Top Artists (according to Last.fm):
- Flogging Molly
- Gogol Bordello
- Great Big Sea
- Dean Gray (Green Day mashup DJ)
- Corb Lund
- Captain Tractor
- The Free Design
- Blink-182
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Jack Johnson
- The Flaming Lips
- Dropkick Murphys
- Rancid
- Feist
- Dungeons & Dragons podcasts
My Top Tracks (according to Last.fm):
- Big Audio Dynamite – Rush
- Great Big Sea – The Night Pat Murphy Died
- Webb Wilder & The Nashvegaans – One Taste Of The Bait
- The Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
- Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
- Gogol Bordello – Sally
- Trace Adkins – Honky Tonk Badonkadonk
- Flogging Molly – What’s Left of the Flag
- Ian Tyson – This is My Sky
- Tenacious D – The Metal
- Dean Gray – Boulevard of Broken Songs
- Montgomery Gentry – Gone
- Flogging Molly – Sentimental Johnny
- Dean Gray – Dr. Who on Holiday
- John Michael Montgomery – Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)
Movies I saw that were released in 2008 (not necessarily the best, just some of the more memorable; in no order):
- WALL-E
- The Dark Knight
- Kung-Fu Panda
- Iron Man
- Cloverfield
- Quantum of Solace
- Mamma Mia
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Horton Hears A Who
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- The Incredible Hulk
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- The Forbidden Kingdom
- Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
- Semi-Pro
- The Ruins
- Be Kind, Rewind
- Futurama – The Beast With A Billion Backs
- Tropic Thunder
(If I tried to remember ALL the movies I watched last year, it would take me until the end of ‘09! The most watched movie of the year was a tie between WALL-E and Shoot ‘Em Up, 3 times each.)
Some of the best stuff I read in 2008:
- The Happiest Days of Our Lives, by Wil Wheaton
- World War Z, by Max Brooks
- Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis
- The Gunslinger Born (The Dark Tower Graphic Novel)
- G33k Mafia, by Rick Dakan
- Godel, Escher, and Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter
- Y, The Last Man, series
- Transmetropolitan, series
- The Boys, series
- Planet Hulk/World War Hulk, series
- Punisher MAX, series (Garth Ennis’ run)
- Wanted, series
- Wizard’s First Rule, by Terry Goodkind
- Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
- Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
- Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition, core books and supplements
Teh awesomist tubes on teh internets:
- Wil Wheaton dot Net: In Exile
- The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
- Lifehacker
- xkcd
- Garfield minus Garfield
- Least I Could Do
- Questionable Content
- Penny Arcade
- Tcritic – Daily T-Shirt Blog
- io9
- Boing Boing
- Ain’t It Cool News
- Horror Movie A Day
- PostSecret
Favourite Online Video of 2008:
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Favourite Video Game of 2008:
Tie: Guitar Hero III and Portal
