We figured it would be fun to compile Top 12 lists from Twelve Gauge Artists and friends and invite you to share yours!
Here's what we've got (in no particular order):
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Kyle Davis - Molotov Solution
1. Book - Welcome to the Machine: Science, surveillance and the Culture of Control by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan
2. Movie - Shooter
3. Documentary Film - American Drug War: The Last White Hope
4. Album (Metal) - Nocturnal, The Black Dahlia Murder
5. Show we played - The Showcase with Elysia, Myotonia, and Burning the Masses
6. Album (Electronic) - Jackals and Vipers In Envy of Man, Sixtoo
7. Favorite new toy - AKAI MPC1000 drum machine
8. Album (Hip-hop) - Situation, Buck 65
9. Music Video - The Pretender, Foo Fighters
10. Show I attended - Behemoth at the House of Blues in Vegas
11. Restaurant - Romano's Macaroni Grille
12. Audiobook - Confessions of An Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Jay McNeilly - Sabertooth Zombie
1. Electric Wizard new record
2. Pabst Blue Ribbon
3. Whiskey
4. Going to see Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Seeing Tool
6. Lava Lamps
7. Stoner Rock
8. Purple Mercy
9. Jimi Hendrix
10. Niners Giants Tattoos
11. Mike Patton
12. Slayer

Fat Rich Warwick - ICON Omnimedia
1. The Fat Pig BBQ 
2. Sex Vid live @ Passout Records
3. Home Blitz CD
4. Velvetta Heartbreak
5. Chaos In Tejas fest
6. WFMU
7. Snake Apartment
8. taking up running
9. Endless Boogie
10. my new armchair
11. Direct TV
12. sportsbook.com 

Alex - Lambgoat
1. Wikipedia
2. Haribo candy
3. A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea
4. talk radio
5. The Omen soundtrack
6. Seinfeld re-runs
7. Ben & Jerry's Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream
8. Roger Waters
9. Unholy - Blood of the Medusa
10. buffalo wings
11. the drumset in my basement
12. The Daily Show

Danny Rankin - Heavy Heavy Low Low
1. Cannabis
2. 12 packs of PBR
3. The Escape (San Jose, CA)
4. Rubik's cubes
5. Zeitgeist
6. Magic Gardens Strip Bar (Portland, OR) 7. Backpacking in shasta county and getting our car stuck for 5 days in the mud.
8. Fishing
9. Reality Shows
10. "Its only right.... and when its tight"
11. Great Momma Jokes
12. Turning 21

Karlyn Henry - Twelve Gauge Records
1. San Jose Sharks
2. Ambitions- Stranger
3. Native Foods
4. Down To Nothing- The Most
5. Crime in Stereo is Dead
6. The Departed
7. Superbad
8. Kirkwood
9. Pei Wei
10. Sabertooth Zombie
11. Santa Cruz
12. The beach

Chris Brock - Apiary
1. Trap Them-7inch/Sleepwell Deconstructor/Seance Prime. If you dont have/love this band's 3 releases, then you were probably listening to Chiodos all year. that sucks.
2. The Ocean-Precambrian. Holy fucking shit, this album is like Godzilla gang raping the world with a Megaladon and then cumming on the worlds face.
3. Oakland Raiders drafting Jamarcus Russell with the 1st pick. Theres always next season! ha.
4. touring with Gaza and hearing this after partying all night and Luke waking up hungover and way dehydrated in our van driving to the next show: "damn, it feels like I sucked a mummies cock. twice!".
5. the news of Carcass AND At The Gates reuniting for Wacken Open Air and instantly putting my dick on hard.
6. Playing New England Metal Fest for the first time. And then using my camel pack full of whiskey all day and forgetting everything that happened.
7. Unholy. sickest band, great dudes, and JD is real bald. And holy shit, Murph stinks!
8. Chromeo-Fancy Footwork. It makes girls dance and when girls dance you might get in their pants! yippie!
9. booking studio time with Steve Austin from Today is the Day (who have an awesome new record out called Axis of Eden) and writing our new album.
10. the word "yucky" coming back into my vocabulary. ie: damn, that girl is straight up fucking YUCKY!
11. Touring with the Funeral Pyre. Best dudes ever.
12. getting our van broken into in Boston, Mass and losing all our ipods and my computer. oh wait, that fucking sucked. FUCK YOU THEIFS IN BOSTON!

