Silver Linings Playbook

 
1) Eh. I was really excited about this movie. Some movie about a crazy guy and Jennifer Lawrence should be OTC. But after two hours I'm not sure anything actually ever got resolved.

2) It seemed like it went overboard with the whole crazy thing. Like I think it had a good setup of Bradley Cooper's character and Jennifer Lawrence was pretty solid. But it just kept going the whole movie. I mean, I get the whole mental illness is a lifetime thing but neither one of them ever really mellowed out. Even at the end of the movie she storms out because hes talking to his ex-wife even tho she knew that the ex-wife would be tuning in. The sequel to this movie would just be them having a bunch of fights over dumb things over and over again. I mean what kinda closure did anyone get? The dad's still gambling, he's still compulsive, and she's still pretty irrational.

3) And the music going on during the movie was driving me crazy (get it lol). It's like every time he was having an ep there was some music blaring that was drowning out whatever he was saying. I dunno if this was supposed to be symbolic  of his episodes or if it was just accidentally annoying.

4) As a random aside I made the following two notes during the movie: (1) "Julia stiles >>>>" & (2) "Jennifer lawrence >>>>>" Pretty deep stuff right there. They also had dinner on Halloween which was pretty tight.

5) The final nail in the coffin was when the movie ended by him talking about how Sunday is his favorite day of the week. Sundays suck. SMH.

Despite all my complaining, it was still pretty good. Jennifer Lawrence + crazy + RomCom ending. Go figure.

B+

This Must Be the Place

One of my fans (Carver ;)) suggested I tune in and I love my fans so here goes nothing.

1)  Uhhhhhhh. I'll preface this post by saying I watched this with Bricker and I was actually paying attention tha whole time (Bricker said he was intrigued by this movie lol). So when  I've been confused in the past because of my ADD, I really tried not to be here.

2) To say that this movie was slow and dragged out is a gross misstatement. Sean Penn takes his sweet time trying to hunt down the guy that tormented his dad. He's not really in any hurry and goofs around the whole movie. He broke back into a teacher's house to steal a picture of a boat, stared at a buffalo for a good 15 minutes, and then played ping pong with some dude he met at a diner. All of this was integral to the movie's plot lol.

3) And why did the movie have so many confusing underdeveloped subplots?  There's the wierd woman at the house who's looking for a missing person that we never find out about. It's maybe the young girl's brother or something, but when Sean Penn finally decides to drop the goth look then the woman looks happy. That makes sense given that a bunch of people didn't like his goth look lol. And why did he drop the goth look? Just because he made that old guy stand naked in the cold? What good did that really do? And whatever happened to that coffeeshop guy he was trying to hook up with that girl?

4) And was it me or did Sean Penn really remind anyone of Edward Scissorhands and not Ursela and Phoebe's boyfriend from the hit tv show Friends?

This must be the place that Sean Penn's movies went down hill LOL.

D

Varsity Blues

1) Wgbw. The other night I woke up on the couch to the hit movie Friday Night Lights, and it reminded me that I haven't reviewed all of the movies I own about rural texas high school football. I mean how tight is the opening description of this movie, "In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion." #damnstraight.

2) It is kinda goofy how in most teen comedies all the actors/resses are in their mid 20s. If I was better looking I could probably go get a gig playing in some high school football thriller.

3) Amy Smart's character always weirded me out after she played such different characters in Road Trip and the Butterfly Effect. I guess maybe that just means she's a solid actress lol.

4) All in all a pretty solid movie. I mean, it's a little unbelievable and all, but it's hard to go wrong with this West Texas football thing.

B-

House at the End of the Street

1) I know I've been giving out some pretty generous grades lately, but dear god this was this good. After undergoing the routine 24 hour waiting period before letting the world know my thoughts, I'm still convinced this is one of the best horror movies in the last few years (obvi with Mama and Cabin in the Woods).

