I doubt anyone really cares if the amount of comments (or complete lack of) I receive per blog, but I'm late on posting the first part to my car blogs since I caught a sudden stomach virus (to put it simply, over half a dozen trips to the restroom, that's not including the six times I threw up), which was followed a few hours afterwards with a flu and fever (this is my near-instant reward for deciding to try and diet and potentially work out after 2-3 days). I was hoping to provide descriptions for each car here and to provide the ten ugliest cars I've seen. However, my "writing fluency" is so dry and I couldn't think of all the truly ugliest cars I've seen, so I'm giving you a list of fifteen cars that seem to be widely considred ugly, but I find perfectly decent, if not very appealing. Sorry, no descriptions; essentially take it as "I'd like or love to own any of these personally."

15. 1958 Ford Edsel

14. 2005 Chrysler 300C

13. 2008 Honda Element

12. 2005 Chevrolet HHR

11. 2003 Chevrolet SSR

10. 2004 Chevrolet Avalanche

9. 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser

8. Mercedes-Benz G-Cla ss

7. 2001 Plymouth Prowler

6. 1977 AMC Gremlin

5. 2000 Porsche Boxster

4. 2004 Volkswagen Touareg

3. 2001 BMW Z3 Coupe

2. 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution

1. 1982 DeLorean DMC-12

Even though I'm no gearhead, I still have a very soft spot in my heart for cars, even if they aren't powerful (were it not for the two deformations my stepfather and I-one each-made to my Grand Prix I'd still hold it above my parents cars). And recently I've been making a note of cars that I enjoy the most while making a few changes to my ten favorite cars. So what I'm aiming to do for this month is to give a car list each Wednesday or Thursday. I might make a change or two, but here's the lists I'll likely do (ten cars each):

10 Ugliest Cars I've Seen

5 Cars That Should Be Brought Back, 5 Cars That Shouldn't Have Been Cancelled

10 Cars Under $30K I'd Love to Own

5 Favorite Car Companies, 5 Least Favorite Car Companies

Bonus List: Top 10 Favorite Cars

Even with a relatively small music library, it took several months before I had the time to finally go through all of the albums (didn't listen to the albums I bought which I posted in my previous blog save for Operation: Mindcrime). I put descriptions by the albums and bolded the ones I enjoyed the most stylistically as I went along while adding these to my Sputnik music profile. If you're interested in the complete collection of albums, ratings and descriptions, here's my profile (which you'll also find a few lists, namely discography rankings, I'll also be adding a list of the albums I bolded/enjoyed the most) and a few reviews I did:

Sputnik Music Profile

Something else I did along the way of rating these albums is try to compile a top albums list, which I'll continually update as I experiment with more bands and albums. Even though I got almost 40 albums in the current list, I'll just give you the current top 10 list, with repeating bands included (which only happens once in this instance):

10. Dimmu Borgir-"Enthrone Darkness Triumphant"

9. DevilDriver-"The Last Kind Words"

8. Judas Priest-"Screaming for Vengeance"

7. Death-"The Sound of Perseverance"

6. Amorphis-"Silent Waters"

5. At the Gates-"Slaughter of the Soul"

4. Emperor-"Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk"

3. Eternal Tears of Sorrow-"A Virgin and a Whore"

2. Judas Priest-"Painkiller"

1. Queensryche-"Operation: Mindcrime"

And while we're on the topic of music, a store recently opened at my mall which sells real band shirts and other merchandise (unlike the trash at Hot Topic). If anything should be an indication, they have a shirt for the Dimmu Borgir album Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia with the album cover on the front completely uncensored and other styles on the back. I was actually torn between either getting a shirt that had the album cover of In Flames' Whoracle on the front with the name on the back and a Dimmu Borgir shirt with the cover of Enthrone Darkness Triumphant on the front and a giant, green pentagram on the back (I went with the latter). They also let me choose a few albums in their catalogue to see if they could get them in since I'd show interest in buying them. But to give you a better idea of their selection, here's a list of bands I can remember they had t-shirts for in-stock (with multiple for most of them):

Deicide

Dimmu Borgir

Obituary

Bathory

Iced Earth

Lamb of God

In Flames

Pantera

Venom

King Diamond

Rob Zombie

White Zombie

Megadeth

Queensryche

Testament

Shadows Fall

Death

Sepultura

Satyricon

Judas Priest

Iron Maiden

Slayer

Children of Bodom

Black Sabbath

Dio