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Where did you bring in 2006?
In the Southern Bar, smoking a cigarette - INDOORS!
What was your status by Valentine's Day?
I was alive
Were you in school (any time this year)?
I met Sarah at the Art School refectory for lunch once.
How did you earn your keep?
I embezzle other people's taxes.
Did you encounter the police?
My friend became a polisman, now we don't really talk.
Where did you go on vacation?
Orkney.
Did anybody you know get married?
My sister and policeman friend, on the same day.
Did anybody close to you die?
No.
Did anybody close to you have a baby?
My policeman friend, he had little baby boy called Ben.
Did you move anywhere?
Nope.
Are you registered to vote?
I am, but I don't vote.
Describe your birthday.
I woke up at 5pm, made fish and chips, watched Robin Hood, went to Bennett's, got totally fucked and made a complete fool of myself.
What's the one thing you thought you would never do but did in 2006?
Make a good soup.
What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
I killed a man.
Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No, I didn't expect to either.
What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Err probably 1st January when I witnessed Hearts scupper a two goal lead to Celtic at Tynecastle. The highs and lows were quite extreme.
What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Ending up in hospital after taking a cocktail of drugs.
What were the best things you bought?
Probably the Christmas chicken; it was delicious.
What do you wish you'd done more of?
I wish I'd done more of not watching TV, of not waking up till around 12, and not doing pointless internet surveys.
What do you wish you'd done less of?
Masturbating.
How did you spend Christmas?
Cooking, watching DVDs.
What was your favorite TV program?
Arrested Development.
What was the best book you read?
Probably Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
What did you want and get?
Smack.
What did you want and not get?
A good women to stop me wanting things like smack.
What was your favourite film of this year?
Pan's Labyrinth, Walk the Line, I quite enjoyed Match Point too, especially Johnathan Rhys-Myers's amazing acting.
What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Magnetic Fields (for some reason I completely denied I liked them based on one song I heard years ago), Gogol Bordello, Jeffery Lewis, Deerhoof, Ivor Cutler, Alasdair Roberts, The Organ, AUTOBAHN.
Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Wonderful! (Wonderful)
It's so wonderful! (wonderful)
Wonderful! (Wonderful)
It's so wonderful!
From 'Wonderful' by the Circle Jerks.