come on baby play me something, like here comes the sun
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
huh hard question. uh. produced a show!
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
last year i did, and didn't keep them, this year... i dunno i'll see how i'm feeling tomorrow
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
nooo
4. Did anyone close to you die?
nope, thank @god
5. What countries did you visit?
uh i went on a cruise with my mum... i think that was all in like those weird southern US islands tho like key west
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
OOH I KNOW THIS ONE
1) a job
2) a residence outside of my mom's home
those are pretty much my goals for the year
7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
specific dates? nothing specific date-y really happened this year.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
i was really proud actually of what i did in the alumni show
9. What was your biggest failure?
lol EVERYTHING SCHOOL RELATED
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
mental illness
11. What was the best thing you bought?
DOC MARTEN KNEE-HIGHS
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
cool peoples's?
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and/or depressed?
shitty people's? people who were shitty to my friends
14. Where did most of your money go?
food probably, my default method of hanging out with people is getting dinner.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
my crime narratives class. if by class you mean professor. unf unf unnnnf.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
hm. maybe young adult friction - the pains of being pure at heart? considering i've been obsessed with it since january. AND IT'S AWESOME YOU SHOULD ALL LISTEN TO IT.
some runners up:
gimme sympathy - metric (probably the song i listened to most this year)
bad romance - lady gaga, even tho i hate that song it was everywhere for a while
my girls - animal collective I DON'T CARE I LOVE THIS SONG OK
the entire kelly clarkson album
the entire kris allen album
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? oh jesus. um. happier i guess. more scared to. but yeah, happier.
b) thinner or fatter? the same i think
c) richer or poorer? uh the same? maybe poorer? idk
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
going to therapy. but not totally cuz i'm glad i dropped out. hanging out with friends i guess.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
being really depressed
20. How did you spend Christmas?
in puerto rico, with my grandma and brother and then at dinner at my grand-aunt's
21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
uh kind of, for like a month, obsessively and hopelessly, with a friend. that's all blown over thank god
22. How many one-night stands?
uh... technically none
23. What was your favourite TV program?
30 rock probably. also house.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
nah
25. What was the best book you read?
shit i didn't even read that many books and i'm still sad you're making me pick one. quick list.
the adventures of huckleberry finn - mark twain [a rightful american classic]
the sound and the fury - william faulkner [turns out all the people who told me this book was almost unbearably briliant were right]
the postman always rings twice - james cain [couldn't fucking put it down, so hardcore and fucked up and sexy]
they shoot horses, don't they? - horace mccoy [this has like my favorite female character of all time]
gateway - frederick pohl [i never finished this. but i mean to. it's brilliant]
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, metric, vv brown, animal collective, kris allen (shut up), boys who say no
27. What did you want and get?
ass. i know, i'm such a classy broad. i also got a lot closer with some people i wanted to do that with. and also, this is weird but ever since we saw dinner in london i've been like "wow playing paige would basically be the most incredible part ever in the history of the world," and then this year i got to do that, which was incredible.
28. What did you want and not get?
a completed fifth semester of college. but whatevs.
29. What was your favourite film of this year?
uh i saw like no movies this year. so i'm going to go with the imaginarium of dr. parnassus which i saw last night and seriously enjoyed
30. What did you do on your birthday?
studied for my protest lit final the next day, cried a lot
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
not being really depressed, giving up on harvard earlier
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
bright colors, don't be afraid to be weird, also i admit i get a ton of mileage out of the skirts + tights + doc martens combo
33. What kept you sane?
i always get by with a little help from my friends. but managing to get all fangirly about kris allen also provided some nice brain-breaks when i needed them ("MY LIFE SUUUU--oh look new kris interview! yay!")
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
KRIS ALLEN. duh.
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
oh jesus. everything. the world sucks. the stupak amendment, maybe, that was fucked up.
36. Who did you miss?
EVERYONE i love so many people who are usually far away from me
37. Who was the best new person you met?
i don't think i really met new people this year, like brand new, but i did become legit friends with former acquaintances so: stewart, ashley, and mike.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
some things aren't meant to work out. you actually can make your own choices in life. LISTEN TO YOUR FUCKING INSTINCTS, GODDAMN, they correctly told you you didn't want to go to a college like your high school, you wanted to take a year off before college, your college was the wrong place for you to be at, you didn't really want to return after city year, you didn't want to be here this year, THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RIGHT, YOUR BRAIN HAS USUALLY BEEN WRONG.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
oh jeez, like, the entire fantasies album from metric. seriously this album like got me through the year, if you're ever having a prolonged nervous breakdown i really recommend putting this in heavy rotation. a couple snippets:
from "blindness" -
I was the one with the world at my feet
Got us a battle, leave it up to me
What it is and where it stops nobody knows
You gave me a life I never chose
I wanna leave but the world won't let me go
from "help i'm alive"
If you're still alive my regrets are few
If my life is mine what shouldn't I do?
from "satellite mind"
i'm not suicidal
i just can't get out of bed
i drift into a deep fog
lost where i forgot to
hold it
and the biggest one probably, from what was probably my song of the year in that it was the song i was most often completely obsessed with this year starting around april when the album came up and... not letting up yet, really, "gimme sympathy" -
gimme sympathy
after all of this is gone
who would you rather be
a beatle or a rolling stone
oh seriously
you're gonna make mistakes, you're young
come on baby play me something
like here come the sun
huh hard question. uh. produced a show!
