Since every blog worth its salt has got to release some sort of year end “best of” list, we thought we ought to do the same. There’s undoubtedly some great stuff we’ve missed here, but we were up all night drinking grandma’s egg nog and we’ve got a wicked hangover. But granny loves year end lists too, so here you go granny, ya boozehound.

“Back To Me,” Kathleen Edwards
With simple song structures and straight-forward lyrics, this rootsy country-rock album cuts to the quick.

“Black Hole,” Charles Burns
A coming-of-age graphic novel that was 10 years in the making that is both beautifully drawn and well written.

“Breaking Bonaduce,” VH1
Danny Partridge is a train wreck of addiction, and we couldn’t take our eyes off of him.

“Crimson,” Alkaline Trio
Add another dark, moody and melodic record to this Chicago band’s killer catalog.

“Entourage,” HBO
The sophomore season of the cable hit finally got great, and no one on TV is better than Jeremy Piven’s a-hole agent character Ari.

“Grizzly Man”
Werner Herzog’s nature documentary proves that the most fascinating animal on the planet is man.

“How We Are Hungry,” Dave Eggers
A compilation of Eggers’ short stories both serious and funny, that nearly always connects.

“Intervention,” A&E
Some have called this docu-series exploitative, but we call it riveting and explosive TV.

“Me, You and Everyone We Know”
Miranda July’s film debut was quirky, funny and original.

“No Direction Home: Bob Dylan,” PBS
A fascinating look at one of the 20th century’s most important musicians, as seen through the eyes of one of the 20th century’s most important filmmakers.

“Illinois,” Sufjan Stevens
An epic and lush indie pop record about the great state of Illinois. And bonus points for using Superman on the cover without permission.

“Project Greenlight,” Bravo
So what if all the movies that have come out of this show have sucked, the behind-the-movie reality show is totally popcorn-worthy.

“Searching for a Former Clarity,” Against Me!
Florida folk-punks rail against the music biz, the war, and Condaleeza Rice on the best punk record of the year.

“Six Feet Under” finale, HBO
The series finale was a real tearjerker, particularly the episode’s final montage in which we see how each of the show’s characters met their fate.

“The Squid and the Whale”
A sad, realistic tale of divorce set in 1980’s Brooklyn from Wes Anderson’s writing partner.

“The Sunset Tree,” The Mountain Goats
John Darnielle’s painfully autobiographical record tackles tough topics in a fragile, beautiful way.

“Tell Them Who You Are”
A son’s journey to understand his father is chronicled in Mark Wexler’s portrait of his famous cinematographer dad Haskell Wexler.

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