Well it had to come sooner or later, another end of year wrapy uppy survey thing. i do them every year, too bad for you.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Watched chinatown, worked in a bookstore, cut someone open, didnt go to icon for the first time in 15 years, met niki, watched lost, shoveled and didn’t fall over. Its was a quiet year.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn’t make any this past year, i’m really just gonna do them as i think of em.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that i can remember. if i missed your baby im sorry!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
i lost someone really close to me, and some close to those i know, and that feels just as horrible.
5. What countries did you visit?
only new ones in video games; the mushroom kingdom, that country in call of duty, and of course the kick ass metal fantasy land of brutal legend.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
a better job, a new comic, i would still like a new place lol
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
the day i lost my bolivian brother, and the day i met niki, both for obvious reasons.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
i cant think of any real achievements from this year, nothing that stands out as an accomplishment. I did unlock all the achievements in 1 vrs 100 on xbox live. thats not bad i guess. i unlocked some mental achievements too.
9. What was your biggest failure?
i dont feel like i failed, unless its not getting enough work done. then ive failed amazingly. motivate me, failure! didnt get super powers either.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
My body runs on illness.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
hmmm. i dont even know. cat toy sushi for claude. the ghostbusters game was pretty awesome. and i had some delicious burgers.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
i really cant think of one for this.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
prob the management where i work, and all the cretins in the world that somehow think theyre more important than anyone else and people should be left to be sick.
14. Where did most of your money go?
the year went with me not having so much money, so mostly bills and pills.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
kinda the same as last year – watching claude grow, hanging with the lady, seeing fishbone some more, great art, seeing my 202 buddays and all my friends getting married!
16. What songs will always remind you of 2009?
well, here are my top ten listened to songs of 09 as determened by my last.fm scrobbler.
radiohead – bangers and mash
ryan adams – beautiful sorta
pearl jam – the fixer
pearl jam – johnny guitar
ryan adams – anybody wanna take me home
morrissey – something is squeezing my skull
radiohead – reckoner
pearl jam – gonna see my friend
the dismemberment plan – come home
pearl jam – got some
17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
i think im somewhere in the middle.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
worked more and wrote/drew more. wish i had gotten out more as well.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
unfufilling sleepiness again. this year i will conquer it.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
already spent it. was i supposed to do this earlier or something?
21. the amount of times i turned off wwe in disgust.
22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
2009 was full of love and heartbreak, but it ended on an upnote i think.
23. How many one night stands?
none! none!! many multi night fallasleep snorefests tho.
24. What were your favourite TV programmes?
dexter, lost, breaking bad
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
only cause i started working so late in the year.
26. What was the best book you read?
hmmmm, ive read alot this year. high fidelity.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
off the top of my head, while theyre are a lot of great albums out by groups i already knew of, i think this year is when i first stumbled upon jaydiohead.
28. What did you want and get?
more coffee. fishbone for my birthday.
29. What did you want and not get?
so much.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
district 9, the cove…see my list.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
went to see fishbone, the greatest band in the world, with some of my best buds. it was a great time. i hit split 8, and i shall stay there.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
life
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
the same as usual but this year there were more pants and more coats.
34. What kept you sane?
not much. music, ron and fez, and seeing fishbone always helps.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
for some reason this year i gained a crush on erin burnett, and claire from lost.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
ill add one to the amazing bubbling of selfish people, somehow supporting a corporation bailout but scoff at individual bailout; the ignorant cretins that oppose health care for everyone. so selfish.
37. Who did you miss?
bunches of people i dont see enough, bolivia the mostest.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
niki
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
hug.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
I kinda like the way you dot your J’s
With giant circles of naïveté
The kind of circles include everything
Don’t mean to damn you with the faintest praise
It’s just a symptom of the blithe age
Walter Lippman, he would be amazed.