ROCKET ROLL!!

This took far more time than it should have.

1. what did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
I didn’t take drugs.

2. did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I usually don’t make resolutions.

3. did anyone close to you give birth?
not that I can recall

4. did anyone close to you die?
no

5. what countries did you visit?
none, though I went to Washington state, for the first time.

6. what would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
motivation

7. what date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
On June 6th, I met the girl of my dreams and played a great rocket roll show at a motorcycle gang clubhouse.

8. what was your biggest achievement of the year?
twelve steps

9. what was your biggest failure?
I wish I hadn’t drank on december 17th.

10. did you suffer illness or injury?
I got the fuckin’ swine flu in august.

11. what was the best thing you bought?
silver gretsch duo jet

12. whose behavior merited celebration?
mine, of course

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
my boss when he fired me

14. Where did most of your money go?
records, so many records

15. what did you get really, really, really excited about?
my girlfriend, allah the time

16. what song will always remind you of 2009?
I can’t choose one song. There are lots of songs I wrote or heard, for the first time, this year. The songs I wrote for Wowies will be forever connected to this time and no other.

17. compared to this time last year, are you:
more realistic and goal oriented

18. happier?
In general, yes. Though I was probably happier on december 31st, 2008, than I am now, december 31, 2009.

19. thinner or fatter?
I don’t know or care.

20. richer or poorer?
richer?

21. what do you wish you’d done more of?
art

22. what do you wish you’d done less of?
wasting time on stupid shit like this

23. how did you spend christmas?
I spent christmas on records. Lots and lots of records.

24. did you fall in love in 2009?
As a matter of fact, I did.

25. how many one-night stands?
I always come back for more.

26. what was your favorite tv program?
The Monkees

27. do you dislike anyone now that you didn’t dislike this time last year?
not that I can think of

28. what was the best book you read?
My favorite read of the year was a poem my girlfriend wrote titled, “Conditional Girl.”

29. what was your greatest musical discovery?
The Brats, Shit Dogs, The Kids, and Native Tongue.

30. what did you want and get?
someone to love

31. what did you want and not get?
a better job

32 what was your favorite film of this year?
I didn’t like any of this year’s films and I probably only saw, like, maybe, two of them. Two films I saw this year that I particularly enjoyed are “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains” and “The Girl Can’t Help it.”

33. what did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Good question, I turned twenty-three.

34. what one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
hella fucking money

35. how would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
The Ramones meet John Lennon.

36. what kept you sane?
twelve steps

37. which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don’t pay much attention to celebrities but I just saw “Match Point” so I’ll say Scarlett Johansson.

38. what political issue stirred you the most?
republicans villianizing Obama

39. who did you miss?
Right now, I miss Amy.

40. who was the best new person you met?
Amy

41. tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009?
Only one thing stops people from doing what they want: fear.

42. quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
“Hey dadio, I don’t wanna go down to the basement.”

from “I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement” by The Ramones