Games

1. Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games; Xbox 360)
2. Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks; Xbox 360)
3. Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal; Xbox 360)
4. No More Heroes (Grasshopper Manufacture; Wii)
5. Left 4 Dead (Valve Software; Xbox 360)
6. Dead Space (EA Westwood; Xbox 360)
7. Braid (Number None, Inc.; Xbox 360 Live Arcade)
8. Rez HD (Q Entertainment; Xbox 360 Live Arcade)
9. Gears of War 2 (Epic Games; Xbox 360)
10. Mirror’s Edge (DICE; Xbox 360)

(I did not play a sufficient amount of the following titles to properly rank them: Sins of a Solar Empire, Fable 2, Midnight Club Los Angeles, Metal Gear Solid 4, LittleBigPlanet, Saints Row 2, Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, Crysis Warhead, Ninja Gaiden 2, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, and Prince of Persia. Had I spent more time with them, perhaps the above list may have appeared differently)

Movies

1. The Dark Knight
2. Australia
3. Blindness
4. Iron Man
5. Cloverfield
6. Burn After Reading
7. American Gangster
8. Tropic Thunder
9. Quantum of Solace
10. Death Race
11. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
12. In Bruges
13. Choke
14. Step Brothers

(I still haven’t gotten the chance to see a lot of well-received films from this year, like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Wall-E, and Frost/Nixon, so again, this list may have appeared differently)

Albums

1. Third (Portishead)
2. Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend)
3. Raise the Dead (Phantom Planet)
4. At Mount Zoomer (Wolf Parade)
5. Water Curses (Animal Collective)
6. A Mad and Faithful Telling (Devotchka)
7. Dear Science (TV on the Radio)
8. Vivian Girls (Vivian Girls)
9. The Seldom Seen Kid (Elbow)
10. The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV (Various)
11. The Odd Couple (Gnarls Barkley)
12. Ghosts I-IV (Nine Inch Nails)
13. Nouns (No Age)
14. Rock N Rave (Benny Benassi)

(There was some absolutely fantastic new music released this year, but I spent the majority of my time listening to older albums I missed from bands I discovered or rediscovered, including Sigur Rós, The Decemberists, Wolf Parade, Pixies, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

Tracks

1. Water Curses (Animal Collective- Water Curses)
2. Magic Doors (Portishead- Third)
3. Kissing the Beehive (Wolf Parade- At Mount Zoomer)
4. Grounds for Divorce (Elbow- The Seldom Seen Kid)
5. M79 (Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend)
6. Transliterator (Devotchka- A Mad and Faithful Telling)
7. Dropped (Phantom Planet- Raise the Dead)
8. No Sex for Ben (The Rapture- Grand Theft Auto IV OST)
9. New World (Devotchka- A Mad and Faithful Telling)
10. Going On (Gnarls Barkley- The Odd Couple)
11. Threads (Portishead- Third)
12. Some Riot (Elbow- The Seldom Seen Kid)
13. Halfway Home (TV on the Radio- Dear Science)
14. Wild Eyes (Vivian Girls- Vivian Girls)
15. Mansard Roof (Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend)
16. Do the Panic (Phantom Planet- Raise the Dead)
17. On a Day Like This (Elbow- The Seldom Seen Kid)
18. Run (Gnarls Barkley- The Odd Couple)
19. Undone (Devotchka- A Mad and Faithful Telling)
20. Raise the Dead (Phantom Planet- Raise the Dead)
21. Crying (TV on the Radio- Dear Science)
22. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Weezer- The Red Album)