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Best & Worst Of 2010

Steve "The Provolone Wolf" Teo - Tuesday, December 28, 2010
NAME: Terry Urban
CLAIM TO FAME: DJ
WEBSITE: TerryUrban.com


TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. iPhone 4
2. Inception
3. Sandra Bullock kissing Scarlett Johansson at VMA's
4. Viva La Hova Remastered
5. Angry Birds

 TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. BP
2. Earthquake in Haiti
3. Gary Coleman RIP
4. NY Rangers not making the NHL playoffs
5. Justin Bieber






NAME: Christopher Truth
CLAIM TO FAME: Nice Guy + Beer Enthusiast + DJ

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. aP Party Bus in NYC - epic night.
2. Going to Austin City Limits Festival for the second straight year.
3. Every night I drank and the night ended positive.
4. Modern Family.
5. Every visit to the Brooklyn Brewery.

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. The Celtics losing in the finals to the stupid Lakers.
2. Stupid hipsters.
3. The passing of Guru
4. The Office isn't that funny anymore
5. Finding out Santa isn't real.





NAME: Geoff "OnCue" Sarubbi 
CLAIM TO FAME: Rapper extraordinaire over some rock shit.
WEBISTE:
www.twitter.com/mynamecuey
www.facebook.com/mynamecuey
www.mynamecuey.com

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Releasing Cuey Sings the Blues & Leftovers
2. Kanye's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"
3. The invention of Taco Bell's XXL Chalupa
4. Jets making the playoffs second year in a row!
5. Surviving jumping into the subway tracks drunk to get my IPhone

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Dropping my iPhone in the NYC subway tracks wasted as hell, and deciding to climb down after the phone.
2. The Jets loss to the Pats in Foxborough (FUCK THE PATRIOTS!)
3. Government arresting Julian Assange of WikiLeaks
4. When Blake fell off on the content of Freaky Friday
5. Failing Physics






NAME: Nathan S
CLAIM TO FAME: Managing Editor, DJBooth.net & RefinedHype.com
WEBSITE: www.djbooth.net @djbooth | refinedhype.com @refinedhype

TOP 5 BEST THINGS ABOUT RAP IN 2010 - 
1. Good Fridays.
2. A recovered Eminem.
3. Waka Flocks parodies (Shawt Bus Shawty, Baracka Flocka Flame)
4. The rise of B.o.B.
5. Getting Kid Cudi wasted.

TOP 5 WORST THINGS ABOUT RAP IN 2010 - 
1. Swizz Beatz rhyming on Good Fridays
2. The lost art of entourage members taking a charge (cough Lil Wayne and T.I. cough). 
3. Kat Stacks, people slapping Kat Stacks, Kat Stacks slapping people, Kat Stack's heart's refusal to stop beating. 
4. Diddy's continued belief in his own musical talent. 
5. Getting Kid Cudi wasted.





NAME: CJ Luzi
CLAIM TO FAME: Producing Music   
WEBSITE: CJLuzi.com

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. MC Hammer's triumphant return 
2. Cuey Sings the Blues by OnCue
3. Meeting my gorgeous, redheaded girlfriend, Erika 
4. Watching Michael Vick lead my team to victory 
5. Seeing the progression of my music & my name, all thanks to God 


 TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. The red line on my macbook screen that won't leave 
2. Jersey Shore 
3. Brett Favre returning 
4. Hearing Dancing With The Stars updates from another dude
5. The doctor saying "Yes CJ, you have mono."  






NAME: Stone
CLAIM TO FAME: Owner and CEO of The Couch Sessions
WEBSITE: http://www.thecouchsessions.com

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. The Academy Party BUS!
2. Kanye West
3. Going to LA TWICE on some Baller Status
4. Michael Vick returning to form
5. Celebrities following us on Twitter

 TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Our website getting hacked
2. MIA
3. Wack Rappers
4. Wack Rapper Groupies
5. The Redskins






NAME: Mick Boogie
CLAIM TO FAME: Party Rocker / Entrepreneur / All Around Good Guy
WEBSITE: www.MickBoogie.com


TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. Being here another year.
2. Outsourced on NBC.
3. Traveling to Asia (twice), South America and Dubai just to play some records and make people dance.  How awesome is my job??
4. Pete Rock producing a Kanye/Jay-Z track.
5. Having Academy book me to spin drunken frat parties in New England. Lol.

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Having ecstasy in the car while doing a U-Turn.
2. Wondering how Liza made it to the final four on The Apprentice.
3. Rappers who figured out how to move from MySpace to Facebook
4. Rappers who figured out how to move from Facebook to Twitter
5. TSA getting even more overzealous at airports but couldn't even get a job at 7-11.






