Here is a list of films that people are outraged by when I tell them I have not ever seen all the way through or maybe not even at all. And that was the worst sentence I have ever written.
Purple Rain
Dirty Dancing
Desperately Seeking Susan
Ghostbusters
Ghost
Hmm I feel like there was a lot more. I AM SO SORRY. (Not really)
I propose that 2012 be forever known as year of the Duplass Brothers especially and also Mark Duplass. KILLIN IT, these guys! In chronological order of my viewing:
MARS was pretty fun and strange and come on now a cartoon Duplass in space are you kidding me, how can you go wrong? It was made in 2010 but only reached my eyes in January 2012.
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED was GREAAAAT. It was nice to see Aubrey Plaza smile a tiny bit more than usual and Duplass with that hair and clothes and serious face and when he is running? Haha so good! And the other characters were even enjoyable even if a little cliched. I really enjoyed every second of this and didn't know what to expect as an ending which seems unusual but it was exciting.
YOUR SISTER'S SISTER. Easily my favourite film of the year, hands down. I saw it twice in the cinema and I'd do it again, dammit. I don't even know what to say about it I just loved all of it. There is something about that Rosemary DeWitt's face, hey, I cannot look away. And Emily Blunt's cute little accent and Duplass' bumbling without being a nonce about it and just the whole story and the characters and that bit where he is all "I am emotionally at best precarious and at worst a cripple" oh maaaaan. MAN. You done good, Lynn Shelton.
Speaking of Lynn Shelton, I finally got around to watching HUMPDAY which obviously was also great. I mean this is a list of the best things I watched in 2012 so obviously it is going to be great. It's from 2009 and who knows why it took me this long to get around to, it just did. "Humpday. Is. Great!" I believe was the review from TFid and dude was not lying. Fun! Where is Joshua Leonard these days?
AND THEN... Duplass Brothers' JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME Geez Louise. Was this actually released in 2011 I didn't think so but the internet says otherwise. Maybe Australia got it a year late? Well who cares. How repetitive is this post by now? I feel like all I am saying is THIS WAS SO GREAT but really these guys are just unstoppable. I'm not a huge Ed Helms fan I don't know why really I suppose I am indifferent, he's fine, but Jason Segel is just so charming no matter what. I remember him having good physical comedy in this, too, with the hiding and running into things maybe? Anyway what a nice film. NICE. I get a feeling those Duplass' are just such nice dudes.
And even though it is now 2013 while I write this, tomorrow I am watching DO-DECA-PENTATHALON and I am 100% certain it will be super great. Suuuuuper Great, Can't Wait!
Duplass Brothers, I love you.
ps for the record other films I enjoyed in cinemas: Seven Psychopaths, Argo, Damsels in Distress, Dark Horse, Melancholia, Moonrise Kingdom, Take This Waltz, Young Adult. Plus at home: Diner, Friday Night Lights, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Descendants. And also soooo many documentaries, maybe I will write about them another time.
I cannot compile a list of favourite albums at all hey, what is that about? Nothing blew me away. Was this year quiet or have I forgotten how to get into something? Who knows but here is a random assortment of things I enjoyed.
Oh remember when you first heard and saw Azealia Banks and how fun 212 was? Good times! Well this just in, it is still really fun. I would say this can stay a favourite of 2012 but the rest of her didn't stick that well with me. Well 1991 was okay but then Fantasea was annoying. Also internet fights come on now. Anyways. It is all mostly this video. Still excellent.
Along these same lines (HOW GOOD IS THAT SINGLE AND VIDEO AND OMG LOVE HER but then the rest of the stuff I am not as psyched about) can go Losing Youby Solange. Although the rest of her EP is better than the rest of Banks'. And she is farrrrr more likeable. But I'll probably just keep Losing You on a playlist and forget the rest eventually, hey, no point hiding the truths here, internet. Watch this video again for the hundredth time though, you won't regret it.
The Frowning Clouds are some youngins from Geelong who supported Black Lips earlier this year and they were/are GREAT and also they're on this great Nuggets Cover Album which is a freaking delight, and turns out they even have an album out from a few years ago who knew? Why don't I own this already?
Please note how excellently 60s this record cover is in every way
Actual albums/EPs from 2012 that I enjoyed at least 60% and maybe up to 90% but none 100%
Cat Power - Sun
Boomgates - Double Natural
Deep Sea Arcade - Outlands
Kishi Bashi - 151a
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Courtney Barnett - I've got a friend called Emily Ferris
Howard Kremer - Have A Summah
Oh okay turns out there were quite a few albums released this year I liked. There you go, that was my top picks, good work, music! Oh the Paul Kelly one I know is good too but I haven't given it the solid time that it deserves. Also I should probably listen to the Tim Rogers one (I forgot about it) and also Tame Impala (apparently) but I have not. "Marry me!" - Maeby Funke. Sidenote: LastFM tells me I mostly listened to Jay Z & Kanye, followed by Arcade Fire and Those Darlins.. which is no surprise to me, whats it to you?
PS Meanwhile, just quietly, Best Coast were disappointing on two levels: I saw them live and it was not great, and then the second album too was not great. Booo! Get better again soon, Best Coast! I still love the first album, lets pretend the second one didn't happen.
I guess here is my standard fifty great things of the year although to be honest I struggled once I hit about 35, the end of 2012 had all kinds of bullshit, hey. Fknnnnnnn. So. WOO LETS GO!
The McLarson Wedding
New friendz
Instagram
Have A Summah by Howard Kremer
Havin an actual Summah
SUMMAHFEST at TFids
BECK at Harvest good lordy
Bonnie Prince Billy in that nice old theatre!