2) Crazy endings like the one in The Uninvited are really hit or miss. When I was first tuning into this I was just hoping that she didn't turn out to be the killer, or have her just be imagining someone next door all the time. When (*spoiler alert*) I finally put two and two together that the kid had just been kidnapping people to replace his sister my jaw almost dropped. It was that good of a story twist. Top notch stuff.

3) It almost took it too far. The very end where there's the flashback to his parents pretending that he is actually his sister was unnecessary. I also haven't figured out what the symbolism of the tree was all about.

4) Jennifer Lawrence has been pretty OTC so far. I actually wanna tune into that Silver Lining movie but still haven't gotten a chance to do so.

How this got an 11% on rotten tomatoes is beyond me,

A

This is 40

1) I kinda knew this movie would be sort of like Friends With Kids.  It's kinda slow and there's a bunch of parts of it where everyone is just sad and depressed about their life.

2) All in all it was still kinda tight at the beginning with all of the inappropriate humor and stuff. And them repping Megan Fox was pretty tight. Was kinda hoping that Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl woulda made an appearance. It's kinda odd that a whole bunch of the plot focuses on her dad being AWOL but her bff sister is nowhere to be found.

3) Loved the shout out mentioning Ross, from the hit tv show Friends. And did anyone catch the reference to Tom Selleck?

4) At tha end of tha day, it's hard to think this was really good. The first hour was tight but then the last hour was just everyone fighting, complaining, and being sad. I mean, they ended the movie just promising to be like they used to be, which begs the question that they weren't happy at the beginning of the movie either.

C

2008 NCAA Championship DVD

1) In the spirit of today's game and March generally I thought I'd review tha final four DVD of tha 08 championship. Obvi not a review of tha actual game lol. We all know how that would turn out.

2) It's really pretty solid except that it only includes a portion of the UNC/KU game. To top it off the part they cut out is part of that run where we went up 40 to 12 or whatever that beating was. I think Petey has the whole game somewhere but it's sad it's not on here.

3) I was actually at tha final four that year (yeahbuddy). It always makes it kinda weird to watch the video of the game because are seats were on the other side so it always looks backwards lol.

4) Still a pretty solid way to get pumped up for KU games.

A

Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (Producer's Cut)

1) I felt like a horror n00b for awhile about this one. For all of my love of the Halloween movies, I never realized that a Producer's Cut originally got filmed for the original movie. I guess really you'd have to google the halloween movies to figure this out, but nonetheless I was smh.

2) Turns out it's a lot weirder but better than the old one. The other one still confuses me about the whole cult thing. I mean, this one is still pretty cray in the explanation that they make up for it, but at least it makes more sense than the theatrical one.

3) The part that really gives me the willies is the storyline about MM being the baby's dad. Doesn't really seem like MM's M.O.

4) All in all it's pretty tight. I mean, I sit around everyday and usually watch at least one of these Halloween movies. It's tight that there's another one I didn't even know about \o/

A

(oh p.s. I think this is only available on youtube, I don't think they actually released this one).

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice

1) Seems to be a lot more old people that have came outta the wood work for this one. I thought they all had originally gotten TKO'd in the first one. Doesn't make sense that they all start surfacing after the remaining adults from the first movie almost get killed.

2) And there's a local university nearby? In the original movie Gatlin was out in the middle of nowhere and all the other towns nearby were ghost towns. Now there's some university professor who just happens to be studying the curses of those kids living nearby?

3) And what kind of film was this shot in? It really looks like whatever they filmed Murder She Wrote got transferred over here. Don't count this coming out on blu ray soon lol.

4) And there's the odd coincidence that the dad and his estranged son roll up to this haunted rural town with this children cult and both happen to fall in love with the 2 normal chicks in town. This whole movie is kinda unbelievable lol.

D+

Billy Madison

1) It's a real tight movie. Maybe I personally identify with it a little bit too in that after I graduated high school I realized I hadn't ever really learned anything. I dunno how many times we read McBeth or went over what that chemistry mole thing was but I'm still out to lunch on all of it.

