Best book I read in 2008: “Don’t Waste Your Life” By John Piper
 
Favorite Album of 2008: All Ends “All Ends”
Favorite Hardcore album of 2008: Bloodclot! “Burn Babylon Burn”
Favorite Metal album of 2008: Cavalera Conspiracy “Inflikted”
 
Top 15 of ’08, listed alphabetically (not including the above 3):
Sarah Brightman “Symphony”
Coldplay “Viva La Vida…”
Delirious? “Kingdom of Comfort”
Flogging Molly “Float”
Hands “The Sound Of Earth” (officially coming out in 09)
Leeland “Opposite Way”
Loreena McKennit “A Midwinter’s Night Dream”
Mogwai “The Hawk Is Howling”
Mouth Of The Architect “Quietly”
My Epic “I Am Undone”
Rise Against “Appeal to Reason”
Shiny Toy Guns “Season Of Poison”
Telecast “The Quiet Revolution”
Emiliana Torrini “Me And Armini”
Unearth “The March”
Underoath “Lost In The Sound Of Separation”
Phil Wickham “Sing A Long”
 
Best Concert of 2008: Cro-Mags @ Angelo’s Pizza – Pomona, CA
Runner Up’s for Best Concert: Nightwish @ House Of Blues – San Diego, Cavalera Conspiracy @ House Of Blues – San Diego
Favorite Concert ever: Nightwish @ House Of Blues – Anaheim – Aug. 31, 2004
 
Top 5 Hardcore albums of all time:  Agnostic Front “One Voice”, Sick Of It All “Just Look Around”, Judge “Bringing It Down”, Madball “Look My Way”, Cro Mags “Age Of Quarrel”
Favorite Metal albums of all time: Death “Symbolic”, Sepultura “Arise”, Nightwish “Century Child”
 
Favorite place visited in 2008: Eleuthera, Bahamas
 
I would if I could: Great white shark cage diving in South Africa
 
God’s message for me in 2008: To live is Christ, to die is gain.  Philippians 1:21.  John Piper’s breakdown and explanation of the meaning of this verse is heavy.  Check it out in his book “Don’t Waste Your Life”.s