its not the end of the year yet, so this is subject to change, but here's how it stands so far.

• Album: Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective
• Song: Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
• Music Video: Not sure yet. I need to do more research.
• Instrument: tie between Banjo and Omnichord
• Musician: Spencer Krug. A fantastic LP w/ Sunset Rubdown, a good LP with Swan Lake, and two good EPs as Moonface
• Movie: Moon
• Actor: Sam Rockwell
• Director: Spike Jonze
• Movie Trailer: Where The Wild Things Are
• Movie Poster: Where The Wild Things Are
• Movie Scene: The life montage in Up
• Villain: Hans Landa, played by Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
• Opening title sequence: Watchmen. then Zombieland
• TV Show: Breaking Bad Season 2
• TV Character: Larry David
• Book: Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
• Graphic Novel: Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
• Comedy Album: My Weakness is Strong - Patton Oswalt
• Website: slashfilm.com
• Videogame: Machinarium? (my girlfriend's PS3 was broken by her sleepwalking brother peeing on it, so I spent most of the year playing games I missed from the last few years, but I bet it will end up being Modern Warfare 2)
• Athlete: Chase Utley
• Podcast: The /Filmcast
• Twitterer: Dan Trachtenberg
• Purchase: my Dell Studio 17 laptop
• Person: Trista Caudill