The Top 5: (I listen to every episode)

• Comedy Bang Bang
• My Brother, My Brother and Me
• Judge John Hodgman
• You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
• Doodie Calls with Doug Mand

Tier Two: (I skip episodes depending on the guest or topic)

• Risk!
• The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
• The Slashfilmcast
• The Indoor Kids
• Doug Loves Movies
• International Waters
• This American Life
• The Nerdist

Other Podcasts I Listen to Occasionally:

• Watkins Family Hour
• Thrilling Adventure Hour

TV:

• Dan and Roseanne Connor
• Gomez and Morticia Addams
• Cliff and Claire Huxtable (too perfect probably)

Movies:

• The Incredibles
• Steven and Diane Freeling from Poltergeist

Books:

• Atticus Finch

Honorable Mention (pun intended):

• Uncle Phil

• Moon
• E.T.: The Extra-terrestrial
• District 9
• Children Of Men
• Sunshine
• Jurassic Park
• Wall-E
• The Host
• Inception
• 12 Monkeys
• Alien
• (Steven Spielberg's) War Of The Worlds
• Back To The Future II
• Back To The Future I
• A Clockwork Orange
• 2046
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
• (John Carpenter's) The Thing
• TimeCrimes
• Star Trek: First Contact

{italics = will contain alcohol}

• earl grey
• white russian
• coconut-basil
• chai & honey
• brandy alexander
• peanut butter & nutella
• turkish coffee
• irish car bomb
• thin mint
• green tea
• black tea
• oatmeal stout
• eggnog
• pistachio gelato
• cookie dough
• peanut butter cookie dough
• piña colada
• pineapple sorbet
• orange creamsicle with cointreau
• mint chocolate chip

from best to worst

• Vincente's Gourmet Pizza
• Pizza Schmizza
• Hammy's Pizza
• Escape From New York Pizza
• Pizzicato's Pizza
• Straight From New York Pizza
• Pyro's Pizza
• Oasis Cafe
• Rovente Pizza

pizza I'd like to try:

• DiPrima Dolci
• Ken's Artisan Pizza
• Wy'East Pizza
• Escape From New York Pizza
• Apizza Scholls
• Dove Vivi
• Pizza Italiana (Vancouver, WA)†
• Lonesome's Pizza
• Nostrana

from most controversial to least controversial

• Star Wars isn't good.
• Casablanca is awful
• Pulp Fiction is the most overrated film ever
• Mel Brooks movies aren't funny
• Temple of Doom > Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Schindler's List is average
• The Usual Suspects is not good
• Snow White sucks balls
• Field of Dreams is shitty
• The Incredibles is the best superhero movie ever
• David Lynch is a terrible director
• David Cronenberg is a also terrible director
• Every Steven Speilberg movie ends badly
• House of D is good
• Get Shorty is one of the worst films ever made

• Papyrus
• Comic Sans
• Zapf Chancery Italic
• Wingdings. WTF?
• Hobo
• Trajan
• Courier. Maybe we just need a break from each other?
• Jokerman
• Curlz

(to qualify, it has to be a book of which I've read at least a quarter or so; therefore, there may be some major omissions, like The Godfather, which I've neither seen or read.)

• The Princess Bride
• A Clockwork Orange
• Sideways
• Big Fish
• Forrest Gump
• Catch Me If You Can
• Mary Poppins
• The Shining
• Stand By Me
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Misery
• American Psycho
• Being There
• Casino Royale
• The Bourne Trilogy
• Jaws

• Toy Story 3
• Arrested Development (pushed back indefinitely)
• Inception
• Iron Man 2
• The Green Hornet
• Paul
• Black Swan
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
• Harry Potter 7a
• Kick-Ass

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• Pitchfork's Best Albums of 2009
• Pitchfork's Worst Album Covers of 2009
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• fansided.com's Worst Things of the Decad...

