Best of 2008

So everybody is coming up with lists around this time of year, best books, best albums, or just the best of the year in general. So I've decided to come up with a list of the top 50 of my favorite things of 2008. By the way, the idea was taken from another blogger, so kudos to the electic penguin guy, a superior blogger to me.

(In no particular order)

1. Election night 2008-"I don't have any gwape nuhds and I didn't put stickuhs on Weid's Caw!"
2. Change-everybody wanted it, and now we have it and we never have to hear of John McCain and Sarah Palin ever again.
3. Sarah Palin-She inspired one of the best SNL satirization of any political figure...EVER!
4. Magazines-I got to see Barack Obama's face of half the magazine covers in 7-Eleven while I was buying beer, it was like "Hey man, buying some beer? Vote for me!"
5. Beer- It was a good year for beer. I drank it in 6 different countries, 3 US states, 5 National Capitols, Oktoberfest, 30,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean and while staring up at Ryan Adams' jeans smoking a cigarette with him 4 feet away.
mmmmm beer
6. Vampire Weekend- "Blakes's got a new face!!"
7. The Lord of the Rings
8. Amazon.com-the national yard sale. Where else can you buy books and CD's for a penny and pay 3.99 shipping. Where else would someone pay 5 dollars for a book that you bought at Goodwill for a dollar because the guy behind the counter was too old to see that it was a hardback and hardbacks cost 2.00.
9. Goodwill-Cosby sweaters, cheap pants, picture frames, books and records (I bought an Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas album and it had Bob Marley and the Wailers "LIVE!" in it. Niccccee.
10. South Park- From Imaginationland up to the Election episode, they have been pretty much spot on reminding us of how fucking rediculous we all are for being Americans and getting caught up in anything Fox News tells us. The election episode was particularly poignant. It depicted Obama supporters partying their asses off after he won and screaming "WE DID IT!!" and "CHANGE HAS COME!!" and puking everywhere and when they woke up, they realized the only thing that had changed was that the were hungover as shit. Yeah...I did all that, so...yeah...change.
11. emusic.com
12. It's Always Sunny in Philedelphia-for obvious reasons
13. Netflix.com-how can anything so amazing actually exist.
14. The end of the writer's strike. I was in Germany the whole time, so I really didn't even notice it until the site that I streamed the Office from stopped posting episodes for Season 4. wtg?
15. The death of Jerry Falwell-I know it happened last year, but I wanted to remind everyone that the fat-ass Jesus freak died and his soul...never existed. (But you can buy a piece of it sown inside of a Bible on www.liberty.edu/store
16. Gas-holy shit, $4.00 a gallon? I think most people just sat in their houses and sweated watching netflix and ordering delivery food for the month of July. Now, Roanoke has the third cheapest gas in the country $1.25 per gallon (about 2.5 litres).
17. Walking-it's fucking awesome!
18. Records-embracing the next cultural revolution: the death of the CD and re-emergence of vinyl as the preferred medium of music. I mean, the record is cheaper than the CD AND you get a free digital download or even the copy of the CD itself. Now I can sell all my CDs on Amazon and use the money to by records Woo-Hoo!!
19. Going Green-Roanoke City can afford to have 2 trolleys running between the hospital and the market but can't figure out how to recycle green and brown glass!! Fuck you for making me feel guilty about drinking beer that doesn't come in a can!!
20. Roanoke City mayor David Bowers claiming that having rats in the Market building was like 9/11.
21. Ratface
22. Being gay-it seemed like everyone was gay this year.
23. Nintendo Wii-have you seen Wii Music? it looks fucking awesome. While everyone else is playing ass-hole Guitar Hero/Rock Band, we could be composing banjo concertos!
24. The English language-the fall of Bush and the rise of the ever-eloquent Barack Obama has dropped the English language back to its number 5 spot on the worst languages to listen to:
1. Dutch
2. Flemmish
3. German
4. French Canadian
5. American English
*(list compiled by the National Association for the Advancement of Texas People).
25. Cooking-it's back!

So that's some of it, I didn't really think it through, but that's enough for now. Of course, this wasn't my best of music list, that will come later. Songs from last year or this year that meant the most to me throughout this crazy fucking year of my life.