first of all, merry christmas! mom woke us up (the exact opposite of the events of my childhood) at 9:30 to open presents, and it started snowing at 10. hooray!
now: regularly scheduled programming. i've discussed my love of lists before...in the coming days i'll give you some of my "best of" lists for 2010. here's part 1:
the top 6 (i couldn't narrow it to 5, okay?!) movies and tv shows i rented from netflix last year:
6. the first three seasons of the big bang theory. i rented the first disc of the first season when becky came to visit in september and then i went into a dead sprint of watching the first three seasons so i could catch up to the current season, which i successfully did. i miss watching several episodes a day. i miss sheldon and leonard. i love this show.
5. the young victoria made me love victoria and albert, as well as emily blunt and rupert friend, and i could not stop being gushy about their love. there was lots of dramatic sighing from me while watching. i really like historical quasi-fiction, and this is an excellent example of that.
4. the first five seasons of weeds, which i also watched at a dead sprint, because THAT IS WHAT I DO. a dead sprint because you can't wait to find out what happens next...coupled with a sadness because every episode you watch means there is one less episode to watch. i am such a dork. netflix made it so easy to watch these quickly because all five seasons were available to watch instantly - no waiting for the next disc to be mailed to me. i had been hesitant to watch this show because i thought suburbia + pot dealing was not something i'd be interested in. I WAS SO WRONG.
3. the hurt locker - i was cheering for this to win best picture and i'm so happy that it beat out avatar. do you see how i'm still talking about that nine months later? because i am. i will be happy for a long time about this little film. again: war movies aren't a genre i think of myself loving, but this film really hooked me, even though parts of it were very hard to watch.
2. (500) days of summer - i love films with an easy premise, so this goes into the same category as slumdog millionaire - in (500) days, we find out very quickly that we're going to see some of the days in the life of this relationship. in slumdog, we're going to learn about this guy's life through the questions on a gameshow. i think this is brilliant - it lets me know what the basic framework of the film is going to be, what to expect, where we're going. joseph gordon-levitt, whom i've loved since third rock from the sun, and zooey deschanel are awesome in this film. and parts of it are so HAPPY. the emotions aren't subtle here.
1. and the winner is: the first season of gavin & stacey. absolutely in love with this show - the music, the characters, how understatedly funny it is. only season 1 is available in the US, so right now i've been left hanging and waiting for the other seasons to be released. i love this show so much i bought it...the first DVD i've bought in a LONG time. this must mean something.
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