Well, another year is under the belt.

And I’ve had 313 pretty good days.

The Mondays sucked.

So it is the time of the year where everyone comes up with a bunch of resolutions they don’t ever see through.

Any one has any to share?

PS Muse’s latest album is…. well, different. I don’t really know if it’s good for them to move that direction. I like their older stuff better. I know, random.

Well, the new year is finally upon us. Hope everyone out there had a great Christmas (or, for our Jewish readers, Quanza), and are enjoying a nice holiday break. Of course, with the end of the year coming, it’s only fitting that I do some sort of year-end summation of music and stuff. Don’t worry, however: this will not be some long, prolonged ordeal like my Best of the Decade list was. Instead, I’m just going to do a clean list, no descriptions, no hyperbole; a simple document of exactly what I believe to be the best albums and songs of this year. So let’s just get right into it, shall we?

Bear in mind that several of the CDs listed here are ones I only first heard about a week ago, reflecting their relatively low position on the chart.

The Top 15 Albums of 2009

1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
3. The Dear Hunter – Act III: Life and Death
4. Closure In Moscow – First Temple
5. Converge – Axe To Fall
6. maudlin of the Well – Part the Second
7. dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
8. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
9. Dream Theater – Black Clouds and Silver Linings
10. The Mars Volta – Octahedron
11.The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
12. Cursive – Mama, I’m Swollen
13. Eleventh He Reaches London – Hollow Be My Name
14. RX Bandits – Mandala
15. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

The Top 20 Songs of 2009

1. The Lonely Island – I’m On A Boat
2. Phoenix – 1901
3. Animal Collective – My Girls
4. The Decemberists – The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid
5. Mono – Everlasting Light
6. Closure In Moscow – Kissing Cousins
7. Cursive – What Have I Done?
8. Mastodon – The Czar
9. Phoenix – Lisztomania
10. Animal Collective – Brothersport
11. Silversun Pickups – There’s No Secrets This Year
12. Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
13. Eleventh He Reaches London – Hollow Be My Name
14. Dream Theater – A Nightmare To Remember
15. Scale The Summit – The Great Plains
16. dredg – Pariah
17. The Dear Hunter – Mustard Gas
18. The Mars Volta – Since We’ve Been Wrong
19. maudlin of the Well – Rose Quartz Turning Into Glass
20. Converge – Dark Horse

In terms of other stuff…

Game of the Year

1. Batman: Arkham Asylum
2. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
3. Dragon Age: Origins
4. Assassin’s Creed II
5. Borderlands

My favourite movie of the year was Inglorious Basterds, followed by Star Trek. And no, I have not seen Avatar yet.

My favorite thing released this year was the Coheed and Cambria Neverender DVD. ‘Nuff said. If you don’t own this, you don’t like Coheed. Period.

Otherwise… um… my favorite soft drink of the year continues to be Sprite, making this the third consecutive win for Sprite… yeah, I got nothing. Well, rather than end on a high note, I’ll just let this article die with this rambling sentence. Farewell to the twenty-oh-crime, hello to twenty-sin!

God made you and me and gave us a trigger finger
this is a true red neck song lol

So I hijacked this link from a reddit user who knows his shit. I didn’t even know stuff like this existed. When I reformatted I just googled the program i wanted, went to the site and downloaded it. Now some crazed man of efficiency has created a website dedicated to creating customized install packages for your naked formatted computer.
Ninite.com is simply Amazing!

Now this video was uploaded in 2007 but still this is pretty disturbing. This poor store clerk fends off 2 robbers in a very bloody knife/sword fight, scary stuff.