#mainly the big thing is that I dont think olivia would do a great job at noticing any decline in employee health being more distant from it

[arolesbianism]

Why must I only be capable of coming up with cool art ideas long past midnight

[sweatytyrantwhispers]

Part 4 of things my friends do that make me love them even more:

- both rachel and cristine are artistically talented and i cant fucking wait to see them become famous doing the things they love (i know theyll becoem famous i believe in them tht much) (rachel has a great singing voice; cristine has a great singing voice, knows how to play various intstruments, loves acting, and can paint/draw amazingly)

-seth tells me some catchphraes his fav youtubers say whenever we talk

-none of my friends (nor I) knows how to react or what to say most of the time, especially when it comes to gift giving and compliments; we’re all oblivious and awkward people that don’t understand society

-andy messes up on what to say to customer service people when its evening/night time cus we usually go out around tht time but he’s used to sauing have a good day

-andy also hates intersections so he’ll pretend hes walking in the other direction (away frm the intersection), stand on the sidewalk and pretend hes doing something, or take a whole other route if theres a car nearing the intersection bc he says it feels awkward

-rachel’s favorite animals are dogs and raccoons so when i send her a post abt raccoons she gets rly excited and says she wants to hv a raccoon as a pet when she grows up. She also gets excited when i point out a dog to her in public (she cant see it cus no glasses but still excited by its genert presence)

-dina is scared of lightning so I always try to ask her if shes alright when theres a thunderstorm

-when we go to the park, rachel almost always tries to make tiktoks. We always end up interrupting and annoying her while she makes them though, sorta like our little routine.

-last time we went to the park, rachel ended up accidentally hitting meng and I directly on the face with the volleyball (its ok though cause im pretty sure we’ve ended up accidentally hitting each other with the ball at least once)

-when i got hit with the ball dina asked me if i was ok but as she moved towards me she went for the ball (we were playing monkey in the middle and she was one of the monkeys); its just funny and i love that our friendship is at a point where we could laugh about it and everything is fine

-i told my friends that i was depressed before going to the park to hang out w them. when i got there i kinda just sat on the ground looking through reddit with music on high. they all tried their best to talk to me and tell me funny stories (they said they overheard a group of kids talking about how they pantsed another dude) to cheer me up. Dina and Rachel both decided to give me a hug at the same time and i toppled over. Dina gave me a hug again. I love them so much

- Andy called me while i was in class to tel me to look at the sunset. Its something that both of us have done a few times because we both love sunsets and usually see them when we’re out. Its a small thing but it makes me love my friends even more.

-I was on voice call with Rachel on discord and she laughed then sent the group chat a link to a tiktok

-(not my friend but my mom) She knows that i hate it when things are thrown out when they’re still good or can still be repurposed. Someone brought flowers home for some reason (i forgot why) but she was putting the flowers in a vase one day. Some of the flowers broke off the bigger portion of the stem and couldn’t be put into the big vase but she put a bunch of them into a small container for me and gave it to me. I loved it even though we did hv to throw it out like a few weeks later.

-My friends and I were at Central Park and we were waiting for my two friends to finish up taking pictures. Meng and I were taking a short nap (him sitting down w his elbows on his legs and me w my head on his shoulder) while we waited. We also shared my earbuds to listen to my music. I was p sleepy so I was on the verge of sleeping my also sorta aware of what was going on (mainly cus we were guarding our stuff while everyone else was taking pictures elsewhere). I was doing that thing you do when you’re nodding your head while trying to stay awake/go to sleep. I kept on doing that until he eventually sat up a bit more and pushed my head onto his shoulder better

-Samir looked at a shirt with george washington on it and confidently said that was benjamin franklin

-Dina was talking about how she kept on eating shrimo and peanuts even though she has a mild allergy to it. Rachel and I were telling her to stop and tht we’re not bringing it to the picnic on sunday cus we dont want her dying. She responded, very confidently, tht she “hasnt died before”

-Samir calls dina “d-money”

-Rachel gave me a hug as an im sorry for taking so long. (I genuinely didnt care cus even tho they do take a long time i still v much love them)

-Rachel takes tiktoks and videos of us while we’re out

-Rachel and Dina both got v the excited when i wore a skirt out today because I usually dress more masculine

-A few weeks ago (i think) my friends and I were at the park. I was trying to do something to meng and tripped and fell on the park ground (the part where there’s basically a bunch of tiny rocks on/in the floor). Meng was also trying to do that thing where two people hold a person’s arms and legs and swing them back and forth with me but forgot that if you take someones legs off the floor with no one else holding my arms, i would fall head first onto the park ground, which i did. Both times I laughed at myself but everyone rushed to me while laughing. Idk why but it made me feel like I was ok and safe, even if i was in so much pain, srsly i couldve had a concussion.