NAME: Kyle / DJ Kaybee
CLAIM TO FAME: DJ / Academy Chef Extraordinaire

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. Learning to DJ & DJing some cool events
2. Kanye West - Good Fridays +Best album of the year 
3. Resurrecting the car bong
4. Sick Parties(4th of July, NYC Bus etc) & Concerts (Rakim, Spring Heeled Jack etc)
5. This Picture - (water birth)

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010
Wasn't such a bad year, so some quick hitting hate
1. Wacka Flocka Flame - No
2. Lebron James - You should have at least gone to NY
3. Sarah Palin - Go back to your igloo
4. Banning of Four Locos - I hardly knew ye
5. Brett Favre - Hopefully it ends






NAME: The Deans List
CLAIM TO FAME: The Deans List
WEBSITE: www.itsthedeanslist.com
TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1.  Having sexual relations with everyone we have ever wanted to.
2.  All moving into an apartment together - Music. every. single. day.
3.  Signing to NUE Agency.
4.  Went to flight school for 72 hours.
5.  Soup time sundays (S.T.S.) at Panera Bread.  Soup, Sunday, ladies, and free wifi.

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Mik addicted to cigarettes…again.
2. Being turned down by Donald Trump to invest in us.
3. Being not as fly like a G6.
4. Our old website.
5. Oj Da Juiceman.






NAME: Yomi Desalu
CLAIM TO FAME: Director - Music & Talent Programming Strategies at MTV Networks
WEBSITE: MTV.com
TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. My engagement!
2. Kanye album 
3. 4Loko 
4. Knicks Getting Amar'e 
5. J Cole mixtape 

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Haiti Earthquake (we aint forget!)
2. Government website shutdowns 
3. The Mets record
4. Obama bashing
5. The continuing recession






NAME: Matican
CLAIM TO FAME: Competitive Wing Eater 
WEBSITE: www.spaceghetto.net
TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Going to Munich for Oktoberfest. "Mein schwanz ist ein flammenwerfer," or, "my dick is a flamethrower," was the one German phrase we learned, and many German locals heard.
 2. Music - Faith No More reunion tour in Brooklyn, Diamond Eyes, new The Damned Things record, new Glassjaw tracks, and of course, Riff Raff.
 3. Apple products. iPhone 4, and my new MacBook Pro is pretty awesome too.
 4. Beer. Drank a lot of good beer this year. Most notable - Brooklyn Pennant, Schneiderweiss, and Saint Arnold's.
 5. Old Spice commercials. Not even one mediocre one out of like a dozen that were released...Great job!
 
TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Deaths. George Steinbrenner, Bob Sheppard, Dio, Leslie Nielson, Greg Giraldo, Corey Haim...
 2. Jay Leno and the rat dicking of Conan O'brien. That should be a book title.
 3. Will Smith's kids. Please stop doing things.
 4. Music - New Cudi record, Lil Wayne, Black Eyed Peas, Bieber...Shitty to lump Cudi in with this group, but the new record is just as unlistenable as any of these..
 5.Food poisoning in NYC. Fucked by General Tso. Could barely move, non stop shitting and vomitting. Good times.






NAME: John Gotty™
CLAIM TO FAME: Founder & Editor, The Smoking Section
WEBSITE: www.smokingsection.net

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Kanye rapping again and killing it
2. Nike Trainer 1.2 Mids, hands down one of the best new sneaker models released.
3. Both SXSW & A3C Music Festivals were both blasts. 
4. Ronnie Fieg's shoe collaborations with various brands.
5. Danny Brown's The Hybrid

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Poor Yung Berg got robbed again
2. Rap's revolving jail doors saw Gucci, T.I., Wayne and a few other knuckleheads spending more time on government-sponsored vacations than on stages. 
3. Some fool hit my truck. It's been repaired but we all know that it official takes the new, untarnished feel off things once they've been damaged.
4. LeBron James and his woeful team really botching "The Decision" presentation and leaving a smear on his future legacy.
5. Death & taxes






NAME: Aaron T
CLAIM TO FAME: Knuckles (Death Threat Frontman), Kitchen Manager, Jetblack Bullseye manager
WEBSITE: myspace.com/jetblackbullseye
TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1.Ms.JetBlack
2.Revenge Canada Weekend
3.Mike Flynn joining DT
4.Brooklyn
5.CeeLo Green "The Lady Killer"

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1.Puking blood
2.Drank piss(accidentally)haha
3.Dropping my phone in collard greens
4.Almost moving to L.A.
5.Canceling DT shows






NAME:  Pete "J.R." Wasilewski
CLAIM TO FAME:  I know Peter @ Academy Printwear
WEBSITE: www.lessthanjake.com

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. My "Top 5 Best Things of 2010" List
2. Blake and Teo's "Top 5 Best Things of 2010" List (tie)
3. Playing this year's Riot Fest as a member of both Less Than Jake and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
4. Cee Lo Green's "Lady Killer" record
5. Spring Heeled Jack playing 2 show's at Toad's Place.

