this afternoon we had a sex and the city type lunch where we ate out yummy cafe deux soleils breakfasts (which have destroyed my body and i feel pretty sick and gross now) where we reminisced of the year that has passed, made our own best and worst lists, and had some good discussions, fought off the shedding of tears (why cant i just let them pour?), and just lounged to our hearts content. so, before i go and get into the shouju (i think that's how you spell it..im not sure, the bottle's in korean you know!!) and the raspberry stoli, i thought i'd make myself comfortable at the helm of cranberry's beautiful fucking mac computer and type my heart out, reflect, muse, and blab about those things this past year that well, either rocked, or knocked, my beautiful socks. happy new years kiddos!! xoxo di.
best nickname acquired this year: d-train (aka. di-densha). many thanks to randy for driving this one home.
worst hangover/drinking extravaganza: definitely without a doubt, the white trash party.
best acquisition (consumer good): okay, so i love stuff, so of course this will be on here, but i'd have to say that the best thing that i acquired this year was either my pair of grey chucks, or, definitely, my hair razor!
best decision i made this year: tie! 1. quitting my job at the english school from hell, and 2. moving back to terrace.
biggest lesson learned: if i wear my heart on my sleeve, it usually means it will be hurt. and badly. so, i cant just run blindly towards people and expect them to love me the way that i want them to. even though i deserve it (the love that is).
best live show: this was the year i probably saw the fewest shows. but out of them, i think ive seen some of my favourites. so, the architecture in helsinki/wolf parade/doctor dog show in artspace (which was a total fire hazard), and seeing the killers/british sea power at the pacific colliseum. extra points for seeing wolf parade at cam's house a week later.
best trip: the last day of my kyoto-nagano extravaganza. we rode from joetsu to akayu. we took two trains and bummed a ride. half way up the western coast of japan (still in niigata) the train was stopped for just over an hour, and we had to use our superb nihongo decoding skills to try and figure out what the conductor was saying, double check with some obachans, run over to the infamous jusco and get ourselves some bentos (of local specialities the obachans later told us), take silly pictures, sweat, and dream of that time we returned back to akayu. my favourite part of that day was when when we were coming back from the coast through to nagai, and you go through tunnels, and incredible countryside. but the windows were down, and when we went through the first tunnel it was so loud, and so windy inside the train, we were all screaming through our hillarious laughter. my hair was a definite mess.
best albums of the year!!: (yeah typical right?) so, my picks are (meaning get out there and buy them dammit!!) MUSIQ - orange range. plans - death cab for cutie. picaresque - the decemberists. haughty melodic - mike doughty. sleeping in the nothing - kelly osbourne. apologies to the queen mary - wolf parade. and..bands/songs that meant a lot to me this year, but didnt really come out this year are...
1. julie doiron and the wooden stars.
2. lodestar - sarah harmer
3. danger zone - gwen stefani
4. the ridiculously hot mix tapes jeff made me that feature goldfrapp, madge, lcd soundsystem, the freestylers ("push up! your body, your body next to mine!!"), and peaches.
5. peachcake!
6. cut copy! - bright like neon love
best bus trip: the 25 hour bus trip home was amazing. i didnt have any music to listen to, and i had a cold, and was emotionally a wreck, so i just continuously chugged nyquil, slept, had feverish dreams, and awoke to some mental clarity, sureness in my move back to my hometown (which is something to not be so happy about, usually), and clear, northern air. so nice
best movie watching experience: seeing the new phantom of the opera in yonezawa. so good.
more later yo!
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