A HAZY, INCOMPLETE + EVOLVING LIST OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE THINGS FROM THE LAST DECADE:
THE WEATHER ON NEW YEAR'S DAY OF 2000 IN HUNTINGTON, RAPPING ONSTAGE WITH THE ANNIVERSARY, THE MOON AND ANTARCTICA, 9-11, THE ARGUMENT, LOSING MY VIRGINITY, THE BFF BBQ, DRESSING UP AS THE STROKES FOR HALLOWEEN, GETTING DUMPED AND YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT COMING OUT ON THE SAME DAY, ADAPTATION, LEAVES TURN INSIDE YOU, KID A + AMNESIAC, SEEING WESLEY WILLIS AT KOO'S CAFE, MURDER CITY DEVIL'S + BOTCH, THE BAND I WAS IN WITH A.J + JACOB + PAUL IN 2001 THAT ONLY PLAYED TWO SHOWS AND WAS A TOTAL VAYA RIPOFF, BEING CLASS PRESIDENT, GETTING A HANDJOB OUTSIDE OF TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK, DROPPING OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, SEEING CHROMEO IN LA WITH RACHAEL PETACH, THE INTELLIGISTA'S RESIDENCY AT KONA LANES, SLEEPING WITH ALI YOUNG, KITTEN + BITTEN, FILE UNDER: PUNK, BLOOD MONEY + ALICE, COFFEE + CIGARETTES, DROPPING OUT OF COLLEGE RIGHT WHEN THE COLLEGE DROPOUT DROPPED, WORKING AT EXPO VIDEO, THE PARTY I HAD AT THE APARTMENT I GREW UP IN RIGHT BEFORE I HAD TO MOVE OUT, SUNG TONGS, EATING CHEAP LOBSTERS IN MEXICO, SIX FEET UNDER + CURB YR ENTHUSIASM, MEETING DAVID CROSS IN NEW YORK, GETTING HIGH AND SEEING SIGUR ROS IN AN OPERA HOUSE, REAL WORLD: AUSTIN, ELEPHANT EYELASH, ALL THE TIME THAT I HAD TO MYSELF DURING THE TWO AND A HALF WEEKS I WAS IN CANADA MOST OF WHICH I FILLED BY WALKING AROUND AND GOING TO MOVIES ALONE, BEING ON TRL, EATING BUGS ON THE BEACH IN BRISBANE, BEACHES AND CANYONS + CREATURE COMFORTS (AND REALLY EVERYTHING ELSE THAT BLACK DICE DID, AND ESPECIALLY THE MILES OF SMILES 12"), EATING XANAX AND WANDERING AROUND OSAKA BY MYSELF, THOSE MENOMENA RECORDS, SONIC NURSE, GETTING HIGH WITH A WOODEN ELEPHANT PIPE AND LISTENING TO NYC GHOSTS + FLOWERS ON THE FLOOR IN THE BATHROOM OF THE JUPITER INN WITH STEPHANIE, KIM GORDON BORROWING A LIGHTER FROM ME IN BELGIUM, GRILLED DUCK + BORDEAUX IN PARIS, A GHOST IS BORN, LUNAR PARK, STONEHENGE, THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, SMOKING HASH AND WANDERING AROUND NOTTINGHAM ALONE WITH A BOTTLE OF GOOD SCOTCH, LIVING IN ORANGE AND RIDING A TANDEM, FINALLY GOING TO MAINE, HELPING STEPH WORK A BOOTH AT ROSE BOWL, SEEING WILCO IN CHICAGO, SEEING MORRISSEY IN GERMANY, MEETING TRENT REZNOR AT THE KERRANG AWARDS AND TELLING HIM ABOUT MY HOMEMADE NIN SHIRT THAT I USED TO WEAR EVERYDAY IN SIXTH GRADE, NYE '07 IN SAN FRAN, GETTING DRUNK WITH BOB NANNA IN DETROIT, PERSON PITCH, LIZ PHAIR AT THE FILMORE PLAYING "EXILE ON GUYVILLE", SEEING RADIOHEAD IN FLORIDA, QUITTING HELLOGOODBYE, UN DIA, SEEING DYLAN IN SANTA BARBARA FROM THE THIRD ROW, WEIRDO RIPPERS, DOING MUSHROOMS WITH STEVE AND ALEX IN JOSHUA TREE, DOING MUSHROOMS WITH ALEX AND SEEING: SPIRITUALIZED + NICK CAVE, MY APARTMENT ON TULAROSA, THE AIR FORCE BY XIU XIU, THAT WOMEN RECORD, THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, EATING MEXICAN BREAKFASTS IN DENVER, WHEN I USED TO PICK STEPHANIE UP FROM THE TRAIN STATION, TK'S HOUSEWARMING PARTY IN WEST ADAMS HEIGHTS, HOME + MASA + EL GRAND BURRITO, DOING MUSHROOMS AND GOING TO SEE SUN ARAW + DUCKTAILS, LEARNING TO MOD PODGE, LIVING AT TAYLOR'S DURING THE SUMMER OF '09, DOING GOOD COKE WITH ALEX AND JON IN THE PARKING LOT OF MAESTRO'S AT MARCUS'S BACHELOR PARTY, MY 24th BIRTHDAY, DRIVING THE WOLFF OUT TO NOLA, SEEING THE SLITS AT THE ECHO, ALL THE RECORDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS I FORGOT + ALL OF MY FUCK-UPS THAT I LOOK BACK UPON WITH FOND REMEMBERENCE. I MISS YOU ALL SO SO MUCH.
