It’s time for my yearly roundup on what I’ve been wasting my time with. Here it goes, somewhat in order but not really.

BEST MUSIC

Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
The best thing since Hot Damn! and sliced bread

Brand New - Daisy
“vices” definitely has some early nineties influence, grunnnnnge.

A Day To Remember - Homesick
…now available with more gang-vocals

Converge - Axe To Fall
The best thing since Jane Doe and sliced bread

Set Your Goals - This Will Be The Death Of Us
I’m all about the Haley Williams cameo

Cave In - Planets Of Old EP
Only a few jams but they own hard

Fireworks - All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion
Dude’s voice was annoying at first but I couldn’t stop listening. Reminds me of Take This To Your Grave era Fall Out Boy.

Kevin Devine - Brother’s Blood
last.fm tells me this is my most listened to artist, probably because it only scrobbles when I’m at work and I find Kevin’s voice soothing and conducive to efficient programming?

New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight
Pop punk’s not dead

Title Fight - The Last Thing You Forget
This will have to do since Saves the Day will never record another Can’t Slow Down

As Cities Burn - Hell or High Water
Kind of sounds like trainwreck era Boys Night Out, kind of..


BEST TV

Dexter
It was cool to see Dexter off his game and lose his cool. And whaddup with that ending?!

How I Met Your Mother
I watched every season in the span of a few days, new favorite comedy.

True Blood
This is the only vampire show I watch

The Office
May not be the best season, but I still love this show.

Mad Men
Back when dudes were dudes. I want to drink scotch right now.


BEST MOVIES

Zombieland
The Hangover
D9
500 Days Of Summer
Star Trek

Sweet jesus, Glassjaw will be joining Brand New for the last few days of their tour including the two stops in Toronto Nov 21+22. More Dates

Oh hai, check out some photos that Jake and I took at warped. http://blog.muchmusic.com/warped-tour-oh-9-recap/

One of my fave shopping channel bloopers made it into the movie “UP”. It’s near the beginning of the movie when the old dude is watching TV, you can only hear the end of the clip and can’t see anything but I knew what it was right away. Did anyone else catch this?

I was just checking out the Mitsubishi site and came across something very strange. I was greeted with a pop-up telling me that the site can be best viewed in safari. It’s not uncommon for you to come across a message similar to this if you’re running IE6, but I’m using Firefox 3. It isn’t 1998 anymore, I’m surprise they’re not recommending the best resolution for me to use and perhaps Netscape would also be a good option.

Bj Ryan from what I remember is the highest paid reliever in baseball history. This dude blows more saves than Lindsay Lohan. Here’s the top 5 things he should be doing instead of playing baseball.

1. Dig a hole
2. Live in the hole
3. Become an elephant handler
4. Grow a neck (thanks Jake)
5. Build a time machine then convince his parents not to “do it”

When they honoured Columbus for winning the championship last season all the TFC supporters sat down and read the Toronto Star.

T-O-R-O-N-T-Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh TFC (clap-clap)