2) This is also when Adam Sandler was hitting his peak as an actor/sort-of-musician. This and Happy Gilmore ran laps around anything he's done in the last 20 years.

3) And it was home to some tight quotes. "Chlorophyll? More like BOREophyll." And obvi one of the tightest elongated quotations in motion picture history .

4) And Ms. Vaughn?! AYE!!!

A

Scream 2

1) It was a pretty solid sequel. Although I have love for most other initial sequels (see Halloween 2, Hostel Part II, and Child's Play 2), this one wasn't near as good as some of the other famous movie chains.

2) Kinda crazy that the mom killer was Roseanne's sister lol. I get that I get spooked more often than the normal 26 year old. But really after she took her mask off could you really be that scared? This average looking not buff middle aged slow chick is chasing you around? I mean, just runaway FCS. Who knows tho; I've been scared of crazier stuff.

3) As I've mentioned before, one of the tight parts about the Scream movies is that they give a bunch of shout outs to other horror movies. At the same time, it makes me feel a little jitsu b/c I still haven't seen so many of the horror movies that they mention. I guess the blog has a long ways to go lol.

4) Also a big shout out for mentioning two of the characters from the hit tv show Friends.

B-

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

I can't believe I've never reviewed this before. It's such a solid movie.

1) The first time I saw it was way back in the day with that hippy Dave in San Jose. At the time, Dave had a pretty bad taste in movies. For example, the movie we watched prior to this was that stupid documentary about growing corn. But he hit the jackpot with this one.

2) Speaking of Dave (for those of you that know him), it just occurred to me that he looks a lot like Billy Mitchell. Maybe it's just the old guy with the ponytail and all. I'll bet Billy Mitchell is a Kentucky fan too lol.

3) I've never been too into video games (except for Halo and anything on the gamecube obvi), but this is a sick movie. It's like an underdog story of a junior high science teacher who has to beat some bully in Donkey Kong. If that doesn't sell a movie I dunno what will.

4) The other two things that set this movie apart:
a) the dramatic ending where the wife is crying because he didn't win the contest. Some solid drama.
b) The part where the son wants Steve to wipe his butt but he can't do it because he's playing Donkey Kong. I'll bet his wife was mad when she saw that lol.

A+

Friday Night Lights (the movie obvi)

I've been generally ignoring the Awards tonight given that they never hone in on the movies I generally rep lol. That said..

1) I've never been wild about dramas, but sports dramas seem to keep my attention (see Rocky IV and The Fighter).

2) Probably the most appealing part to me about this movie is that it reflects my life long goal to relocate to a rural Texas community that lives for Friday night football games. I'm still on the fence about living in either Midland or Odessa, but I'd bet almost anyone that within the decade I'll have settled down there. \o/

3) Sort of relevant to that, my love of country music had me surprised that Tim McGraw plays such a mean, overbearing father. I mean, it makes sense that he lives in rural Texas, but I just wish he wasn't so riled up all the time.

4) For everyone paying super close attention, the coach's wife was also a doctor in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.

Hard to go wrong with west Texas football,

A-

Argo

1) Eh it was okay. Maybe if I was a history professor or something this would have more of an impact on me, but I bet you could just watch a documentary about this and it would be about the same. There was nothing really wrong with this movie, but you know they manage to get home in the end, so there's not really super drama going on.

2) It's also hard for me to picture Ben Affleck in any other role than the one he had in Chasing Amy (which btw I reviewed that movie exactly 2 years ago today lol). Now that movie was really tight.

3) Had a pretty tight cameo when Joshua from the hit TV show Friends made an appearance. He obvi looks a little older given that it's been 16 years since his appearance as Rachel's boyfriend.
They also said "WHEELS UP" in it. That bumped it up a half grade (obvi).

4) At the end of the day I'm just not sure anything really set this movie apart. I mean, it's a good story, had good acting, but nothing made me think "omg this has to be one of the best movies of the year."

