Kris Swales: The Top 19 Thoughts That Don’t Warrant Their Own Blog Post

Listicles – the nadir of journalism, or the saviour of uninspired hacks everywhere?

Usually I'd be waving the flag of the former, but today my liver hurts and my brain keeps dragging my body back to the couch and deadline looms, so here we are. Uninspired Hacktown – Population: Me.

(And in fairness to me, The New Yorker recently got in on the act with their semi-facetious The Hundred Best Lists Of All Time, so cut me some slack, okay?)

So without further ado, some random and pithy observations about stuff…

1. Skrillex's performance in Wreck-It Ralph is easily the best pointless cameo by a dance act in a Disney film since Daft Punk in TRON: Legacy. Can't wait to see Deadmau5 rocking the Mos Eisley cantina in Star Wars Episode VII.

2. Against all the odds, Russell Crowe doesn't suck in Les Misérables.

3. Noticing my first ever Wilhelm scream during The Hobbit: An Unexpected(ly Tedious) Journey was pretty much the highlight of the film.

4. Moonrise Kingdom is the first Wes Anderson film that doesn't have so much self-conscious awkwardness that I wanted to knife myself.

5. Running a New Year's Eve club night without an end-of-year countdown is kind of shit.

6. Believe everything you've heard about Maya Jane Coles – girl's got serious skills. See also: Disclosure.

7. Scuba is one of the few DJs who can successfully rock a dancefloor while appearing to have nothing but contempt for everyone on it. See also: Sasha.

8. Neil Strauss' The Game is to picking up women what Trainspotting is to heroin use. And if chicks really are impressed by guys in ridiculous hats doing magic tricks, I'm out.

9. On a vaguely related note, Alice In Chains' Dirt mounts a compelling case for heroin addiction as a valid career path.

10. With all due respect to Tony Greig, Bill Lawry is the man when it comes to cricket commentary in this country and his retirement will spell the end of civilisation as we know it.

11. Although it only really come into vogue in 2012, every Trap producer on the planet was in fact making Trap music before it was even called Trap.

12. Hall & Oates are cooler than everyone reading this column combined will ever be and we all should be okay with that.

13. The Three Piece Suit Siesta Rework of Bananarama's Cruel Summer is a bit of a bomb.

14. When Brian Wilson sang “I just wasn't made for these times” in the LSD taking scene in Mad Men season five, I couldn't help but nod sagely.

15. Everybody knows the words to Wonderwall.

16. When you get introduced to someone at a festival and they say “ohh, are you the guy who kips all the time?”, you probably need to get out more.

17. This guy rocks my world.

18. If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, where does writing about writing about music fit in? #Inception

19. This listicle malarkey isn't so bad after all.