2009: Destiny Called

This is really late this year. Meh.

Best Accomplishment:

Finally moving to New York. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this for a while, but I am definitely meant to be here. There are so many opportunities here. Taking the sketch writing class was also pretty helpful. Meeting Tara. And finally driving across the country was great and something I always wanted to do.

Best CD:

This one is pretty tough. Nothing really blew me away this year. I had a conversation with Ron about this back in the Fall how there wasn’t really anything going on musically that was exciting people. I may have to come back to this one some day, but I will say two albums I liked a lot were Fantasies by Metric and Curse Your Branches by David Bazan. They are both pretty great, but I don’t know if I would call them Album of the Year. Maybe after I listen to some other stuff from 2009, I’ll have a better answer.

Worst CD:

I don’t really have an answer for this one.

Best Concert:

Best Concert of oh nine was Bishop Allen at The Williamsburg Music Hall with Jordan. I saw BA 4 times this year and that was the best one. I wish I had seen more shows this year. I also saw, with Jordan, The Get Up Kids, AC Newmen, Human Highway, and a David Bazan house show. Also, I got to see Weezer for free so that was awesome!

Best Movie:

Inglourious Basterds. It lived up to the hype.

Worst Movie:

I didn’t see a lot of movies this year. Tough to say what my worst movie was. I guess I would say Watchmen. Although I didn’t hate the movie, I feel like I don’t remember it too fondly either. I would like to see the director’s cut one day though.

Best Book:

I once again sucked at reading this year. I think I’ve just been reading a lot of bad books I couldn’t finish. My book of the year is A Confederacy of Dunces. I also liked The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao a lot.

Best TV Show:

I guess best new TV show I started watching is Parks and Recreation. Recently I’ve been watching a lot of new stuff, but that’s in 2010.

Favorite New Place:

I really like The Alligator Lounge in Williamsburg. I hate to admit this, but I also like Williamsburg in general. Astoria is kinda nice too.

Best Blog Entry:

Nothing stands out as being my favorite blog entry of the past year. I guess that means I need to write more blogs. It’s a shame I never wrote about my cross country trip.

Person of the Year:

Jordan Mollot! Jordan influenced my life in so many ways this year and traveling across country with him was a blast.

Douche Bag of the Year:

Glen Beck. What an embarrassment to this country.

New Friend Award:

John Krawiec. I’ve gotten to know him pretty well this year at work.

Party of the Year:

Party of the year was Alan Carroll’s birthday. Other parties were St. Patrick’s Day in Hoboken, Brian Small’s party in April, and a Christmas party with Tara in December.

Best Celebrity Encounter:

Jordan and I saw the girl who plays the receptionist on 30 Rock at Best Buy. Jordan and I also Jenny Slate’s show at the UCB. Oh, and Ellie Kemper was in the crowd at a UCB show.

Biggest Disappointment:

I worked a lot and didn’t really get to do too many fun things during the week.

What one thing about the past year would you change:

Probably the same as the above, worked a little less.

Greatest memory of the past year:

The thing I’ll probably remember the most this year was meeting Tara.

Theme of the Year:

The theme of the year was SetUp. I think a lot of things that happened this year are all setting up some big things for 2010.

Quote of the Year:

“I don’t know what to tell you, Chris.”

Biggest wish for 2010:

Keep pursuing my comedy dreams.

Anything to look forward to:

I would like to travel more. I would really like to visit LA. and if Chris moves to Cincinnati soon, I’ll probably go visit him. I would still like to go to Germany soon too, haha. I’m going to try to keep writing. Maybe write one sketch a week. My cousin is getting married in April in Florida and I think I’m going to go down for the wedding.