Grand Plans: A Few New Lists In The Works

Just wanted to give some notice... I am working on two new lists.

1. In honor of yesterday's release of his 33rd studio album, I will be ranking all 33 of Bob Dylan's masterworks. I have almost all of them on vinyl and CD already so this one should be do-able. Hopefully I don't abandon the project when I reach his mediocre 1980s period, hah.

2. I will be ranking every MAJOR animated Disney movie. This includes the Pixar joint efforts as well. I have no idea when the movie "Up" comes out but it's possible that it will time out nicely with Up's release as well. I am torn as to how to define which movies make the list. I was thinking I would go off of the movies Disney declares as "Platinum Editions" but this designation already rules out Dumbo, Sword In The Stone, The Aristocats and Alice In Wonderland which I think most would put as must-haves with this list. Plus, I think the movie "Bolt" should make the cut but I think none of the sequels to any of the movies except Toy Story should be on it. I'm not trying to discriminate, I just think there are movies we think of as integral parts of the Disney Canon that don't include the two sequels to The Little motherfucking Mermaid. Perhaps it will be strictly theatrical releases minus a few of the less important ones here and there.

So yeah, here's the list I have in mind (chronologically), let me know which films I am forgetting:
Snow White
Pinocchio
Fantasia
Dumbo
Bambi
Cinderella
Alice In Wonderland
Peter Pan
Lady And The Tramp
Sleeping Beauty
101 Dalmatians
The Sword In The Stone
The Jungle Book
The Aristocats
Robin Hood
The Fox And The Hound
The Little Mermaid
Beauty And The Beast
Aladdin
The Lion King
Pocahontas
Toy Story
A Bug's Life
Toy Story 2
Monsters, Inc
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Cars
Ratatouille
WALL-E
Up

I left out The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, all regular animation films released after the Pixar/Disney merge, all films that are half live action and a slew of ones I'm not familiar with including the ones with Spanish names (3 caballeros, saludos amigos, etc.) So, if you think one of the omitted films should make the list or that I have some films on the list that shouldn't be on there, let me know so I can make this thing make sense. Keep in mind we're already over 30 films. Maybe I could exclude the Pixar films for a later list?

Three quick album recommendations for 2009 which might be better than anything I heard in 2008:
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (indie rock, kinda trippy arrangements)
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life (look past the voice to find sense of humor, brilliance)
Manchester Orchestra - Everything To Nothing (alt rock, atlanta band i've been blabbing about for years now that is apparently getting national play and is somehow now huge - sophomore album - go buy it)

Lastly, just wanted to share more insignificant info on my Samuel Adams obsession. We are up to a ridiculous 39 beers. The latest being three from the 2008 LongShot Homebrew Contest. I wasn't as big of a fan of this year's homebrew winners as I was in recent years but I can see why they were chosen. The list:

Boston Lager
Sam Adams Light
180 (Boston Restaurant Exclusive)
1790 Root Beer Brew
Black Lager
Blackberry Witbier
Boston Ale
Brown Ale
Cherry Wheat
Chocolate Bock
Cranberry Lambic
Cream Stout
Double Bock
George Washington Porter
Hefeweizen
Holiday Porter
Honey Porter
Imperial Pilsner (Hallertau)
Imperial Series Double Bock
Imperial Series Porter
Imperial Series White
Irish Red
James Madison Dark Wheat Ale
Longshot Boysenberry Wheat
Longshot Cranberry Wit
Longshot Dortmunder Export
Longshot Double IPA
Longshot Grape Pale Ale
Longshot Old Ale
Longshot Traditional Bock
Longshot Weizenbock
Octoberfest
Old Fezziwig Ale
Pale Ale
Scotch Ale
Summer Ale
Traditional Ginger Honey Ale
White Ale
Winter Lager

36 Sam Adams Beers

Alright, I'm changing things up around here even more. The personal stuff has been moved to rehmus.tumblr.com. This blog will strictly be rankings, many of which are in the works now and will be up soon. For an explanation of the photo to your left, check that link and be sure to "follow" me on there.

