helped drove a rock band around Germany. went to America. made peace with London, went to Leeds a lot.
signed on way too many times. got A Proper Job. moved out, moved on, moved city.
saw my cousin marry her high school sweetheart. saw my awesome sister graduate uni [hi Fee]. lost a grandma.
reconnected with some amazing old friends, met some excellent new friends both IRL and OTI.
met some rad internet people IRL [hi Jesse, Ruby Kid].
graduated journalism school seemingly just as the industry caves in on itself [hi Newsies].
went to a series of excruciating job interviews [ask me about the one where i ended up talking about Skrewdriver].
continued to learn and unlearn a load of important stuff.didn't protest awful shit enough.
developed flash crushes on way too many beautiful & awesome women both IRL and OTI [hi... no, not telling you].
started a new radio show. released two fantastic records by three artists [hi Liam, hi Arran [+Dicks]] and reached a year-end Top 50 list in a music magazine i really like [tho Not Here was robbed imho].
read some books, watched films & TV, saw some art. listened to a shitload of fantastic music, didn't actually hear that much bad music at all. saw some amazing live shows, including someone i've been waiting about 13 years to see. embraced poptimism.
didn't play enough [any given musical instrument]. bought a trumpet. started writing a rap album. helped film a music video. formed a band [hi El].
ate some great food, ate prolly way more really shitty food, drank enough coffee to poison a town's water supply.
continued to be pretty unhealthy. discovered i actually really like olives.
engaged in too many Herculean struggles with my own mood swings.
didn't blog enough. tracked the amazing rise of the Horse_ebooks phenom. did my bit to make a washed-up '90s alt-rock singer eat 2 dozen eggs on YouTube. went mildly viral tweeting about a Beefheart/Bono kerfuffle.
ran up the back of a minibus in traffic.
found a stray dog, returned the dog. sat next to a dog in church. saw some great fish and other marine life.
wore various enjoyable hats [favourites: ushanka; Yankees cap; mushroom]
plans for 2012: stop being quite so desperately unhealthy; rejuvenate this blog and get back into writing about music more; release about 5 more records; hopefully meet a load more rad people; generally get my weight up in all ways except literally.
shout out to everyone i love and everyone who loves me.
and if 2012 doesn't bring about that much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse i'ma start the shit myself.
2 comments:
Haha, I wouldn't want to have a journalism degree right now either. Although, I guess I SORT OF do (have one). I majored in "mass communication / journalism", but I think it only says mass communication on my degree. (As it should, I didn't take a single journalism-related class) ...
mine gave me the research skills necessary to one day have a Gawker article written about my important findings.
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