My Year in Music (2025) Welcome to my 4th annual music-of-the-year list! While I didn't quite reach my personal heights of listening that was last year, I came awfully close. I listened to 1,151 artists and 2,465 songs. I al...

With the release of the video game of the year podcast this morning, two of my four year end recaps for 2025 (television/video games) are in the books.

But wait… there’s more! Music is here!

My 2025 list features my favorite 100 albums of 2025! Enjoy!

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Being clear and specific is so important in scouting.

Read this great piece

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It is very difficult to be creative when "anything goes" and you have no limitations, because it is the limitations that actually encourage creativity

- Mark Foster

The thing about knowing who you are is you create it, you decide it, you choose it. The only question you need to ask yourself is who do I want to be?

- Jonathan Decker

Try loving yourself instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.

- Adam Cam 10

You don't criticize the moon for not shining the same each night. You don't look up at it and say you're not trying hard enough... because you know the moon doesn't have to be full and bright every night to be loved...and neither do you.

- unknown

Every story changes when we change the storyteller.

- Angkor The Lost Empire of Cambodia exhibit

Healing is remembering who you were before the World told you who you should be.

- James McCrae

Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody's worth less.

- Stellan Skarsgard

Family is everything. But the requirement isn't blood, it's love. It's respect, warmth, safety and support. Family is whoever feels like home to your nervous system.

- Alexa Ortiz

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Because the more joy you allow yourself to feel for others, the more room you make to feel it within yourself. Their happiness doesn't threaten your journey. It affirms what's possible on yours.

- Jordan Flesher

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But their win isn't your loss and their happiness doesn't steal from yours. Mudita reminds us that joy is meant to be shared and that we don't become less by celebrating others. We become more: more grounded, more open and more connected to what matters.

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There is a beautiful Sanskrit word: mudita. It means finding joy in the happiness and good fortune of others. And in a world that teaches us to compete, mudita is radical and refreshing. We're taught to measure ourselves against others and to see someone else's rise as proof of our fall.

At your very best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. But at your absolute worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.

- Tom Hardy

With compromise, you both lose. As a couple, you must collaborate on the best possible outcome.

- unknown

The version of you that will handle that terrible thing when it happens will be born into existence in that moment. And that version of you will have more life experience and more context and more ability to handle that thing than you do now.

- Dr. Emily Anhalt

Embarrassment is an under explored emotion. Go out there and make a fool of yourself.

- Austin Butler

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

- Seneca

Judge me for how good my good ideas are, not how bad my bad ideas are.

- Ben Affleck

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the World around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

- Dr. Jane Goodall

Maybe it's a deep cover attempt to get the ownership to sell the team and move it to Seattle? One can wish.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve.

- Christoph Waltz

A secret to happiness is to be as weird as you like and the wrong people will leave the party but the right ones will join the dance.

- Katie Allen

ASAP: as slow as possible, as soft as possible, as sustainable as possible, as sincere as possible, as steady as possible, allow space and pause.

- unknown

Friendly reminder that you have zero control over how other people perceive you, so you might as well just be the person you want to be.

- Storybrookesoph

Everything we say at funerals should be said at birthdays instead. We leave so much love unspoken.

- justmadhu

I'm way more interested in how my life feels to me than how it looks to others.

- unknown

If it costs your peace, it's too expensive.

- James McCrae

What doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You have got to these things time to set.

- luulapants

Life gets more fun when you stop clinging to control and certainty and simply dance with the mystery. - James McCrae