On Wednesday, FOG! will be celebrating out second anniversary! The Best of 2010 will be done by then!
Movies: Let Me In, True Grit, Toy Story 3, The Town
Television: The Walking Dead, Pretty Little Liars
Books: Sag Harbor, Imperial Bedrooms
Music: Arcade Fire; The Suburbs, OMD; History of Modern; Interpol, Interpol
Comic Book: Sweet Tooth
Video Game: Epic Mickey
DVD/Blu-ray Release: Criterion Paths of Glory Blu-ray, Psycho Blu-rayViral Video: Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wives
Music Video: Arcade Fire’s multimedia wave video
Favorite web site: Forces of Geek
Celebrity crush: Les Savy Fav lead singer Tim Harrington
Biggest disappointments of 2010? Inception, Black Swan
What accomplishment were you most proud of in 2010? Completing a short doc and getting it into festivals
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in 2011? My iPad being outdated by March.
Movie: Machete
Television series: Mad Men
DVD/Blu-ray Releases: Apocalypse Now 3 Disc Blu-ray, Psycho Blu-ray, The Larry Sanders Show – Complete series
Favorite web site: Fark
Biggest disappointment of 2010? HBO. The overall quality of their shows just isn’t what it was in the early part of the decade when they had The Wire and The Sopranos going. True Blood is very entertaining, but last season felt like an underwear advertisement. Treme and Boardwalk Empire suffer from having way too much exposition.
What accomplishment were you most proud of in 2010? I watched Lost — the complete series on Blu-ray — in about a month.
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in 2011? 2nd Generation iPad.
Movie: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Television: AMC’s The Walking Dead; HBO’s Boardwalk Empire
Book: The Art of Choosing, by Sheena Iyengar
Music: Deftones, Album: Diamond Eyes
Comic Book: American Vampire
Video Game: X-Men Arcade re-release for X-Box 360
DVD/Blu-ray Releases: Ponyo, Kick-Ass, Iron Man 2, The Town
Viral Video: “Bed Intruder” Auto-Tune Remix w/ Antoine Dodson
Music Video: Full version of 30 Seconds to Mars’ banned video, “Hurricane”
Favorite web sites: Mashable, Lost at E Minor, ThinkGeek, io9
Celebrity crushes: How can I choose just one?? Daniel Tosh, Joel McHale, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Roger Huerta
Biggest disappointments of 2010? Daybreakers; Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day;…Republicans.
What accomplishment were you most proud of in 2010? Speaking on the social media + comics panel at M.I.C.E (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo)
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in 2011? X-Men: First Class; Captain America: The First Avenger; Cowboys and Aliens
Movies: The King’s Speech, The Expendables, The Social Network, The Fighter, Black Swan, Inception, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Shutter Island, The Ghost Writer
Television: Big Bang Theory, Lost (series finale), Walking Dead, Dexter, Mad Men, True Blood
Books: The Art of Drew Struzan, The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Music: Pink’s “Glitter in the Air”
Comic Book: Halo: Fall of Reach Boot Camp
Video Game: Halo Reach, Call of Duty: Black Ops
DVD/Blu-ray Releases: Inception, How To Train Your Dragon, Bridge on the River Kwai, Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Trilogy
Viral Videos: “Double Rainbow“, “Bed Intruder Song“
Music Video: Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair,” Daft Punk “Derezzed,” Michael Jackson Duet with Akon “Hold My Hand.”
Favorite web sites: We Are Movie Geeks, Awards Daily, Thompson on Hollywood, Nikki Finke
Celebrity crushes: Ricky Gervais, Russell Crowe, Colin Firth, M. Night Shyamalan
Biggest disappointment of 2010? Robin Hood, Mel Gibson
What accomplishment were you most proud of in 2010? AMPAS granted me press credentials enabling me to go to LA to cover the Oscar nominations and Oscar week on the Red Carpet at the Kodak Theater – dream of a lifetime!
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in 2011? The 2011 Oscars and the big summer blockbusters Pirates 4, Cowboys and Aliens, Super 8, Thor, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Captain America: The First Avenger
Movie: All right, with an infant, I now go to the movies maybe twice a year at most, so I’m going with one of those in Iron Man 2.
Television: I’m still digging Fringe something fierce, but Supernatural and Smallville had great second halves to close out the 09-10 season and great first halves to start the 10-11 season. Let’s go with Fringe, Smallville, Supernatural in that order.
Book: If politicians can vote for themselves, so can I: An American at the Crossroads: An Independent Walks the Line Between Right and Wrong, Right and Left, and Truth and Distortion in the Age of Global Terror, by yours truly.
