My Top Ten Lists of The Last Decade 2000-2009

Several of my friends on Facebook have challenged me to write what I consider my favorites from the last decade (they know me too damn well, and know that I love to write lists). The categories included: music, movies, TV shows and comic books. Well, I don't read comic books, so, I decided to go with video games, since they are played often at my house. I hope that you enjoy my lists, and maybe it will inspire you to write your own!


In music (I did not add anything that was a live release, a re-release, a soundtrack, or a cover CD. I only picked CD's that I would actually buy instead of download, that if they were records, they would have been worn down by now.):

1. Coldplay – Parachutes
2. Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
3. Tenacious D – Tenacious D
4. Eminem – The Eminem Show
5. Green Day – American Idiot
6. They Might Be Giants – No!
7. The White Stripes – Icky Thump
8. Weezer – Make Believe
9. Blink-182 – Blink-182
10. The Offspring – Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

In TV (these are shows that I couldn’t stay away from, unless I missed an episode, or something and couldn’t find it anywhere. This happened with Californication, and I am STILL trying to catch up. Oh, and I know I missed some damn good shows, but I probably just haven't seen them yet. Remember – these are MY favorites):

1. United States of Tara
2. Lie To Me
3. Heroes
4. Being Erica
5. Arrested Development
6. Scrubs
7. House
8. Flight of the Conchords
9. Californication
10. Kitchen Nightmares (BBC Version)

On film (not counting holiday movies, animated movies and documentaries. In this category, I again, probably missed a lot, but I haven't seen a lot, either. And honestly? This was probably the hardest list to narrow down.) :

1. High Fidelity
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Donnie Darko
4. Kill Bill
5. Harry Potter Franchise
6. Finding Neverland
7. The Producers
8. Stranger Than Fiction
9. Juno
10. Burn After Reading
    

Video games:

(These are games I'll actually play and enjoy, both console and PC games)

1. The Sims
2. Kingdom Hearts
3. Guitar Hero
4. Rock Band
5. Wii Fit
6. Wii Sports
7. Wario Ware
8. Evidence: The Last Ritual
9. Singstar
10. American McGee's Alice

Feel free to leave comments or ask questions. I had a lot of fun writing these lists.

Random Thoughts #1

Movie poster for The Poseidon Adventure

Have you ever had one of those moments? The ones that stick in your mind and you are positive that you lived it. But it feels almost like it was a dream? I have this happens to me all the time.

I have very fleeting memories that sometimes are just out of my reach from things in my distant past. I have lost much of my long term memory and some of my short term memory because of medical procedures and chemicals.

So anyway, a memory of mine has been plaguing me for years and years. When I was being babysat by this family, I was very very young. Under 8, probably. The family I stayed with loved horror movies. I remember seeing parts of Halloween, and being scared out of my mind later on in the night. One movie was on ABC as a Saturday Night movie. I remembered parts of it, well one part in particular that made me never, EVER want to go on a cruise. I had a vision of an overturned cruise ship, during a Christmas party, and everyone was being rescued by helicopter.

After searching around the wonder that is the internet, after all these years, I found out that the movie I had been looking for was The Poseidon Adventure. The original. It makes me laugh because I kept saying, "No, that can't be it. It's too easy." Now, I know.

I have just spent the last three hours (I know) looking for another movie that I think was a made for TV movie. I can't find it through keywords, or even the date. I feel like I am losing my mind. I have a very clear memory of watching this, at least one scene in the movie and where I was, etc. It drives me crazy when I get the snippets, but not the whole memory.