Gracias I'm crazy yes it's obvious, going against me is atheist

2008 was a decent year. I'd give it a 7.1 out of 10, mainly for reasons I'm too lazy to get into. But I'm excited for the '09. I've moved in with one of my best friends from Georgia who moved to LA to be a writer, Mike. Our new place is awesome. And by awesome I mean 97% of the other tenants in our complex are Korean and over the age of 65. Also, I've been in the apartment all of 2 days and have already been told to turn my music down. Ballinnnnnnnnn!

But Mike is fucking awesome. Already one of the most ridiculous nights I've had in LA was when Mike was crashing on my couch back in August and this happened. I think half the time when I was living by myself I'm fucking beat when I get home from work and I don't feel like doing shit. But having a roomate will probably force me to not be a lazy sack of shit and go out and enjoy LA more. It also helps that Mike will most likely always be somewhat drunk and playing Wii when I get home from work. $$$

I turn 26 in a few days. I'm having a birthday party tomorrow, where my brother, as a birthday gift to me, has promised to hit my friend Andrew with a chair WWF style. Awesome.

Anyways, enough with the bullshit. The best tracks of '08 as decided by Jay Kamath:

Girl Talk - Play Your Part (Part 1) Spencer Davis Group + UGK + Pete Townshend + UNK + Twisted Sister + Lil' Mama + Temple of the Dog + Birdman + Lil' Wayne + T.I. + Aaliyah + Sinnead O'Connor + Shawna = Brilliance.

Raphael Saadiq - Love that Girl But this album. The Way I See It. Incredible. Such a triumph of old school and new school harmonies and grooves. The smoothest music you'll listen to all year. To be played at weddings and other happy gatherings for years to come.

The Knife - Heartbeats Shout out to Besse Gardner for turning me on to this group. What seemed to me at first listen was a a weird-Bjork-Swedish-knock-off turned out to be one of the dopest beats all year. So dope that they made this Kanye track remix even doper than the original. As me and my friend Matt discussed one night, the vocals are so ridiculously good even though they seem even more ridiculously effortless.

Lil' Wayne - A Milli I hate Pitchfork. A lot. It's the most pretentious hipster music bullshit all concentrated on one website. However, there was no way I could one-up their review of this hip hop track of the decade, so I'll just jack it: "Somewhere, Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn is ruining a missed marketing opportunity. Somewhere else, Dennis Rodman has mixed feelings about his only 2008 cultural reference. Goblins are up; goons are down. Erykah Badu is excited to be repped by an MC not named Common. Big, Jay, and 2Pac are looking on, humbly satisfied. Andre 3000 wants his plaid pants back. Mike Lowry is watching Bad Boys 2 climb up Netflix queues. Gwen Stefani is remembering she's also in a band called No Doubt. People in charge of venereal disease awareness are reluctantly pleased. The almighty dollar is pining for its pre-meltdown glory days. The Bible is happy to have been mentioned in the most booming hip-hop song of the year. And Wayne? He's still rapping. Or maybe singing. --Ryan Dombal." I have yet to hit the rewind button when this song comes to an end an be disappointed. This song almost makes up for "Lollipop." Almost.

M83 - We Own the Sky When this song is paired with the epicness of the snowboard film "That's It, That's All" it redefines epic. I think French people are just genetially predesposed to me make dope ambient music. Keep plowin' indeed.

Estelle - American Boy Maybe I'm partial because I want to make deep pasionate love to Estelle, but this was a great track for the summer. Even Kanye showing up and sounding like an asshole doesn't diminish it. Is there a way to not boogie to this song when it comes on? Answer: No.

Little Brother - Never Leave Yeeeeeeeah. Best Donut/Cocaine verse ever. And Justus for All was a repackaged mixtape from 2006, but it is still on point. These guys never fail to make me laugh my ass off while listening to some dope beats.

Kid Cudi Vs Crookers - Day 'N' Nite Off the best mixtape of the year, A Kid Named Cudi, I firmly believe this dude will fill the hole that Kanye has left after going off the deep end and making bullshit, boring, music for robots.

Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) Oh shut up, you know you love it. Everytime I see this video I suddenly really really really want to be Jay-Z.

Q-Tip - Won't Trade Yes. Yes. Sweet God yes. Q-Tip hasn't missed a step since he's become an elderstatesmen of hip hop. His album The Renaissance is incredibly dope and I encourage all to cop that shit as quickly as possible. But this was the best cut off the album, this being a close second.

Nas - Hero One of the most underated tracks of the year, I thought this song was incredible. I've been waiting for a minute for Nas to spit something on some sort of innovative beat. And while Untitled was a sub par album offering, this track and "Queens Get That Money" give me hope that Nas can still spit the realest shit over provocative beats. I'm just going to have to wait a very long time before he can package it all together in an album again.

N.E.R.D. - Everyone Nose Is it bad that I want to get with every girl in this video? No matter. Probably the hypest track of the year by far. Seeing Sounds did not disappoint.

A MERRY KWANZAA TO ALL!! SUCK IT!!