top 10 general great things:

• fest 8 adventure (comadre/refused house show, warehouse shows, defiance, ohio twice!, general greatness and ridiculousness)
• jared
• going to PA for two glorious weeks and everyone becoming real friends instead of internet friends!
• cats
• becoming more of my own stable person with each passing day/year.
• reading the little prince
• seeing propagandhi x2, kylesa, the shins, algernon cadwallader 3+ times
• really realizing how great connecticut is
• bikes
• getting into so many more bands

top 10 things I will do/attempt for next year:

• (stolen) but REALLY not mess up this wonderful relationship I have been in for the past year and a half.
• get at least a 3.4 each semester for the rest of the time I'm at school
• try to REALLY read 52 books next year.
• ride my bike more
• eat less sugar/trash
• save more money/buy less trash
• ...
• ...

top 10 shows I went to this year/no order:

• armalite/algernon/yo man go in philly
• propagandhi/paint it black in manhattan & brooklyn
• kylesa in wallingford
• good luck at fest!
• defiance, ohio at fest, two nights in a row
• comadre refused cover set at the fest
• comadre/trainwreck in wallingford!
• the shins in manhattan
• matt & kim in vermont
• teenage cool kids at fest!

top 10 bands that ruled my life this year:

• daikon
• plastic mastery
• the mountain goats (every year)
• tigers jaw
• victims
• algernon cadwallader
• kylesa
• i hate myself
• protestant
• good luck

top 10 records I bought!

• kind of like spitting - bridges worth burning lp
• snowing - fuck yr emotional bullshit 7"
• tigers jaw - spirit desire 7"
• protestant - the hate the hollow lp
• teenage cool kids - foreign lands lp
• kylesa - static tensions lp
• good luck - into lake griffy lp
• baroness - second lp
• armalite lp
• promise ring - nothing feels good (this arrived in 2009 so counting it)

newest addition, top 10 albums that came out this year:

• tigers jaw spirit desire ep
• snowing fuck yr emotional bullshit ep
• kylesa static tensions lp
• teenage cool kids foreign lands lp
• more/ordered later when I am not tired cool