"It's that time of year"

Happy Festivus everyone. Although it is now Christmas Eve rather than Festivus. Today lived up to all expectations. Nothing scheduled except when to pick up the Stuffed Crust Pizza for dinner (25 minutes). Since my last update, I've watched 3 movies and two episodes of Lost. Which seems like a bunch of television, but I was wrapping presents and/or eating during one of the movies and both episodes of Lost. So then it's not so bad. The movies were Ringers (Johnny Knoxville pretending to be "special"), Calendar Girl (three teenagers out to score a date with Marilyn Monroe), and The Story of Us (Michelle Pfeiffer and Bruce Willis explore the history of their relationship and whether or not they should finally give up...it almost made me tear up).

This is it for movies at least - Berg's Favorite Movies of 2005 -
Preface: Berg would by no means argue that these are the "best" movies of the year, but these are simply the ones that he enjoyed the most.

5. Sin City - The over-the-top violence, the super-hot dames, the all-star cast, the noir. Really this was a freakin good movie. A heck of a lot of fun to watch.
4. House of Wax - I'll stick with the tried and true equation: Paris Hilton + Elisha Cuthbert x Horror = Best Movie Ever (or at least 4th favorite for the year). Really though, it's movies like this that make me have to include the Preface up there. Also the movie that I've seen the most of any movie for a long time: 4 so far.
3. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - Listen, at worst it's the 4th best Star Wars movie ever and at best it's a close 2nd best Star Wars movie ever. That means it's a damn good movie.
2. Cinderella Man - it's easy to love boxing movies, and I loved this one...not just because I saw it on a pseudo-date with Eileen either.
1. A History of Violence - just a kick-a movie. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone agreed with me on this one, which is cool since he saw 451 movies this year and I only saw 37 new ones. Sorry Jason whom I forgot to call to go see it with me and Ricky. You really missed out on this one.

Runners Up were: Batman Begins, The Jacket, The Chronicles of Narnia, and maybe even The Weatherman starring Nic Cage, which I really enjoyed quite a bit.

Worst movie of the year: Man of the House starring Tommy Lee Jones (although I did fall asleep during it). Plus, I try to stay away from terrible movies most of the time, so this probably wasn't half as bad as some other crapfests.

So instead of droning on about movies all night, I'm going to go kiss my fiance goodnight and head home to La Casa de Rosenberg, the home that I was raised in for one last pre-true-adulthood Christmas at home. True adulthood setting in when I'm a married and employed college grad, amazingly 6 months from today!