Emoji
Family visits
SO MUCH MARK DUPLASS
Many films at MIFF
Black Lips especially the Bad Kids singalong
Attica dinners
Halloween Tinies at the door "eyeball eyeball!"
Birthday in Hobart
Perth BeachesTM
Whooch & Tooch
Courtney Barnett
Fancy Hanks
KANYE Ridiculousness at Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Cowgs 30th Party
Road Trippin, Tasmania
Baseball! #goaces #lolz
#goeagles
In The Pines
So much going to the zoo
Rumi BBQ Sunday
Babies to be! Special shoutout to lil Tronno.
Some genius putting a trampoline at the flats across the road
Well Well Well. It is raining outside, and I can only think of one thing to combat that. Also it'd be good to finish these off before actual Summah and/or getting a job starts eating away at all this free time. So here we are, Twilight #4 Breaking Dawn PART(E) ONE. Hi Tristan! You have seen this one, please feel free to discuss with me in the comments.
Yes "Parte". Why such fancy spelling? How very ye olde. Because Vampires?
It's raining quick talke of your shirt!
Aaaahaha a wedding invitation! Hooray.
Uh oh, girly shoes! Gonna need a mooontaaaaaage! Oh maybe not. Disappointing.
Wait, people got invitations ONE DAY before the big day? That seems poorly planned.
"Go home and get lots of beauty sleep" seems a bit rude.
I don't care how in love I was I don't think I'd be comfortable with mr creep still just appearing out of nowhere like that.
#flashback
Woah, did he say he only killed molesters? And so was he? What?
Bachelor party! "no strippers just lions and bears" lolzzz he done a comedy!
#dreaming of a mountain of dead people!
If there isn't an accidental biting at this wedding I will be very bored
Go on dumb dumb get down that aisle already.
These palefaces could just get some fake tan and solve a lot of problems I reckon.
I hope Wolfy is watching from the top of a mountain.
Hey wait we didn't get to see any bachelor party, ripped off
Geez they are really rushing through this whole wedding business I thought they'd drag it out like everything else.
#drunkdad!
Wow rubbish montage of speeches, guys, did the writers forget to show up?
Everyone is dancing to a different song
Eww he's gonna bang her in the forest as her special gift?
Oh no just bring out the Jacob. IN A SHIRT WHUUUUT?
Hey do guys who already have moustaches do anything for movember?
Since when does vampy know how to drive at a regular speed? Marriage changed him huh
How long have those candles been burning? #firehazard
"I think I've made a huge mistake" - Bella
Isn't this kind of paedophilia?
I am surprised vampires can bone down really considering their not being warm blooded you know what I mean
I wonder if this would actually be better if it wasn't for kids? Probably not
WIFE BEATER
HER DAD IS GONNA DESTROY YOU, PAL.
There is something hilarious about a vampire in a polo shirt
For a hundreds year old guy he is not very good at chess
Of course the wolves play soccer and not baseball #unamerican
Terrible dialogue
Chicken and peanut butter for breakfast?
HAHA OH I HOPE THATS NOT CHICKEN #humanflesh
UH OH GONNA BE A #vampbabyyyyy
These foreign subtitles only add to the mystery of what could happen! #piracy
"THAT THING" careful buddy
Oh man I bet she is SUPER preggo already. Vampbabies surely grow at super speed.
Hahaha the ultrasound can't penetrate the embryotic sack!
Makeup department nailed it on making Bella look like shit, though
Ooh now Jacob is delivering the comedy lines! Badly.
No time for bikes it's wolfing time!
This is like the credits to Homeland with less jazz. Still bad though.
Wolf puppet party! Runninggggg!
Wait what is going on. I don't know who is who in these wolves chit chat.
Fucking hell these wolves are HILARIOUS. Not even puppets hey.
Hahahahaha. They really should've allocated some budget dollars to the wolves.
I zoned out what are these two wolf boys talking about? "Two man wolf pack" ha ha.
Unwanted wolf girl sob story
Haha YAHOO search! Hey guy please type in "vampire baby" you won't regret it.
Exhibit B
Couldn't they just Caesarian that thing out of her?
BLOOD MILKSHAKE
The white faces make me so angry
This is so dumb
Medical spa in Switzerland? Good cover story.
#marriagecomedy
I can't see a thing but it sounds like wolves are chasing a girl in the forest and winning.
HAAAHAA did she just break her back?
WOAH HOME SURGERY HAHAHA
AAHAHAHAHAHA
HAAHAHAHA
The way there is no blood around the eyes of this baby makes it seem like it was wearing goggles in the womb.
Uh oh dying!!! Dead! For the record, I don't believe this for a second.
But the good news is now wolfboy gets to kill paleface!
Someone's getting a bit bite happy calm down bro
Haha wow a zoom through her internal organs, great
Ooh I hope the baby is stolen and raised by wolves! #plottwist #confusedchild
Shit that baby is weird lookin is it CGI
Another fight scene too dark for me to see. Again a girl is squealing and wolves are growling. Haha I think someone just punched a wolf though.
Aaahaha Jacob imprinted on the BABY?? Is that legal? That's fucking creepy but what a good payback on those jerks! He's gonna bone your daughter one day hahahaha
Ew she looks gross dead
#specialeffects
Oh no she woke up with red eyes ha ha dumb
Oh these jerks in their basement again enough with the drama, vampires, you are so lame.
IN SUMMATION! Paedophilia, "special effects" and hilarious wolves. Less than two hours though.
