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02
Jan
2012

2011 Top 10 — My Lists

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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:

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?)

 

GoT - Daenerys TargaryenTop 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…?”

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And, a Happy New Year to All!

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11
Jul
2011

GODS BEHAVING BADLY

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Pulled from Rot­ten Toma­toes’ Weekly Ketchup:

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN IS ONE OF THE GODS BEHAVING BADLY
HBO just recently con­firmed devel­op­ment of a series based on Neil Gaiman’s Amer­i­can Gods, and now a very sim­i­lar inde­pen­dent com­edy is also being pro­duced, based on the Marie Phillips novel Gods Behav­ing Badly. Ali­cia Sil­ver­stone and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Lake House) will play a cou­ple who dis­cover a dys­func­tional fam­ily of down-on-their-luck deities squab­bling and fight­ing and try­ing to fig­ure out how to func­tion in a time when they’re no longer quite as pow­er­ful as they once were. And that leads us to the all-star cast, which includes Christo­pher Walken as Zeus, Edie Falco as Artemis, Rosie Perez as Perse­phone, Oliver Platt as Apollo, Sharon Stone as Aphrodite and John Tur­turro as Hades. Inde­pen­dent pro­ducer Marc Turtle­taub (Lit­tle Miss Sun­shine, Away We Go) is mak­ing his fea­ture direc­to­r­ial debut with Gods Behav­ing Badly from a script by new­comer screen­writer Josh Gold­faden. Film­ing is already expected to start soon in New York, start­ing in mid-July, 2011.

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So, this is both good news and Great news from my own self­ish and ambitonal per­spec­tive.  First off, I am a HUGE Neil Gaiman fan; sec­ondly, any­thing involv­ing Greek gods has my atten­tion (hence my novel and nov­el­ette, as well as my upcom­ing novel); and thirdly, any uptick in inter­est sur­round­ing Greek mythol­ogy can only be a boon to me. I hope.

So, what are your thoughts on the above devel­op­ments? Have you read either Gods Behav­ing Badly or Amer­i­can Gods? How about my The Weight Of Night?

Is your inter­est­ing peak­ing or drop­ping like a stone?

 

 

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