- Rachel and I both got excited bc we both wanted to got to the same college

-I call andy when im walking home by myself at night (or when the route im taking doesn’t necessarily hv a lot of people of lights) and he just vibes with me (sometimes talks to me abt how i should b home) until i get home safely

-idk if i already put this but Andy and I have a safe word when we think there might be someone behind us following us at night bc one time when walking home we thought tht and used our now safe word to see if there was someone

-Rachel and Dina do this thing where they take their hand and go from the side of someone else’s body (where the arms are) to the bottom of their legs rly fast while theyre walking. They call it “full body stroke”. They shared it w me and now we do it to meng almost every time we go out. Sometimes we do it together (one person per side).

-While at Central Park there was a dude that was singing (he was rly good). He started singing “Lean on me” by Bill Withers and my friends started singing along with him.

-Rachel sent me a tiktok knowing full well that itd make me gay panic bc yk ✨w o m e n✨

-Dina, Alan, and I stayed out after everyone else went home cus yk they were tired. Dina and I decided to talk like white girls/pick me girls the rest of the night with their stereotypical voices. We laughed the entire time and created weird storylines including: Jessica (Dina), Olivia (me), Jayden (Jessica’s boyfriend and brother that created on Jessica with me and Nicole), Nicole (Jessica’s friend), Olivia’s dad (a convicted felon in all 50 states and is dead), Jessica’s dad (a lawyer that’s also running for president, and Alan (he was just roped into our bs and was there to act like the dude that we both wanted to have as our bf).

- When we were in the bathroom and washing our hands, Dina waited until after the other woman in the bathroom to leave before coming up to me and, in a discreet whisper, told me that the soap was what “good pussy sounds like”

- Rachel, Dina, and I saw a few cats on our way to meet up with Alan and we played w the cats for a bit before one of them said “pspspspsp come here alan” to one of the cats. We now do this frequently to each other even though we hate it.

- We have corrupted each other to the point where we cannot hang out without someone saying “that’s what she said”, something about Dina being white, “just like this dick”, and “deez nuts”. We laugh about it a lot

- Rachel and I are both reasonably out of energy both mentally and physically after our jobs so when I walked w her to a mall w the rest of her friends, we both walked silently with a bit of catching up cause we both understood how the other felt

-We had a water balloon fight today at work (Alan, Rachel, and I work together). Obviously, I took the chance to pop as many balloons over rachel’s head and dump water on her. She tried to spray me w water using a water gun though. Afterwards gave the towel i brought to rachel cause she needed it to change. It’s important to note that rachel has purple hair right now and that the towel was white. key word: was. The towel was now stained a light purple (I dont mind but damn)

- i made rachel a purple raccoon by crocheting it (purple and pink actually). I finished it yesterday (sunday) and gave it today to her at work (monday). I opened the door a bit and peeked my head in with the raccoon just below me in my hands. She was confused at first but then saw the raccoon and her eyes lit up. It was rly cute🥰🥺 to see her get excited. We both nicknamed the raccoon “pimp jr.” and i made a lil name tag/from to tag that said it.

- rachel likes to lip-sync to music shes either listening to or hears in store and sometimes does a little dance with it. Its so cute and I love looking at her do it because it reminds me of why I adore her. She also goes hard when it comes to singing at karaoke. Like damn her vocal range is astounding

- dina got so excited when i asked her if she wanted to binge watch all the twilight movies with me. She looked so cute cus its one of her favorite movies. ugh i love my friends.

-a lot of dudes have crushes on rachel and dina and the both of them usually just try their best to avoid the person or avoid confronting them. Idk why but it kinda makes me feel grateful that I’m close friends with them because I used to have a crush on both of them before when we first met. When I told them i used to have crushes on them they didn’t act weird about it or anything and we continued to be friends. I’m so fucking grateful I’m their friend despite my initial crush on them cause they’re two of them most amazing people I’ve met my entire life.

