Monday, September 7, 2009

Summer cool suckage

Cool Movies:
The Hangover (A comedy classic, in my opinion)
Funny People (A little uneven at times, but funny and touching)
Up (Probably my favorite movie of the year - Pixar is brilliant)
Extract (Subtle situational humor from Mike Judge, and a great supporting performance by Ben Affleck (who is much better as a supporting actor than a lead))

Cool Television:
Bill Maher most weeks he's been on
Hoarders (which is hard to watch, but good)
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
Lie To Me (I love the science behind this slightly-better-than-normal procedural)
Party Down (very funny show we'll probably never see again except on DVD)
Top Gear (Makes me want an American version with the same sort of intelligent vitriol...we won't see it, though)

Cool Music:
Ponderosa - I'm Your Pistolier
Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows (I know this is from last year...)

I didn't have time for much suckage this spring and summer...but I will say that Green Day's new album was disappointing, Adventureland wasn't funny enough to call itself a comedy, Family Guy is still way overrated, Sugarland is hideously annoying new country, Michael Jackson's music got really TIRED because my daughter went through a MJ phase in the month leading up to and the month following his death, and most radio rock I've heard is hideously overrated (I'm looking at you, Shinedown, Kings Of Leon and Silversun Pickups...)

That is all for another 9 months...maybe.