Since I've mentioned my Sam Adams obsession a lot here I have an update. I'm up to 36 freakin types of Sam. I don't know if I mentioned the Blackberry Witbier from a month or 2 ago but that one put me up to 33 Sam Adams types. As of last night, the number leaped to 36. I just got my hands on four packs for their new Imperial Series which included Imperial White, Imperial Stout and Double Bock (reformulated version of their older, crummy Double Bock). So yeah, 36 and still going strong. I love this company.

I Think I'm In Love

So I just got my Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock bottle and $11+tax gets you two glasses. I have to say: it's totally worth it. I think I'm in love. With this beer.

This brings me up to 32 different types of Samuel Adams tried.

The list:

Types of Samuel Adams Tried

	Boston Lager
	Sam Adams Light
	180 (Boston Restaurant Exclusive)
	1790 Root Beer Brew
	Black Lager
	Boston Ale
	Brown Ale
	Cherry Wheat Chocolate Bock
	Cranberry Lambic
	Cream Stout
	Double Bock
	George Washington Porter
	Hefeweizen
	Holiday Porter
	Honey Porter
	Imperial Pilsner
	Irish Red
	James Madison Dark Wheat Ale
	Longshot Boysenberry Wheat
	Longshot Dortmunder Export
	Longshot Grape Pale Ale
	Longshot Old Ale
	Longshot Weizenbock
	Octoberfest
	Old Fezziwig Ale
	Pale Ale
	Scotch Ale
	Summer Ale
	Traditional Ginger Honey Ale
	White Ale
	Winter Lager

You get NOTHING! You lose! Good day sir!

Be sure and read the previous post, it's far more interesting than this one, I just thought of a few more things I wanted on the blog today that I forgot to bother with earlier.

1. I finally finished my list project. See the four links in the sidebar titled "what i have, what i want, etc." They took me forever and they are every list that will show up in the "List Of The Week" feature I've been doing.

2. I realized I've tried 31 Samuel Adams, not 30. I forgot Imperial Pilsner. It's pretty much pointless but for the sake of being comprehensive I mention it.

3. This is completely hilarious and true, courtesy of Pearls Before Swine:

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. It Rocks Absolutely, Too.

LIST OF THE WEEK

I'll probably end up doing two different weekly gimmicks here. First is this one, the list of the week. The other is record find of the week, which sounds lame to probably everyone reading this right now, but it's a part of the reason I started this thing and part of the reason it's named what it is so suck a fat one.

Anyways, here's this week's list. Pretty soon all of my lists will be available via a sidebar link. I've been typing up my Moleskines (which has taken and will continue to take a ton of time) and I've been loading lists on to some list site for mass consumption. I should probably offer a disclaimer that I'm not arrogant enough to believe you will do anything with these lists. A lot of times they are about me (my favorites, things I own, things I want, etc) but sometimes they'll have info between the lines that might make you think "Paul likes these directors? Maybe I could check out a few of them" or something like that. That's up to you. I'm just going to post them. Feel free to offer feedback on the lists as I do this. Also, definitely feel free to request a list be done on something. I'm not going to be making a list of my favorite actors of Spanish descent but if you come up with something like that you'd find interesting, I'd be happy to make those sorts of wackier lists.

This week's list: Types of Samuel Adams I have tried (30!)
The order is alphabetical after the first two which are the common Sam Adams beers.

• Boston Lager
• Sam Adams Light
• 180 (Boston Restaurant Exclusive)
• 1790 Root Beer Brew
• Black Lager
• Boston Ale
• Brown Ale
• Cherry Wheat
• Cranberry Lambic
• Cream Stout
• Double Bock
• George Washington Porter
• Hefeweizen
• Holiday Porter
• Honey Porter
• Irish Red
• James Madison Dark Wheat Ale
• Longshot Boysenberry Wheat
• Longshot Dortmunder Export
• Longshot Grape Pale Ale
• Longshot Old Ale
• Longshot Weizenbock
• Octoberfest
• Old Fezziwig Ale
• Pale Ale
• Scotch Ale
• Summer Ale
• Traditional Ginger Honey Ale
• White Ale
  
• Winter Lager