What We Loved in 2009

We wanted to wait until the 1st of January to put this up. Everyone jumps right on the My-2009-List bandwagon days, sometimes even weeks, before the New Year. What if something happens on the eve that displaces an item previously thought invaluable? So, without further delay, below is a list of things Flatmancrooked staff enjoyed in 2009. This list is not divided into categories or ordered by importance but rather alphabetized because the alphabet is good for you. Feel free to add to our list if there is something you loved that we should have.

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The scene in 2012 where the entire state of California falls into the sea.

A

Garner by Kirstin Allio

B

Bittorrent

Nazi Literature in the Americas & Last Evenings On Earth by Roberto Bolano

Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill in Las Vegas, NV

Bon Iver

BookCourt in Brooklyn, NY

Small Craft Warnings: Stories by Kate Braverman

Brooklyn, NY

C

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon

Champiñones al Ajillo at Tapa the World in Sacramento, CA

D

Deena’s Bjork costume

Dexter

One Story Issue # 128: The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor Kálmán Once Lived” by Tamas Dobozy

E

Elegy (Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley) - Released in 2008 but it was so good we just kept enjoying it.

Baby Leg by Brian Evenson

Last Days by Brian Evenson

The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson

Fugue State by Brian Evenson

F

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fly-Over State by Emma Straub

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ed. by R.W. Franklin

the Forecast project

Pizza at Franny’s in Brooklyn

G

The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir by Peter Grandbois

H

The House of the Devil

I

Illegal Art

Inland Empire

In the Loop (“Shut Up, love actually!”)

J

Josh liked finishing Grad School

Extreme amounts of Joy

K

Koshihikari Echigo Beer at Tamaya Sushi in Sacramento, CA

L

Just Enough A.J. Liebling,with an intro by David Remnick

Lovin’

M

M + E’s Chronic City poster

Macaroni & Cheese, Fried Chicken at Paul Martin’s

Mad Men

Maker’s Mark

The Momofuku Cookbook

Ding Dong at Mulvanney’s in Sacramento

N

The National

The Nervous Breakdown

The Next Country by Idra Novey

Not About Vampires from Flatmancrooked

O

Barack Obama Inauguration

P

Pork Belly Tacos at B Star in San Francisco, CA

Precious (if you haven’t seen this movie . . . you’re kinda silly)

A Defense of Poetry by Gabriel Gudding

R

The Road

The Rumpus

S

Salvadore Plascencia

She Wolf by Shakira

Single Ladies by Beyonce

Soup

Stillwater Cove: Sonoma County, CA

Poe’s Children: The New Horror - An Anthology, edited by Peter Straub

Emma Straub

T

Tea

Theft (or repositioning) of hotel topiary

W

The New Valley by Josh Weil

The White Ribbon

Y

It’s Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeah’s

Once the Shore by Paul Yoon