Now that this is my last post, I gotta say this blogging thing is hard. It's like being a DJ — not a club DJ but a radio DJ where the only product you're bringing to the table is your own voice to send out into the ether. I'm just not interesting enough to do that, I've now conclusively realized. Probably why I like hiding behind a cloak of fiction. I know how to tell stories; I'm not sure I know how to fill dead air with non-fiction or autobiography or opinion or, I dunno, non-storytelling stuff. I'm going to go out pseudo-
High Fidelity style, with an arbitrary list:
- Album that really holds up even though the band has jumped the shark: A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay
- Best album by a band I haven't heard anything from since: Anytown Graffitti by Pela
- Best rock piano on a recent album: Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
- Worst decision by a rock band, 2010: The Hold Steady releasing an album after parting ways with their piano player
- Most interesting celebrity implosion: Randy Moss, Charlie Sheen (tie)
- Thing I most want to see before I die: The Pyrenées
- Thing I least want to see before I die: Brett Favre's iPhoto collection
- Crime movie of the year: The Town
- Romantic movie of the year: The Secret in Their Eyes
- WTF (?) movie of the year: Splice
- Movie of the year: Winter's Bone
- Best non-fiction book about the post-9-11 world: The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
- Book you haven't read that you should: Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
- Author you haven't read who you should: Daniel Woodrell
- Book you've heard is great but unless you've actually read it you don't know how great: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- Internal organs most worthy of study for the future of the human race: Keith Richards's lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys.