Sure, i'll jump off too...
posted on 17 Dec 2004 under category Meta
(This was when many friends had a laundry list of questions they posted to their blog and answered, the usual kind of ‘get to know me’ meme-post. These are the best kind of snapshots - interesting how much has changed, yet how little, in these past ten(#) years…)
# - Really now more like 16… Time marches on…
1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before? Turn 32, and actually write/release something for Rampage that has input from another human being (Aerik).
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I didn’t even make any New Year’s resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? not this year
4. Did anyone close to you die? A co-worker who sat in the cubicle right next to me.
5. What countries did you visit? none
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you didn’t have in 2004? More free time for music.
7. What date(s) from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? The monday after thanksgiving, when I found out my co-worker died over that weekend.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Releasing “Displeasures…”
9. What was your biggest failure? Beyond my control - Goat Horn backing out of the split. The one that WAS under my control was getting ripped off by that [asshole] on eBay when I tried to get the Black Sabbath Box Set. I did manage to get most of the $$ back via a Fraud Claim and get his account suspended, so that wasn’t a total loss - not worth the $25 fee, though…
10. Did you suffer any illness or injury? Got a little sick earlier this year.
11. What was the best thing you bought? My Epiphone SG.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Dunno.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Dunno.
14. Where did most of your money go? Household money: to bills. Personal money - to music.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Getting my SG, recording Displeasures, thinking I was getting a good deal on the Sabbath box set…
16. What song will always remind you of 2004? “Displeasures of the Flesh”
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: i. happier or sadder?: Happier ii. thinner or fatter?: About the same, sadly. iii. richer or poorer?: Again, about the same, sadly.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? Music playing, writing, recording.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Wasting time on Video Games.
20. How will you be spending Christmas? With the family.
22. Did you fall in love in 2004? I’ve been in love since 1993.
23. How many one-night stands? Zero.
24. What was your favorite TV program? CSI (the original. Fuck the spinoffs)
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? Not really.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Misantropical Painforest
28. What did you want and get? Recognition, appreciation, love and support, and a bit of musical worship.
29. What did you want and not get? More free time.
30. What were your favorite films of this year? Sad to say AvP - the only new movie I recall seeing this year. Probably first-time-watched some movies from earlier years, but I can’t remember… I’m not really all that big on movies.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Turned 32. Went out to a Japanese Steakhouse with the family, opened gifts.
32. *What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Goat Horn not backing out of that split.
33. *How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004? What the fuck?!
34. *What kept you sane? Music and my family.
35. *Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Just how ‘public’?
37. Who did you miss? Dunno.
38. Who was the best new person you met? Kutcheck Gorealis
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004: That it’s okay to accept collaborative input from others in creative endeavors.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: Sorry, can’t think of one. I had a pretty good year but I don’t know too many happy songs :)
(I ought to retake this and see what happens…)