1. What did you do in 2020 that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never done before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wore a mask to try and save my life. Bought an air fryer. Got gifts from a neighbor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n2.\nDid you keep your new years\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 resolutions, and will you make more\nfor next year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I didnt have any. I have made some goals for this year tho so ill share them here: Make art. Lose weight. Exercize more. Hope to be here next year (not my choice but do my best to help it along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n3.\nDid anyone close to you give birth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nSome\nlovely babies were born this year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c little tea lights in the fog. I\nwonder if this will be their normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n4.\nDid anyone close to you die?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nI\ncan’t even get into it. Ive lost a handful of people I love to this\nshit and a bunch other have been fucked by it. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n5.\nWhat countries did you visit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nOnly\nvideo game ones. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. What would you like to have in 2021 that you lacked in 2020?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well it would be a joke to say creativity since the well has been dry for a bit. Trying to jumpstart it. Im getting there. Honestly a vaccine that keeps me alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. What date from 2020 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day I found out I lost 2 people I cared about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Staying alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n9.\nWhat was your biggest failure?
The usual. Not enough art, not\nenough exercize. A blobby lump from office chair to couch to bin and\nback again. A human potato with all its eyes closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n10.\nDid you suffer illness or injury?
Thank fuck no. Truly because of\nlockdown I didnt really have any sicknesses. The only year I never\ncalled in sick (tho wait did I call in sick before lockdown? That\nfeels like a year before the year)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n11.\nWhat was the best thing you bought?
A vinyl copy of Fishbone’s\nReality of my surroundings. Bag a lazy sunday coffee. An ipad. A\ngiant ass tv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n12.\nWhose behavior merited celebration?
Everyone that acted like an\nadult and wore a fucking mask and stayed distant. All of my nurse and\ncare worker friends that I fear for constantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n13.\nWhose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Every fucking\nselfish piece of garbage that doesn’t believe in wearing a mask in\npublic or take distance. There are so many and theyre so dispicable.\nLets pop back a month before and say more of these racist fucks. Just\nthe usual idiots right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
14. Where did most of your money go?
With the lockdown effectively saving me buspass money, ive bought a few more records and cds and takeaways. Money well spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Oh man, right before lockdown I got to see elvis costello, the orielles and Sleater-kinney (at the barrowlands!) Elvis was ok \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I checked him off the list. The orielles are prob my favorite new band in years (tho I found out about them a few years back) and they never disspoint. And sleater kinney? Good lord a long time coming. But they were one of the best shows ive ever seen and thats saying a lot. They played stuff across their entire calalogue and while Janet had already left at that point it was still just power on every level. (thankfully I got to see Janet play drums for elliot smith back in like 98\/99? I miss going to shows. I dont have the stamina anymore but damn living 5\/10 min aways from all the venues just forces you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nI\nshould have also seen Parliment Funkadelic, Rufus Wainwright, and a\nreunited Faith No More. Ah well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n16.\nWhat songs will always remind you of 2020?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nwell,\nhere are my top ten listened to songs of 2020 as determined by my\n(malfunctioning) last.fm scrobbler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nKeep\nin mind, as lockdown began I decided to do the ol listen to my itunes\nfrom start to bottom. As of right now I am halfway through 49 Miles\nDavis albums (so im in the M’s). So this year is gonna look a little\ndifferent as I also have a LOT of fishbone. I predict new year saint\netienne or prince will make this list. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n1.\nFishbone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sunless Saturday
2. Fishbone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Freddy’s dead
3.\nFishbone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bonin in the boneyard
4. Fishbone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Lyin’ ass\nbitch
5. Fishbone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Party at ground zero
6. Fishbone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\nSkankin to the beat
7. The Aquabats \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Look at me, im a\nwinner!
8. The Aquabats \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mechanical Ape
9. The Aquabats –\nMeltdown
10. Fishbone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Alchoholic \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nSo\nnot really a surprising list if im going through all my stuff.\nFishbone was prob destined to overwhelm this list esp with all the\nlive shows included which were MANY. Happy to see the aquabats\nsqueeze their way in cause really they were my happy place when\nthings were down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n17.\nCompared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Fucking\nhell what do you think<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n18.\nWhat do you wish you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d done more of?
Gone out? Explored my new\nneighborhood. Written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n19.\nWhat do you wish you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d done less of?
Listened to my brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n20.\nHow will you be spending Christmas?
Well since last years family\nall together didnt pan out, hopefully this year. If not, with my\nwife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n21.\nHow many times I think about pizza a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
22. Did you fall in love in 2020?
nahhhh<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n23.\nHow many one night stands?
I have like 2 nightstands now by the\nbed im so extra<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n24.\nWhat were your favorite TV programmes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWatched\nway too much tv this year right? Again jokers keeps me happy.\nMandalorin, clone wars, rebels, discovery \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the idea I could wantch\namazingly well done star wars and star trek shows back to back\neveryweek is insane. Taskmaster. The og match game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hate this time last year?
Its expenential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n26.\nWhat was the best book you read?
The book I got for xmas about the\norigins of gangsta rap. Really informative. (currently reading a book\non the origins of pop music).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n27.\nWhat was your greatest musical discovery?
The aquabats I think.\nObv they have been around forever but only dipped in this year and so\nglad I did. There is always great new music and art to discover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n28.\nWhat did you want and get?
A lot of physical things. Not a lot of\nthings for my soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n29.\nWhat did you want and not get?
THOSE DAMN FISHBONE SNEAKERS! A\nsaxamaphone. A new job. Energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n30.\nWhat was your favorite film of this year?
Really a struggle to\neven know what I watched new this year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c watched a lot of old\nstuff. An older movie I saw for the first time a few weeks ago \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\nthe night before, kept me laughing. Bill and ted was ok. Happy\nnostalga. Watched the original suspiria in full for the first time\nand that was a beauitful giallo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n31.\nWhat did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I got it\nwrong last year’s surv cause im 44 now im pretty sure. 45 this year\nWHAT. Didnt do much on my birf cause you know lockdown. I think I had\na pizza?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n32.\nWhat one thing would have made your year immeasurably more\nsatisfying?
a fucking drivers licence. Again. A vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n33.\nHow would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2020?
I\nhavent put on real clothes since march. Ive had a shirt on mybe 15%\nof the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n34.\nWhat kept you sane?
Funny, I put solitude for the last year. I\nstill love solitude but not so much being trapped lol. Anyway, music\nkept me sane. Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n35.\nWhich celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most?
Bernie. AOC.\nNicola. Allison. Nina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n36.\nWhat political issue stirred you the most?
The obvious. Dumb bye\nbye president man. His followers. Race. Ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n37.\nWho did you miss?
Never changing only growing. Besides last year’s\nanswers of all my friends and fam. my cat. my guys from my old job.\npizza. chinese food. burritoes. my old comic store, now im including\neveryone in my new home area. Those new comic book guys and other\nshopworkers id see on a constant basis. Even (some) co workers. I\nmiss myself. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n38.\nWho was the best new person you met?
Straight up pretty sure I\ndidnt meet any new people this year its a damn shame. Oh new\nneighbors but still cause of lockdown from far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n39.\nTell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2020.
even smart\npeople are idiots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n40.\nQuote a song lyric that sums up your year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Perhaps\nthe charcoal gray and brown around me
Is\njust the mirror image of my tainted soul
I\nthink the sun will never visit my sky
Until\nthe truth is seen by each and every eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u201c\nFishbone – \u00e2\u20ac\u2122sunless\nsaturday’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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