Fleur De Los

Top Ten Lists are bullshit.

Here’s mine.

Best Movies (in no particular order):

1. Star Trek
2. District 9
3. Up
4. Inglorious Basterds
5. Avatar
6. The Hangover
7. Defiance
8. Zombieland
9. Partly Cloudy
10. Bruno
11. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
12. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Bad Movies I sat through (in the sake of fairness, let’s say they all suck equally):

1. Adventureland
2. Sex Drive
3. Bolt. Wait, that didn’t come out this year. Whatever.
4. X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Movies that I know are complete crap even though I haven’t seen them (and never will):

1. Transformers 2
2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
3. Land of the Lost
4. Dragonball Evolution
5. G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
6. 2012
7. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
8. Angels & Demons
9. The Proposal
10. G-Force
11. He’s Just Not That Into You
12. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
13. Obsessed
14. Anaconda 4: Trail of Blood
15. Old Dogs
16. Couples Retreat
17. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
18. I hope they serve beer in hell

Movies I haven’t seen that look interesting:

1. Moon
2. Invictus
3. Hurt Locker
4. Watchmen
5. Where the Wild Things Are
6. Drag Me to Hell
7. Coraline
8. Sherlock Holmes
9. The Road
10. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
11. Up In the Air
12. Precious
13. Next Day Air
14. Sunshine Cleaning

Great Music (no particular order or genre or medium):

1. The Blueprint 3 - Jay-Z
2. Modern Times - TBC Brass Band
3. No Place Like Home - Soul Rebels Brass Band
4. Rebirth Brass Band live at the Maple Leaf every Tuesday night.
5. New Orleans Jazz Fest
6. Wednesdays at Lafayette Square
7. In the Mood for Life - Wax Tailor
8. The Estatic - Mos Def
9. …for the Whole World to See - Death
10. The Black Keys (saw them twice this year, awesome).
11. New Orleans second lines

Great Television:

1. Mad Men
2. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
3. South Park
4. The Office
5. 30 Rock
6. Californication
7. Dexter
8. Curb Your Enthusiasm
9. The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
10. Better Off Ted

Good Television:

1. Top Gear
2. Modern Family
3. Top Chef
4. Community
5. Parks & Recreation
6. How I Met Your Mother

Top Sports Stuff

1. Tiger Woods slaying all those ho’s
2. Alexander “The Great” Ovechkin
3. Chris Paul (when he’s not injured)
4. The Saints (before they lost to Dallas)
5. Super Bowl XLIII
6. Larry Fitzgerald
7. Barcelona
8. Lionel Messi
9. Wimbledon Final

Funnest Video Games

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
2. Call of Duty: World at War
3. New! Super Mario Bros. Wii
4. FIFA 10
5. Street Fighter IV
6. Turtles in Time: Reshelled

National News Stories I Cared About:

1. Obama’s inauguration
2. Michael Jackson’s death
3. Daniel Snyder being a giant dickhole
4. The New Orleans Saints could go to the Super Bowl.

Web Sites I spend too much time on (the first 15 that come to me off the top of my head).

1. The Washington Post
2. Deadspin
3. Various porn sites
4. Slate
5. New York Magazine
6. The Awesomer
7. Geekologie
8. Reddit
9. Huffington Post
10. The Big Picture
11. Facebook
12. Look at this Fucking Hipster
13. Hulu
14. DC Sports Bog
15. Blog of New Orleans

Web Sites I Wish I Spent More Time On:

1. Glen Greenwald
2. The New Yorker
3. The Awl
4. Yahoo! Sports
5. NPR
6. Vimeo
7. Donklephant
8. McSweeny’s
9. Harper’s

Moms I want to Bang:

1. Yours

Jokes I need to Retire:

1. Mom jokes
2. Racist jokes
3. Cripple jokes
4. Poor jokes
5. Asian jokes
6. Latino jokes
7. Albino jokes
8. White jokes
9. Red neck jokes
10. Ghetto jokes
11. Jokes about crippled animals
12. Dead baby jokes
13. Dead puppy jokes
14. Still-born panda jokes
15. Holocaust jokes
16. Jokes recycled from TV or Movies