• Where the Wild Things Are (10/16)
• This Side of the Truth (9/25)
• Up (5/29)
• Coraline (2/6)
• Big Fan
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox (9/13)
• Whatever Works (7/1)
• Funny People (7/31)
• Moon (6/12)
• The Time Traveler's Wife (8/14)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• 500 Days of Summer (7/17)
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil (4/10)
• Away We Go (6/5)
• Mr. Nobody
• The Lovely Bones (12/11)
• Thirst
• The Brother's Bloom
• Watchmen (3/6)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (7/15)
• Inglourious Basterds (8/21)

• I use Windows, not Linux. I have an Ubuntu installation CD, however...but I have too many Windows-only music applications to switch.
• I have never played Dungeons & Dragons, though I know how.
• I have never played and never will play Magic: The Gathering
• I don't know Python script.
• I am good at sports.
• I have a girlfriend.
• My girlfriend is hot
• And she's not a nerd. (She is becoming one though. She can solve a Rubiks cube; has racked up like 80 hours playing Elder Scrolls IV; and reads XKCD, which she discovered on her own, and she doesn't get most of the references, which is a good thing)
• I am a musician, which is sexy.
• I wasn't in the chess club.

• Speilberg's War of the Worlds (the family reunion, specifically.)
• AI: Artificial Intelligence
• Signs (the rest of the movie is over-rated too, but the ending is sooooo bad. M. Night Shyamalan is a moron)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• The Day The Earth Stood Still ("stupid humans, if you don't stop blowing each other up with bombs, we are going to blow up your entire planet!")
• Forrest Gump
• Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (I LOVE the movies and the books, but they kind of fucked up the ending.)
• The Breakfast Club
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (the time travel thing -- which causes me physical pain -- is entirely J.K. Rowling's fault, but I am pretty sure the film ends with a freeze-frame, which is stupid.
• Pretty In Pink
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Schindler's List (the modern-day part)

Presidents' last names that would be good first names:

• Jefferson
• Monroe
• Jackson
• Harrison
• Lincoln
• Grant
• Arthur (its okay so long as it's not abbreviated to Art)
• Cleveland
• McKinley
• Wilson
• Truman
• Nixon
• Carter

• "That really gets my goat."
• "That smarts !"
• "What can I do you for?"
• "Working hard or hardly working?"
• "Comeuppance."
• "The exception that proves the rule."
• "Meteoric rise."
• "God works in mysterious ways."
• "More or less."

Awards

• NL Cy Young : Z. Grienke
• ALCy Young : J. Weaver
• NL MVP : B. McCann
• AL MVP : M. Cabrera
• NL RotY : B. Harper
• AL RotY : M. Moore

Playoff teams:

• NL : Braves, Giants, Reds, Brewers (W.C.), Nationals (W.C.).
• AL : Rays, Tigers, Rangers, Angels (W.C.), Red Sox (W.C.).
• WORLD SERIES : Rays defeat Braves in 7.

SABR:

• NL WAR-leader : Tulowitzky
• AL WAR-leader : Longoria
• Pitching WAR leaders : R. Halladay (NL), F. Hernandez (AL)
• FIP leaders, starters : S. Strasburg (NL), J. Weaver (AL)
• FIP leaders, bullpen : S. Romo (NL), M. Adams (AL)

To qualify, the ENTIRE song must be in that meter, which excludes a lot of classical music and prog-rock.

• 5/8: Mars, The Bringer of War – Gustav Holst
• 6/8: I Only Have Eyes For You – The Flamingos
• 7/8: What Would I Want? Sky – Animal Collective
• 11/4: Hey Ya – Outkast
• 13/8: All You Need Is Love – The Beatles†
• 21/8: Sail To The Moon – Radiohead
• 3:4 polyrhythm: I'll Believe In Anything – Wolf Parade

†I'm cheating on this one. The chorus switches meter to something slightly less weird.

