Friday, January 09, 2009
Year Of The Ox
Happy New Year for 2009! Is that the date already? Cripes...
I can only apologise for my lack of activity. I throw myself on the mercy of the court! I have lots of lists and to dos to do. The long overdue review for my wonderful Shuffleathon CD I received ages ago is gestating, and I have a CD of my own to post out to some poor soul. There will be my Best Of's for 2008. And various musings on turning 29, and therefore officially "pushing 30". Should be an interesting year this one. I threw a proper strop when I turned 25, so who knows what lunacy I shall lend myself to over the coming 12 months. Stay tuned.
Anyway, in the meantime, stolen from the ever wonderful Annie Slaminsky (just for a change) here are 10 things I learnt in 2008:
1. Someday I want to live in Paris. I promise, I'm on it.
2. Life is much more fun when you just let go of your cynicism and self imposed rules. I spent quite a significant part of this year doing stuff I would never have done before. I think you spend your 20's constructing the idea of who you are and in the end you can be trapped by that. Tearing through that and escaping the cage of your own creation is very liberating.
3. If you dye your hair red, noone in London will care. But it will shock everyone you meet in Liverpool to the point of incomprehension.
4. Forgiving is difficult. Forgetting is even harder. But not impossible.
5. If you play Kraftwerk's 'The Model', noone will be able to dance to it. Even if you play it in Berlin.
6. I am a runner. Not a very good one, but a runner nonetheless. I spent the previous however many years saying "...but I'll never be a runner." Like all things, you just have to do it.
7. Meeting people from off of the internet can actually be really great. Fuck the stigma.
8. I have the capacity to be a complete bastard. And I don't like that fact. I always thought I was better than that. But it seems that sometimes I'm not. And I'm sorry.
9. I am terrible flirt with female celebrities.
10. My family are alright, actually. Having heard everyone else's nightmare tales of Christmas back home, I'm grateful for their comforting mundanity.
So that's that. Hope you have a lovely, exciting, passionate, properous and peaceful 2009. Delrico Bandito wishes it so.
I can only apologise for my lack of activity. I throw myself on the mercy of the court! I have lots of lists and to dos to do. The long overdue review for my wonderful Shuffleathon CD I received ages ago is gestating, and I have a CD of my own to post out to some poor soul. There will be my Best Of's for 2008. And various musings on turning 29, and therefore officially "pushing 30". Should be an interesting year this one. I threw a proper strop when I turned 25, so who knows what lunacy I shall lend myself to over the coming 12 months. Stay tuned.
Anyway, in the meantime, stolen from the ever wonderful Annie Slaminsky (just for a change) here are 10 things I learnt in 2008:
1. Someday I want to live in Paris. I promise, I'm on it.
2. Life is much more fun when you just let go of your cynicism and self imposed rules. I spent quite a significant part of this year doing stuff I would never have done before. I think you spend your 20's constructing the idea of who you are and in the end you can be trapped by that. Tearing through that and escaping the cage of your own creation is very liberating.
3. If you dye your hair red, noone in London will care. But it will shock everyone you meet in Liverpool to the point of incomprehension.
4. Forgiving is difficult. Forgetting is even harder. But not impossible.
5. If you play Kraftwerk's 'The Model', noone will be able to dance to it. Even if you play it in Berlin.
6. I am a runner. Not a very good one, but a runner nonetheless. I spent the previous however many years saying "...but I'll never be a runner." Like all things, you just have to do it.
7. Meeting people from off of the internet can actually be really great. Fuck the stigma.
8. I have the capacity to be a complete bastard. And I don't like that fact. I always thought I was better than that. But it seems that sometimes I'm not. And I'm sorry.
9. I am terrible flirt with female celebrities.
10. My family are alright, actually. Having heard everyone else's nightmare tales of Christmas back home, I'm grateful for their comforting mundanity.
So that's that. Hope you have a lovely, exciting, passionate, properous and peaceful 2009. Delrico Bandito wishes it so.
Labels: lists, memes, philosophy
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