What goes down?
What did you love/loathe this year?
Plans for Christmas?

I'm still at the Garage, now 5 years on. I'm acting Manager at the moment, and I want the job permanently. Luckily the area is proper tits-up so I should be in luck. More money is always nice. I'm planning to move out in the New Year. (Yes, 26 and still at home! It was quite sobering watching Arrested Development and drawing comparisons between myself and Buster. Minus the hook-hand of course. And the weird Mother-love... Operation Hot-Mother - Ha!)

2007 was great for these reasons - Andrew Bird, Wilco, The Besnard Lakes, Spoon, of Montreal, Richmond Fontaine, the unlikely return of Armchair Martian, the equally unlikely return (kinda) of Elliott Smith, the unlikely return of Futurama, discovering Arrested Development too late, Pushing Daisies - anyone else watching this? I think it's really good, so inevitably it's future is in the balance, the impossibly good ATP Festival (even though I missed Grizzly Bear, dead to the world in my Chalet), the sublime End Of The Road Festival (which signified a return to many enjoyable bad habits) and going to too many gigs, because that's actually impossible.

I've not got plans for Xmas, other than ensuring I don't have to work, (the curse of convenience!)

And I'll probably buy myself an XBox 360 next week, because I'm worth it.

Yourselves?

[ November 30, 2007: Message edited by: Ewan ]

School is super stressful, being that it's the week before finals. I might fail my gender class because my professor does not like opinions despite the class being based on them, and I guess I'm a bad feminist.

This really was a great year for music, even though I didn't get a chance to go to many shows(besides Trash Talk, Trap Them, and Modern Life is War[bleh] when they came through town). Too many really good albums came out to list, but I must suggest the new Defiance, Ohio album to people.

Christmas to me is just a day off to relax. My car is running funny, so the only gift I asked for is, "Make my car not die so that I don't have to worry about it."

That's about it!

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"Hats off to the nun with the man hands."

I just moved to a shit town in North Carolina from Charlotte, which isn't really that bad of a city. I'm into tango and salsa dancing now and there's something every night of the week which rocks. But I'm not in Charlotte anymore, I'm out here in the sticks waitressing with 19 year olds who can't stop bitching about their babydaddy drama. I'm here for a few month working for my horse trainer, then heading out to Missouri to horseshoeing school. Yeah, college isn't really for me. So instead I'm going to nail steel on livestock. And hopefully meeting a lot of hot cowboys out in the heartland. Kind of a stretch from my northeastern liberal academic upbringing but there ya go.

And there's probably more here than just me and Daniel. At least, I hope so.

Other than that, all is well. No exciting holiday plans, at least none that I am aware of.

In terms of music, I don't think I'm listening to anything new since the last time I posted. Whee.

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I kind of figured "nail steel" was what you did after you meet a lot of hot cowboys?

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