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
last year i did, and didn't keep them, this year... i dunno i'll see how i'm feeling tomorrow
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
nooo
4. Did anyone close to you die?
nope, thank @god
5. What countries did you visit?
uh i went on a cruise with my mum... i think that was all in like those weird southern US islands tho like key west
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
OOH I KNOW THIS ONE
1) a job
2) a residence outside of my mom's home
those are pretty much my goals for the year
7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
specific dates? nothing specific date-y really happened this year.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
i was really proud actually of what i did in the alumni show
9. What was your biggest failure?
lol EVERYTHING SCHOOL RELATED
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
mental illness
11. What was the best thing you bought?
DOC MARTEN KNEE-HIGHS
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
cool peoples's?
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and/or depressed?
shitty people's? people who were shitty to my friends
14. Where did most of your money go?
food probably, my default method of hanging out with people is getting dinner.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
my crime narratives class. if by class you mean professor. unf unf unnnnf.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
hm. maybe young adult friction - the pains of being pure at heart? considering i've been obsessed with it since january. AND IT'S AWESOME YOU SHOULD ALL LISTEN TO IT.
Click to viewsome runners up:
gimme sympathy - metric (probably the song i listened to most this year)
bad romance - lady gaga, even tho i hate that song it was everywhere for a while
my girls - animal collective I DON'T CARE I LOVE THIS SONG OK
the entire kelly clarkson album
the entire kris allen album
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? oh jesus. um. happier i guess. more scared to. but yeah, happier.
b) thinner or fatter? the same i think
c) richer or poorer? uh the same? maybe poorer? idk
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
going to therapy. but not totally cuz i'm glad i dropped out. hanging out with friends i guess.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
being really depressed
20. How did you spend Christmas?
in puerto rico, with my grandma and brother and then at dinner at my grand-aunt's
21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
uh kind of, for like a month, obsessively and hopelessly, with a friend. that's all blown over thank god
22. How many one-night stands?
uh... technically none
23. What was your favourite TV program?
30 rock probably. also house.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
nah
25. What was the best book you read?
shit i didn't even read that many books and i'm still sad you're making me pick one. quick list.
the adventures of huckleberry finn - mark twain [a rightful american classic]
the sound and the fury - william faulkner [turns out all the people who told me this book was almost unbearably briliant were right]
the postman always rings twice - james cain [couldn't fucking put it down, so hardcore and fucked up and sexy]
they shoot horses, don't they? - horace mccoy [this has like my favorite female character of all time]
gateway - frederick pohl [i never finished this. but i mean to. it's brilliant]
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, metric, vv brown, animal collective, kris allen (shut up), boys who say no
27. What did you want and get?
ass. i know, i'm such a classy broad. i also got a lot closer with some people i wanted to do that with. and also, this is weird but ever since we saw dinner in london i've been like "wow playing paige would basically be the most incredible part ever in the history of the world," and then this year i got to do that, which was incredible.
28. What did you want and not get?
a completed fifth semester of college. but whatevs.
29. What was your favourite film of this year?
uh i saw like no movies this year. so i'm going to go with the imaginarium of dr. parnassus which i saw last night and seriously enjoyed
30. What did you do on your birthday?
studied for my protest lit final the next day, cried a lot
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
not being really depressed, giving up on harvard earlier
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
bright colors, don't be afraid to be weird, also i admit i get a ton of mileage out of the skirts + tights + doc martens combo
33. What kept you sane?
i always get by with a little help from my friends. but managing to get all fangirly about kris allen also provided some nice brain-breaks when i needed them ("MY LIFE SUUUU--oh look new kris interview! yay!")
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
KRIS ALLEN. duh.
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
oh jesus. everything. the world sucks. the stupak amendment, maybe, that was fucked up.
36. Who did you miss?
EVERYONE i love so many people who are usually far away from me
37. Who was the best new person you met?
i don't think i really met new people this year, like brand new, but i did become legit friends with former acquaintances so: stewart, ashley, and mike.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
some things aren't meant to work out. you actually can make your own choices in life. LISTEN TO YOUR FUCKING INSTINCTS, GODDAMN, they correctly told you you didn't want to go to a college like your high school, you wanted to take a year off before college, your college was the wrong place for you to be at, you didn't really want to return after city year, you didn't want to be here this year, THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RIGHT, YOUR BRAIN HAS USUALLY BEEN WRONG.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
oh jeez, like, the entire fantasies album from metric. seriously this album like got me through the year, if you're ever having a prolonged nervous breakdown i really recommend putting this in heavy rotation. a couple snippets:
from "blindness" -
I was the one with the world at my feet
Got us a battle, leave it up to me
What it is and where it stops nobody knows
You gave me a life I never chose
I wanna leave but the world won't let me go
from "help i'm alive"
If you're still alive my regrets are few
If my life is mine what shouldn't I do?
from "satellite mind"
i'm not suicidal
i just can't get out of bed
i drift into a deep fog
lost where i forgot to
hold it
and the biggest one probably, from what was probably my song of the year in that it was the song i was most often completely obsessed with this year starting around april when the album came up and... not letting up yet, really, "gimme sympathy" -
gimme sympathy
after all of this is gone
who would you rather be
a beatle or a rolling stone
oh seriously
you're gonna make mistakes, you're young
come on baby play me something
like here come the sun