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Peter's "Top 5 Best Things of 2010" List
2. Justin Beiber and/or Black Veil Brides (tie)
3. Kanye West's and Taylor Swifts performances on the VMA's...embarrassing.
4. Glenn Beck
5. LeBron James's hour-long "where I'm signing" special - should have called it "How to turn heel in 6 words or less"






NAME: Justin Toussaint
CLAIM TO FAME: Web Design @ Academy
WEBSITE: www.academyprintwear.com

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. purchasing my first car (2005 Accord)
2. turning 21
3. Halo Reach
4. Academy Bus Party
5. Ten Penny Ale

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. still not having enough money for a macbook
2. winter
3. Fall 2010 school semester
4. wisdom teeth pulled
5. drafting Tony Romo, Dallas Clark and Beanie Wells in fantasy






NAME: Jake Blauvelt
CLAIM TO FAME: Boardin'!
WEBSITE: jakeblauvelt.com (starting Jan 1st 2011)

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. La Nina
2. Virgin America Airlines
3. Leo Messi
4. Ping Pong 
5. Yoga

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. United Airlines
2. Being hungover
3. Pulled Muscles
4. North Korea
5. U.S economy 






NAME: chanes
CLAIM TO FAME: producer
WEBSITE: twitter.com/chchanes


TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. working with freeway and kurupt.
2. linking up with house shoes.
3. the luther burger.
4. the phrase "2010, get it in".
5. detroit hip hop.


TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010
1. kanye disgracing the mpc.
2. the remake of a nightmare on elmstreet.
3. blacking out in vegas.
4. the breaking of the fish eye lens.
5. the smoking ban in michigan.






NAME: Blake Kostka
CLAIM TO FAME: Academy Printwear / Putting a landscaping company out of business/ CEO Freaky Friday
WEBSITE: twitter.com/academylife

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1 .McRib and Double Down
2. Finding a gold coin
3. Dropping $100.00 on deep fried hot dogs during our academy NYC tour bus event
4. Sleeping with Betty White
5. Killing a pet pig and eating it the same day. RIP Carnitas. You were tasty though.

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Nicki Minaj’s annoying voices and accents
2. Anything Waka Flocka Flame, OJ Da Juice Man, or P Diddy
3. Leaving our T – Shirt launcher in the trunk of a NYC Cab
4. Head smashed off of a car door on St. Patrick’s Day
5. The next morning after a 4Lokos challenge






NAME: Peter Michael Fertiguena Jr.
CLAIM TO FAME: owner, academy printwear
WEBSITE: www.academyprintwear.com

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. iphone4/angry birds/face time
2. academy parties and college tour/academy tattoo challenge/Justin's 21st Bday
3. 2011
4. Best album-Wiz Khalifa's :: Kush & Orange Juice
5. Clogging every hotel toilet as soon as we get in the room

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Leaving the old academy office
2. Rapper's that couldn't deliver a pizza & band's that quit their day jobs
3. 2010 Worste Trends- Bro's Icing Bro's/Four Loko/The Shake Weight/ People Dressing Like avatar esp girls
4. Getting stuck & Sleeping in a South Bronx gas station parking lot, after the Less Than Jake Booze Cruise
5. The Milford Oyster Festival







NAME: Steve Teo
CLAIM TO FAME: Design & Photography @ Academy / Death Threat / Bread Man
WEBSITE: TeoAcademy.tumblr.com

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Seeing Sheer Terror @ This Is Hardcore Fest in Philly.
2. Four Loko
3. Academy Party Bus
4. Death Threat Canadian Weekends
5. Finally seeing Henry Rollins in Boston

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. Stomping on a wine glass barefoot
2. The death of Paul The Octopus
3. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon Part 2 (come on man! I was psyched for this and it sucked)
4. The 2 year old Indonesian kid quiting smoking
5. The Milford Oyster Festival (biggest shit show ever)






NAME: Cassidy
CLAIM TO FAME: Electrician / Handy Man / All Around Good Dude / That dude who built the bathroom
WEBSITE: I like them

TOP 5 BEST THINGS OF 2010 - 
1. New job
2. Not going to the Milford Oyster Festival
3. Getting a normal sized room (no more closet room)
4. Playing Softball
5. Building my first bathroom

TOP 5 WORST THINGS OF 2010 -
1. No more free Government Checks
2. Not going to the Milford Oyster Festival
3. Going through 2 cars in 2 days
4. The passing of a close family friend
5. Babysitting Melissa's dog Max... 





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