-rachel, meng, alan, and I went to go watch Shang Chi in movies. In the last few scenes (which were v tense btw) rachel nd I both got rly anxious and squeezed each others hands bc we were scared out favorite characters were gonna get hurt. She squeezed the fuck out of my hand to the point where I couldn’t feel it anymore and neither could she. I’m ok with that though cus I’m glad she finds comfort in squeezing the living fuck out of my hands.

-dina, rachel, and I have matching bracelets from hot topic and i see them wear it almost every time we hang out. Alan and I have a matching pair too but I dont think he’s going to wear it very much (issok tho).

-We went to karaoke yesterday and I dont know how I just realized this but while she’s singing, dina likes to move around a lot. It’s not exactly dancing but not particularly just moving around. Its kinda like that tiny thing ppl do when they’re alone and playing their favorite songs on blast. She’s so cute when she does it, esp because she seems so happy when she does it. Even though I absolutely despise Justin Bieber, I would play his songs over and over again on blast if it made her as happy as she has made me.

-dina and I like to go to the swings and blast “Happier Than Ever” with earbuds in (we share a pair for this) and she screams along to it for the second half

-it’s become a “tradition” for us to go to the swings (most of time) after we’ve done the initial things we already planned out because dina and I love the swings.

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Best of 2019, Best of The 10s/My Final Entry

It has been practically a year since I may my last entry here, I think it is safe to say Corey’s Corner on Tumblr is very much dead. I knew this last year but I wanted to make my last entry before the end of the year in order to do one last few of the year as that has always been the most popular post I would make here every year but not only a best of 2019 but also best of the 2010s. Back in September 2012 I created this blog as a outlet to share my opinions of movies, music, books and video games but it was mainly used for movies and video games. Much has changed since then for me personally and for things on the internet. Letterboxd have provided me with a better outlet to not only let me express my opinions of movies but also keep track of what I have watched in a way Tumblr could never help me with. Sooner or later Discogs could be that way for me with music as well.

On top of all that I just dont have the time that I once did to write essays on films and music while I have a full time job, a relationship and other pursuits that I find to be more important. Also I have come to realize that I just dont love movies and music the way I once did or I should say I am not quite as passionate about it as I used to be especially in the last two years. I think much of this is because the quality of movies I have seen in the past 2 years has dropped considerably. That could be because I have also had little time to watch movies but I do also believe the quality has dropped as well.

It could also be that opinion of what makes a good movie differs greatly from what everyone else thinks. There have been so many movies that have come out this year alone that everyone loves that I can’t be bothered with like Joker, The Lighthouse, The Irishman, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Midsummar.

Without further ado however let’s get to the top ten best movies I have seen in 2019.

10) Toy Story 4 (https://boxd.it/9ALu) - In most years this movie would not have even been a runner up for the top ten but I think the fact that it is here goes to show you how little I have felt of this year’s crop of movies in 2019. With that being said that is not to detract from how surprisingly good this movie is. I mean you have to hand it to Pixar  for making this series of movies such a solid one. I am not the biggest Toy Story fan out there in the world but I do respect the hell out of how they have been able to turn out such great stories out of this one. While I still believe it should have ended with Toy Story 3, the newest is still a fantastic instalment and great in many of its own ways on it’s own.

9) Fighting With My Family (https://boxd.it/fRyO) - I never expected this movie to be any good at all even with The Rock/Dwayne Johnson and the cast in this movie but this movie pleasantly surprised me. There was a time where I was a hardcore wrestling fan and while I don’t watch the programming anymore I am still passionate about it and have a large amount of respect for wrestlers and I feel this movie was excellent and held the line of being realistic and a bit storybook without been too storybook even though it is based off real life events. It is no world beater but it is still a pretty good movie. Again like Toy Story 4 in most years I dont think this would have made it in as a honourable mention but did this year.

8) The Report (https://boxd.it/j2X2) - This one was one of the later additions to my list and rightfully so and not the only movie on this list with Adam Driver in it. I watched this movie mainly because everyone said this was his best part of the last few movies he has been in this year and after watching the movie he was in this year  that is ranked higher than this one I had to see it for myself. While I can definitely see why people think this one was better I think otherwise but despite that he is still very good in this movie and the movie in of itself is great.

