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Yes, your highness.

Castle: N/A

New Girl: Perfectly alright most of the time and it has some really strong episodes. If you hate Zooey Deschanel, don't watch it.

Modern Family: Again, perfectly fine. Massively overrated, but perfectly fine.

The League: Really fun and crazy. Most of it is not scripted I beleive which makes it all the better.

30 Rock: Seen Season 1, which was really good. I will continue watching.

Gravity Falls = Awesome. Almost made my list.

Once Upon a Time is hilariously bad.

QI: N/A

American Horror Story: Completely nuts, and that makes it fun. Not really a quality show though.

True Blood: A friend of mine wants to push this on me, I still resist.

Gonna close the voting. I'll count this stuff over the next couple of days and hope that we get some kind of good list out of this. But either way, I'll report back.

Burn Notice: N/A

The Office: On my to do list.

Happy Endings: Heard good things, heard bad things. Will probably watch it at some point.

Treme: One of the best shows on televsion. I think it will get even better with rewatching and I'm sad the next mini-season is the last one.

The Thick of It: Heard good things, will probably watch.

EDIT: Also, who voted for Treme? GoGo, Cloudy, Josh and me? Club of Awesomeness.

Arrow is pretty fun, Don't Trust The B---- in Apartment 23 can be insanely awesome and is at it's worst at least okay. Haven't seen the rest, except for the off episode of NCIS on TV and it's boring.

I don't get it. Why does it matter if we were good people or not? It doesn't make these characters any more tolerable. What is the appeal of watching a show full of unlikeable characters? The chance they might get better later?

It's always Sunny is a horrible show too.

I don't think it is or should be everyone's cup of tea. I'm just saying, that's part of the show, deeply flawed characters. Most shows like this, where the main character is an aspiring writer (or musician, actor, entertainer, whatever), the show will cast them as brilliant and misunderstood through their struggles. What I like about Girls is that it's not afraid to say the main character might not be that good. I connect to that because, well, I am that.

I am with zero here that is a interesting concept, but I do not think Girls is able to pull it off at all, except for as zero mentioned with one character, Hannah's boyfriend. The problem here is that none of the other characters have at least one redeemable quality about them (and this is especially true for Hannah), they seem like people that you absolutely do not want to succeed. And it's a weird place to be when you are watching the show, that you are hoping that every character just fails all the damn time. Although not every character needs to be likeable, I think you need to have at least a character that you can identify with or understand why they are the way they are, but this is not the case for me. AND I share the whole "I wanna be a writer" dream with Hannah and it still doesn't work.

Peep Show: N/A

Fringe: N/A

Girls: At first I really hated this show. And no, it has nothing to do with "lol, Lena Dunham is fat" because she isn't, but because I really hated the characters and didn't think the show was funny at all. And at the end of season one I still really hate the characters, but it was at least somewhat funny. Don't understand the hype and appeal here, but I'll give it another chance in season two.

Revolution: We talked about this a lot here. It has potential but is mostly terrible, which is a shame.

Suits: N/A

Leverage: Fun show. It didn't make it in my Top 15 by a mile, but I think it would have made it in to the Top 50 if we had known that it would be cancelled, out of nostalgic reasons.

Family Guy: Terrible. I never got the appeal of this show.

Grimm: Watched the first couple of episodes, thought it was bad.

Veep: This is a shame. One of the best new shows this year, although this isn't saying much.

The L.A. Complex: GoGo is praising it and thus it's on my watchlist, but I can't comment.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Seriously, what the hell?

The Newsroom: Meh. Thought it started alright but has so many flaws that it's hard to take it seriously.

Key and Peele: Don't know this.

Glee: Thank God.

Only going to start counting when voting is closed, which will be in a week or so.

You can blame GoGo for this, but I have to say that this episode was absolutely terrible, similar to the last couple of episodes.

The flashbacks were absolutely unnecessary plot-wise (only serving as a reminder what Doakes' motivation was), the voice-over was terrible, Dexter kidnapping the guy in the park with people around during the fucking day was horrible, Quinn still exists as does Batista's stupid restaurant, and the whole thing in the final minutes was really bad as well. Why didn't LaGuerta call for backup?´Why was LaGuerta free to walk around after everyone assumed she fucked with evidence? Why was Debra's only option to shoot either one of them? Why not simply arrest Dexter or walk away? I could go on for hours.

Go ahead Pris!

That's the one. I thought the pilot was messy but also had really fun moments. Then it went down to below average, and in the last couple of weeks it's just been terrible.

Also, I remember liking the pilot of The Mindy Project, but the show is reaaaaaaaaaally not good.

-1.

The Justified pilot is fucking fantastic.

I'd prefer a list that takes longer to count out where people are able to chose more albums personally. I'll obviously still submit a list regardless, but as SRN, would probably be more likely to strategically vote if I am limited to 20.

But twenty is already a lot to count .

Last year on EWB's favorite album:

Since I was bored; I started putting together my favorite album list once again, and decided to to this thing again.Same thing as last year basically, please vote for your Top 20 favorite albums of all-time. Everything goes. Please stick to this format or a variation thereof (album title first please!);

1. Album Name - Artist

2. Album Name - Artist

3. Album Name - Artist

4. Album Name - Artist

5. Album Name - Artist

....