C

Sinister

1) Overall it was pretty spooky. The little kids were spooky, the crazy Diety person was spooky, and so were all the videos. Even the preview for the movie gave me the willies. I'm not wild about snuff films, and he sure loved tunin into those during this movie. DL was that lawnmower film ridiculously gross tho.

2) But why was it so dark the whole movie? It's like he hears a noise and then just runs around investigating it without turning on any lights SMH. Even during the day there's no lights on. And how did the daughter figure out how to drug the dad in the dark? She's like, 'where's that big bag of melatonin lol'?

3) It had a lot of solid foreshadowing. Like when the mom kept telling Ashley how they had to make his coffee. Or Ashley's love 4 tha paintings.

4) Maybe the best part was that FRED THOMPSON played the sheriff in the movie. The politically apathetic side of me never realized he was a big Republican when he was staring on SVU all those years. But really, if Fred Thompson can't bring justice to your town, who really could?

The snuff really got to me smh,

B+

My Best Friend's Girl

1) It was better than I remembered. I'm not wild about Dane Cook, have a hit or miss relationship with Kate Hudson, and think Jason Biggs is pretty tight. But overall it was okay.

2) Part of my beef is I don't think Dane Cook is as good as other actors who try to pull off a bunch of raunchy one liners. My idol Joe Rogan has accused DC of stealing lines from other comedians so I think I generally am skeptical of him.

3) Also, the story is kinda unbelievable because Kate Hudson is light years outta Jason Biggs's league in this movie. Don't get me wrong, she's generally out of everyone's league, but here I don't think anyone was ever under the impression that the two of them were gonna work out.

4) The ending was kinda goofy too. I wasn't watching the movie under a microscope or anything, but did he really just run 26 miles with her to show her how much he loved her? If he was that winded so early into the run, I'm actually kinda surprised he didn't go into cardiac arrest or something.

C

Flight

1) It was pretty good. I'm not wild about flying, but the drinking/legal/chick thing appealed to me lol. Speaking of which, I'm on day 9 of sobriety and feeling pretty good. I get why Denzel is so content at the end of the movie lol.

2) Why is it that so many Denzel movies have these really long pauses in the middle of them with nothing going on? John Q, Man on Fire, and the hit movie HE GOT GAME were like this. I wonder if he specifically requests these long winded scenes where he just walks around to music lol.

3) I coulda gone without all those heroin injection scenes. The underside of my arms gives me the willies generally, but those scenes were intense.

4) I thought about writing a bunch of shenanigans about how the defense attorney was out to lunch but I get that those posts don't really appeal to the demographic audience of the blog lol.

5) I had some love for the movie too because it took me back to the greatest 2 weeks of my life- the ADI 2K6. There were always a bunch of airline crews that stayed at our hotel who loved to party. Hopefully nothing like this actually happened on tha airline smh.

Denzel Washington rules,

A-

Here Comes the Boom

1) I'm attempting to make some fighting debut in 2013, so this movie was kind of up my alley. I like to think that I'm not as overweight as Kevin James lol but who knows.

2) The movie was actually pretty bad. I didn't realize the whole story was just about him trying to save the music program at the school. Remember all those old "Save the Music" ads by VH1? Those were kinda goofy lol.

3) I didn't really understand why they had to change Kryzsztof Soszynski's name to that Ken guy when every other MMA person kept the same name. Well I guess they changed Bas Rutten's name too but whatev.

4) Anyone else catch the sick movie Bad Boys 2 playing in the background at that house? #yeahbuddy

Eh,

C+

Valentine's Day

1) I've referenced this movie a time or two on the blog but never gotten around to reviewing it. Actually I've tried to watch this movie several times but can just never make it all the way through it. It's that boring.

2) Obvi my A.D.D. is a pretty big impediment to me following complex movie story lines, but this one just had too many interlinks. Given that this movie doesn't take place in Salina, Kansas, I'm confused how everyone actually knows everyone in Los Angeles. It's like how Lawrence isn't that big and we still have no idea who are neighbors are. How on earth are all of these people buddy-buddy in one of the US's largest cities?

