The blog post that keeps on giving

The latest nonsensical comment to come from my not so in-depth, but surprisingly well commented on discussion comparing Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight:

Okay, I'll put it straight to you. If Twilight was just about a teenage romance (if you can call it that), then there is no point to adding vampires into the mix. Adding vampires and saying that it is a teenage romance novel is just plain stupid.

The only reason Twilight is so popular is because it lures teenagers (mostly girls I think) with young "hot" actors. Total commercial movie, no real substance.

I can't even begin to understand what this means.

And for even more Twilight insight from yours truly, check out my review of Eclipse over at take148.

A blog in review

Here is a list of posts from 2009 that I'm especially proud of:

I started The Audacity of Rock series mostly to show that new rock and old rock are equally ridiculous. The posts themselves are pretty ridiculous, but they give me an excuse to bum around the internet for an hour and find good musical matches. Anyway, you can look at all 34 parts (so far?) here.

January

• Sylvia Scarlett is a really random movie, that I think is best remembered through pictures.
• I love that the post that got the most traffic this year was my Buffy vs. Twilight one. For such a short post, it got a lot of comments both from haters and lovers. Seriously, go read the comments.
• A Medley of the Day of creepy songs about teenage girls.

February

• Considering two classic films in Actor Appreciation: Jean Gabin
• Staring into the most haunting eyes in cinema.

March

• In which I tackled both Grease and Grease 2.
• A soundtrack edition of Medley of the Day.
• The original Some great beards.

April

• A post about How to Steal a Million because you should see it.
• Jesus Christ Superstar because I like to post about random movies.
• Some great beards 2.

May

• Because no one else spent this much time analyzing the merits of the Mormon Pride & Prejudice.
• A quote-heavy post about one of my all-time favorites, That Thing You Do!
• Delicatessan is pretty.
• In which the brilliantly done miniseries North & South and Daniel Deronda are discussed.
• A lesson in sexy, Some great rolled-up sleeves.

June

• Medley of the Day: Desperate love song edition. I'm going to go ahead and say it's a brilliant mix on my part.
• Viewing the miniseries He Knew He Was Right as camp.
• Thoughts on Band of Brothers.
• Again with the Pride and Prejudice, but this time the awful Lost in Austen.
• Another guide to attractiveness, Some great glasses.

July

• A Scorsese film I liked! Taxi Driver.
• I really enjoyed my week-long Shyamalanathon 2009 series. While M. Night Shyamalan may need the wake-up call George Lucas never got, I hope people reconsider writing him off altogether. Here are my reviews of

1. The Sixth Sense,
2. Unbreakable,
3. Signs (a vlog with quiet sound!),
4. The Village,
5. Lady in the Water,
6. The Happening,
7. and the lovely music by James Newton Howard.

• Bringing Up Baby vs. My Man Godfrey: Who will win?

August

• Looking at the similarities between (500) Days of Summer and Two For the Road.
  
• The 1940 version of Pride and Prejudice may be my favorite (besides the BBC miniseries, of course).
• So I finally figured out the title of the movie was Far from the Madding Crowd, although that didn't change the fact that Terence Stamp is the best part.
• So I kept noticing that the phrase "silver spoon" kept popping up: Medley.

September

• A look at 1980's Raging Bull and The Elephant Man.
• Prostitutes in musicals = great songs.
• So I was really bored waiting for school to start and unofficially started a Shakespeare-athon, mostly based on watching all of the Shakespeare-Retold versions:

1. The Taming of the Shrew
2. Macbeth
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream
4. Much Ado About Nothing

• Some great beards 3.
• The very helpful first edition of Taking advice from the media: How to make friends.

October

• Part 2 of Taking advice from the media: How to make friends.
• I trace the roots of "Elephant Love Medley" from Moulin Rouge!.
• Oh, Dune.

November

• I love a good key change.
• In which I prove small children are funnier than Andy Samberg.
• A book review of Wuthering Heights (an earlier movie review)

December

• A review of The Things They Carried.
• Hollywood at its most ridiculous (read: racist).
  

Playing with the format

My blog might be changing around the next couple days, but don't worry, I'm keeping the picture.

UPDATE: Question: Is this hard to read and/or hideous?