Is this narcissistic?
Here are the best records I bought in the last year or so.
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
The Dears - Gang of Losers
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
The Meligrove Band - Planets Conspire
Malajube - Trompe-l'Oeil
Sloan - Never Hear the End Of It
MF Doom - Special Herbs: The Box Set Vol. 0-9
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
Al Tuck - My Blues Away
Here are my favourite songs of the year. I am not ashamed of any of these.
Al Tuck - February's Snow
The Dears - Ticket To Immortality
Band of Horses - The Funeral
Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up
Blood Meridian - Work Hard, For What?
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
Sloan - Fading Into Obscurity
Here are the best live shows I saw this year.
Death Cab For Cutie/Franz Ferdinand @ Pacific Coliseum
I don't even like Death Cab but this show ruled - maybe because Lindsay came with me. I bought the new Franz
Ferdinand record on the strength of their performance. Note: it was better live.
Ladytron/CSS @ Richards
Cathie was right all along. Ladytron are good.
The Dears @ Richards
Is there a better band right now?
Tom Green and the Keepin' It Real Crew @ The Commodore/Elixir in Kingston, ON
The Vancouver show was sold out and hilarious. The Kingston show had ten people in the audience and was hilarious.
Teenage Fanclub @ The Red Room
The number of "classic" awesome singles this band has is unbelievable. They could play five hours and you'd still have
songs to be mad that they didn't play.
Final Fantasy @ UBC Norm Theatre
Totally unique. Songs that are annoying on record sound amazing live. The best use of an overhead projector I have ever
seen.
Sloan @ The Commodore
This is the tightest they have ever been.
Here are the most disappointing records I bought in the last year or so.
Jurassic 5 - Feedback
The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
Willie Nelson - Countryman
Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
Here are the best movies I saw this year.
Borat
For Your Consideration
Brick
The Departed
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Here are the best books I read (or re-read) this year.
Ryan Arnold - The Coward Files
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Jonathan Franzen - How To Be Alone
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle/Norwegian Wood (tie)
Here are my favourite food and beverages of the year.
Red Stripe beer
cabbage rolls
Twix bars
Diet Coke
Diet Pepsi
Coke
coffee
Hawaiian pizza
Cath's bocconcini salad
I am glad that this is out of my system. Happy new year, everyone!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. 
There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. 
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. 
Drive thy business, or it will drive thee. 
You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind. 
