My 2013

I haven't really updated this and will probably won't too many over the next few months but I did want to make a list of things I enjoyed this year just so I can keep track of things.

Music/Albums that came out in 2013 that I enjoyed the most:
Neko Case: the Worse things get, the Harder I fight, The Harder I fight, The More I Love you
Tegan And Sara: Heartthrob
Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt
LA Font: Diving Man
The National: Trouble Will Find Me
Diarrhea Planet: I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
Boboso: Grown Ass Man
Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City
The Wild: Dreams Are Maps.


Movies:
Before Midnight
Short Term 12
Mud
Dallas Buyers Club
Wolf Of Wall Street
The East
Spectacular Now
Fruitvale Station
Man of Steel
Way Way Back
Kings of Summer

2013:
Getting a Driver's license
Buying a Car
Week in Chicago
Watching the fucking Replacements
The Henry Clay People at the echoplex
DeDe's wedding in Monterey
Backpacking at Sequoia National Park
Winning fantasy football
Going to ten baseball games over summer, including first time visit to Petco Park and Comerica Park
Spending the last four days of the year in the Bay Area.

Waltzing Matilda

I love art and culture and live music.
But I love it because it makes life on earth bearable,
not because it is very important.
I have no illusions about my own "worthwhile" contributions
to earthly existence: They are about nil. 

Retreat

There's something to be said, about your travels, by yourself. Just listening to music. The idea seemed so romantic that I partook in such activities last night and few nights before. I listened to the Manhattan Murder Mystery's self titled album; everything about that record is so personal.

Unsung Glory Hound

It's been a while since I've used this and part of the reason is that everything that I wanted to write down was being written on sticky notes. Figured that it's time for me to transfer those random sentences on here so I can look at them in the near future and get rid of all the sticky notes.

Goal for summer is to attend every MLB ballpark in California. I've been to everyone except Petco Park in San Diego but to attend all of them in a span of a season would be quite the personal achievement. I attended the Angels second home game earlier in April so one down, four more to go.

Got tickets to see Godspeed, You Black Emperor! in September also really excited for Growing Up is Dumb Fest in June. Built to Spill tomorrow, nice!

Hey friends, quit getting married. You are making me feel old and I'm only 22.

Life is weird, but also surprisingly nice.

Stop listening to idiots! Go outside and play baseball.

It's freaking May already, year is going by super quick and can't believe it's been almost a year since I graduated from college. I'll probably write more a reflection later in the month. I know the generation I live in has an obsession with documenting everything, but I wish more people just wrote things down on an anniversary type basis so it would be easier to look back. For example, the reason I want to write a reflection on  how I feel after a year of being into the real world is so in the future I can go back and see what my thought process was.

My writing skills have gotten worse since I no longer have to papers and reports due on a weekly basis, which makes me little sad. Need to figure out a way to fix this.

Decisions.

Reach for Something more Stable,

Hope for happier times.

Interlude

Your spending most of your life
Looking for the adult you are well good luck, okay, all right
And your spendin' the rest of your life,
Lookin' for the child you never were well good luck, alright
And your spendin' the rest of your life
Lookin' for the adult you shoulda' been
well okay this is alright.
And your spendin' the rest of your life

Twenty-Two

That's how it starts.

We go back to your house.

We check the charts,

And start to figure it out.

And if it's crowded, all the better,

because we know we're gonna be up late.

But if you're worried about the weather

then you picked the wrong place to stay.

That's how it starts.

And so it starts.

You switch the engine on.

We set controls for the heart of the sun,

one of the ways we show our age.

And if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up

and I still don't wanna stagger home.

Then it's the memory of our betters 

that are keeping us on our feet.

You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan,

and the next five years trying to be with your friends again.

You're talking 45 turns just as fast as you can,

yeah, I know it gets tired, but it's better when we pretend.

It comes apart,

the way it does in bad films.

Except in parts,

when the moral kicks in.

Though when we're running out of the drugs

and the conversation's winding away.

I wouldn't trade one stupid decision 

for another five years of lies.

You drop the first ten years just as fast as you can,

and the next ten people who are trying to be polite.

When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France,

Yeah, I know it gets tired only where are your friends tonight?

And to tell the truth.

Oh, this could be the last time.

So here we go,

like a sail's force into the night

And if I made a fool, if I made a fool, if I made a fool 

on the road, there's always this.

And if I'm sewn into submission, 

I can still come home to this.

And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand,

you can sleep on the plane or review what you said.

When you're drunk and the kids leave impossible tasks

you think over and over, "hey, I'm finally dead."

Oh, if the trip and the plan come apart in your hand,

you look contorted on yourself your ridiculous prop.

You forgot what you meant when you read what you said,

and you always knew you were tired, but then,

where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

If I could see all my friends tonight

Shock To Your System

Missed Another Boat.

2013 starts off good and bad. 

Watermark

Trying to decide my top 15 Tom Waits song is a lot more difficult that I thought it would be.
My top 15 keeps changing. 

Moments of 2012

Personal favorite moments of 2012:
(not in any particular order).

Graduating College
Seeing Henry Clay People eight times, and giving me an excuse to sing and dance
Visting Portland
Visiting Salton Sea while stopping at Bombay Beach, Niland, Slab City and Salvation Mountain.
Camping at Yosemite
Going to Disneyland for free
Bounce House graduation party
Sim's 30th birthday party
Last house party at the Grant residence
Spending the end of the year in the Bay Area
Seeing Laura Marling live
Showing my folks around in Big Sur, San Francisco, Monetary and Santa Cruz.