Best of 2009

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Revision as of 22:50, 11 December 2009

Events

• October: Cactus Club wins at the 2009 Vancouver Gold Medal Plates, thanks in no small part to our own Wendy Boys
• Tuesday, November 23: Stephen Colbert announces the Colbert Nation to sponsor the US Olympic Speed Skating team

Films

• Coraline
• District 9
• The Hangover
• The Hurt Locker
• In the Loop
• Moon
• Star Trek
• Thirst
• Up
• Zombieland

I hesitate to add Crank 2, but it should probably be on here..

Books

• Rough Guide to Tokyo

Theater / Other

Finally made it to something live this year.

• Louis CK at the Vogue.

Music

Albums

Electronic

Pop

• Various Artists - New Moon OST
• Miike Snow - Miike Snow
• Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• Dangermouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
• The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
• Passion Pit - Manners
• The Antlers - Hospice
• Calvin Harris - Ready for the Weekend
• The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
• The XX - XX
• IAMX - Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
• Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
• Nosaj Thing - Drift
• The Thermals - Now We Can See
• Built to Spill - There is no Enemy
• Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
• Dextro - Winded

Indie

Mixes

Videos

• MSTRKRFT (feat. John Legend) - Heartbreaker
• Delphic - This Momentary
• Chairlift - Evident Utensil
• Cinnamon Chasers - Luv Deluxe
• Lusine - Two Dots
• Major Lazer - Pon De Floor

Technology

Games

• Plants vs. Zombies

Hardware

• The beginning of affordable SSDs
• The beginning of e-ink reader device competition (Kindle 2, Nook)
• The beginning of true smartphone competition (Android/Droid, Palm Pre, iPhone 3GS)
• 13" Unibody MacBook Pro
• 1 TB hard drives drop below $100

Software

• Google Chrome
• Windows 7
• Snow Leopard

Cloud Services

• Smart.fm, the best online language learning tool I've found so far
• Google Wave
• Readability

Internet Memes

• SHUT UP WOMAN, GET ON MY HORSE
• This is Why You're Fat

Light reading

Food & Drink

Lunch Spots

• Atithi (Vancouver) - cheap, tasty curry buffet
• Las Islitas (Sunnyvale, CA). Recommend the fish and lengua tacos.

Dinner Spots

• Sumiya Yakitori (Santa Clara, CA)

See also

• Best of 2008
• Best of 2007
• Best of 2006
• Best of 2005
• Best of 2004
• Wikipedia: 2009 in film
• iTunes Rewind 2009
• Pitchfork's best music videos of 2009
• AV Club: The top 25 albums of 2009
• Eric Brochu's list of his top films of the 00s