3) New Year's Eve is running ahead of this while Love Actually is lapping the ish out of it.

4) FWIW TSwift is in it which is super tight but I'd much rather see her sing.

I see why Maker treats this day like every other day lol,

D

Super Troopers

1) This movie has been solid for well over a decade. It's one of those movies that never has to grow on you and is just solid from the get-go. There's really not a bad scene in the movie. Well, actually, that syrup chugging scene wasn't that wild, but it reminded me of how @milhouse used to chug whole bottles of syrup so it was okay lol.

2) Likewise, there's like 23423 good quotes out of this movie. I've previously mentioned one, but there's a dozen more. "I don't want a large Farva." "I'll believe that when my shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert." "WOULD YOU MOVE THAT GIGANTIC COTTON CANDY?!"

3) It even references Friday the 13th Part 3 when they get pulled over and eat the drugs at the beginning only to have the cops (at least initially) drive by. I'm sure this wasn't a coincidental reference lol.

4) These dudes should really gii on some more movies. That movie BEER FEST was also really tight. I dunno what happened to them.

A+

Fracture

1) Obvi this movie appeals to me because of my love 4 tha law. Other movie thrillers (A Few Good Men and My Cousin Vinny) are tight like this.

2) This movie had pretty solid plot twists too. That one guy gii with the victim was pretty cray at trial. And I could never figure out what happened to the gun until the end. I did manage to figure out that double jeopardy thing tho lol.

3) Speaking of the ending, when you think about it, it’s kinda irresponsible by the DA. I mean, the first confession gets thrown out b/c that one guy is biased b/c he was gii with the girl. Then they have the DA who violates the restraining order and stalks the guy go take his second confession and leaves disinterested police officers outside. In the new trial the judge would be like SMDH, didn’t you do this last time? Why would you take the confession? You gonna testify smh?

4) That law firm girl tho. She was OTC! Aye!!

A-

Camp Hell

1) Uhhhhhhhhh. I should've known that this would be a budge movie after seeing the 9% on rotten tomatoes beforehand. Then again, many a prior movie has gotten mediocre rankings but been a Criterion Collection worthy movie.

2) Well, not this one. "Inspired by true events?" Well what was? Some kid going to Christian camp then leaving it after figuring out that he wasn't tuning into the whole religion thing? I'm awestruck that such events have ever happened. I kept thinking that something cray would happen but it never did. I mean, I guess the devil does jump out at the priest, but I'm not sure that this movie really re-invented the wheel on that one. 

3) The dude on the movie cover from that horrible fbook movie is actually in the movie for like 15 seconds. How they managed to put his face on the cover of the movie when he just has a cameo role is beyond me.

4) And smh for that Shea girl from Buckwild not popping up in it. (Hopefully getting over that whole Shea thing before too long lol).

It was just so uneventful,

D

Buckwild

1) Wgbw. I know I usually don't review too many tv shows, but this one was OTC. Talk about walking into greatness.

2) As many of you hardcore blog fans already know, I obvi have love for rural country living so this show was pretty appealing to me. I'm really getting gungho about moving to rural Texas in the near future so Imma be tunin into this. I get this is in West Virginia, but whatever. Speaking of West Virginia, remember that time all those n00bs from KState got "welcome to huggieville" shirts? LOL.

3) That Shae girl >>>>>>>>>

It's like Jersey Shore only it doesn't suck lol,

A

Mama

This movie was OTC

1) It was light years ahead of the Paranormal movies in terms of scary shit popping out at you. Even when you knew something was about to happen it would still scare the bejesus out of you. It's also a movie I would think about putting into 3D just given how many times MAMA jumps out at tha screen.

2) It was also pretty spooky given how creepy the youngest girl kept acting. I've blogged before about why little kids creep the hell out of me. Maybe it's my fear of fatherhood lol.

