Happy Twenty Fourteen. So what did 2013 have to offer? Career uncertainty for most, a lack of significant lottery wins, David Cameron’s podgy smirk peering out from his strange inflatable face like a waxwork forcefield built to repel human beings at all cost. And other stuff. Whatevs.
Wow, 'Whatevs' already feels like 2013.
I made some posts on a blog apparently, and listed some favourite things. Perhaps I should quickly summarise my 2013 faves, just to draw a line under the frivolous lists and before I get to the serious stuff. (Spoiler: There is no serious stuff.)
So, these are my favourite disposable things of 2013, clichéd, boring and predicatable:
Inside Llewyn Davies, Furious 6, Far Cry 3, That’s What Happens, Electric, The Passage, Masters of Sex, Elementary, Ready Player One, Tomb Raider, Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Horns, Under the Dome, Enders Shadow, my red Levis beanie, GTA V, The Lone Ranger, Random Access Memories, Sinead O’Connor, Brian Tyler’s Iron Man 3 soundtrack, a whole bunch of funny stuff on YouTube.
Etc.
I didn’t make it to any gigs, or listen to anything I didn’t hear about from someone else or see any films that weren’t mainstream (kinda) so it’s been a slow year for me really. I like to gloat about things I got to before anyone else, but I can’t do it this year, except for Inside Llewyn Davies, which I saw at the LFF and only because a friend nabbed tickets. Ha!
Well, enough of looking back. Lets look forward, to 2014 and the joys it may bring. I am going to try and be more socially media literate, as well as losing some paunch, which I believe are two resolutions that are not entirely compatible.
I’m going to look out of more windows, daydream a bit more than usual and comment on the weather less. I am going to try and identify more bird varieties and investigate the merits of owning a Hyundai. I am going to hit ‘send’ before re-reading my emails just to see what will happen - and finish my novel, massive plot holes and all, and then immediately discard it and start another one more suited to my own experiences. It will start with the sentence ‘Hog Wylde looked down at the naked redhead snorting coke from his sweaty, glistening torso, the sounds of the capacity crowd at Wembley Stadium still ringing in his ears, and pondered, not for the first time, if a mix of cocaine and his sweat made for a better high, or if the druggy paste it formed simply stuck in her nasal hairs.’
Also, I’m gonna buy a chihuahua and call it ‘Genghis’. And I am definitely going to pass on my knowledge of the Fast and Furious films to Noah. Well, until number 6 anyway.
That’s enough waffle. Jeez.
I made some posts on a blog apparently, and listed some favourite things. Perhaps I should quickly summarise my 2013 faves, just to draw a line under the frivolous lists and before I get to the serious stuff. (Spoiler: There is no serious stuff.)
So, these are my favourite disposable things of 2013, clichéd, boring and predicatable:
Inside Llewyn Davies, Furious 6, Far Cry 3, That’s What Happens, Electric, The Passage, Masters of Sex, Elementary, Ready Player One, Tomb Raider, Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Horns, Under the Dome, Enders Shadow, my red Levis beanie, GTA V, The Lone Ranger, Random Access Memories, Sinead O’Connor, Brian Tyler’s Iron Man 3 soundtrack, a whole bunch of funny stuff on YouTube.
Etc.
I didn’t make it to any gigs, or listen to anything I didn’t hear about from someone else or see any films that weren’t mainstream (kinda) so it’s been a slow year for me really. I like to gloat about things I got to before anyone else, but I can’t do it this year, except for Inside Llewyn Davies, which I saw at the LFF and only because a friend nabbed tickets. Ha!
Well, enough of looking back. Lets look forward, to 2014 and the joys it may bring. I am going to try and be more socially media literate, as well as losing some paunch, which I believe are two resolutions that are not entirely compatible.
I’m going to look out of more windows, daydream a bit more than usual and comment on the weather less. I am going to try and identify more bird varieties and investigate the merits of owning a Hyundai. I am going to hit ‘send’ before re-reading my emails just to see what will happen - and finish my novel, massive plot holes and all, and then immediately discard it and start another one more suited to my own experiences. It will start with the sentence ‘Hog Wylde looked down at the naked redhead snorting coke from his sweaty, glistening torso, the sounds of the capacity crowd at Wembley Stadium still ringing in his ears, and pondered, not for the first time, if a mix of cocaine and his sweat made for a better high, or if the druggy paste it formed simply stuck in her nasal hairs.’
Also, I’m gonna buy a chihuahua and call it ‘Genghis’. And I am definitely going to pass on my knowledge of the Fast and Furious films to Noah. Well, until number 6 anyway.
That’s enough waffle. Jeez.
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