My Top 9 Movies in 2009!

I was really struggling to come up with a full 10 list.  Believe it or not, that last one is pretty tough to finagle.  Then it occurred to me that there’s some poetry to it just being a list of 9 in this, our 2009th year.

So, after many quiet months here at Starving Artist, I return from the shadows to post my favorite 9 films of 2009.  Now, note I say my ‘favorite’, this doesn’t necessarily mean the most technically meritorious films of the year, and it certainly won’t include any films I’ve yet to see (of which there are a few I’d still like to get around to).  What it does is simply what it says, lists for you my favorite 9 films of 2009.

Without further adieu!

If Tobias Funke Was a Preacher

Any fans of dearly departed Arrested Development should remember David Cross’s ambiguously-oriented character Tobias Funke – whose antics include joining The Blue Man Group under the impression it was a self-help organization or as a former Analytical Therapist (or AnalRapist for short) obliviously titling his treatise on male psychology The Man Inside Me – should be happy to know that Tobias has resumed his career of personal counselor, only now in a religious setting, right here in the Charlotte area.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is an actual church marquee; I do not have photoshop and this picture has not been doctored.

Geek Rant: The End of BSG

I know, I know.  I’m coming out of my hiatus just to gripe about a TV show?

Yes.  Yes, I am.

2008, My Year in Review: The Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes

2008, My Year in Review: Renovatus

2008 was our second full year living in Charlotte.  Crazy, I know.

But the reason we moved here – to be a part of this new-fangled, crazy, inspiring, misperceived, amorphous body of believers called Renovatus – continued exerting its strong influence in our lives.