Top 20 Films of ALL TIME...

so, as we (we being the very few people who read this) know i love my lists. so here is my newly renovated top 20 films of all time. it's an eclectic one...

20. TIE: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? / Monster's Inc.

19. Unbreakable

18. Raging Bull

17. Psycho

16. Dog Day Afternoon

15. Saving Private Ryan

14. Rushmore

13. Ed Wood

12. 21 Grams

11. The Apartment

10. Apocalypse Now

9. Being John Malkovich

8. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

7. Casablanca

6. The Graduate

5. Annie Hall

4. Pulp Fiction

3. The Silence of the Lambs

2. Almost Famous

1. Schindler's List

6 Months in Late Night...

This won't be very long. Simply because it isn't hard to express how I feel about having worked on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien...

I started in August of 2009 and have ended, along with the show itself, in January of 2010. It's a sad thing to see such a great man be forced out by the worst television station in history. Conan O'Brien is nothing short of a comedic genius, and the nicest, classiest man in show business. It was a true honor to have worked with him.

As the curtains will soon close on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Conan's legacy is far from over. Who knows what will happen to him next, Fox, FX, online, porn, or some other outlet that has yet to be invented, but something WILL happen I am sure of it. If only because Conan is a comic gem, and any network would be lucky as hell to have him. NBC made their biggest mistake in history, and they will eventually pay for it. Regardless, this is the end.

I have met some of the most incredible people during my internship; all the way from the top to the bottom. This show changed my life forever, and the knowledge that I have gained, and the friends I have made, will last me a lifetime. The people that work with Conan make you rethink the Hollywood stigma, that everyone is cruel, and won't be nice to you if you are at the bottom of the totem poll. This staff and crew are the single greatest group of human beings I have EVER had the pleasure of knowing and working with. It would be a real honor to work with Conan, or any member of his staff again.

And so, like all things, this chapter in my life has closed. I thank Conan and every member of the The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien for what it is they have given me: the six greatest months of my entire life.

"That's a wrap everybody. Thank you!"- Steve Hollander, Tonight Show stage manager.

Top 10 MOVIES of 2009

another year, another list. here is my top ten films of 2009...

10. (500) Days of Summer

9. Precious: Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire

8. The Hurt Locker

7. Public Enemies

6. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

5. Where The Wild Things Are

4. Fantastic Mr. Fox

3. The Road

2. Up in the Air

1. Inglorious Basterds

TOP 20 FILMS OF THE DECADE (2000-2009)

i love lists. i'm actually quite a list whore. so here is the list that i compiled of MY 20 favorite films of the 00's (or whatever name they'll give this past decade)...

20. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

19. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

18. King Kong (2005)

17. Big Fish (2003)

16. Kill Bill* (2003/2004)

15. Lost In Translation (2003)

14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

13. About A Boy (2002)

12. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

11. Unbreakable (2000)

10. The Dark Knight (2008)

9. Knocked Up (2007)

8. Children of Men (2006)

7. Best In Show (2000)

6. There Will Be Blood (2007)

5. No Country for Old Men (2007)

4. The Departed (2006)

3. 21 Grams (2003)

2. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy* (2001 - 2003)

1. Almost Famous (2000)




* I Consider The Lord of the Rings & Kill Bill to be one film (in their respective series), not separate films.

... and the best year of the decade for film was...

2007

2007's Oscar class was the best I have ever seen since my birth. IT WAS STACKED! Check it out on imdb or something, AMAZING YEAR FOR FILM!

the albums that almost made the top 10...

it was very hard to compile a list of my top 10 albums of the decade, and these are a few that almost made the list, didn't, but still made my musical world go round in the 2000s...

• "Funeral" - Arcade Fire
• "Audioslave" - Audioslave
• "Guero" - Beck
• "Plans" - Death Cab For Cutie
• "Franz Ferdinand" - Franz Ferdinand
• "Our Endless Numbered Days" - Iron & Wine
• "Late Registration" - Kanye West
• "Hopes and Fears" - Keane
• "Hot Fuss" - The Killers
• "The Black Album" - Jay-Z
• "Good New for Bad People" - Modest Mouse
• "Black Holes & Revelations" - Muse
• "Music for the Morning After" - Pete Yorn
• "Give Up" - Postal Service
• "All That You Can't Leave Behind" - U2

THE END OF A DECADE I ONCE KNEW. Part 1

as i say good by to the 2000s i count down s of ome my favorite things....

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE DECADE

1. "KID A" - Radiohead

2. "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" - Wilco

3. "Cold Roses" - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

4. "Z" - My Morning Jacket

5. "A Rush of Blood to the Head" - Coldplay

6. "O" - Damien Rice

7. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" - The Flaming Lips

8. "Continuum" - John Mayer

9. "Because of the Times" - Kings of Leon

10. TIE: "American Idiot" - Green Day / "Takk..." - Sigur Ros

to tweet or not to tweet? or; what the fuck is twitter anyway?

okay, okay, i have a twitter like most people my age, but i'm still a little confused...

I mean, doesn't facebook have the who status thing? and then twitter came along, out of left field and is now HUGE, everybody tweets (i hope that's what it's called). i'm just confused as to why it became so huge to write up to 140 words describing your momentary emotions. i have one, i admit, but i use it rather sparingly, mostly to fill in time when i'm sitting behind my desk at my internship, bored.

it's understandable that it's interesting, and entertaining because celebrities of all ages have a twitter these days, but why don't they just get facebooks? or rather, why didn't they before twitter got so freakin' huge. it just seems like twitter swooped in, said "im going to make a website using the facebook's status idea, and it's going be the next best thing." geniouses though, i don't care how or why they stole the idea, but they did it. they won that battle.

i dont know, i just find it odd that so many people use twitter as their only means of expressing themselves to their friends, so they don't have to explain in normal conversation when they see each other. "did you see what i tweeted today?" "yea, totally, that was great..." ...aaaaaaaaaaaand conversation completed.

i guess im just a fan of one on one interactions (in person, or even on the phone) with another human being, not their technological counterpart. but, in the end, i have a twitter, so i'm just a hypocritical ass.