05, an ode

((got this idea from m.plett))
my favorite albums of 2005 ((meaning, the albums i listened to relentlessly in 2005.. not necessarily new in 2005, got that?))

Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
Sigur Ros - agaetis byrjun
Joanna Newsome - Milk-eyed Mender
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case we die
Kanye West - Late Registration
SUFJAN STEVENS - come on, feel the ILLINOISE!

MOVIES
Life Aquatic
i heart huckabees ((were these 2005? can't remember))
joe versus the volcanoe
harry potter 4 ((most anticipated))
narnia ((second most anticipated))
king kong
hitch --haha, just kidding.

BEST poem i wrote ((in my opinion)):
"i want a ferris wheel summer...
the sensation of being lifted far above the country fair..cornstalk community and pickup trucks... that's the kind of summer i want.
a silver, ford pick-up-truck summer... with cousins(bestfriends) who pull hair
i can ride in the back and let bugs catch my hand -- and it'll sting, but it'll be funny. and right as the sun touches the tip of western stop signs, i'll smell freshly cut grass -
(like that one day when i was lonely. my window was rolled down, arm out and sunglasses on -- but barely seeing the sun -- county road 300 S --
seems far away.)
i'll be ice-cream lipped young -- and swing set innocent ((before-the-park-was-for-parking young)) -- prebraces and prebra. and once upon a time before shoes in the summer...
i'll be worried, only at the end of the day, about the ticks and the scraps.." -april 4, 2005

Favorite book -- traveling mercies, anne lamott

Scariest moment: presenting at a conference

Best date -- Chicago aquarium

3 favorite shows:
Architecture
Kings of Convenience
Sufjan Stevens

5 things i'm exuberant over:
anna coming home from england
andy coming home from chicago
andy moving in with matt and jordan
getting our own apt.
getting LYDIA

some things i'll never forget:
my three week vacation with andy. (good)
coming home from the iron and wine concert (bad)
The best new year's eve EVER (good)


Let's hope 2006 won't let me down - i have to be an adult now. cheers to a new job, cheers to the future.