It's The End Of The Year As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Here it is, time for the year in review. It's a long one, so bear with me.

LOW POINTS OF THE YEAR
*Running For President break-up (twice, no less)
*Getting dumped
*Kicked out of Money Can't Buy Knives
That's actually all of the major league bad shit...Easily outweighed by the

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR
*Forming Money Can't Buy Knives
*Running For President rocking Howard's Club H one time
*Marvel's Civil War story arc
*Seeing my favorite band (Strike Anywhere) twice this year (in PA and Cleveland)
*Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers w/ Nick, Jeff, Ryan, Chris, Chad and his little lady
*Getting a girlfriend
*Putting together a new band (One Nation Under) and having the best first show I've ever had despite less than a month of practice
*The discovery of Jaeger
*Crunk Manor & Campbell Hill shindigs
*Winning this fall's 48 Hour Film Festival
*My (read:Jeff's) new Epiphone SG
*Getting my own place
*Winning the Outstanding Associate of the Summer scholarship at RU
*Finally receiving Counselor of the Week at RU
*This past summer at RU
*Guitar Hero II
*Drunken X-mas with beer pong and rounds of Guitar Hero II so intense that I was accused by the game itself of "rocking out too hard"

THE BEST OF THE YEAR
ALBUMS
Strike Anywhere-Dead FM
A Global Threat-Where The Sun Never Sets
Johnny Cash-American V
Regina Spektor-Begin To Hope
Justin Timberlake-FutureSex/LoveSounds
Nelly Furtado-Loose
mc chris-Dungeon Master of Ceremonies
Tenacious D-The Pick of Destiny soundtrack
Rise Against-The Sufferer and the Witness
My Chemical Romance-The Black Parade
DethKlok-Metalocalypse soundtrack
SINGLES
Johnny Cash-God's Gonna Cut You Down (American V)
Regina Spektor-Fidelity (Begin To Hope)
Rise Against-Ready To Fall (The Sufferer and the Witness)
Strike Anywhere-Instinct (Dead FM)
Nelly Furtado-Maneater (Loose)
Justin Timberlake-Sexyback (FutureSex/LoveSounds)
Tenacious D-POD (The Pick of Destiny soundtrack)
Meg and Dia-Monster (Something Real)
KT Tunstall-Suddenly I See (Eye To The Telescope)
Twisted Sister-I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas (A Twisted Christmas)
Christina Aguilera-Ain't No Other Man (Back To Basics)
My Chemical Romance-Welcome to the Black Parade (The Black Parade)
"Weird Al" Yankovic-White and Nerdy (Straight Outta Lynwood)
The Killers-When You Were Young (Sam's Town)
That's all the good I can recall music wise. The Bouncing Souls' Gold Record did not make an appearance because, well...I never got to listen to it.
MOVIES
V for Vendetta
Thank You For Smoking
X-Men:The Last Stand
Snakes On A Plane
Talladega Nights:The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Clerks II
The Return of Superman
Mission:Impossible 3
Lady In The Water
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Silent Hill
Beerfest
TV
Heroes
South Park
The Daily Show/The Colbert Report
Metalocalypse
Saturday Night Live

WORST/MOST DISAPPOINTING OF THE YEAR
ALBUMS/SINGLES
Norma Jean-Redeemer
Fergie-London Bridge/Fergalicious (aka My Humps Pt. II-III)(The Duchess)
U2/Green Day-The Saints Are Coming
Blue October-Hate Me (Foiled)
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Stadium Arcadium (Should've been a single album)
Hinder-Lips of an Angel (Extreme Behavior)
Anything by James Blunt
MOVIES
The DaVinci Code
The Omen
Pirates of the Caribbean II:Dead Man's Chest (More on account of disappointment...it was too long and it was too much cat n' mouse for the last hour...but I'm sure the final installment will round it out and make it a good trilogy overall)
American Dreamz (Again, more disappointing than anything)
Crank
Miami Vice (Although it looked very nice)
TV
Grey's Anatomy (zzzzz...zzzzzzzz...zzzzz)
Beauty & the Geek
Parental Control
Mind of Mencia/Drawn Together/Family Guy/Freak Show
Minoriteam
Assy McGee

There's the year end list. There's a lot of things that should've made the list, but I didn't get out to the movies half as much as I would've liked to and it's difficult for me to keep current on new music (the mainstream stuff, anyway) when VH1 and MTV only play the same twelve videos three hours a week...and I refuse to listen to the radio.

It is officially t-minus three days before I move into the FratCave permanently. I could still use some help moving in on Friday and then I go back to BG for the semester on Saturday. New Year's is still on, so that should be a good time. Until then, later days, triangle faces.