Top Ten | Top Ten Awesome Things That Make Us Feel Totally Rad

Dude, here at the Daily, we're, like, totally stoked that Blink-182 is reuniting and crap. Because we, like, totally so didn't dig Tom DeLonge's side project Angels and Airwaves and whatever. In the spirit of de-harshing our collective buzz, brah, we've compiled a super-awesome list of Awesome Things That Make Us Feel Totally Rad. Did we mention how incredibly wicked awesome this stuff is?

10. Lisa Frank: Lisa Frank is the woman responsible for every folder or notebook you owned in the first through fourth grade, or, if you're still awesome, until now. Her school — nay, lifestyle — supplies portray sickeningly adorable animals and mythological creatures at play. Those unicorns are frolicking so hard.

9. Mario Cart for Wii: Most of us can't drive normally, so what's better than practicing running into walls and flying off cliffs with a hand-held steering wheel? Not to mention the awesome commentary from each character, such as "Aha!" from Waluigi as he smokes your Baby Toad in the final lap. Try the level where the track is a rainbow; just be sure not to use psychedelic drugs beforehand.

8. French comic operettas: Jacques Offenbach is awesome. From French comic operettas we get the can-can, lots of pirates, adulterous gods and some kickass music. French composers knew how to party.

7. Tina Fey: She was hysterical on SNL with her anti-Bush jokes, she wrote the screenplay for the movie "Mean Girls" (2004), which we all secretly (or perhaps openly) love, and now she writes and stars in one of TV's most exciting new shows, "30 Rock." Liz Lemon, her character on "30 Rock," is often quoted: "I want to go to there." However, we at the Daily Arts Department beg to differ: "We want to go to YOU, Tina!"

6. Extremely gory movies: A guilty pleasure for many Americans, the so-called "torture porn" genre is extremely profitable. Films like "Hostel 2" (2007) and "My Bloody Valentine" (2009) push the envelope of grotesque kills and psychopaths, but audiences still line up to see them. Why? Because they're AWESOME.

5. Finger painting: The best thing about finger painting, aside from the fact that it is a great excuse to make a mess, is that no matter how much you suck at art, it doesn't matter. It's all just squiggles and colors and fingerprints anyway.

4. The Interwebs: The series of tubes that gives us free music, free movies, free porn, endless viral videos and more entertainment than anything else just can't be beat. Oh, it's a pretty good research tool too, so I guess that counts for something.

3. The Hold Steady: As anyone who's ever been to a Hold Steady show can tell you, there's so much joy in the classic-meets-punk-rock songs played by these Midwesterners-turned-Brooklynites. With lyrics about sex, drugs, booze and rock and roll, where can you go wrong? Their keyboardist even has a frigging handlebar moustache. Bottom line: If you don't love this uniquely American-sounding band, you're probably a terrorist.

2. High fives: Is there nothing more beautiful than a really good high five? It is an artistic expression of the shared emotional experience of "awesome" given sound and physicality in the form of the meeting of two palms. It's like a beautiful dance, and a soulful orgasm for the hand…

1. Sex on the Joey: …and speaking of orgasms, sex on the Joey seems pretty awesome, just as long as no one is queefing.  Yeah, we're looking at you, Crane…

—compiled by the Daily Arts Department