Ten Things I'm Thankful For in 2009 (Hair Whip Edition)

You know you want it.

1. Anything written by Neil Peart but especially Roadshow: Landscape With Drums
   
   
2. The Muppet "Bohemian Rhapsody." Can't stop watching it.
   
   
3. Endgame by Megadeth and the two albums before it.
   
   
4. Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy singing "Bobby Brown Goes Down." Fear it!
   
   
5. The return to health of ex-Marillion singer Fish. New album sometime next year, we hope.
   
   
6. The new Slayer record.
   
   
7. The astonishing return of Shadow Gallery, and their new disc Digital Ghosts. Currently getting played a lot.
   
   
8. The equally astonishing return of Alice in Chains and how good Black Gives Way to Blue is.
   
   
9. Porcupine Tree's The Incident--maybe the best album of the year. I should write a review of it one of these days.
   
   
10. Seeing Metallica at Madison Square Garden for the first time in ten years.
    

Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers, and thank you for sticking with this blog for the last six months. On with the Tryptophan!