's why we get up in the morning, why we believe, why we try, why we bake chocolate cakes. That's the best we can ever hope to do: to win hearts and minds, to love and be loved." » Runners-up: Zeitoun, Eating Animals 4. Best TV show: The Office This show was so close to being dethroned by my runners-up, but the only thing that kept it there was one episode: Jim and Pam's wedding. So happy. That's all I got. » Runners-up: The Big Bang Theory, Glee, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 5. Best moment: December 21-26 "I didn't find a perfect moment, because I think that today was just about just having today. And I think that we are one of those couples with a long story, when people ask how they found each other. I will see her every now and then, and... maybe one year she'll be with somebody, and the next year, I'll be with somebody, and it's gonna take a long time... and then it's perfect. I'm in no rush." » Next year: Things are going to start changing for me, or at least I hope. I'm setting in motion something I hope will work out, and I know this all sounds cryptic but... I hope you'll join me on this little journey of mine. As for my personal life: in short, nothing happened with this boy and we are friends. On another cryptic note (more for me), I am a fool in love but a patient fool. Things aren't perfect now, then again nothing is perfect, but I just know that... if everything's not okay, then it's not the end. You can't hurry love, but with warmth and care, it keeps growing. Sometimes you just know when something is a good thing. And somehow, somehow, it always ends up just the way it should be. (Previously: 2008 LOAMOT) |
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On the way home last night, I hear an interview with the author of Up in the Air (Walter Kern, I believe?) and I thought that it sounded like a movie you would like. And, well, here we are. ;)
Naturally, we are with you for any journey.