Lists
Top 5 Ridiculous Things That Got Me Misty in the Last Year
Now, first of all, I am by no means claiming to possess anything close to John Wayne levels of tear duct control. However, I don’t tend to cry at the usual things. The beginning of Up? Not a tear. The beginning of Up!? Not a tear either. Whenever an animal dies onscreen (even in that…
Read MoreThe Top Five Best Mailbag Monday Posts
Mailbag Monday was the first “monthly” feature that I created on this website. It started when I noticed that the google search terms that were leading people here were getting more and more ridiculous (I would never want to assume correlation implies causation, but the search terms did increase in frequency and vulgarity with each post I wrote…
Read MoreBest of isleyunruh.com: 2009-2015
To give a little history, this website started as a Myspace blog in 2006 before moving on to become the internet sensation you have before you now. Actually, it technically started in 2005 as a string of random posts I did for a friend’s “bad poetry” blog, but, no matter the inauspicious beginnings, it was…
Read MoreIO5M 22: The Top Five Best iPhone Games
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. This time I’m going to talk about some of my favorite iPhone games. These might not be the greatest games of all…
Read MoreIO5M 21: The Top Five Best Songs on the New Miley Cyrus Album
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. So, apparently, last night, Miley Cyrus, in addition to hosting the VMAs, dropped a brand new album on her legions of casually…
Read MoreIO5M 20: The Top Five Most Metal Artworks from the Flemish Renaissance
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. If you ask me, like music and systems of government, art of olden times just has a certain quaint barbarity that really can’t…
Read MoreIO5M 19: The Top Five Julia Stiles Movies and TV Shows
It’s no secret that I’ve got a bit of a thing for Julia Stiles. Maybe I’m just being a contrarian because of all those people who call her “fish-faced box office poison,” but dammit, she is ALWAYS a delight, even in bottom of the barrel shit-shows like Carolina and Wicked. So, today, on this most…
Read MoreBest Metal Albums of 2014
Another year of actually listening to new metal down, and I’m happy to report it was another year of quality finds! There weren’t any real standouts like Peste Noire and Satan’s new ones last year (too many of this year’s picks either repeat previous, superior works, or completely ape previous, superior bands), but I still…
Read MoreIO5M 18: The Top Five Most Embarrassing www.isleyunruh.com Email Leaks
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. Though the widely publicized Sony hack has dominated the news lately, a far more serious bit of 1337 hacking has gone relatively…
Read MoreIO5M 17: The Top Five Signs That the Underground Metal Band You Are Listening To Might Be Racist
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. I can sometimes sail some dark waters in my quest for new, shitty-sounding underground metal. And it’s not a secret that some of…
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