The Last Blog Post of the Year
This will be my last post of the year. I know there have been too many posts for you guys to keep up wit on a regular basis, right, Myq? But I thought I'd do what I did at the end of last year and post a big list of shit that I liked cause that's what you do when you have a blog, am I right, Silvestri? So with out further ado, Steve, I present a big long list of shit that I liked in 2005...
Top Five Shows On MTv That I Openly and Vocally Love and Will Continue to Right About on this Page well into the New Year
1. Made
2. My Super Sweet Sixteen
3. LB
4. Next
5. True Life: The one with the guy that was tatooing himself green so he could be a lizard and get married
Top Five Books that Were Assigned in My Honors "The Ghosts That Haunt Us" Class but that I never read
1. The Lovely Bones
2. Monkeybridge
3. Something by some Russian lady named Chernin
4. The Book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams
5. Slaughterhouse Five (only because I had read three times before)
Top Five People I Yelled At Through a Microphone while "Performing" my Particular Brand of Stand-Up Comedy
1. Truby at the Comedy Studio
2. Those Sluts in the Naughty Costumes at the Green Dragon on Halloween
3. Jon Malcovich at the Emerald Isle
4. That spiky-haired high school kid also at the Emerald Isle
5. The 15 year old kid with his fly open at Roadsteamer's DVD Taping
Top Five Kelly Clarkson Songs of All Time (in order)
1. Miss Independent
2. Since U Been Gone
3. Breakaway
4. Behind These Hazel Eyes
5. Every other song by Kelly Clarkson
Top Three Children's Movies That I Saw in the Theaters While Unaccompanied by a Child
1. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2. Chicken Little
3. Rent
Top Five Television Show Seasons Watched On DVD for the First Time in 2005
1. Lost Season One
2. Arrested Development Season 2
3. The League of Gentlemen Season 1
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 3
5. Newsradio Seasons 1 and 2 (not the first but I'm gonna count it cause it's the greatest traditional sitcom ever. EVER.)
Top Five Secret Santa Gifts That I Got At Work
1. Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
2. A Can of Silly String that has since frozen in my car
3. Fake Mustaches
4. These little Marvel Superhero Things called Beanz that I'm still not really sure what to do with
5. Dunkin Donuts Gift Card ($5 denomination)
Top One Gift that I as Secret Santa Gave
1. Whoopie Cooshin (sp?)
Greatest Gift Received This Year
1. An iPod from myself
2. An alarm clock thing to play the iPod on from the ladyfriend
Top Five Lists on This List So Far
1. The One about the MTv shows that I love
2. The One about the Books I didn't read
3. The One about the Children's Movies I saw
4. The One about the people I yelled at
5. This One
Top Five Comedy CDs that Didn't Necessarilly Come Out This Year But That I Heard for the First Time This Year (not in order)
1. Marc Maron "Not Sold Out"
2. Patton Oswalt "Feelin Kinda Patton"
3. Maria Bamford "The Burning Bridges Tour"
4. Eugene Mirman "The Absurd Nightclub Comedy of"
5. Max Silvestri "The Greatest CD Ever Made"
Top Six Best Movies I Saw in the Movie Playing Place
1. Batman Begins
2. The 40 Year Old Virgin
3. Wedding Crashers
4. The Aristocrats
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6. Sin City
My Real and Sincere Favorite Albums of 2005 (maybe in order... I'll let you know at the end of the list. I'll probably only pick 10. I don't know. Maybe 7.)
1. Sufjan Stevens "Illinois"
2. Wolf Parade "Apologies to the Queen Mary"
3. Bloc Party "Silent Alarm"
4. Bright Eyes "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning"
5. Beck "Guero"
6. Kelly Clarkson "Breakaway, Motherfuckers" (parental advisory)
7. The Decemberist "Picaresque"
8. The New Pornographers "Twin Cinema"
9. Coheed and Cambria "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV Vol. 1"
10. Kaiser Chiefs "Employment"
IN ORDER. I think.
Top 20 Songs of 2005, Bitches
1. Wolf Parade "I'll Believe in Anything"
2. Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone"