Comic Books: Tough call, but I’ll give it to Morrison’s Batman, with Planetary‘s conclusion and The Unwritten coming not far behind.Video Games: Barely play ’em anymore, but I loved the hell out of LEGO Star Wars and Batman.
Viral Video: N/A (I got nothing) Shameless plug maybe that got a few hundred hits on Facebook.
Favorite web sites: Uh, hello, FOG! But also Facebook, Comic Book Resources, and good old Yahoo! and Google.
Celebrity crushes: I’d sell my parents into intergalactic slavery for one night of no questions asked, don’t have to call you the next day loving with Sofia Vergara from ABC’s Modern Family. I’d settle for the same transaction for a nooner with Erica Durance of Smallville.
Movie: Inception
Television: Doctor Who, Castle
Books: ummmm I pretty much only read things pre- 17th century…
Music: We Used To Wait, Arcade Fire
Video Game: Arkham AsylumDVD/Blu-ray Release: How To Train Your Dragon
Viral Video: Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended
Favorite web site: FOG! That was a trick question!
Celebrity crush: Emma Stone
Biggest disappointments of 2010? Any and every movie made in 3D
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in 2011? Thor
Movie: Inception
Television: The Walking Dead, The Daily Show
Book: The Legacy by David Suzuki
Comic Book: Locke & Key
Video Game: Mario Galaxy 2
DVD/Blu-ray Release: Inception Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray
Favorite web sites: The Invincible Super Blog, Hyperbole and a Half
What accomplishment were you most proud of in 2010? Launching Skullkickers at Image Comics.
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in 2011? Marvel VS Capcom 3, creator-owned comics and unexpected new artist discoveries.
Movies: Inception, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Tron: Legacy
Television series: Misfits
Book: Liquid City
Music: Black Sheep by Metric
Comic Books: The Flash, Irredeemable
Video Game: Fall Out New Vegas
DVD/Blu-ray Release: Back to The Future Trilogy
Viral Video: Miley Cyrus smoking Salvia
Favorite web sites: Forces of Geek, The Spoony Experiment, That Guy With The Glasses
Celebrity crush: Christina Hendricks
Biggest disappointment of 2010? Iron Man 2
What accomplishment were you most proud of in 2010? Being part of Forces of Geek and meeting Kevin “I Am The Batman” Conroy
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in 2011? Green Lantern and Thor film
Movies: Uhhh..Oh..Let’s say Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. There, does that make me sound all cool and insidery? I hope because I’m not trying very hard.
Television: That show with all the curly haired people. What’s it called? The Walking Dead?
Book: Can’t actually read. The last book I owned was slammed against the wall in a breathtaking display of illiterate rage
Music: I got the Tron: Legacy soundtreack but haven’t listened to it yet. I’m guessing it’s good.
Comic Book: Some Mexican edition of Archie (called Archy) that I fished out of a quarter bin.
Video Game: I watched my best friend play Bioshock 2 four months ago. I don’t know. It looked like fun I guess.
DVD/Blu-ray Release: Haven’t seen it yet but you really got to hand it to the people who uncovered the long lost Blaxploitation parody Super Spook.
Viral Video: something, something, keyboard cat, something, something, Canadian man getting tazered, something, something, somebody’s humiliation captured for posterity for your cruel enjoyment.
Music Video: What? I don’t know? Thriller? Is that the right answer? Help me!
Favorite web site: This one! (Is there any way I can kiss your ass any harder? Because I’ll do it.)
Celebrity crush: Is Rue McClanahan still alive? OK, then nobody.
Biggest disappointment of 2010? YOUR FACE! BOOM!
What accomplishment were you most proud of in 2010? YOUR MOM’S FACE! BA-BOOM!
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in 2011? YOUR SISTER’S FACE! BA-BOOM-BA! Also Green Lantern.
Movies: Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Television: Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, WWII in HD, Smallville
Books: Mostly reading older books these days and playing catch up.
Music: American Slang by the Gaslight Anthem
Comic Books: Green Lantern by Geoff Johns, Criminal by Ed Brubaker
DVD/Blu-ray Release: Smallville Season 9
Celebrity crushes: Jon Hamm and Elizabeth Banks. Both have a wide range of acting ability. They may or may not also relate to Sergeant Zero.
Biggest disappointment of 2010? It’s been a damn good year actually. It started a little rough but ended with a bang. Any disappointments were character builders.
What accomplishment were you most proud of in 2010? Getting an agent and working with some fine illustrators on my comic, Sergeant Zero.
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in 2011? Getting Sergeant Zero up and running and landing a publisher.
