2013: The Best Of

Not all of these films/books/YouTube channels etc. came out in 2013 nor did I first get exposed to them that year, obviously. But they made an important appearance in my life this past year, ergo their inclusion on this list.

Films:

Monsters University

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Desolation of Smaug

Scott Pilgrim

Catching Fire

YouTube videos/channels:

Vlogumentary trailer

Louis Cole

Sorted Food
CTFxC
Video Game High School
Rickshaw Run series
Our Fun Family Vacation

Books:

The Madness Underneath
Geektastic

Twitter pages:

Kelly Haight

Court Mann
Reasons My Son Is Crying

Charles Trippy

Musical artists:

We The Kings

The Killers

The Head And The Heart

Imagine Dragons
Smoke Signals
Watsky

Television shows:

Chuck

Teen Wolf

The Office

30 Rock
LOST
Community

Road trips:
St. George

Yellowstone

Other events:

Going to the Imagine Dragons concert with Stacy and Lorraine before Lorraine left on her mission



Living in New York for a few months






 
  

Talking with Cameron literally hours before I flew to New York

Sitting by a small lake in Yellowstone one Sunday afternoon










Talking with Peter one Saturday evening after work and him buying me Taco Bell for dinner

Kelly and I spending 12+ hours a day together and never getting tired of each other

Visiting the Atlantic Ocean for the first time

Being sent by my editor to Coney Island to ride the Cyclone
















Cameron sending me on a quest to a specific part of Central Park and then to buy cookies




































Writing a huge article for my capstone class

Realizing I not only love graphic design but that I'm also good at it

Making a new friend because of my VPLCT jersey

Getting Peter into longboarding and helping him buy his own

Being opinion editor for the summer

Going to lunch with my all-time favorite professor and his awesome wife

Flying home to Wisconsin for the BYU/Wisconsin football game

Seeing Arthur Darvill perform in Once on Broadway




















Cameron and Angela's wedding

Fake graduating in August & real graduating in December

















Spending the rest of summer in Utah after living in New York
    

2012: The Best Of

My "Best Of" list, while it does include many things that debuted in 2012, is not solely comprised of such things. It's a list of the best things I discovered in 2012. Or just things I came to see/love in a new way throughout the year. Or just things I've always loved.

Films:
Wreck It Ralph
Hottie Boomba Lottie
Captain America
Hunger Games
Thor
The Avengers
The Hobbit
Moneyball

Skyfall

YouTube videos:
Inspirational Running
Stay Awake
Stop-motion Excel

Books:
The Fault In Our Stars
Fahrenheit 451
The Race Beat
Wordplay
My Name is Asher Lev
American Jesus

Twitter pages:
Modern Seinfeld
Threadless
Maureen Johnson
John Green

Musical artists:
Imagine Dragons
A Great Big World
Greg Holden
Walk Off The Earth
Watsky
Opus Orange
Julia Nunes

Personal photos: (This one could go on forever but here's a few that never cease to make me smile)

Television shows:
Community
Parks and Recreation
Sherlock
The Mindy Project
Arrow
Doctor Who

Road trips:
Northern California w/ Trent, Phillip, Grant and Emily (Days 1&2, 3, 4)
Southern California w/ Becca
Mid-week Meridian, Idaho w/ the VPLCT

Other events that changed my life:

• Seeing Jordan three times in the spring & then talking every single day (in some form) the entire time I was home
• Lorraine getting her mission call to Paris, France
• SJ's mission farewell
• Longboarding down the canyon (finally)
• Writing for The (Daily) Universe
• Brooke telling me she was having a baby (It's a girl, by the way)
• Seeing Imagine Dragons live
• Spending a great deal of my free time during the second half of the semester with Peter
• Winning 52 free meals to Chick-Fil-A
• Tuesday lunches (and sometimes dinners) in spring term with Trent
• Finally getting a smartphone

It's been one heck of a year. I'm stoked to see how 2013 turns out. Have a great Christmas, my dear friends.