Mute Math, U2, Daniel Deronda: Best and Worst List of 2009

My Best/Worst List for My Life in 2009

Best Music
Tie: Mute Math's Armistice and Switchfoot's Hello Hurricane

Worst Music
U2's No Line on Horizon (They never make bad music but this one was disappointing. I don't need radio-ready hits and there are good songs on this one but overall, they tried too hard to be creative.)

Worst Music Moment
John Frusciante leaves Red Hot Chili Peppers

Best Movie (not released in 2009 but that's when I watched it)
Masterpiece Theater's Daniel Deronda

Worst Movie I Watched
Running with Scissors (there were more but this stood out)

Worst Personal Moment
Being diagnosed with cancer

Best Personal Moment
Cancer being declared in remission

Best Book I Read
Francis Chan's Crazy Love

Worst Book I Read
Twilight

Most Intriguing Book I Started Reading
Stephen King's Under the Dome (Loved the cover jacket - no words anywhere; just a nice small-town photo on the front but on the back, a plane bursts into flames. And what's with that creepy dome thing over the town?)

Best iPod Touch/iPhone App or Game
YouVersion Bible app. (Dozens of translations and very nice bookmark feature)
My kids love Sneezies. (My wife would not give my iPod back until she got the high score.)

Worst iPod Touch/iPhone App or Game
Sheep Launcher

Best Idea I Had
To give out Bibles (see more at http://freebible.wordpress.com)

Worst Idea I Had
Trying to work a regular day on first round of chemotherapy and getting sick the only time during six rounds

Best Sports Moment
Steelers game-winning drive in Super Bowl

Worst Sports Moment
Tiger Woods' idiocy and failure to own up

So long 2009 -- the worst year of my life. But as Switchfoot says:

hello hurricane

you're not enough

hello hurricane

you can't silence my love

I've got doors and windows

boarded up

all your dead end fury is

not enough

you can't silence my love