Top 25 favorite albums of the decade.

We had a thread like this in one of the forums I post in, and I decided I'm going to post my list on my blog here. It counts down from 25 to 1 like any good best of list should. 8-)  I won't go into detail to describe each of them though, considering there's, you know, 25 of them and all..... ;) Would love to have though, but seeing as how I just barely had the idea of maybe doing what JayGee's doing over on ArizUtaku with the top anime of the decade, it's probably too late for that......  Ah well, maybe I'll go more in depth with them if I can ever get that music thing running on this blog again......

25.  Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World (2001)
24. Age of Winters - The Sword (2006)
23. Runnin' Wild - Airbourne (2008)
22. Get Born - Jet (2003)
21. Elephant - The White Stripes (2003)
20. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance - (2006)
19. Come What(ever) May - Stone Sour (2006)
18. Break the Cycle - Staind (2001)
17. American Idiot - Green Day (2004)
16. Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) - Slipknot (2004)
15. Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace - Foo Fighters (2007)
14. Stiff Upper Lip - AC/DC (2000)
13. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2 (2004)
12. Heathen Chemistry - Oasis (2002)
11. The Sickness - Disturbed (2000)
10. Toxicity - System of a Down (2001)
9. Meteora - Linkin Park (2003)
8. Sonic Firestorm - Dragonforce (2004)
7. Absolution - Muse (2003)
6. Carnavas - Silversun Pickups (2006)
5. Into the Wild Soundtrack - Eddie Vedder (2007)  
4. Mer De Nomes - A Perfect Circle (2000)
3. Lost Dogs - Pearl Jam (2003)
2. Lateralus - Tool (2001)  
1. Kid A - Radiohead (2000)

To this be the end of For Your Listening Pleasure. ;_;

 Yes Takezo, unfortunately it is indeed true. ;_;

 

Some might have already noticed by now, and I for one just barely noticed today, that apparently there have been adds for My Space music in place of the IMEEM music player.  Basically what seems to have happened is that IMEEM no longer exists and is now suggesting on it's old HTML to give a try to My Space music.  In which case, unless I can figure out a different medium by which to post music up on here, this may very well end up being the end of my For Your Listening Pleasure feature.  Which, as the avid music lover that I am, saddens me quite a bit, as I really would love to post more about the music I love and give you all a taste of it. ;_;

I'll probably try to see if I can make something else of it though.  I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do in place of it, but I really would love to keep on doing it in some way, shape or form anyways.

A more lighthearted look inside BroEl's head. :)

I mostly got this idea from a friend of mine over on her blog and decided it sounded like not too bad an idea to give some thought too.  So let's see if I can actually make this work, heh heh. ^_^'

20 things I love in life (in no particular order):

1.  Anime/Manga
2.  Graphic Novels
3.  Well drawn art
4.  Playing in the band
5.  Hanging out with band people
6.  The band hall
7.  Good friends
8.  Family
9.  Knowing that I'm loved
10.  Rock music
11.  Music in general
12.  Growing my hair out, no matter what length
13.  Writing
14.  Movies
15.  Gaming/RPGing, especially when it's with good friends :)
16.  Eating good food
17.  Watching a good football or basketball game
18.  Sci-Fi/Fantasy type stuff
19.  Waisting time on the internet
20.  Cute animals! ^_^

Well, at least I tried anyways, heh heh. ^_^'

Death, doom, distruction and chaos!!! >:-3 Or things of the sort.....

Well it would appear that as of today, my time is no longer occupied by the dread of what we all know of as school.  Finals are done, classes ended last week, and for about three and a half weeks I've got nothing to do but go around causing all sorts of trouble!! >:-3 Or at least I'd like to think so anyways......

Other than the obvious holidays I don't really have much on tap for the break, which is pretty typical for most any times I have off of school.  Mostly just sleep, messing around on the computer, hanging out with friends when invited to do such, and lots of anime I need to watch.  Which is where I suppose I'll start off.  Amongst the truckload of anime and manga my friend dumped on my head just before leaving to join the military, a series i've been meaning to watch for some time now called Ergo Proxy is one of them.  I've actually had enough time this week to get through about 8 episodes of it so far, and I'm already quite impressed.  You'll probably hear more about my thoughts on it over on ArizUtaku sometime after I finish it, and probably even on Facebook with what I've decided is going to be my traditional note on the best of anime for the year.  I've also decided to start up on yet another series I've been wanting to watch for some time now via bit torrent download (for now of course, until I decide to purchase it legally) called Planets.  From what I've heard of it, it really sounds like something I'd just fall head over heals for.  Also on tap, if I have enough time that is, is probably going to be me working on finally seeing past episode one of Eve no Jikan, which should be easy enough considering it's only 6 episodes long at 15 minutes each.  Finishing the last 5 episodes of Monster is also something I've been meaning to do for a while now (yeah, my status on that series hasn't changed from the last time I mentioned it in this blog unfortunately.... ;_; ) but we'll see.  In some ways, considering it's licensed now, I've actually thought about just finishing it via DVDs or it's airtime on SyFy, but we'll see.

The holiday season is probably going to be one of the more humbling ones this year though.  Christmas and New Years is always my favorite holidays/general time of the year, just simply because it's a time which seems to have this really great feeling about it like no other.  It's just a really relaxing time of the year where there are all sorts of beautiful decorations and lights, peacful and relaxing music, and just all around good feelings.  There are those parts that I don't like about if of course, mostly because this time of year also tends to bring out the worst in people as much as it does bring out the best in them.  It's also very stressful to have to go through all the trouble getting all those pretty decorations and lights up, as well as budget out certain finances for the much less important gift giving aspects of it.  This year I think I might enjoy more than most years though simply based off the fact that I am going to pretty much have to focus on all those more positive aspects of it that make me love it so much.  I unfortunately never have enough money any year of Christmas to get into the more gift giving part of it, which is something I think is such a terrible travesty that I don't get that opportunity very much.  But even in the gift recieving department, not quite as important to me as to participate in giving them but still somewhat enjoyable in it's own right, will be very, very humble this year, seeing as how our family is pretty dry on the finances as well.  That and I've decided that this year I'm kind of not really seeming nearly as much into the season as I typically tend to be, which has left me not really having much of a desire to go and put up all of our pretty Christmas stuff.  Which pretty much means that if I don't do it, it at least will not get put up for a while, and even then we probably won't have any roof lights this year.  But as I've said, none of that really matters as much as it sometimes is made out to be believed to be.  I always enjoy the part of Christmas that I enjoy so much no matter what, and this year I'll have mostly that to just sit back and enjoy.

So that pretty much wraps most of what my break will be like.  Everything else in the life of BroEl is mostly pretty much similar to what I've posted about before, and grades are yet to come out, so I'll probably be around with another post when next semester starts up again to talk more about all of that.  But for now I am off to thrive in the grandness of doing absolutely nothing. 8-)