Tops of 2009

Willie

Top 10 Best of the Best in 2009

1. Getting paid to set up a community garden with kids
2. Vegan Chili Cheese Fries in Chicago
3. Miguel
4. Q 104.5
5. Graduating College
6. Pissing myself consistently throughout the year,
but only in my own bed (besides that one time)
7. Eating mushrooms before sunrise on a rainy
day at the beach with Migs, Francisco, and Jenn
8. Getting saved by Alex when we were stuck in the car,
drinking coffee, drying off, and watching
The Goonies for the first time together
9. Croce's Pizza
10. Keg in a Sauna

Honorable Mentions
winter formal, fermentation, the rothko chapel, hike through the train tunnels with preston, tommy, and mary jane, mexico (twice), giving/getting stupid tattoos, getting evicted, free trip to sac and spending boofa's birthday with him, swayze fest '09 in austin (before he died!), underground city in houston and finally eating migas, the unbearable lightness of being, cleveland

Top Five Shows of 2009
(but I can't remember many from earlier in the year)
1. RVIVR / Shang-a-Lang / Underground Railroad to Candyland / The Bananas in San Francisco
2. North Park Awesome Fast
3. South by SouthDRESS
4. Halloween Show at the Lodge
5. FUN in LA when Steve Dave went through the front window

Music I Listened to Probably Way to Many Times this Year
Otis Redding
Alabaster Skeleton
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Nobunny
Los Saicos
The Marked Men
Elvis Costello
Paul Simon
Gentleman Jesse and his Men
RVIVR
Shorebirds
Thee Makeout Party
Audacity
Surrender

Fuck yeah, pretty good year overall. I'm stoked to see what everyone else puts in their top lists. Hopefully it's all a bunch of awesome stuff that I forgot about.