7) Captain Marvel (https://boxd.it/9vSA) - Thinking about how I graded this movie over The Report I am sort of second guessing myself because in a way I think The Report is sort of better than Captain Marvel however I am going to stand by keeping Captain Marvel higher. The reasons is because I have very little expectations for this movie but I wanted to to succeed because everyone was ready to bury this movie because of Brie Larson and the fact that it is a female star and the fact that this movie not only silenced most people and was able to be a great movie in its own right is the reason why I rank it higher. The movie is fun, well acted, it is a nice thrill ride with great messages for young women. We need movie movies like this 

6) Avengers Endgame (https://boxd.it/9vE4) - In some ways I should put this movie higher because this movie was able to make me tear up and get emotional but I think that has less to do with the movie itself and more that I am still a comic book nerd that I was just so happy to see Disney able to replicate how I read comics. It felt like reading a comic book and it took me back to childhood where I would get just as emotional of reading every comic book I had. It is just a good damn movie that no one can touch because it is good and it has out grossed everyone. It is Marvel’s mic drop of DC and their critics. This is our generation’s Ben Hur or whatever epics of yester years. While I dont like what this did with Hulk at the end they got just about everything right with the MCU.

5) Adopt A Highway (https://boxd.it/kImk) - This was literally the last 2019 movie I have seen this year and one that I didn’t even really know of till I found it in Walmart for a decent price. I mean I did hear of this movie but I never really looked far into it during their I just knew Ethan Hawke was in it and figured if it came my way I would watch it because if there is one actor who is secretly scoring home runs with every fucking role he takes these days while getting no award respect it is Ethan fucking Hawke. This movie is no better, in fact I think this movie may be my favourite role he has done thus far. It is such a charming and nearly heart breaking story. It is a bit hammy at times but it has a great heart and is one I would recommend to even the most critical of cinephiles. It’s heart is just too damn big.

4) Goalie (https://boxd.it/lkva) - I am not going to deny I give clear biases to Canadian movies for many reasons I have stated countless. Technically many of the movies on this list are better than Goalie but I still like goalie over the ones mentioned because of personal ties to it. For years I have been trying to write a fictional novel about a goaltender which was spawned from a screenplay i made years prior. I couldn’t get that script made. Either way the biggest inspiration or one of the biggest inspirations to who the main character is in my story was Terry Sawchuk. One of the main things I wanted to talk about with my screenplay/novel was male mental health issues through a sport highly recognizable to Canadians across the country focused using a position that is probably the most mentally stressful int he game itself. A position that is less physical and more mental.When I watch Goalie at this point if I was to tell anyone how my screenplay/novel would turn out on film Goalie is the movie. Well actually I would say it would be a fusion of Goalie and Hello Destroyer. Of the movies on this list without looking at actual numbers I am willing to bet this had the smallest or 2nd smallest budget. It definitely had least star power of any other movie on this list and I think it is an excellent movie anyone can watch even if they are not a hockey fan.

3) Marriage Story (https://boxd.it/hJAw) - Netflix movies haven’t entirely impressed me over the years but I am not going to deny they have been able to put out at least one movie every year that has blown me away whether it be Ojka, The Kindergarten Teacher, First Match or in this case Marriage Story but I think this one may be the best of them all. This is Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson at their best. I could say more but I am sure others have said it better, I have let to see a bad review for this movie.

2) A Vigilante (https://boxd.it/i4UM) - This is the movie that I think I may be the only one who truly liked it while everyone else either didn’t like it or didn’t mind it. I can’t tell you why I think this is the 2nd best movie I have seen or why I rank it higher than all the others. it was the first good movie I watched this year. I think when I was watching it it was everything I needed to see at that point that I decided to watch it with rose coloured glasses. I just love cold, hard and unrelenting character study movies and this one fits the bill. If I ever could have been a film maker these would be the kinds of movies I would be making. This movie hooked me, grabbed my by the throw and it never let go and by the end I so badly wanted Olivia to get her revenge. Getting me to pay attention to movies these days is extremely hard but if you can get me emotionally invested to where I am evoking emotions out of your movie then you got me and this movie did it in spades.

