So while I hurtle towards the conclusion of BORDERLANDS, I was reminded that TOMB RAIDER: UNDERWORLD was not the first game I beat. No, it was actually PORTAL.

For most of you, PORTAL was an “also includes” when you bought HALF-LIFE 2. When my buddy (and soon to be “hot s#!t” screenwriter) Jeremy let me borrow it, he said it’s like “Radiohead but as a video game.”

Naturally, I was skeptical. I play the puzzle shooter and found it fun. Once the puzzles got loopy, the game really got more interesting. And then once you think you’re done it kicks into this other place that’s pretty f**king cool. Yeah, I’m with Jeremy, I loved this game.

I should also mention that my buddy Sean, the one that got me hooked on BORDERLANDS, also let me borrow SPIDER-MAN: WEB OF SHADOWS and while it was fun web-slinging around Manhattan I found the narrative and missions too repetitive to recommend this game.

And there’s my alarm. Time for another DayQuil.

Which are all very good but if this is what defines a decade, well, it was often an excellent decade but did any of these albums/songs break new ground or set the world aflame? Personally, I’d have to argue that this was the song of the decade…

And I think this is the album that defined a decade dominated by music piracy (Napster turned 10 this year) and laptop maestros…

Okay, some of you will say that I’m being unduly hard on this nascent century or that I’m just a child of the 90s but can we take a look at some of the albums that defined the last decade?

Yeah, right, I know! Unbelievably great albums.

Okay, let’s see if the 2000′s teen years can kick some ass.