never will learn
i started this to avoid two awful films, but now they're finished and i'm finished. would update but that quiz has properly taken it out of me. sleepytimes.
questions, questions
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?:
Moved into a flat in Manchester with Jon, had a flatwarming, played Rock Band, went to Portmeirion, tried two new curries that I actually liked :O, bought a purple hoover (domestica - I'm a husband's dream :P), saw My Vitriol live (the expectation killed it methinks), saw Björk live and not on a festival bill (SWOON), watched each of Oceansize's albums in full on three consecutive nights...
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?:
Honestly, I don't remember last years. Can't remember if I made any. But I think I will this year, some things need to change.
2008's?:
1. Make some actual steps towards doing something I actually want to do as a career. If that involves taking on the role I do currently as something more permanent in order to get more experience on my CV, so be it. Desperately hoping some amazing job related to want I want to do will come up so that I can go for that instead, but now really doesn't seem like the right time to be jumping ship. Just hope I don't die this year - that would be shit.
2. Make some music. This is just getting silly now. Where's the old motivation gone?
3. Sort out the scum who live next door.
4. Eat more fruit and be healthier in general, need to be shifting some of this round face thing away. Might go to two keepfits a week, see if that does it.
5. Go on holiday to somewhere lovely
6. Have more adventures.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?:
Nope.
4. Did anyone close to you die?:
No.
5. What countries did you visit?:
Wales. Czech me and ma globetrotting.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?:
Some luck career wise. Maybe me getting this job will be classed as luck in some form, but would like to feel that I'm actually heading in a direction that I want to. Spose it'd help if I knew what that was.
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?:
11th April - Björk at the Apollo :D
22nd May - The date we got the flat :D
I'd carry on, but the multiples of 11 pleases me too much.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?:
Hmm. Clearing my overdraft definitely took some work. Was very pleased with myself. I even have some savings now :O
9. What was your biggest failure?:
Not managing to find a job in the area I want and not doing ANY (well, enough) music :(
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?:
Got an evil flu just before Christmas, which took a while to get over but yeah, nowt life threatening so shan't grumble.
11. What was the best thing you bought?:
Tickets to see Miss B :D and the trilogy tickets.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?:
Jon. He manages to cheer me up whenever I'm sad, no mean feat sometimes.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?:
Our neighbours. Fucking wankers.
14. Where did most of your money go?:
Gig tickets, clothes, stuff for the flat, Dominos, and on Sunday nights at the Essence :D
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?:
Oceansize trilogy gigs, Björk live... seeing a pattern forming here :\
16. What songs will always remind you of 2008?:
All of Heavy Vegetable's album Frisbie. Deerhoof - Gigadance :D :D :D
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i) ...happier or sadder?:
happier
ii) thinner or fatter?:
fatter :(
iii) richer or poorer?:
richer, but 9-5 is shite
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?:
music making
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?:
procrastinating, eating crap, working
20. How will you be spending Christmas?:
spent it at home with my family in Altrincham. very good times.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?:
I stayed in love - but how unromantic. how's this: I fall in love again every time I look into his eyes? If you're not throwing up, i'm not doing it right
23. How many one night stands?:
0
24. What were your favourite TV programmes?:
LIFE. ON. MARS. :D The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?:
The neighbours.
26. What was the best book you read?:
Didn't read much to be honest, although Jon read me The Wombles and that was amazing. The Creative Habit is pretty good, but I'm still only half way through that. Seem to have an inability to finish books at the moment. Get distracted too easily.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?:
Heavy Vegetable. Deerhoof.
28. What did you want and get?:
To live in a lovely flat with Jon, a bit of security financially, to still see my family almost as much as I did living at home
29. What did you want and not get?:
For the neighbours to die/move out, to get a job that I actually want to do
30. What was your favourite film of this year?:
Wall-E , The Dark Knight or Be Kind Rewind
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?:
Went out with the parents to La Vina (tapas bar on Deansgate) - the raw chicken kind of marred it. Also went out with friends to the Oxford / Big Hands / Mojos ...the last journey probably shouldn't have happened.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?:
If the [scum] I lived [next to] fucked off and died.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?:
"Er, concept? pass"... sorry fran, am lazy :P
34. What kept you sane?:
Jon/family, always. Music.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?:
That guy from Stardust... but only in that film. Wassisname - Charlie Cox
36. What political issue stirred you the most?:
Probably the election of the USA's next president, that or the congestion charge thing.
37. Who did you miss?:
all my friends and my family, jon at the start of the year, or when he's away...
38. Who was the best new person you met?:
not sure there was anyone really new this year. apart from work people, but we don't talk about that
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Find out more about local bus services before travelling to Bangor
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
My muscles hurt again, I wish they'd go away. I haven't done a thing, in too many days. I can't remember what they were for anyway.
and yet more...