3) All that being said I really wish they wouldn't have tried to explain a back story about why Mama was after them. It has a bunch of loopholes. Like why at the beginning of the movie did the dad try to kill the little girls? And why did he murder his wife? What did that have to do with Mama? And the ending was kind of jitsu when Mama just settled on jumping off tha cliff with the scary little girl. And why was the little girl eating all those bugs the whole time?

4) Random aside: I think I would've enjoyed the movie more sans all of the millions of rowdy juveniles that clog up PG-13 movies on a Friday night. It was like watching The Roommate on steroids.

 Solid stuff. I'll be adding this to the blu-ray collection. MAMA!

A

Road Trip

Wgbw,

1) This was a staple of my movie collection back in my late high school days. We probably watched it a hundred times in Toromir's basement with tha colonel. Now it makes me a little reminiscent of my college days just b/c I'm (sort of) an adult now lol. It's not like we ever took any roadtrips (except that horrible one to Wichita and that one to Oregon that never panned out), but nonetheless this movie would be Buff's Criterion Collection for historical reasons.

2) It did spawn some great movie quotes. "Austin? Austin, Massachusetts?" "Did you kill a cheetah?" "I had sex last night. With a girl." "If you had a copy we could watch the copy." The window of opportunity is getting smaller by the day LOL.

3) This is one of those movies that would be solved by modern day tech problems. You wouldn't have to send your lf a VHS tape you could probably just skype or something. And you'd probably have a cell phone so you wouldn't get lost in the woods or cutoff from the rest of civilization.

4) Although I will say, it is accurate in that you could probably learn Western Civ in one night. Cramming without actually learning anything succinctly describes this one guy I knows entire undergraduate career lol.

A-

ATM

1) I was pretty pumped for this movie because it's named after one of my heroic friends Andrew "Thursday" MacDonald (whose blog you can check out here). Nevertheless, it didn't turn out to be as wild as the real life ATM.

2) FWIW the girl is the real good looker from She's Out of My League. She's still pretty solid in this movie, although it was kinda lame that they killed her off by having her fall off the main dude's shoulders. I guess it wasn't that unexpected tho that she died that way. I mean, 90% of the movie takes place in an ATM. I guess they had to die some clever way since the hooded bad guy never really makes moves inside of it.

3) I know it's a common theme in these horror movies, but some common sense would have been a life saver here. Why doesn't he just drop his drunk friend off at home and have him order food instead? Why leave all your phones in the car outside the ATM? Why go to an ATM with a spooky guy outside of it? Why not just run away from the ATM in the other direction? For them working at this top notch firm, they really didn't think outside of the box (or ATM LOL) very well.

4) Clearly not as good as other movies that take place in enclosed spaces lol.

C+

New Year's Eve

1) It's weird I coulda swore I already reviewed the movie Valentine's Day, but this is like the less than great sequel to it. NYE is almost always overrated and this movie was kind of in never ever land. I'm obvi not wild about NY (except for Ronnie lol), so I don't really know how things go down there, but it seems pretty dumb to go all nutzo over a ball dropping.

2) Ashton Kutcher's character is real tight. I think I share his contempt for most of the holidays so it was tight when he just ripped down all of those holiday decorations lol.

3) The cast was all pretty cray. I'm not wild about Sarah Jessica Parker playing mom in all these new movies. But how tight was it when Jon Bon Jovi was a main character? He should make it rain in more movies.

4) It wasn't near as bad as I thought it would be. All the sub plots were pretty good and they didn't make the audience connect too many dots figuring out how everyone was connected to everyone else. 

5) The ending was pretty goofy. I don't know why a narrator just pops in talking about hope smh.

C

Les Miserables

I don't know where to begin blog world. Actually, I know I'll get some hoola for tuning into this but at least it was better than the Dirty Projectors lol.

1) What on earth was going on with the casting in this one? Bruno was singing a bunch, Russell Crowe shouldn't have been singing, and I wish Amanda Seyfried would stay in RomComs and horror movies.