It makes it easier for me, because there are obviously some bands that took their names from an album and vice versa.

For counting up the votes, first place receives 20 points, second place 19 and so on. I'm only going to count the votes after voting is closed, so feel free to edit your list as many times as you wish.

Also, please keep the bitching about other people's list to a minimum. The place for this will be the final list.

I'm also going to ask a selected few of you to write a few words about Albums of the Top 10/ Top 5 (depending on activity) that you voted for.

1. The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

2. Raw Power - The Stooges

3. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground

4. Halber Mensch - Einstürzende Neubauten

5. In Utero - Nirvana

6. OK Computer - Radiohead

7. Young, Loud and Snotty - Dead Boys

8. Illmatic - Nas

9. (GI) - The Germs

10. Origin of Symmetry - Muse

11. Closer - Joy Division

12. The Queen is Dead - The Smiths

13. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

14. City - Strapping Young Lad

15. Neon Golden - The Notwist

16. Blauer Samt - Torch

17. Revolver - The Beatles

18. Love is Hell - Ryan Adams

19. Music For Real Airports - The Black Dog / Black Dog Productions

20 .Mezzanine - Massive Attack

EDIT: Forgot Massive Attack.

Despite the fact Muse brought a new album out this year, my 2012 album of the year is either 'Epicloud' by Devin Townsend or 'Koi No Yokan' by Deftones. Both heavy yet beautiful albums.

And in case I'm not around in 2013, my favourite album of next year will probably be 'Opposites' by Biffy Clyro.

Oh right, Epicloud is amazing. Totally forgot that.

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City is probably my front-runner. I haven't listened to a ton of the music to come out this year yet though, so can't make a real strong judgment.

Kendrick Lamar can be savely added to the list of American rappers of whom I do not understand the appeal at all.

Yeah, despite not understanding why you needed to tag it as "American rappers," I'm gonna cosign this.

Well, I'm from Germany and with German rap I usually at least somewhat understand why people like certain things and I often believe that the reason why I don't like a couple of American rappers is due to cultural differences or different expectations in rap style.

I'm not sure I would call an episode where

Abu Nazir, the mysterious shadow cell leader, turns into a slasher villain in the sewer

full-on back to basics, though at the same time it was much closer than it has been in the weeks prior.

It beats...

The episode where the CIA suddenly stops monitoring the cell phone of a confessed terrorist the minute that operation ends, which allows said terrorist to roam freely around the Vice Presidential residence and allows said terrorist to commit the crime he wanted to a year before. Oh yeah, Dana Brody literally crying over spilled milk makes me hate television. I'm hopeful for a Season 3 where she's in a CIA Black Opps Prison that doesn't technically exist and Peter Quinn tortures her for no good reason

I actually like Dana. Yes, her plot came totally out of nowhere and was a bit silly, but I think her reactions to it really made up for it and added an interesting perspective to the show. And the spilled milk thing was just her emotions boiling over and had nothing to do with the milk . And I liked her meltdown. I agree though that a fair number of things took a turn to the implausible in regards to the main story, but I'm willing to look past that if we see more character moments because they are just that good.

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City is probably my front-runner. I haven't listened to a ton of the music to come out this year yet though, so can't make a real strong judgment.

Kendrick Lamar can be savely added to the list of American rappers of whom I do not understand the appeal at all.

TV giveth, and TV taketh away.

We lose Ben and Kate and keep Two and a Half men. We get Yvonne Strahovski side boob and get terrible Dexter episodes.

Lots of good stuff this year from some of my favorite acts. There's No Leaving Now by The Tallest Man on Earth probably gets the nod from me, with Dinosaur Jr.'s I Bet on Sky as a solid #2. But I admit that I have the worst taste in music ever.

Pretty sure that honor goes to JohnnyPerfect .

1. Swans - The Seer

2. Haleek Maul - Oxyconteen (Well, technically an EP. Otherwise I'd go with his album with Supreme Cuts.)

3. Death Grips - The Money Store

4.Nas - Life is Good

5. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

Pretty sure I forgot alot I really like, but those were the first five that came to mind.

It's really too bad that it's most likely getting cancelled, because it is just such a charming show.

Question for those watching Homeland.

Everybody was saying how great it was until something happened in the last 1-2 episodes. Is the series worth watching? Because I was totally going to start, but I'm apprehensive now.

The series is amazing. The main thing people dislike about the latest episodes is that in those heavy thriller style action (which is sometimes implausible) is favored over the character drama that makes the show so great and appealing. But those episodes are still probably better than a lot of other shows (and I didn't mind them at all) and the character moments are still there. There is no other show like it (at least that I can think of).

So Nine Inch Nails will be releasing a Greatest Hits next year, new album in 2014 and Trent is collaborating with Interscope and Beats by Dre to develop a new straming service.

In actual 'What am I listening to?" news. Swans, lots of Swans. And Electric Wizard. And Swans. And German rap. And Swans.