Chris Fritter - Heavy Heavy Low Low
1. Halo 3

Travis Reilly - This Is Hell
01. Che Che's Sweet Corn Cake
02. Never Say Die Europe Tour w/ Comeback Kid, Parkway Drive, Cancer Bats and The Warriors
03. Crime In Stereo "....Is Dead"
04. Brand New/Thrice Live in NYC
05. London, England
06. Toronto, Canada
07. Nightmare Of You "Bang"
08. Down To Nothing "The Most"
09. The Kenmore Agency
10. Blades Of Glory / Knocked Up / Superbad
11. Sounds Of The Underground Tour
12. Evolution Of A Cromagnon by John Joseph

Sammy Winston - Spiderghost Pressgang, Grace Alley, Ramparts
(in no particular order, aside from #1)
1. Spiderghost ruling the fucking universe
2. Cali Dewitt and Teenage Teardrops
3. M.I.A “Kala”
4. all things norcalian hardcore: Sabertooth Zombie, Ceremony, Never Healed, Skin Like Iron, Crucified, et al.
5. being banned from Gilman by pathetic little simpletons with low self-esteem
6. Zodiac
7. Going to Ireland, especially Free Derry
8. everything that I forgot to put on this stupid list
9. outrunning the pigs and those who didn’t only getting community service
10. discovering Crooked Fingers’ self-titled album
11. Moz had my back (it’s a great story- ask me about it sometime)
12. Kristafawn, as always

Jordan - Dead Will Rise
1. TWELVE GAUGE RECORDS LAWLZ
2. I AM LEGEND (MOVIE)
3. ARROGANT BASTARD ALE
4. BLACK DAHLIA MURDER - NOCTURNAL
5. DICK CHENEY BEING SHOT
6. KFC MIXED BOWL
7. JIHAD
8. AMP'D ENERGY DRINK
9. ENTREPRENEUR PRE-SALE
10. MY GIRLFRIEND MOVING IN WITH ME
11. BEING ALIVE!!!
12. SOUTH PARK EPISODE WITH BONO AND THE WORLD'S LARGEST SHIT

Phil Cancilla - Misericordiam
1. EMPEROR
2. CALI DANK!
3. XBOX 360
4. BLADES OF GLORY
5. TAMA DRUMS
6. AXIS PERCUSSION
7. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME "COLORS"
8. MYSPACE.COM/MYRKSKOGMETAL
9. EPIC METAL
10. BLACK SLAM
11. IMPROVISATION
12. RUSH

Simon - War From A Harlots Mouth
01. touring
02. best sex of my life
03. watching all x-files seasons
04. discovering more music
05. wfahm record release show
06. being lazy
07. set your goals shows
08. collecting vinyl
09. hanging out at the ocean
10. amenra show
11. first deftones show ever
12. listening to music everywhere at any time

Andrew Fritter - Heavy Heavy Low Low
01. Halo 3
02. Mars close approach to earth
03. Swell Boardshop
04. Grinder 3
05. Key West
06. Zelda Phantom Hourglass
07. not letting my face be seen
08. Going to Europe
09. Assassins Creed
10. Star Wars Galaxy emulation Release getting nearer
11. Jihad earning the name Cheese
12. Volcano

Doug - Dead Will Rise
1. Pabst Blue ribbon
2. Busch
3. Busch light
4. Old Milwauke
5. Sierra Nevada
6. Rouge Dead Guy ale
7. Rouge Brutal Biter
8. Rouge Chocolate stout
9. Arogant Bastard Ale
10. Stone Ruination IPA
11. Double Bastard
12. Wild Turkey

Paul Fisher - Sexy Merch Guy
1. sounds of the underground tour
2. Jimmy eat worlds - chase this light
3. Necro getting stuff thrown at him every night he on sounds of the underground.
4. Rise Records signing ex-scars of tomorrow band The Hollowed.
5. The devil wears prada being on the sounds of the underground tour.
Worst idea ever.
6. New Found Glory - from the screen to your stero part. II
7. Walk Hard!!!
8. The new sidekick lx
9. The wal*mart gift cards not working after christmas!
10. The blood brothers finally breaking up
11. Finch getting back together
12. 2 girls 1 cup!!!