1) How did you start 2008?
On the main road by my house, wrapped in a stripy fleece blanket and being called a 'goose'
2) What was your status by Valentine's Day?
taken
3) Were you in school anytime this year?
nope
4) How did you earn your money?
working in the NHS, in the communications team
5) Did you have to go to the hospital?
nope
6) Did you have any encounters with the police?
nope
7) Where did you go on holiday?
dunnit already. but wales. cos i'm bored and they're watching The Fast and the Furious THREE in the other room (as if they made a third...)
8) What did you purchase that was over £500?
nothing
9) Did you know anybody who got married?
nope
10) Did you know anybody who passed away?
nope. repetition :(
11) Have you run into anybody you left high school with?
i'm still friends with one of them, does that count? yes.
12) Did you move anywhere?
yep :D
13) What sporting events did you go to?
ooooh, i was going to say none but that would be a lie. i went to THE RACES at Haydock... *proud*
14) What concerts/shows did you go to?
Lots. Björk, Oceansize (x lots), At The Races mini-festival, Saul Williams, My Vitriol, Portishead, Nine Black Alps (for Kong as support), Laura Veirs, The Smashing Pumpkins, Efterklang, Radiohead. Would have seen Kong and Amplifier again in December but flu had other ideas.
15) Are you registered to vote?
yes
16) Who did you want to win Big Brother?
didn't watch it, no idea
17) Where do you live now?
chapel street, manchester
18) Describe your last birthday.
'already did ta'
19) What's the one thing you thought you would never do but did in 2008?
like curry? am getting tired now.
20) What have been your favourite moments?
'size trilogy... björk...
21) What's something you learned about yourself?
that my natural sleep patterns are actually the nocturnal ones i had as a student, and that i revert to them whenever i have a chance
22) Any new additions to your family?
nope
23) What was your best month?
april, may, october or december
24) What music will you remember 2008 by?
heavy vegetable. deerhoof. this is starting to hurt me eyes. mebbe i should just cut these ones out...
25) Who has been your best drinking buddy?
probably fran. don't do it that often though.
26) Made new friends?
don't think so
27) Best new friend?
-
28) Favourite Night out?
oooo, mark's birthday was good. if only for steve and "i bloody love the stone roses" in his thick brummy accent, and the videos cave showed me :(
29) Any regrets?
not doing any music, sitting pretty in this job that may just overtake me with greyness...
30) How do you plan to start 2009?
it was good. but i'm so tired of this now and me eyes ache.
questions, questions
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?:
Moved into a flat in Manchester with Jon, had a flatwarming, played Rock Band, went to Portmeirion, tried two new curries that I actually liked :O, bought a purple hoover (domestica - I'm a husband's dream :P), saw My Vitriol live (the expectation killed it methinks), saw Björk live and not on a festival bill (SWOON), watched each of Oceansize's albums in full on three consecutive nights...
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?:
Honestly, I don't remember last years. Can't remember if I made any. But I think I will this year, some things need to change.
2008's?:
1. Make some actual steps towards doing something I actually want to do as a career. If that involves taking on the role I do currently as something more permanent in order to get more experience on my CV, so be it. Desperately hoping some amazing job related to want I want to do will come up so that I can go for that instead, but now really doesn't seem like the right time to be jumping ship. Just hope I don't die this year - that would be shit.
2. Make some music. This is just getting silly now. Where's the old motivation gone?
3. Sort out the scum who live next door.
4. Eat more fruit and be healthier in general, need to be shifting some of this round face thing away. Might go to two keepfits a week, see if that does it.
5. Go on holiday to somewhere lovely
6. Have more adventures.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?:
Nope.
4. Did anyone close to you die?:
No.
5. What countries did you visit?:
Wales. Czech me and ma globetrotting.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?:
Some luck career wise. Maybe me getting this job will be classed as luck in some form, but would like to feel that I'm actually heading in a direction that I want to. Spose it'd help if I knew what that was.
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?:
11th April - Björk at the Apollo :D
22nd May - The date we got the flat :D
I'd carry on, but the multiples of 11 pleases me too much.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?:
Hmm. Clearing my overdraft definitely took some work. Was very pleased with myself. I even have some savings now :O
9. What was your biggest failure?:
Not managing to find a job in the area I want and not doing ANY (well, enough) music :(
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?:
Got an evil flu just before Christmas, which took a while to get over but yeah, nowt life threatening so shan't grumble.
11. What was the best thing you bought?:
Tickets to see Miss B :D and the trilogy tickets.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?:
Jon. He manages to cheer me up whenever I'm sad, no mean feat sometimes.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?:
Our neighbours. Fucking wankers.
