Happy New Year from The A.V. Club Denver/Boulder
Balls are dropping and we’re all getting older—it must be the new year. It’s been a good, long haul here at denver.avclub.com, and as we’re drinking ourselves into 2010 this weekend, we’ll no doubt also be wearily nostalgic over everything that happened in the last year. We put out 53 issues in 2009, not including the added Back-To-School edition; The A.V. Club published a new book, Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined By Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists; our local staff changed; and we even moved to a different office, though we still have a great view of all the East Colfax drama.
It was definitely a stellar—and, well, pretty stressful and kind of hectic—year, and we’re glad you shared it with us. But, in case you missed it (which we know you didn’t, right?), listed below are three of our favorite online moments from 2009.
Decider what?: Back when we initially launched the local web component of The A.V. Club, we figured that a new site warranted a new name—and that’s how Decider was born. But that didn’t last, and after nearly a year of trying to shake the George W. association, we went back to calling ourselves The A.V. Club Denver/Boulder this past summer. Best decision ever? Probably.
Really awful local album art: We reviewed tons of local music this past year, and probably listened to twice that much on our own. The most common—practically weekly—offense, however, was not poor recording quality or overblown press releases, but rather it was horrifically bad album art. (Check back later this month for our list of the best/worst local covers in 2009.)
The Bobby Long effect: This year, we learned that some fans are much more voracious than others when it comes to online trolling/rambling/excessive commenting. Among the artists whose devotees we sent into an Internet frenzy: Elvis Presley, Maynard James Keenan, My Body Sings Electric, and, our personal favorite, Bobby Long.
Even as we’re making moon-eyes at 2009, we’re already looking forward to 2010. Look out for our regular weekly stuff (What’s So Funny?, Jock Itch, Strangelunch, Localized), a few forgotten but returning features (Area Bands Past, Drunkmaker, Namecheck), and whole lot more city-life coverage. It seems like a heavy plate, but we do, after all, have another 53 issues to publish. Here’s to 2010.