1) The Art of Self Defense (https://boxd.it/hf5y) - As much as I love cold, dark and unrelenting character study films I also love twisted dark comedies, especially if they can pull of dead pan which seems to me to be a lost art in comedy these days the moment Leslie Neilsen died. I knew from the trailer alone that this movie was probably going to be the best movie I saw this year and be my favourite of the year and it did not disappoint. While I don’t like today’s cinema all that much right now I do like that stories of about toxic masculinity are being told more and more. If we are going to progress further as a society and start to rid ourselves of white male privilege and toxic masculinity we need to start telling stories that shine a light on them and show them for what they really are. This movie had me emotional invested, it made me laugh, made me shocked, surprised me (which is very hard to do) and further more it entertained me.

I really want to bypass the top ten best albums I have heard in 2019 because to tell you all honest truth 2019 was worst year I have ever experienced with music. There is not one album I would even consider putting on a top 10 much less saw one was my favourite. It was not for the lack of trying either as I purposely sought out as much new music as I could this year and nothing really good came out. Also none of my favourite bands came out with anything either. I was eagerly expecting AC/DC to come out with an album since they were in Vancouver in the summer of 2018 recording and here we are at the end of 2019 and not even a peep as to when or if a new album will come out. I love AC/DC but they truly suck at keeping in touch with their fans. I completely get how they want to keep as far away from the spotlight and limelight as possible but how they purposely keep their fans in the dark for years on end is borderline disrespectful to their fans. I am not going to give a top ten I am just going to say these were the albums that I did not mind this year.

Thanks For The Dance by Leonard Cohen

Paradise by KMFDM

Gold & Grey by Baroness

The Mortal by Merlin

The Atlantic by Evergrey

While the album selection has been shit this year it would be impossible for there to be no good songs this year. Here are my top ten best songs of 2019.

10) Throw Me An Anchor by Baroness

9) Happens To The Heart by Leonard Cohen

8) Paradise by KMFDM

7) Tower Fall by Merlin

6) Deutscheland by Rammstein

5) For Real by Tom Petty

4) I’d Do Anything by Baroness

3) The Kids Are Alt-Right by Bad Religion

2) A Silent Arc by Evergrey

1) Northwest Passage by Unleash The Archers - Leave it to the band I consider to be the saviours of Power Metal and my love for it to easily give me the best song I heard this year.

For as shitty as 2019 has been or music I am extremely confident that 2020 will make up for it ten fold.

Unleash the Archers (whom AC/DC could learn a thing or two from when it comes to keeping their fans informed) has already stated they will be recording in the new year following up the album that in my opinion is the best power metal album of the 2010s which is Apex. I am expecting Royal Thunder, Castle, Demons & Wizards, Body Count and other bands I love to be releasing albums next year. I am also expecting AC/DC to finally release a new album as well. I know they are working on it and i can’t imagine it would take more than 2 years for them to do it. As much as it is often a long time between albums usually once they are in the studio they don’t normally take that long to finish an album and release it hereafter but this time around is different. Given that Rock or Bust was fairly disappointing to me I don’t have that much expectations for the new one. I am more looking forward to the tour because that is AC/DC at their best.

I normally or try not to focus much of my personal life on this particular blog unless it links with what i reviewing but given this is the last entry of Tumblr Corey’s Corner I feel it is somewhat warranted. As bad as 2019 has been more or less for music and movies it was a bit of a unique year for me. For the first time in my life I am living with someone else, I have a film time career, I have had many great adventures, a few bad experiences and some close calls. By and large 2019 though rocky was a pretty good year for me personally. Would it be the best year of the 2010s or my life I do not think so but that discussion I think is for another blog. When it comes to music and movies as much as I have given flack to the 00s for generally being bad for music from a pop stand point it was very strong in terms of music I did listen to but back then I had the time to find it and listen to it. The 00s was also a excellent decade for indie movies for which the 10s to tell you the truth I don’t think was as strong in that regard. That being said the 10s did proceed a lot of great movies and a lot of good albums. What separates the 10s from the 00s in terms of movies for me is that the Hollywood movies were generally better than they were int he 00s thanks mainly to Marvel.

I am not going to deny I am a big supporter of the MCU, I am still critical of them but in the end I much rather watch MCU movies than the general remakes and movie masculine big budget bullshit movies that generally come out in between the comic book movies that once dominated Hollywood to begin with before Iron Man. I agree that the market is over saturated with comic book movies and sooner or later the bubble will bust but you know what I am just going to enjoy the ride all the way into the sunset. Plus its obvious Hollywood has no answer to the Marvel movies. They really don’t have an answer, not even Disney itself has an answer to it. They just like Fiege do his thing and that is what they should continue to do.