14. Where did most of your money go?:
Gig tickets, clothes, stuff for the flat, Dominos, and on Sunday nights at the Essence :D
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?:
Oceansize trilogy gigs, Björk live... seeing a pattern forming here :\
16. What songs will always remind you of 2008?:
All of Heavy Vegetable's album Frisbie. Deerhoof - Gigadance :D :D :D
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i) ...happier or sadder?:
happier
ii) thinner or fatter?:
fatter :(
iii) richer or poorer?:
richer, but 9-5 is shite
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?:
music making
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?:
procrastinating, eating crap, working
20. How will you be spending Christmas?:
spent it at home with my family in Altrincham. very good times.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?:
I stayed in love - but how unromantic. how's this: I fall in love again every time I look into his eyes? If you're not throwing up, i'm not doing it right
23. How many one night stands?:
0
24. What were your favourite TV programmes?:
LIFE. ON. MARS. :D The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?:
The neighbours.
26. What was the best book you read?:
Didn't read much to be honest, although Jon read me The Wombles and that was amazing. The Creative Habit is pretty good, but I'm still only half way through that. Seem to have an inability to finish books at the moment. Get distracted too easily.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?:
Heavy Vegetable. Deerhoof.
28. What did you want and get?:
To live in a lovely flat with Jon, a bit of security financially, to still see my family almost as much as I did living at home
29. What did you want and not get?:
For the neighbours to die/move out, to get a job that I actually want to do
30. What was your favourite film of this year?:
Wall-E , The Dark Knight or Be Kind Rewind
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?:
Went out with the parents to La Vina (tapas bar on Deansgate) - the raw chicken kind of marred it. Also went out with friends to the Oxford / Big Hands / Mojos ...the last journey probably shouldn't have happened.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?:
If the [scum] I lived [next to] fucked off and died.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?:
"Er, concept? pass"... sorry fran, am lazy :P
34. What kept you sane?:
Jon/family, always. Music.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?:
That guy from Stardust... but only in that film. Wassisname - Charlie Cox
36. What political issue stirred you the most?:
Probably the election of the USA's next president, that or the congestion charge thing.
37. Who did you miss?:
all my friends and my family, jon at the start of the year, or when he's away...
38. Who was the best new person you met?:
not sure there was anyone really new this year. apart from work people, but we don't talk about that
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Find out more about local bus services before travelling to Bangor
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
My muscles hurt again, I wish they'd go away. I haven't done a thing, in too many days. I can't remember what they were for anyway.
and yet more...
1) How did you start 2008?
On the main road by my house, wrapped in a stripy fleece blanket and being called a 'goose'
2) What was your status by Valentine's Day?
taken
3) Were you in school anytime this year?
nope
4) How did you earn your money?
working in the NHS, in the communications team
5) Did you have to go to the hospital?
nope
6) Did you have any encounters with the police?
nope
7) Where did you go on holiday?
dunnit already. but wales. cos i'm bored and they're watching The Fast and the Furious THREE in the other room (as if they made a third...)
8) What did you purchase that was over £500?
nothing
9) Did you know anybody who got married?
nope
10) Did you know anybody who passed away?
nope. repetition :(
11) Have you run into anybody you left high school with?
i'm still friends with one of them, does that count? yes.
12) Did you move anywhere?
yep :D
13) What sporting events did you go to?
ooooh, i was going to say none but that would be a lie. i went to THE RACES at Haydock... *proud*
14) What concerts/shows did you go to?
Lots. Björk, Oceansize (x lots), At The Races mini-festival, Saul Williams, My Vitriol, Portishead, Nine Black Alps (for Kong as support), Laura Veirs, The Smashing Pumpkins, Efterklang, Radiohead. Would have seen Kong and Amplifier again in December but flu had other ideas.
15) Are you registered to vote?
yes
16) Who did you want to win Big Brother?
didn't watch it, no idea
17) Where do you live now?
chapel street, manchester
18) Describe your last birthday.
'already did ta'
19) What's the one thing you thought you would never do but did in 2008?
like curry? am getting tired now.
20) What have been your favourite moments?
'size trilogy... björk...
21) What's something you learned about yourself?
that my natural sleep patterns are actually the nocturnal ones i had as a student, and that i revert to them whenever i have a chance
22) Any new additions to your family?
nope
23) What was your best month?
april, may, october or december
24) What music will you remember 2008 by?
heavy vegetable. deerhoof. this is starting to hurt me eyes. mebbe i should just cut these ones out...
25) Who has been your best drinking buddy?
probably fran. don't do it that often though.
26) Made new friends?
don't think so
27) Best new friend?
-
28) Favourite Night out?
oooo, mark's birthday was good. if only for steve and "i bloody love the stone roses" in his thick brummy accent, and the videos cave showed me :(
29) Any regrets?
not doing any music, sitting pretty in this job that may just overtake me with greyness...
30) How do you plan to start 2009?
it was good. but i'm so tired of this now and me eyes ache.