• Vaccines cause autism
• NASA space pens
• We only use 10% of our brains
• 500-foot home runs
• 9/11 conspiracy theories
• Organic food being healthier and/or tast...
• Menstrual synchronization
• Cracking knuckles causing arthritis
• Red cars lead to more tickets
• There are more crimes during the Full Mo...
• Suicide-rates peak around Christmas

Humanist Sans-Serif

• FF Meta
• Gill Sans
• Trebuchet MS
• Optima
• Myriad

Serif

• Georgia
• Times New Roman

Geometric Sans-Serif

• Futura
• Gotham
• Avenir

(italics = in progress)

• Eating the Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
• Dracula - Bram Stroker
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction - J.D. Salinger
• They Will Know Us By Our Velocity - Dave Eggers

• Band: Radiohead
• Musician: Spencer Krug
• Song : In The Back Seat by The Arcade Fire
• Album : Funeral by The Arcade Fire
• Film Score Composer: Michael Giacchino
• Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Sci-fi Movie: Moon
• Comedy : Sideways
• Horror movie : 28 Days Later
• Action movie : Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Superhero movie: The Incredibles
• Documentary : The King of Kong
• Chick Flick : Enchanted
• Sports Movie : The Wrestler
• Director: Christopher Nolan
• Writer: Charlie Kaufmann
• Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
• Actress: Kate Winslett
• Acting performance: Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
• Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
• TV Show: Curb Your Enthusiasm

because I am afraid they will suck and retroactively ruin my childhood

• The Brave Little Toaster
• The Pokey Little Puppy
• An American Tail
• An American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West
• Homeward Bound
• Darkwing Duck
• TaleSpin
• DuckTales
• Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
• Alvin and the Chipmunks
• tether ball
• four square
• The Goonies
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the movie)
• Home Alone
• Earthworm Jim
• Oregon Trail
• Star Trek Voyager and TNG
• Married With Children

• Legos
• watching the following movies on repeat: The Princess Bride (which I had no idea was a comedy), The Secret of NIHM, E.T., The Temple of Doom, Return of the Jedi
• having imaginary sword fights, during which I would reveal, to my opponents surprise, that I wasn't left handed.
• climbing all the trees in town
• picking flowers in the back yard to obtain fireballs
• picking mushrooms to grow large
• finding feathers so that I could fly
• playing videogames, namely Mario : )
• baseball
• playing frisbee golf with my dad (but not real frisbee golf. we made our own courses in the local parks, and the holes/targets, were trees and lamp-posts and things)
• swinging on swings
• jumping off the swings

Novels

• Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
• Youth In Revolt by C.D. Payne
• The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• The Toy Collector by James Gunn
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• Sock by Penn Jillette
• Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
• Up In The Air by Walter Kirn

Short Story Collections

• His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
• No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

Graphic Novels/Comics

• GoodFellas
• The Departed
• The Prestige
• Resevoir Dogs
• The Bourne Identity
• The Bourne Supremacy
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Blade
• The Legend Of Drunken Master
• Hero
• Miller's Crossing
• Memories Of Murder
• The Chaser

I usually publish a list like this at the beginning of the year, but there wasn't enough this year to warrant publishing it. Several films for which I wasn't excited, however, are supposed to be good, so I've added those (in italics).

• 50/50
• Midnight In Paris
• Tree of Life
• 30 Minutes or Less
• Moneyball
• Harry Potter 7b
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• The Descendants
• Attack The Block
• Drive
• Super 8
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Hugo
• The Adventures of Tintin
• Mission Impossible 4

• skinny knit necktie
• navy blazer
• tweed, herringbone blazer with elbow patches
• 2-3 tailored flannel shirts
• a denim shirt
• dark brown braided belt
• skinny charcoal trousers
• linen blazer
• a skinny corduroy tie

For me to take someone's taste in movies seriously, they must:

• hate Crash (2004)
• dislike David Lynch
• dislike David Cronenberg
• LOVE Pixar
• hate 3-D
• love Eyes Wide Shut
• hate Mulholland Drive
• like Where The Wild Things Are
• like Observe & Report
• think Casablanca is overrated
• hate Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
• dislike Avatar or at least find it overrated
• and think James Cameron is overrated in general

It's insane how much I love jack-o-lanterns. They are my favorite ritual of any kind.