In terms of music there was a lot of albums that came out during this decade that struck a personal cord with me and what I felt mimicked much of what was going on in my life. In previous decades albums like that came one every few years however for this decade I could say for the span of 2013 to maybe 2017a whole bunch of albums came out that I felt were like soundtracks to my life at that period. Maybe they felt more plentiful than other decades who knows it just felt like there was more music I identified with this decade than previous decades.Where the 00s was mainly all power metal and grunge rock for me this decade was mainly stoner metal and folk. I am curious to see what the music I will be listening to predominantly in the 20s will be.

The next/last three top tens are not going to be easy for me and are going to be filled with many contradictions I am certain. Why because things change over the span of ten years especially me. I am not the same Corey I was in 2010, 12 or 14 as I waist 2016 much like I am bit different from I was in 2016 than I am in 2019. People change, opinions change, albums, songs and movies grow on me and some fade away from me. All I can really provide at this point is my point of view in 2019 Corey version 35.0′s view of what I thought was the best from my time versions 25.0 to now. I will start with the easiest one, the best movies. Oh boy......

10) Under The Skin (https://boxd.it/3mDa) - This movie hit me, it hit me in a way I could not explain then and I still cannot entirely explain why I love this movie. It’s visually engaging, it is the definition of a slow burn movie that requires multiple viewings to get. In many ways this is my art house entry into the list. I just dig everything about this movie.

9) Shame (https://boxd.it/2CxU) - It’s a character study much like Under The Skin was and like that one this is a slow burn. It also touches on subject matter that is pretty hard to tackle and does it so well. This movie like the previous movie and all of these movie has stuck with me long after I saw it which is why they are on this list.

8) Brigsby Bear (https://boxd.it/ebkS) - I don’t if there was one movie more than this one that left me with a bigger smile and feeling more inspired than this one. When I saw the trailer to this movie I thought it was one thing but it wound up being another. Normally when that happens they spells danger for me but it was n’t so with this one. This movie belongs on this list.

7) Attenberg (https://boxd.it/bzq) - I watched this movie a few years after it came out. For a time most of the movies I watched was often linked to the trailers I saw from other movies I bought on DVD. I bought a shit ton of DVDs over the last 20 years and finding Attenberg came out of my DVD addiction. I remember the movie just looking weird and just different which sold me on watching it. If I remember correctly I found it at my public library in Burnaby which has an excellent foreign movie collection. I watched and I just dug the movie. I would say of the movies I have watched on this list I may have watched Attenberg the most of all of them. Why I don’t know it is just a movie I really dig for it’s style and weirdness.

6) Hello Destroyer (https://boxd.it/erN2) - I don’t know if there is a better movie that discussed toxic masculinity than with this movie. The movie could have done with more hockey however this movie was never meant to be a hockey movie. In fact you can replace hockey with any sport in this movie and it would be just as relevant. Just a tour de force by Jared Abrahamson in this movie.

5) Her (https://boxd.it/4O24) - This is a movie that I feel like I could not leave off the list but I had no idea where to put it. I put it in the middle because I do love this movie. This movie reeks of charm and heart, it is just a well made movie that thoroughly belongs on this list. The acting is great, the camera work is great, music is great, the look is great this movie is nearly perfect in of itself but unless the next 4 movies what sets it apart is emotional engagement. This one engaged me but not as much as the next four.

4) Short Term 12 (https://boxd.it/5f6s) - Anyone who is trying to figure out why Brie Larson became such a big deal recently could look at Room but i think they should look past that one and look at this one. Just a great and emotionally engaging movie. Just watch this movie, you won’t be disappointed.

3) Camp X-Ray (https://boxd.it/7biI) - This movie came out of nowhere for me, I heard nothing about this movie then it suddenly popped up for me and I decided to give it shot. What I got was a that for a time considered the best movie I saw this decade but it is not. That doesn’t mean this movie is not worth seeing, this movie is very much worth seeing.

