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My Favored movies of 2009
Treasured ones
(500) Days of Summer
The Brothers Bloom
District 9
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Julie & Julia
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
Up
Up In the Air
Honorable mention
Pandorum
All ages-ish
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Up
Guilty pleasures
Law Abiding Citizen
Holiday
coming soon
Want to see
35 Shots of Rum (Japanese father-daughter drama)
A Serious Man
An Education
Adventureland
Everybody’s Fine (De Niro road trip Christmas)
The Hurt Locker
I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
The Messenger
Precious
Where the Wild Things Are
Whip It (Drew Barrymore debut about roller derby)
Disappointing / underwhelming
Sherlock Holmes (the Guy Ritchie one)
Watchmen
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ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2009
My favourite 11 albums
(Compilation) - Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Girls - Album
Moby - Wait for Me
Muse - the Resistance
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Raveonettes - In and Out of Control
Sharon Van Etten - Because I Was In Love
Honorable mention
a-ha - Foot of the Mountain
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For the Young
Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Beach House - Devotion
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Florence And The Machine - Lungs
F*ck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Grand Archives - Keep in Mind Frankenstein
Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Royksopp - Junior
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
M. Ward - Hold Time
The xx - xx
Woods - Songs of Shame
Underwhelming or disappointing
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
44 Songs from 2009 you gotta hear
Big Bird in a Small Cage - Patrick Watson
Birds Encouraged Him - Jason Lytle
Brand New Sun - Jason Lytle
The Embassy - Mos Def
Live Alone - Franz Ferdinand
Resistance - Muse
Summertime Clothes - Animal Collective
Yours Truly, the Commuter - Jason Lytle
Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand
2009 Playlists by month
January
Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)" (E / explicit!) - the Raveonettes
February
Big Bird in a Small Cage - Patrick Watson
Katherine Kiss Me - Franz Ferdinand
March
Dreams - Brandi Carlile
The Ghost of My Old Dog - Jason Lytle
April
Birds Encouraged Him - Jason Lytle
Live Alone - Franz Ferdinand
May
June
Don’t Hide Away - Bishop Allen
July
Summertime Clothes - Animal Collective
The Embassy - Mos Def
Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand
August
Bang! - the Raveonettes
Yours Truly, the Commuter - Jason Lytle
September
Brand New Sun - Jason Lytle
Resistance - Muse
Fürget It - Jason Lytle
October
Oh, I Buried You Today - the Raveonettes
Twilight Omens - Franz Ferdinand
Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand
November
Suicide - The Raveonettes (E / explicit)
December
Playlist - Night Driving
Blood Bank / Bon Iver
Isolate / Moby
Some Things Last a Long Time / Beach House
Sleep Alone / Bat for Lashes
Le Chat Du Cafe Des Artistes / Charlotte Gainsbourg
Sleepless / the Decemberists
Dead Sound / the Raveonettes
True to Life / Röyksopp
Mistake / Moby
Much More Than That / Sharon Van Etten
Panic Switch / Silversun Pickups
Nightingale / December Song / Sunset Rubdown
Flora / Vive Voce
Basic Space / the xx
Flight of the Feathered Serpent / F**k Buttons
Olympians / F**k Buttons
Tornado / Sharon Van Etten
Scream Pilots / Moby
Summer Top Down Driving
Be a Bee / Air
Out of the Blue / Julian Casablancas
Life in Marvelous Times / Mos Def
Baltihorse / Dan Deacon
Summertime Clothes / Animal Collective
Good ‘Ole Boredom / Built to Spill
Ulysses / Franz Ferdinand
Uprising / Muse
Bad Romance / Lady Gaga
Bang! / the Raveonettes
Losin Your Head / Monsters of Folk
Kiss with a Fist / Florence and the Machine
No Line on the Horizon / U2
Hatin on the Club / Rihanna f. The Dream
Ease Off the Liquor / Timbaland
If We Ever Meet Again (feat. Katy Perry) / Timbaland
Malibu Run / Husky and the Sandmen
Omen / the Prodigy