Andrew Muhoberac - Toast The Wrap
1. Howard Zinn (A People's History of the United States)
2. Grape Swishers
3. saying 'literally' to something that's obviously not literal
4. bands I listened to in junior high
5. SJ lightrail
6. the Happy Bamboo
7. the Tortoise
8. mewithoutYou/Brand New tour
9. the Street Lawyer
10. Converge Cannonball
11. the wrap
12. Veggie Torta's From Iguana's

Nick Scandy - Lambgoat
1. All Things Translation Loss
2. Cowboy Boots
3. The Ocean's Precambrian
4. Can't Hardly Wait
5. Engineer's The Dregs
6. Pig Destroyer's Phantom Limb
7. Top Secret Robot Alliance's Video for Tiger Dance
(http://youtube.com/watch?v=inyb87GK39E)
8. Trap Them, Tides, and Perth Express in Brookline, MA
9. Bloodhorse's Live Show
10. The Metal Frat
11. The Swellers
12. Romantic Comedies

Jesse Ro - Seize the Night
1. Bruce Springsteen @ Oracle Arena
2. 60's and early 70's Soul Music on Wax
3. Converge @ The Oakland Metro
4. La Altena and El Farrilito Pastor Burritos
5. Jameson Whiskey
6. The Panda Studio Sessions
7. The Darjelling Limited
8. The Get Down! with DJ Daryl Palumbo
9. Partying til 5am on my roof
10. My Brother's hipster mustache
11. STN @ Palomonies
12. Dolores Park

Jimmy - Dead Will Rise
1. converge
2. phantom limb - pig destroyer
3. my girlfriend
4. the police reunion
5. going on tour
6. the band Trap Them
7. meeting J.R. Hayes and Jacob Bannon
8. watching TOMBSTONE
9. Jihad/TGR/Dead will rise
10. seeing RUSH for the 6th time
11. IRE WORKS
12. LOOSING MY VIRGINITY

Ryan Chip - Heavy Heavy Low Low
1. 211
2. The Tressle
3. Fishing
4. Bomb burritos
5.. Tour
6. Electric Wizard
7. Acid King
8. No Country For Old Men
9. Jihads mom
10. Gale
11. Mushrooms
12. Beards

Jenny Jensen - Revelation Records
1. CSS
2. Cypress Hill (Rock The Bells)
3. !!!
4. Bjork
5. Thunderheist
6. Ratatat
7. Cursive
8. Rage Against The Machine (Rock The Bells)
9. Free Moral Agents
10. Look Daggers
11. Busdriver
12. The Valley Arena =

Jordan Owens - Ex - Murder Practice / Slaughtahouse
1. Road Biking (specifically my Giant OCR A1)
2. Losing 35 lbs
3. Ultra Vitalence (http://www.myspace.com/maniacalarticles)
4. Sabertooth Zombie - Midnight Venom (which received major play time in my CD player through 2007)
5. Ej Phair Brewery in Concord
6. Mike Macalvey's fat lip; then Casey Pine pissing himself on my couch
7. Death Guild's "Thunderdome" Event in Oakland (If you didn't go, you missed out)
8. My Brother's Wedding and being with my family
9. Eos Vineyards in Paso Robles
10. Friends (not the show you idiot!)
11. Random SF parties
12. La Pinata Restaurants

Matt Philly - Yourlastbreath
1. Colts winning the Super Bowl
2. Joe Torre becoming head coach of the Dodgers
3. Me starting this amazing band of mine, Falco Does it Dirty
4. Me getting married and divorced (go figure)
5. My revamped DJ career
6. Yourlastbreath's 2nd reunion Show
7. The Rogue Brewery in San Francisco, CA
8. The Police re-union show
9. Kanye west still holding it down
10. Doing alot of travelling and vacationing
11. Meeting alot of new amazing friends
12. Me still being alive (and disease free to all the people that eat up rumors... much love<3)

Kyle Blomseth - Knox Overstreet
1. Barry Bonds 756
2. Comeback Kid - Broadcasting
3. MLIW/Trap Them - Seance Prime tour
4. HopeCon
5. Converge tour
6. Anchor Steam
7. The Escape
8. Consolidated Skateboards
9. Greer Park
10. Tacos Jalapa
11. Maker's Mark
12. The Garret

Jihad Rabah - Twelve Gauge Records
0. Everything TG
1. Summer @ Sounds Of The Underground Tour
2. Kickin' it @ Kyles
3. Set It Straight's Last Show
4. Twelve Gauge Showcase on 4/20
5. HHLL/STZ CA Dates
6. Convege in Oakland
7. MMJ and Mushrooms
8. The Escape
9. Lifelong Tragedy
10. Seeing Poison The Well twice
11. Rubik's Cube for Christmas
12. Ramparts

WHATS YOUR TOP 12? SHARE!
WHATS YOUR TOP 12? SHARE!
WHATS YOUR TOP 12? SHARE!