I hate to break character but no fool is clowning me this time next year when the world has not yet ended. I did not get religious. I’m not a Republican. I believe in higher taxes for everyone, mandatory same-sex marriage, and teaching Freemasonry in schools. (Which, like algebra, the kids may never use but at the very least they will be able to understand music videos.)

So some of these lists got a little crazy. Glad I got them done tho. I think I could have done a better job with 2001. I think some of that 2nd part was 2002. You know that whole 9/11 thing…people think it’s funny now but… Uh. Yeah that messed things up a bit. Some missing chunks towards the end of that year. I’ve averaged the two years together in my head and lost focus on the more positive, social stuff that was happening. (Like social drinking.) But there’s only ten things in a top ten list so the most intense things make it. That’s what is so dumb about trying to sum up a whole year with ten things in general. The picks are for real but I’m making fun of the list format, or the idea of trying to sum up everything at once. But I like the idea of more really specific lists. That’s where things get interesting, the more it gets away from critical consensus of what’s “Best”. I think I have my links and feeds and twitters in order where it’s the stuff I care about following. I don’t need to weigh in on the Pitchfork list every year, or whatever. (I should really catch up on The Roots tho at least, I’m 3 albums behind now.) Lotta bandcamp albums to go through. Think I’ve lowered the standard or set the tone enough….I’m just a message board dude with a graphic design fetish. Aside from the life issues, that’s all this is.

Coming up on a month post-JLPT. December is pretty brutal for getting anything done, so the Ankis have piled up pretty high. Getting better at customizing the thing, deleting cards I really know well (being careful with that but I think the katakana cards are safe to ditch), adding a new deck for words and expressions I find on blogs. Maybe get to editing the song decks. (Altho I’m not sure how great the song vocab is for learning what words can mean in context of a song.) Gotta make some kind of jump to try to apply this to something.

Got to get on ebay as a regular thing. Def a lot of things I could get rid of, I just can’t get it organized.

Working with a higher bass tuning. Had the C# 3rds tuning for a while, which I should really write up or do some youtube vids. (This is something I attempted to explain in the podcast.) I started using the tuning as a way to simplify using a numeric notation system for microtones, and learn general music theory better but it’s interesting by itself. Now it’s starting with E because I’m just playing along with songs and I wanted a higher range, but the thing sounds better under higher tension. Built up the finger muscles where it doesn’t bother me (thumb and wrist were killing me for a long time). Tried playing guitar a little the other day, don’t have the guitar callouses anymore, kinda sucks but I never got good at actually playing, I just like it for drones. I think bass might be my main instrument. I’m a total moron. I can’t believe any of this.

Ok, it’s time to delete the whole blog. It’s all done. We’ve done it. Everything’s resolved. No, wait. Come back, It’ll be fine.%

Next: reviews…?