Happy New Year!

Now that 2010 is about to end I will write my traditional end of the year post. Things that happened, movies I saw, music I discovered, you get the idea. This year has been very important to me as I finally saw my dream of moving to Ireland become true. I made this decision back in fall 2007, so yes it took a while. An excellent job opportunity in Belgium showed up and I decided to postpone my plans in order to pursue said opportunity. Spending time abroad is always interesting and an experience everyone should go through and, even though Belgium is not the place where I would want to spend the rest of my life, it surely was worth it: I had the chance to improve and use my rusty French, met some awesome people that I can call friends and learned about a pretty unique country. Having said all that I always knew that I had to complete my journey. It took longer that would have expected but I finally managed to move here in November.

Let's take a look at some movies that caught my attention in 2010: 'Tamara Drewe', 127 Hours, Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, Casino Jack, Clash of the Titans, Edge of Darkness, Extraordinary Measures, Fair Game, Frankie and Alice, From Paris with Love, Green Zone, Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows: Part 1, How to Train Your Dragon, Inception, Iron Man 2, Kick Ass, Legion, Love and other drugs, Megamind, Piranha, Predators, Rare Exports, RED, Salt, Shutter Island, Somewhere, TRON: Legacy, The A-Team, The American, The Expendables, The Social Network, Toy Story 3 and, last but not least, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

On the music side I've pretty much continued listening to my usual choices although this year I've listened to a lot, and I mean a lot, of movie scores. Daft Punk's TRON:Legacy's soundtrack scores pretty high on my list of 2010 favourites but the top is, without a shadow of a doubt, Hans Zimmer's Inception score. Absolutely brilliant.

I have a couple of New Year's resolutions. We'll see how they work out.

Happy 2011 everyone!