Greg's Favorites of 2008

I did this last year so I figured I'd continue this as a traditional post. As I said in last year's post: I'm going to give a list of my favorite things from 2008. Why? So I can look back in a few years and say, "Oh yeah, that's when I liked that silly thing that is now so out-of-fashion it's almost chic again."

Music:
2007 was probably one of my favorite years for music. 2008 is close behind, but nothing was quite as great as last year.
The albums that I listened to the most this year were:

• The Feeling - Join With Us

• Josh Fix - Free At Last:

• Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Flight of the Knife

• Rongedal - Rongedal

• Royworld - Man In The Machine

• Keane - Perfect Symmetry

• X-Queen of the Astronauts - Hello, Pretty-Pretty!

• Delays - Everything's The Rush

• Guillemots - Red

• Roger Joseph Manning Jr - Catnip Dynamite

• Apes & Androids - Blood Moon

• Ben Folds: Way To Normal
I couldn't find a video to embed since the official ones were disabled. So here's a link to my favorite song on YouTube.

Podcasts:
I've added this section from last year. As I "commute" to work each day (as in either walk or drive a couple miles depending on what I'm doing that day) I listen to a lot of podcasts. I figured I'd list my favorites from this year as they tend to change over time.

• Slashfilmcast - Movie & TV news and discussion
• GoNintendo - Nintendo related news
  
• Joystiq - General game related news
  

Movies:
There were some pretty great films this year. I definitely enjoyed films more this year than last. Here are my more favorite films of the year.

• Dark Knight
• Iron Man
• Wall-E
• Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (There's a lot of backlash on this one, but I still enjoyed it quite a bit.)
• Kung Fu Panda
• Get Smart
  
• Ghost Town
  
• Run Fatboy Run
• Cloverfield

I managed to steer clear of most of the worst this year, I believe. Although I'd have to say "X-Files" was definitely one of the worst films I saw.

TV:
These are the shows I enjoyed the most this past year.

• The Office
• Lost
  
• Chuck
• 30 Rock
• American Idol (we finally got sucked in this year!)
• The Big Bang Theory
• The I.T. Crowd (a hilarious British sitcom that finally showed in the US this year.)
• Burn Notice

One of my highest favorites from last year, "Heroes" we gave up on after about 4 episodes in the new season. It's weird when one of your favorite shows can suddenly feel like a chore to watch.

And that's it for 2008! See you again in 2009.