2) Mad Max: Fury Road (https://boxd.it/2DjO) - I thought long and hard about whether this would be the best movie I saw this decade or not. It was pretty hard decision. There is no doubt that this movie belong here. This is one movie that I have saw and many people’s list of best of this decade, it deserves it. There is no question that of all the Hollywood movies this decade this was the best one. I won’t spend much time kissing this movie’s ass, the movie speaks for itself. This movie is the best action movie of the decade. This should be the bar for which all action movies should strive to achieve but few do. This movie is damn good and there are few out there who despite it. That simple.

1) Gregoire (https://boxd.it/fkvM) - I am not going to dodge it, I chose movie because I am bias towards it but I have reasons behind it. I give bias toward Canadian movies but this even more so because this movie came from my hometown and was made by someone from my hometown and done better than I could have done it. I give bias to Canadian movies because Canadian film needs that bias and if I can get at least one person to consider looking into one of our movies then I feel I have done my job and that is one of many reasons why I say this was the best movie of the 10s and thus favourite movie of the 10s. I have a emotional attachment to this movie because it was made and set in my hometown, it was a great depiction of what it is/was like living in Fort McMurray though you could replace this with any small isolated city/town and it would be the same. However take the bias out this movie has the lowest budget of all of the movies on this list, no real star power with that said given which was more than like a toilet paper budget was still a very good movie. Acting was top notch, camera work excellent, a very relatable story even if I wasn’t from Fort McMurray. In the end I am a big cheer leader for this movie thus why it is my favourite. If someone was to ask me about what Fort McMurray was like for me as a teen I would show this movie.

Top 10 best albums fo the 2010s

This was actually more easier than the movies weirdly enough when I actually went through the best albums of the past decade. Ranking them was the harder part though.

10) The Big Roar by The Joy Formidable - I was surprised that I would add this album tot he top ten but given the amount of good songs that I love that were actually on this album it’s not that surprising. I never considered this album the best of this year simply because I never heard of this album or bad till the Wolf’s Law but much of the reasons why I love this bad stem from this album.

9) Bloodlust by Body Count - At the beginning of the year this album came out if you told me that this album would wind up being one of the best I heard that year as well as decade I would be shocked. This album is just so fucking solid from front to back.

8) Endless by Mount Salem - I get angry when I hear this album, not so much the album just the band. When I first listened to this album I enjoyed it but I thought it was just ok but by the time I listened to it a few more times in Europe I fell in love with this album and band. So much I needed to see them live in Paris and I am glad I did because they split not too long after. That is what makes me so mad, I so badly wanted them to be a band i could hear more of. Their sound and musicianship had so much potential but they decided to just disappear after this first album.

7) CVI by Royal Thunder - If there was a band of the decade award for me it would be Royal Thunder, in the past 6 or 7 years i have listened to them just about all of their albums I love but this was my introduction to them. Such a great album with great songs for which they have cemented themselves as a top 5 band for me, #2 for a long time before another band would come to give them some serious competition for that spot.

6) Under Siege by Castle - This was another album or which at first I didn’t think much of but over theirs has grown on me, 2014 was probably the best year for music for me this decade. At least three albums came out in 2014 that are on this list (Endless, this album and one more). Of all the albums on this list I would dare say this one is the most complete, if not the most the 2nd most. This is one of solid albums front to back.

5) Holy Grove by Holy Grove - This is where it gets very hard for me to rank albums because we are talking about albums that either won best album for me  for the year it came out and/or that album had a personal significance to me. This album I am certain was a #1 for me and it came out of nowhere. It is just a good heavy album. I can’t help but imagine how happy I would be if I would be able to look forward to a Holy Grove and a Mount Salem album at one point. Both bands came out with such solid heavy opening albums. Thankfully Holy Grove is still around and making good music.

4) Man on The Moon 2 by Kid Cudi - This album and the next 3 all had a big impact on me in one way or another. This album came out during the darkest point of my life and was easily the soundtrack to it. I remember drowning myself in this album for a very long time. While I am not the same person now as I was then I can still listen to this album and remember who and where I was back then. This was a big album for me and easily my all time favourite rap album of all time.

3) Between Colours by Wilderness of Manitoba - Where Man On The Moon 2 was the soundtrack to the darkest point of my life Between Colours was the soundtrack to the brightest or maybe the most important as there was still many dark point during m 78 day trip to Europe but this album was the soundtrack to that life changing adventure. Whenever I hear this album I immediately think of that time in my life. That is how important this album is for me. It is not as over all strong as many of the albums on this list but particular songs on this album with stay with me for the rest of my life. Something that I don’t think few or any other song on this list can say.

