2010 Top 10

Hey, is this really my 80th post? Wow. Must have been all that World Cup stuff I posted earlier in the year. Unfortunately, there won't be this many posts next year. Don't want to get burnt out. Quality, not quantity, yeah?

So here we are at the tail end of the year, as 2010 reaches its dismal and anticlimactic ending. This being an art blog, I would normally list the Top 10 graphic novels/comics I've read this year. Except I don't seem to have read any. That's what comes with writing and drawing the things myself; I don't have time to read anyone else's. I've been going to Minotaur, but absolutely nothing new from Frank Cammuso, or Evan Dorkin, or Holly G has showed up on the shelves. And the manga series Joshi Kousei has stalled at Volume 9, which I got in July 2008! What gives, Towa Ohshima? Y'know what my gran'fadder used to say? Git back to work!

So, with the lack of any comics lists, I might as well list my Top 10 songs for 2010.

1. White Flag – Gorillaz

2. Hello Machina – The Analog Girl

3. Superfast Jellyfish – Gorillaz

4. EOEOE – Go! Go! 7188

5. Pick Up! Chu~! – E.Via

6. Ich Bin Nicht Ein Roboter (I Am A Lion) – Die Roten Punkte

7. Song 2 – The Brilliant Green

8. The Creeps – Ash

9. Perfect Freedom – Shonen Knife

10. Hardcore Porn Star – The White Eyes

10. Alive – Goldfrapp

UPDATE 12/25/10: I only just heard this, but Japanese rock band The Brilliant Green (fronted by one of my favourite 'J-pop' singers, Tomoko Kawase AKA Tommy Fabruary6) put out a new album this year, their first since 2002, and it has a cover of Blur's "Song 2" on it. There's not much better as far as covers go than Tommy covering one of my fave Blur songs! Bargain!