2) All of the singing parts were pretty smdh. The whole movie is one giant continuous song. How would you buy the soundtrack on this one and how does Alan know it?  And there was just a wreck of songs where 4 people are singing at once but none of them are singing the same thing. It's like some bad group therapy session where everyone sees who can yell the loudest.

3) The scenes were also pretty random.  It starts off with that prisoner guy then audibles to that girl who gets sad whose kid is missing. And then they audible to the French Revolution? As I've mentioned before, I'm no history major, but what was the point of including that? It's like they just lose, everyone gets sad, but then they sing about it at the end?

4) FWIW all the bw should take this with a grain of salt because I think I was lost most of the movie. When the movie got over I hadn't realized that Anne Hathaway's character had died mid-film. At the end when she walks out to grab the prisoner guy I couldn't figure out for the life of me why people were crying. They should have a subtitle that references that it's supposed to be heaven lol.

Kinda miserable lol. Get it?

C-

Case 39

Been awhile since I've seen this one and been awhile since I've blogged about a horror movie lol.

1) Striking resemblance to The Orphan. It's like the middle class social advocate who wants to help someone out who eventually gets hoisted on their own petard. Wikipedia tells me that the girl from the Orphan was actually considered for the part of Lillith. And that ending too- both girls end up drowning while the lead character swims away.

2) It also reminded me a lot of The Butterfly Effect in the sense that the main character knows someone crazy who they later discover was right about all of the shenanigans the whole movie and not actually crazy. Only at the end of this movie she just gets to go back to reality which is kinda cray given that she burnt down her house, ran off a bridge, and generally was outta control.

3) It was pretty spooky but I thought the ending kinda dragged on for a little too long. Like, we get that she figures out that the girl is the antichrist but then it takes her forever to finally get some resolution to the whole thing. I don't really know how you resolve having custody of the antichrist, but it seemed like she coulda done it quicker.

4) Pretty spooky that this girl was the little girl from Cabin in the Woods.

B-

Top 10 Songs of 2012: #1: Jake Owen: The One That Got Away

Wgbw, #1 is THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY by Jake Owen. The song is top notch all the way around.

The music video is OTC, the lyrics are super solid, and the beat/tune is outta control.

This song also really resonated with me because he just sings about about this gal he meets in the summer who ends up taking off. The gal part doesn't really resonate with me, but this song came out right in the middle of tha summer/Fourth of July so it was very seasonably relevant too lol. This summer was pretty OTC bw.

2012 was a hell of year for good music, and this one just had everything going for it. Hard to say how proud I am of this song.

Top 10 Songs of 2012: Flashback to 2011

Wgbw. Before I unveil the #1 song, I thought I'd flashback to 2011's #1 song, Jason Derulo's IT GIRL.

Jason Derulo is pretty mediocre but this song was OTC. How nobody thinks this wasn't the best song of the last 5 years is befuddling to me.

I get some of the lyrics are LOL (more than the grammy award), but this is still just a top notch song.

Hopefully finding the IT GIRL soon lol.

The Not Top Songs of 2012

Before we get to the most anticipated song of 2012, I felt like it was fair to the fans to go over several songs that were no where near the top 10. In no particular order...

1) Gangnam Style. I don't even know where to begin. I get it's kinda crazy when they are dancing around and stuff but holy god is this club music too much for me. Random FYI, for the longest time I thought the line was "broken condom style." I was like why on earth would they want to sing about that? lol.

2) Call Me Maybe- FWIW this song appealed to me when it first got radio time in late Feb/early March. It seemed to go off the radio but then just came back full blast and then it started to drive me up the wall, go figure.

3) Justin Bieber- I've just heard a wreck of his songs on the radio. I dunno why ones they were but they definitely weren't worth tuning into.

In the next few days I'll put up an honorable mention list for those fans who still can't figure out what's gonna be #1 lol.