This post was actually in the making long before 2009 came to an end. How would I go about setting it up? The style and content was the issue — not if I would write it or not.
The picture above is nothing special, it’s kind of a crappy shot I took from my balcony a few hours ago. What IS special about it is that it’s the first pic in my 365 Project. Starting today I will upload one photo every damn day for the rest of the year. I’ve created a Flickr set and here’s a link. It’s a starting point for kicking the new year into gear.
I thought long and hard about making various Best Of-lists for this post summing up what I liked in the year 2009 but I grew tired of list just researching what other people wrote about. Best and worst, who would rule in 2010 and who people wanted to completely disappear from the face of the earth in the year that we now live in. All of a sudden ranking stuff seemed so trivial and — well, unnecessary.
I’m already losing track of this post, what will it be about? I feel I have to go Ad Lib on this one. 2009 wasn’t that bad, I’ve seen worse. Some bad stuff happened, no denying that. My awesome moped was stolen, I had surgery and spent a few days at the hospital and just before the end of the year I got word that I have to move out of my apartment, the landlord is renting it to his cousin.
Good stuff happened too though. I fell in love with woodworking, I got a Macbook and the iPhone3GS. I will write a post about my experiences with it sometime in the near future. I set up this new blog and I’ve been updating it fairly regularly since the start, proud of it too.
DJing is picking up, it’s a great way to spend time in a bar/club setting when you don’t drink — I have something to do, something to keep me occupied and not missing the joy of grabbing a cold beer. My friends are amazing, I love them all — mostly for their flaws.
I still get more out of good TV compared to movies. I’ve started to appreciate good, reliable shows a lot more during 2009. A few comes to mind, The Colbert Report, Better Off Ted, Beautiful People, Star Wars The Clone Wars, The Office (US), Mythbusters, Glee, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Torchwood, Two and a Half Men and especially BBC’s Top Gear. The show where three middle age men talk about cars have actually brought me to tears in 2009. Jeremy Clarkson contemplating the demise of ridiculously expensive muscle cars set to a beautiful score combined with breathtaking photography actually made me cry. Not a single movie brought me to tears last year but a show about cars did. I’m currently following around 20 to 25 different shows on TV, I love it.
Music. 2009 was a good year for music, really good actually. New artists and bands I’m happily bringing with me into this year are numerous. A few stand out in the crowd. White Lies, Donkeyboy, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Visitor, The Sound of Arrows, Bat for Lashes, Lake Heartbeat, Bombay Bicycle Club, Metronomy, Monarchy and my new favorite Marina and the Diamonds. 2009 was also the year I started to listen (sometimes almost exclusively) to electronic dance stuff or ‘blogelectro’, stuff like The Bloody Beetroots, Deadmau5 and Fukkk Offf. 2009 will, at least for me, be the year of the remix (and Marina and the Diamonds). Vid below is Bombay Bicycle Club – “Dust On The Ground”. They are a slightly happier version of Joy Division.
This post turned into a nice little summary of 2009. I’m going to keep on truckin’ and I hope you’ll be along for the ride.
Cheers.
