Like many people I know, I hate New Years. I hate the hubbub and hoopla, I hate how millions of people descend onto NYC and start walking around aimlessly, clogging up the trains and streets. I hate everyone asking “what are you are doing for New Years?” and I hate how every little party/concert/dinner, etc. costs three times the usual price. Finally, I hate how every TV show, magazine and man on the street starts making top ten and countdown lists!

Lets face it, New Years is a night of amateurs. When people who never usually go out to clubs, restaurant and parties decides to “let loose” while the rest of us are loath to suffer their annoying debauchery.

So with all this in mind, and because I’m a producer - thus hypocrisy is a part of my makeup - I’ve put together my own sort of list: The Overrated / Underrated. None of which is in any particular order.

Of course all this is merely my opinion and I’m very aware that most of the world doesn’t agree with me – if they did, then News Years would be a very different thing. So please don’t send me threatening emails or leave dead bunnies at my door!

UNDERRATED
- Mean Creek
- Overhaulin’ on TLC
- Brotherhood of the Wolf
- Mary Louise Parker
- Shooting on Film
- Engine Down
- Editors
- Thanksgiving
- Ska Music
- Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers)
- Jack Bristow’s Huge ear (from TV’s Alias)
- Pies
- Clementines
- Alison Hannigan
- Pretty Girls Make Graves
- David Lynch
- Arrested Development
- Vespas
- Paul Schneider
- Zach Galifianakis
- The art of Producing!
- Married life

OVERRATED
- Sideways
- Indian Food
- Peppermint Sticks/Candy Canes
- The White Stripes
- Lindsay Lohan’s breasts
- The O.C.
- Ronald Reagan’s Death – lest we forget the president who did not acknowledge AIDS until millions had already died.
- Jennifer Garner
- “Faith Based” voting
- New Year’s Eve
- Passion of the Christ
- Halle Berry
- The art of Directing
- Avril Lavigne
- The supposed group of mysterious killers who murder wives and frame the husbands. See: Scott Peterson, O.J. Simpson.
- Bush Winning
- Moving to another country because Bush won.
- Top 10 Lists & Countdowns

NEVER OVERRATED
- The Pixies
- Pancakes
- Finding Nemo
- Buffy
- French Bulldogs
- Batman
- The Beastie Boys
- Sushi
- Ipods and Palm Pilots

SO OVERRATED THEY SHOULD NEVER BE MENTIONED AGAIN
- Bush
- Jennifer Lopez
- Quentin Tarantino
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Reality TV
- The word “Bi-atch”