The mainstream musical highlight of 2009 actually came back in January with the release of Animal Collective’s magnificent My Girls (above).

As for February to December: for shame. Yes, that was an official shaming.

Music: There has been some very good stuff on Nomad Radio, of course, in particular the Borland track, Wildlife, that appears at the beginning of the Mind On Fire Podcast 2. But my own favoured genre, indie/rock/pop/blah has all been a bit cack, to be honest.

Movies: The best movies I saw all year were old – a download of the confusingly great Primer (2004) and the criminally neglected Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) on the TV. Of the dozen or so movies I went to see at the cinema, I can’t remember any except the excellent District 9 and the predictable fun of Star Trek, so the rest were quite probably all shit.

To sum up: C+, and that’ll be an D- if I start seeing “Best of the Noughties” articles in every newspaper and blog over the next few weeks. I really hate the term “noughties” and best of the year posts/articles are so fucking lazy, god…