Doesn't anyone want to know what my favorite movies were this year?

It's that time of year, where everywhere you look there's a top 10 or top 50 albums, downloads, movies, hair-do's, celebrity scandals, etc. of the year. And guess what? I'm adding to that giant heap, cuz some of you might want to know, right? So here are my top favorite movies - we'll say 15, and in no particular order. But if I had to choose a top movie, it would probably be Wall-E. That was a near perfect film. By the way, I have seen a bunch of movies, but not all of them (I'm not a film critic and I have a day job), and the year is still not over, and there are still a few big ones, so... just understand.

Wall-E
Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Funny as hell, go rent it! It has Paul Rudd and one of my favorite British comedians.
Burn After Reading - Funny as hell Coen Brothers movie. Not their best, but worthy.
Tropic Thunder - Uneven, but so damn funny at times.
Ghost Town - Stars my favorite British comedian, Ricky Gervais, and that's worth a recommendation. It's pretty good besides that, and doesn't follow the standard Rom-comedy formula as closely as most.
Role Models - Surprisingly gut-busting. It also has Paul Rudd.
Rachel Getting Married - The most misty I got all year.
Let the Right One In - The best vampire movie of the year.
The Fall - See the blog in September
Man On Wire - Same as Above
Syncecdoche, New York - An emotional Charlie Kaufman brain teaser that someone else needs to see so we talk about it.
Iron Man - I saw it twice
Dark Knight - I saw it twice as well.
Shine A Light - In Imax! You can see several decades of Mick's dental work in amazing detail. Great songs!
The Orphanage - The best horror movie of the year.

Like I said, there are a few I have yet to see, and I didn't add The Curious Case of Benjamin Button since I saw it really late and slept through a significant chunk of it. What I saw was pretty great though.

And now for the biggest turds of the year (aka movies that should have been really good, but were kind of depressing and forgettable.)

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Such a letdown.
The Happening - The first "R-rated" movie from M. Night Shyamalan. Big effin' deal.
Hamlet 2 I really wanted to like this, but I can hardly remember it now. Steve Coogan needs something really good, and quick.

That's it. Let me know if I forgot anything.

Keepin' Up With Fashion

What's hot in fashion this week? The new hot look is wrapping a blanket around you while shopping at the Wal Mart. If you want to get real edgy, try a blanket with jammy bottoms and slippers. For real, I saw this at the store. It works better if you're shopping at the Wal Mart late at night. It's retro, like the Shoney's Buffet Mega-Mullet. You laugh, but these people are cutting edge, man.

I felt especially out of place at the Urban Outfitters store the other day. I wore regular guy pants that breathe a little, leaving ample room for my stuff. I also had my over-sized jacket and and my Target shoes. I realize that I wasn't fit to make an appearance, but getting out and seeing the outsourced fashions of young 20-something prefab hipsters is always good, especially since I'm in the fashion industry (souvenir apparel - it's a stretch).

My theory is that Jack Skellington is responsible for these new bird-leg boy jeans that are so popular. With no room for the nuts, they are the new form of birth control/population control. In the old days, the hair-metal ladies would spray or soak the jeans to make them more flexible before squeezing into them. Nowadays, the hipster bearded blokes just have stick legs that fit right in (some might still have to spray - who knows). They might not be able to walk with bended knees like Jack Skellington, but that doesn't stop them getting from point A to B in their stilt leg pants. So, Jack Skellington is the new Sid Vicious. All the kids look to him with their eating disorders and their misfit angst and their skinny legs and giant heads. That's what I say.