mike the mountain » comics http://www.mikelawton.com/blog Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:36:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Saturday Morning Watchmen http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/2009/03/06/saturday-morning-watchmen/ http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/2009/03/06/saturday-morning-watchmen/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:44:36 +0000 Mike Lawton http://www.mikelawton.com/blog/?p=575

So so so so wrong… and awesome.

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  1. Flogging Molly
  2. Gogol Bordello
  3. Great Big Sea
  4. Dean Gray (Green Day mashup DJ)
  5. Corb Lund
  6. Captain Tractor
  7. The Free Design
  8. Blink-182
  9. Death Cab for Cutie
  10. Jack Johnson
  11. The Flaming Lips
  12. Dropkick Murphys
  13. Rancid
  14. Feist
  15. Dungeons & Dragons podcasts

My Top Tracks (according to Last.fm):

  1. Big Audio Dynamite – Rush
  2. Great Big Sea – The Night Pat Murphy Died
  3. Webb Wilder & The Nashvegaans – One Taste Of The Bait
  4. The Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
  5. Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
  6. Gogol Bordello – Sally
  7. Trace Adkins – Honky Tonk Badonkadonk
  8. Flogging Molly – What’s Left of the Flag
  9. Ian Tyson – This is My Sky
  10. Tenacious D – The Metal
  11. Dean Gray – Boulevard of Broken Songs
  12. Montgomery Gentry – Gone
  13. Flogging Molly – Sentimental Johnny
  14. Dean Gray – Dr. Who on Holiday
  15. 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:

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

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Black Flag Hair TimelineBlack Flag Hair Timeline

Epic BattleEpic Battle

D&D FlowchartD&D Flowchart

Ninja SquirrelNinja Squirrel

WatchpeanutsWho Watches the Watch…Peanuts?

Hate it when this happens… a funny/interesting/scary/cool pic catches my attention as I’m cruising through the ‘tubes, I download the picture to post later (I prefer not to scrape bandwidth when possible) but I forget to bookmark where I found it in the first place. Weeks or months go by, my “Pics2Post” file builds up, eventually I remember to share my bounty with you and…… crap. I hate not being able to give credit where it’s due.

If anyone knows who’s work these are, please let me know and I’ll update the post.

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