Mike’s New Year List 2009 - 2010

It’s that time again: the end-of-year round-up, where I can afford myself the one opportunity to use Poladroid (under the strict understanding that they are in no way meant to be ‘arty’) and make mini-lists that aren’t really important.

Click read more to see these Poladroids and lists of mine.

Top 3 Albums to which I Listened:

1. The Dead Weather - Horehound
2. Dead Man’s Bones - Dead Man’s bones
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

Top 3 Restaurants at which I Ate:

1. The Dogs, Edinburgh
2. Mother India, Edinburgh
3. The Colombia, Bodrum, Turkey

Top 3 Tracks which I Should Not Have Liked, But Did (similar to the Unwanted Scrobble phenomenon)

1. Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A.
2. Leighton Meester - Somebody to Love
3. Cheryl Cole - Fight for this Love

(no Shakira).

Top 5 Films which I Discussed and Debated

I can’t see a point in doing a “my top films” list as there are so many (although this does call in to question this whole List exercise, but let’s not mention that), so here are films that I talked and argued over with friends, family and workmates.

1. Paranormal Activity
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Zombieland
4. Star Trek
5. Up (and 3-D films in general)

Top 6 Girls which I May or May Not Invite to a Hypothetical Ghostbusters Movie Night (or my rebuttal to Chickipedia’s Top 100)

1. Emma Watson
2. Leighton Meester
3. Lily Allen
4. Rachel Bilson
5. Mila Kunis
6. Natalia Vodianova

Top 5 TV Box-Sets which have had me Stuck to the Screen

1. Friday Night Lights
2. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
3. Lost
4. The X-Files
5. Mad Men

Top 3 Favourite Photos which I, Myself Took

1. Alana and Lisa
2. Gilly
3. Lisa

Completed Goals from 2009

1. Full Driving License
2. Reach ‘0 balance’.
3. Blog more (I don’t have technical data, but I am confident I have)

BONUS: Dissertation, done and dusted.

Top Goals for 2010

1. Make a really decent degree film
2. Advance in the photography world.
3. Hit the gym. Hard.
4. Write some stuff.
5. Have a Ghostbusters Party (both movies + Real GB cartoons) and invite girls listed above.

WAYBACK MACHINE: The New Year List 2008 - 2009

Happy New Year! I hope 2010 is productive for everyone!