C.L. Stegall

Well, 2011 is behind us now. It was a damned fine year and I bid it a fond farewell. Yet, I look for­ward to 2012 as the year to make or break. I have a bucket load of big plans for the year, includ­ing two new books, a road trip of epic pro­por­tions and a short film… all by year’s end.

I’m an artis­tic soul, inter­nally as well as exter­nally. I love great pho­tos, great movies, great music, etc. So, to see the year out and take a quick look back, I fig­ured I would share some of my faves from 2011.

Top 10 Movies I enjoyed (in no par­tic­u­lar order, really):

1. Super 8
2. Harry Pot­ter and the Deathly Hal­lows — Pt 2
3. Thor
4. Colom­biana
5. Cap­tain America
6. X-Men — First Class
7. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
8. Brides­maids
9. Lim­it­less
10. Fright Night

And a few guilty-pleasure spe­cial mentions:

• Immor­tals
• Cow­boys & Aliens
• Fast Five

Top 10 Songs I lis­tened to repeatedly:

1. Some­one Like You — Adele
2. Rolling In the Deep — Adele
3. Sexy And I Know It — LFMAO
4. Give Me Every­thing — Pit­bull Fea­tur­ing Ne-Yo, Afro­jack & Nayer
5. Sail — AWOLNATION — (Oh, and check out Shawna’s & Tessa’s take on this song with inven­tive video pro­duc­tion!)
6. The Drum­ming Song — Flo­rence And The Machine (I think this may be from late 2010, but I played the hell out of it this past year!)
7. Fire­work — Katy Perry
8. Lit­tle Lion Man — Mum­ford & Sons
9. Howlin’ For You — The Black Keys
10. Bar­ton Hol­low — The Civil Wars (If you’ve not checked out this band yet… what are you wait­ing for?)

Top Ten TV Shows (I limit my watch­ing, so for­give me any good misses — pass them on and I’ll check them out!):

1. Game Of Thrones (thanks to my buddy Jason for pass­ing this on… it was an awe­some first season!)
2. NCIS
3. How I Met Your Mother
4. Cas­tle
5. The Glades
6. Two Broke Girls
7. Whit­ney
8. New Girl
9. The Big Bang Theory
10. Per­son Of Interest

So, folks, what did I miss?  Any­thing that you are sit­ting there think­ing, “why the hell did he not mention…?”

Share!

And, a Happy New Year to All!