2) Crooked Doors by Royal Thunder - Another album that could be a soundtrack for the time period it came out in. 2015 was a year I did a lot of growing in, who I am today is from the internal work I did on myself and experiences I had in 2015. This was the album I listened to consistently during that time period. I created a soundtrack/mix CD for myself for age 30 but to tell you the truth this album would have been just as effective, at least 3 songs from that album we put into that mix. That should say everything as to how important this album was for me. I don’t really listen to this album all that much anymore but even if I don’t anymore I can’t deny how important this album was for the time period I did listen to it was.

1) Apex by Unleash The Archers - Of all the albums I have listen to on this list I think I may have listened to this one completely the most. For the past 20 years power metal was the genre I loved the most and for this decade power metal had sucked. When this album came out it felt like a breath of fresh air, a much needed breath. The songs on this album for the past 2 years I have listened to consistently and a lot where the others I have barely played much at this point. I love this album and I can’t see any real reason why this is not #1. Plus they are Canadian and from Vancouver/Victoria.

Now we are at the final list which I think is going to be the hardest list. I dont know how I can pick ten of the best songsI have heard this album. Feelings change, moods change so if I choose a ten right now it is reflected of how I am feeling right now but the best I can do right now is to try and have introspection.  Either way though these ten songs are/were important to me for these past ten years but make no mistake they could be very interchangeable depending on mood. This is less of a top ten for me and more of a 10 best.

10) Mein Land by Rammstein - I love the music video as much as I love the song but that can be said for a lot of Rammstein songs.

9) These Worries by Kid Cudi - A song that like the album I talked about above reminds me of the darker times in my life, none more significant in my memory or triggers in my memory than this song.

8) Forget You by Royal Thunder - At the beginning of 2015 I had a lot of unresolved issues and thoughts in my head I needed to sort out. When I hear this song I think of that moment in time and how I began to rise above them.

7) Dying Breed by Castle - One of the best metal songs I heard this decade. Always pumps me up

6) Whispering World by Royal Thunder - This song got me into Royal Thunder and it is still a song I listen to now and then though not as much as I used to.

5) Good Times by Mount Salem - Just a beautifully heavy fucking song that held so much promise for a band that could have been big in my eyes. Whenever I need to listen to something really fucking heavy I listen to this song.

4) The Last Thing On My Mind by Joy Formidable - Over the last 20 years I went through a lot of heart break, many wasted years licking my wounds over people I shouldn’t have been doing it for. This was another song I heard in 2015, which Forget You was about the process of trying to get over that hump this song was about finally being over it.

3) Play Ball by AC/DC - AC/DC only had one album out this year sadly enough enough, only two good songs came out of it but of those two this one was the best and is very much signature AC/DC in every way. Whenever I hear this song I get pumped but it also reminds me of when I was in Istanbul purposely eating a cafe with bad food simply because it had wifi just so I could hear 30 seconds of this song. It was worth it.

2) Oh Heart by Wilderness of Manitoba - When I first heard this song on my first go around I didn’t really think too much about it. It wasn’t until I was at Octoberfest feeling lonely missing family, friends and home that this song really hit me. it was a song that really provided me some much needed therapy and singled the first steps I was taking to conquer the depression I had been suffering for over 20 years up to that point.

1) The Coward’s Way by Unleash The Archers - There was never a question in my mind for which song was going to be number one, it would be this one with bullet. No song pumps me up or motivates me more than this song, to me this is basically the most perfect song I have heard in this decade. When I think of how power metal should sound or be played, or metal in general I think of this song. I love it way too much, it’s just that simple.

So there you have it, 2019 in a nutshell and the past 10 years in a nutshell. It has been quite a ride for me this decade but a very worth while one. But in terms of this blog it has been an evolution of sorts. 7 years ago i created this blog in order to kill time, 9 years later I have no time for this blog but who knows, I doubt it though. I will keep this blog up anyway just incase but don’t expect another blog post here.

As 2019 and the 2010s draw to a close I wonder what is next for me in the next 10 years. Ask me 10 years from now. For those who still read or have read this blog over the years thank you for your time and entertaining my opinions over the last 7 years. If you still wish to follow my opinions on movies and music go to the links below:

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