3. Feist "Mushaboom"
4. Sufjan Stevens "Come on! Feel The Illinoise!
5. Iron and Wine "The Trapeze Swinger"
6. Bloc Party "Like Eating Glass"
7. Kanye West "Touch The Sky"
8. Arctic Monkeys "I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor"
9. We Are Scientists "Nobody Moves, Nobody Gets Hurt"
10. Robby Roadsteamer "The Hand I Beat Dogs With"
11. Bright Eyes "Landlocked Blues"
12. Beck "Earthquake Weather"
13. Big D and the Kids Table "LAX"
14. Birdmonster "Resurrection Song"
15. Laura Veirs "Galaxies"
16. Kaiser Cheifs "Everyday I Love You Less and Less"
17. The Decemberists "The Sporting Life"
18. Coheed and Cambria "The Suffering"
19. The New Pornographers "Use It"
20. Chris Parnell and The Lonely Island "Lazy Sunday"
Top Five Shows On MTv That I Openly and Vocally Love and Will Continue to Right About on this Page well into the New Year
1. Made
2. My Super Sweet Sixteen
3. LB
4. Next
5. True Life: The one with the guy that was tatooing himself green so he could be a lizard and get married
Top Five Books that Were Assigned in My Honors "The Ghosts That Haunt Us" Class but that I never read
1. The Lovely Bones
2. Monkeybridge
3. Something by some Russian lady named Chernin
4. The Book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams
5. Slaughterhouse Five (only because I had read three times before)
Top Five People I Yelled At Through a Microphone while "Performing" my Particular Brand of Stand-Up Comedy
1. Truby at the Comedy Studio
2. Those Sluts in the Naughty Costumes at the Green Dragon on Halloween
3. Jon Malcovich at the Emerald Isle
4. That spiky-haired high school kid also at the Emerald Isle
5. The 15 year old kid with his fly open at Roadsteamer's DVD Taping
Top Five Kelly Clarkson Songs of All Time (in order)
1. Miss Independent
2. Since U Been Gone
3. Breakaway
4. Behind These Hazel Eyes
5. Every other song by Kelly Clarkson
Top Three Children's Movies That I Saw in the Theaters While Unaccompanied by a Child
1. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2. Chicken Little
3. Rent
Top Five Television Show Seasons Watched On DVD for the First Time in 2005
1. Lost Season One
2. Arrested Development Season 2
3. The League of Gentlemen Season 1
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 3
5. Newsradio Seasons 1 and 2 (not the first but I'm gonna count it cause it's the greatest traditional sitcom ever. EVER.)
Top Five Secret Santa Gifts That I Got At Work
1. Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
2. A Can of Silly String that has since frozen in my car
3. Fake Mustaches
4. These little Marvel Superhero Things called Beanz that I'm still not really sure what to do with
5. Dunkin Donuts Gift Card ($5 denomination)
Top One Gift that I as Secret Santa Gave
1. Whoopie Cooshin (sp?)
Greatest Gift Received This Year
1. An iPod from myself
2. An alarm clock thing to play the iPod on from the ladyfriend
Top Five Lists on This List So Far
1. The One about the MTv shows that I love
2. The One about the Books I didn't read
3. The One about the Children's Movies I saw
4. The One about the people I yelled at
5. This One
Top Five Comedy CDs that Didn't Necessarilly Come Out This Year But That I Heard for the First Time This Year (not in order)
1. Marc Maron "Not Sold Out"
2. Patton Oswalt "Feelin Kinda Patton"
3. Maria Bamford "The Burning Bridges Tour"
4. Eugene Mirman "The Absurd Nightclub Comedy of"
5. Max Silvestri "The Greatest CD Ever Made"
Top Six Best Movies I Saw in the Movie Playing Place
1. Batman Begins
2. The 40 Year Old Virgin
3. Wedding Crashers
4. The Aristocrats
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6. Sin City
My Real and Sincere Favorite Albums of 2005 (maybe in order... I'll let you know at the end of the list. I'll probably only pick 10. I don't know. Maybe 7.)
1. Sufjan Stevens "Illinois"
2. Wolf Parade "Apologies to the Queen Mary"
3. Bloc Party "Silent Alarm"
4. Bright Eyes "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning"
5. Beck "Guero"
6. Kelly Clarkson "Breakaway, Motherfuckers" (parental advisory)
7. The Decemberist "Picaresque"
8. The New Pornographers "Twin Cinema"
9. Coheed and Cambria "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV Vol. 1"
10. Kaiser Chiefs "Employment"
IN ORDER. I think.
Top 20 Songs of 2005, Bitches
1. Wolf Parade "I'll Believe in Anything"
2. Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone"
3. Feist "Mushaboom"
4. Sufjan Stevens "Come on! Feel The Illinoise!
5. Iron and Wine "The Trapeze Swinger"
6. Bloc Party "Like Eating Glass"
7. Kanye West "Touch The Sky"
8. Arctic Monkeys "I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor"
9. We Are Scientists "Nobody Moves, Nobody Gets Hurt"
10. Robby Roadsteamer "The Hand I Beat Dogs With"
11. Bright Eyes "Landlocked Blues"
12. Beck "Earthquake Weather"
13. Big D and the Kids Table "LAX"
14. Birdmonster "Resurrection Song"
15. Laura Veirs "Galaxies"
16. Kaiser Cheifs "Everyday I Love You Less and Less"
17. The Decemberists "The Sporting Life"
18. Coheed and Cambria "The Suffering"
19. The New Pornographers "Use It"
20. Chris Parnell and The Lonely Island "Lazy Sunday"
