Best of 2012

The obligatory top 10 lists for 2012!  They're in no particular order.

Movies:

The Secret World Of Arrietty
The Raid: Redemption
Goon
Cabin in the Woods
The Avengers
Moonrise Kingdom
Looper
Wreck it Ralph
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Safety Not Guaranteed

Honorable Mentions: The Dark Knight Rises, The Campaign, Brave, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Indie Game: The Movie

Most Frustrating: Prometheus (there's a fantastic movie in there somewhere).

Need to get to in 2013: To Rome With Love, The Master, Premium Rush, Killer Joe, Cosmopolis, Holy Motors, Wuthering Heights, Seven Psychopaths, Skyfall, Lincoln, Life of Pi, Amour, Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, and probably a bunch of others.

Video Games:

Fez
Hotline Miami
Journey
Diablo III
Lollipop Chainsaw
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Sleeping Dogs
Borderlands 2
Tokyo Jungle
X-Com: Enemy Unknown

Honorable Mentions: FTL, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Playstation All Stars, Assassin's Creed III, Mass Effect 3, The Unfinished Swan, Dyad, Sound Shapes, Code of Princess, Touch My Katamari, Dead or Alive 5, Street Fighter x Tekken

Most Frustrating: Kid Icarus Uprising. Amazing game with perfect writing, fantastic graphics, and excellent gameplay. But the control scheme makes it too hard to really enjoy. I REALLY want to love this game, and I do, but man it's a chore to play.

Why did I do this award for 2012? Skylanders Giants.

Need to get to in 2013: Persona 4 Arena, Forza Horizons, Far Cry 3, The Walking Dead (I did play episode 1), and a huge number of others.

TV:

Louie
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Boardwalk Empire
The League Daily Show/Colbert Report
Treme
Adventure Time
Luck
Archer

There are others, but eh. These are by far the best I saw.

TURN IT OFF: The Food Network.

Music: It feels like I keep hearing less and less new music every year. But I've got at least 10 here I think: 

The Seer - Swans
Synthetica - Metric
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Ever Do... - Fiona Apple
> album title goes here < - Deadmau5
Evolution - Paul van Dyk
Gossamer - Passion Pit
Anastasis - Dead Can Dance
We All Raise Our Voices to the Air - The Decemberists
Who's Feeling Young Now? - Punch Brothers

Top 10 HeroClix:

Batman - 100 Dark Knight Returns
Dr. Strange - 028 Galactic Guardians
Thanos - 045 Galactic Guardians
Destroyer - 022 Avengers Movie
Bane - 103 Dark Knight Rises
Alfred Pennyworth - 031 Batman
Taskmaster - 048 Chaos War
The Flash - 005 Justice League 52 Fast Forces
Green Lantern - 004 Justice League 52
Worldbreaker - 013 Marvel 10th

Way too many honorable mentions to list and a ton that should be on the top 10. I could have made it top 50 and still had room for more I want to put up there.  It was a great year with a ton of pieces. Need to stop being a completionist though. It's killing me.