2007

Best CD’s of 2007
(in no particular order)
1. Between The Buried And Me – Colors
2. Machine Head – The Blackening
3. Porcupine Tree – Fear Of A Blank Planet
4. Beardfish – Sleeping In Traffic: Part One
5. The Dear Hunter – Act II: The Meaning Of And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
6. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – In Glorious Times
7. Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
8. Blotted Science – The Machinations Of Dementia 
9. Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
10. Oceansize – Frames

I thought 2007 was really a particularly great year for music, so my year-end list would be incomplete without acknowledging a few other excellent honorable mentions as well: 

11. Symphony X – Paradise Lost
12. Pain Of Salvation – Scarsick
13. Riverside – Rapid Eye Movement
14. 3 – The End Is Begun
15. Down – Over The Under
16. Baroness – The Red Album
17. Overkill – Immortalis
18. Megadeth – United Abominations
19. Rush – Snakes And Arrows
20. Thought Chamber – Angular Perceptions

And finally, two amazing late discoveries from 2006: 
— Unexpect – In A Flesh Aquarium
— And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – So Divided

And of course: 
— Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos
— Neal Morse – Sola Scriptura

Best Films of 2007
(in no particular order)
1. No Country For Old Men
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Taxidermia
4. The Lives Of Others
5. Once
6. American Gangster
7. I’m Not There
8. Across The Universe
9. Juno
10. Eastern Promises

Best TV of 2007
(in no particular order)
1. Lost
2 The Sopranos
3. Brotherhood
4. Rescue Me
5. Tell Me You Love Me
6. Dexter
7. The Shield
8. Heroes
9. The Office
10. Curb Your Enthusiasm
11. Extras 
12. The Flight Of The Conchords