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Welcome to the future...

So the start of 2010 has been a pretty rough start for one man ryuto the trials and tribulations associated with being a japanese hoon and owning a honda though filled with boundless highs do in some cases have their lows (understeer aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!). I could tell you all what happened in words... but if a picture paints a thousand words then the video below is better than any description i could write up.



Without further ado, here is David Letterman's late night slashed in half multiplied by two (hold up... what?)... my top 5 songs and albums of the year 09.

Top 5 Songs

Honorable Mention: Ryan Octoba - Coldest Eyes

Topped my iTunes most played for 2009 'nuff said...

5. Young Money - Every Girl (In The World)
To kick off the list, a song that has provided countless in-jokes and just straight up lols by a group that I'm sure will provide more of the same into their future. Thank you Young Money!

4. Maxwell - Pretty Wings
One word... beautiful. REAL TALK!

3. Drake - Best I Ever Had
Just a fun song filled with many lols and mated with quite possibly the worst clip ever. Hopefully the first and last time Kanye gets behind a camera.

2. Owl City - Fireflies
Old Charles-esque. You all love it.

1. Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys & Lil' Mama - Empire State of Mind
Sick beat, awesome flow by Hov and Alicia Keys is on point as always but best of all... Lil' Mama being a pachanga at the VMA's that kinda stuff is priceless.

Top 5 Albums
09 was a great year in music and for that reason I've chosen not to rank my top 5 albums of the year because its just too damn hard.

Ocean Eyes by Owl City
Owl City has managed to fracture the cold hard outer exterior of New Charles with some of the best music i've heard in a long long time.

Fearless (Platinum Edition) by Taylor Swift
Okay, it's a bit of a technical loophole as the original album was first released in late 2008 but i had to include it in this list. Taylor Swift's Fearless is every girl's anthem and every boy's guilty pleasure. Catchy sums it all up and Taylor is as cute as a thousand Ryutomons so that doesn't hurt either.

This Is It by Michael Jackson
Yet another loophole regarding the dating of the album but its mah list so mah rules (mah chain! mah bike!). Nothing needs to be said about the tracks they are undeniably some of the best songs ever recorded... you all know them and if you don't, you best listen to them asap or just die. They called him The King of Pop for a reason... rest in peace MJ.

p.s. fuck the haters first and foremost. And if you think MJ is Michael Jordan, then you are a retard... but funny as hell!

Man On The Moon: The End Of The Day by Kid Cudi
Kid Cudi is nothing short of an artist in the true definition of the word and this album is his first masterpiece. Throwing formulaic hip-hop into a space pod with a smart chimp and blasting the both off into outer space... Cudi has created an album that articulates a hauntingly realistic experience of a solemn life in an ultra-modern urban environment remiscent of literature from the times of the industrial revolution and great depression. Well that was pretencious as fuck... but really this album is amazing.

Blueprint 3 by Jay-Z
Probably the most tentative inclusion in the list in many regards. Although Blueprint 3 does contain a few awesome tracks i would say more than 50% of them are pretty far from point... and a couple are just horrendous. So why is it here? well... music is more than just the sound and for that same reason an album is more than just songs. Jay's 9/11 benefit concert at The Garden for those who saw it, or at least the first 10 minutes of it, epitomises this ideal i'm talking about. For its anticipation, hype, a few great tracks and above all its impact... Blueprint 3 makes my list.

As the good and bad songs of 2009 slowly disapear from our car stereos and fall down our most played lists to make way for the music of the new year that is 2010. Welcome to the ComeHitThis of the new year lazier, wittier and crazier...

Peace!