Ideas for this year:

• Spike (from Buffy)
• a Wild Thing
• Disney Villains:
  • Maleficent, Chernabog, Ursula, The Horned King, Jafar, Scar

Jack-o-lanterns I've done recently:

• Other Mother from Coraline (with actual button eyes)
• Spock
• Anton Chigurh
• Batman (specifically Michael Keaton)
• Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton again)
• Gollum
• Voldemort
• E.T. (with cool glowy finger)

• Coolio - "Gangsta's Paradise"
• Weird Al Yankovich - "The TV Album"
• System of a Down - "System of a Down"
• System of a Down - "Toxicity"
• Rob Zombie - "Hellbilly Deluxe"
• Korn - "Korn"

I decided to finally read/watch a bunch of giant, important works of art that I have avoided. Everything I consume this year will be epic.

(parenthesis means maybe)

• Moby Dick
• Atlas Shrugged
• Ulysses
• (War & Peace)
• (Crime & Punishment)
• The Road
• (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
• Citizen Kane
• The Godfather Trilogy
• Seven Samurai (and several other Kurosawa films)
• Aguirre: The Wrath of God
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Once Upon A Time In America
• The Deer Hunter
• A Prophet

its not the end of the year yet, so this is subject to change, but here's how it stands so far.

• Album: Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective
• Song: Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
• Music Video: Not sure yet. I need to do more research.
• Instrument: tie between Banjo and Omnichord
• Musician : Spencer Krug. A fantastic LP w/ Sunset Rubdown, a good LP with Swan Lake, and two good EPs as Moonface
• Movie: Moon
• Actor: Sam Rockwell
• Director: Spike Jonze
• Movie Trailer: Where The Wild Things Are
• Movie Poster: Where The Wild Things Are
• Movie Scene: The life montage in Up
• Villain: Hans Landa, played by Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
• Opening title sequence : Watchmen. then Zombieland

• form a band and make an album with Trista
• help Trista finish her stop-motion film
• be quicker to admit when I'm wrong.
• save up lots of money for CSU Monterey Bay
• learn a new musical instrument
• get better at the cello
• finally get my driver's license
• go on a road trip to Canada with Trista!

i can't think of anything else

I can't believe I am the featured person on Listography! What does that mean? How did it happen? How long does it last?

I can't handle the pressure.

Okay. To make this post not a total waste, here are some good videos I found recently:

• newscasters making "lip slips"
• newscasters getting really angry
• the dangers of being a reporter
• time-lapse of a gecko being eaten by ant...
• crazy video of a starling swarm
• slow-motion laughing baby. it's creepy
• Where The Hell is Matt? 2008
• How bread was made in the '80s

(I am copying this idea from trista)

• Get a job and make lots and lots of money!!
• Go to beach with Trista, a lot.
• Take Trista on lots of dates with my money from item #1
• Get better at the cello
• Finally take (and pass) English 1A so I get my AA degree.
• Not kill myself while Trista is on her big road trip to Atlanta
• Make paper mache masks with Trista!
• And attempt to make plaster masks
• Swim in the ocean
• See The Dark Knight
• Don't read as much as I usually do in the summer
• Enjoy the lovely summer nights

• Where The Wild Things Are
• The Poky Little Puppy
• The Stinky Cheese Man
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• The Sleepy Book
• the Where's Waldo series
• James And The Giant Peach
• The Lorax
• The Little Engine That Could
• Corduroy

I can't think of any more.

Presidents' last names that would NOT be good first names:

• Washington
• Adams (it's plural, which is strange)
• Van Buren (it's almost awesome, but not)
• Tyler (it is already a first name, but it sucks)
• Polk
• Taylor (i've never liked this name either. It's pretty mediocre.)
• Fillmore
• Pierce (ONLY Pierce Brosnan can pull it off)
• Buchanan (its badass, but if you say it over and over, it starts to sound gross. Like "puke-cannon")
• Johnson
• Hayes
• Garfield
• Roosevelt
• Taft

• a pilot
• a children's book writer
• a paleontologist
• a stunt double
• an android from the future
• a pirate
• a ninja
• a ninja-pirate
• a journalist
• a massage therapist
• a film-scorer
• an owner of a video store
• a librarian
• just a happy person