top ten, tep ton

i've been so out of the loop this year. you know, the loop. the big loop of things that happen that people listen to or watch or talk about in any given year.

i don't think i've even seen 10 films that count as '2006 films', so i can't reasonably decide upon 10 best or even really recall them enough to rank them. it was a year of netflix for me - so my top ten films of 2006 would indubitably just be a list of 10 movies i saw. in no order, with no real qualifications other than i happen to catch them sometime in the past few months and i remember their name.

as luck would have it (or as homeownership would have it) i probably haven't gone to ten shows this year, or even bought ten albums that were released this year. it just wasn't that kind of year for me. a list of shows would likely just be all the shows i remember attending in the 16 months i've lived here in philly - a handful of performances i had the clarity of mind to get tickets for at the TLA, the church or the starlite ballroom (which i constantly want to call the satellite ballroom, the quaint little middle-school auditorium style space next to the plan 9 in charlottesville). and now that space boy's gone under, well, odds of me getting to shows with any more frequency are kind of crap. it would require a bit more effort, is all.

this is not to say i've been doing nothing all year - quite the opposite. in fact, if i was feeling argumentative, i'd say it's because i've been doing so much other crap that i've used up all the time i had for enjoyable crap like paying attention to new albums and watching films.

so, in no real order, here is a list of 10 things i did (and enjoyed doing, to some degree) in the year of 2006:
a] discovered etsy.com
b] got a puppy
c] spent a good amount of time on my roofdeck
d] drank wine and pretended to knit with my stitch + bitch ladies
e] wrecked a house then put it back together
f] visited maya in dc [and bought amazingly fun chairs]
g] became an entrepeneur
h] quit dagit saylor.
i] went to a couple dance parties
j] bought myself a lovely, soft, amazing new bed.


so, the year was not wasted. even if i can't even name 5 albums of 2006.
yay.

goals for next year include travelling [since i didn't really leave the city of philadelphia at all this year], taking janie to the dog park more often, wrecking and fixing my backyard, restarting the etsy shop pick of the week and being a better penpal. super, no?