Year end lists are cliche but to be honest I really like reading them and hearing them so now that 2007 is fully in the books here are my lists that sum up the previous year in entertainment and other things that I find amusing. Be sure to note that I didn’t get a chance to see everything so as this site has no real theme other than stuff I like and think these lists are merely things that I liked and I saw/heard/etc… I won’t spend the time to guess at what may be better had I had a chance to check it out. With that off we go. Lists are in no particular order.
Top 5 movies:
- 300
-Alpha Dog
-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
-Beowulf
-Superbad
Looking at that list makes me think I need to get out to see more movies. None of them would I feel good about giving favorite movie of the year status. Alpha Dog really surprised me. Generally I like movies that are happy and that one was not but still entertaining. I guess it was a slow year for movies 
If I had to give a top movie I would go with 300.
Top 5 Video Games:
-Portal
-Team Fortress 2
-Guitar Hero 3
-Bioshock
-Crackdown
This was a very good year for video games. Portal was easily the most innovative and funny but it was fairly short so I would give my game of the year to Crackdown. It was the first game I played Co-op over live and it was the type of games that screwed with my sense of reality. Once you really start jumping from building to building you start feeling like it may be possible. You start to dream about it and you start to think about doing it in real life. That is a winning game. I am really hoping for a sequel.
Best albums of 2007:
I am so bad about new music lately. I am years behind discovering albums that came out 2 – 3 years ago. The only timely thing I heard this year was Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs which I love. To totally punk out I will also name Rob Crow’s solo album who is the singer of pinback. I really need to get out.
Best NL Wildcard teams of 2007:
I can’t think of any. Perhaps they should try not getting swept…
Best Book I Read This Year:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – It’s hella nerdy I know but J.K. Rowling is a wonderful story teller. It takes real talent to write at a level that is interesting to both kids and adults and she is a master of it. I had always said I didn’t want to spoil the movies and reading the books has ruined the movies for me a little bit. I would suggest if you haven’t read them then just hang out wait for all the movies and then listen to the audio books read by Jim Dale. The guy is a genius voice actor and he does seperate voices for every character.
Best website I am using but dislike what it means I should make this facebook as I just recently started using it but I am going to give this to http://www.oobgolf.com. It’s a social networking golf site which has so many things wrong with the idea but it is actually pulled off fairly well. I am going to save a full explanation of this category for a post of it’s own.
That’s all I have for 2007. Next up will be goals and things I’m looking forward to for 2008. I don’t want to linger too much on the past so onward to the year of rat which actually doesn’t start until Feb. 7th. However, it’s never too early to name your years by a revolving list of animals.