2009 in Review/2010 in Prediction

Again, I’m going with dubious grammar choices for the title, but I believe it fits.  Instead of just reviewing the low and highlights of 2009, I figure I’ll go through a list of my greatest hits ’cause for nearly all of them I have goals of faster and more intense for 2010.  So, when you start seeing Facebook statuses (stati?) about how bored I am, you can just send me a link to this page to light a fire under me towards something.  Maybe.  I don’t often admit to being bored in Facebook because it actually doesn’t happen too much.  What’s more likely is that you’ll see statuses (stat–oh, forget it) about me wasting time on something completely inconsequential.  Which is essentially what this blog post is.  Anyways, moving on, in an order where I presume the most interesting to the most number of people is at the top, I present the list:

My Least Favorite Genre

Bet you can’t guess what my leasy favorite genre is.  Romantic comedy?  Musical?  Documentaries about poor kids sniffing glue?  No, nope, and nyet.  By far the genre that I loathe the most and the aisle in the video store I never go down is horror.  Never liked it.  Never have.  I just have never felt the need to pay someone to scare me.  Or try to scare me.  That’s not to say I have never seen a horror flick, but I haven’t seen most of them.  Never seen a Friday the 13th or Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street.  But if I’ve never seen the classics of the genre, how can I say that I don’t like the genre?  Well, that’s a fair question, but only if genre is the point.

3(WWII)

The last month of 2008 and the first month of 2009 have yieleded 3 WWII movies!  Naturally, I’m ecstatic.  But what has me even more ecstatic than that is that none of them have anything to do with America’s involvement in the war.  What I love about WWII is that it’s a world war and almost no country went untouched by the war’s effects.  That means there are stories everywhere and about all different types of people, not just soldiers.  As Americans we tend to believe that the war began on December 7, 1941 and ended in August 1945.  As soon as you start studying a little history you’ll realize that it began way before that and the U.S. is still in Germany and Japan so the “occupation” is still kinda going.  So, instead of reviews, here is my commentary on the three films, in the order that I saw them, as to how they enlarge our understanding of the war and, more importantly, the people who fought it.

The Opposite of Right

After many many days of consistent posting, I found myself at a loss for anything to blog about in the last couple of days. I looked at the drafts with nuggets for posts but none of them were anything I really felt like saying at the moment. But, I think I finally hit upon what it is that has been trying to crawl out of my fingers and into the keyboard. And I think it all started with Valkyrie.