The teaser site for the new Arcade Fire album features the creepiest succession of images I've seen since the good old Twin Peaks days. My interest is somehow even more piqued to hear what they put out next. Now excuse me while I go have nightmares for years.

The Irrefutable List of Things That I Liked in 2006:

Albums:

Herbert - Scale
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Francois K - Frequencies
Josh Wink - Profound Sounds 3
John Digweed - Transitions
Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll
Beck - The Information

Singles (Pop):

Timbaland featuring Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back/My Love
Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado - Maneater/Say it Right/Promiscuous
Lupe Fiasco - Kick Push
The Rapture - Get Myself Into It
The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Fergie - Fergalicious
Jay Z - Lost One
Beyonce - Check On It
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill

Singles (House and Techno):

Paul Woolford - Erotic Discourse
Mr. G - ECG'Ed (Rekid Remix)
Ame - Engoli
Rocco - Roots 4 Acid
Every - Feelin'
Hardfloor - T2DAC (Claro Intelcto remix)
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Holden remix)

Trends That Need To Frackin' Stop in 2007:
-The popularity of boring, growly post-grunge junk (Nickelback, Hinder, that guy that didn't win American Idol)
-Southern hip-hop (with very, very few exceptions)
-The comeback of Weird Al Yankovich (he not teh funny)
-The continued shutting down of New York's nightclubs

When I first came across Will It Blend I was like "Boo yeah! This rocks!"

Then after a few days I realized the whole thing is basically an advertisement for the blender used in the videos, and felt kind of sad. Then I saw the probably-not-a-doctor guy blend up some Barbie dolls and I was happy again!