Better Than Billboard

My most-listened to albums of 2005...

Less Than Jake: Anthem
Rise Against: Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Relient K: Mmhmm
Day at the Fair: The Rocking Chair Years
Paramore: All We Know is Falling
blink-182: blink-182
Eve 6: Eve 6
Pete Yorn: Musicforthemorningafter

Best Moments of 2005:

Lifest 2005: Talking to strangers, running the Thousand Foot Krutch merch booth (during their concert =( ), getting hit with Christian Lindskog's first thrown water bottle, jamming in the station wagon with Matt, ignoring the 90 degree heat and jumping anyway. Sleeping on the way up. Oops. ^^;

Warped Tour 2005: Flat tire on the freeway, those creepy guys in loincloths, the cool haircut on the singer of the Matches, Paramore rocking out on the tiniest of stages, dashing back and forth between the main stages, the -three seconds of rain- during "High of 75" right when he's singing "will be rainy at best", accidentally bringing Nick's ticket inside with me, missing the All-American rejects 'cause they started so early, getting water any way we could, and oh man, Nick's godparents awesome house on the lake! Paddleboats are way more fun than they should be.

October first: Driving four and half hours in the dark on an unfamiliar road to see Melissa, staring into her eyes again without having to look away, the second first kiss, going to be at 5 in the morning and waking up later to her being there, the look on Martin's face when he realized we had gotten back together and not told him. All-in-all like something out of a cheesy romantic comedy and amazingly, I'm okay with that.

Improv Show: Innuendo, threatened with the loss of an eyebrow, fairy princesses (what are you talking about?), explaining fourty-two, taking suggestions from confused audience members, having an alumni chase me down just to tell me how good the show was, "take that, jesus!", forgetting who is playing what game, setting up and taking down the seating, zip zap zop, what's in the box?, big booty, pass the clap, all the other ridiculous games we played to warm up (karate master, go!). Enough inside jokes to last a lifetime and totally random group of people. I know how you walk now.

Misc. Moments of Varied Importance:
- The million or so nights/mornings at Martin's house
- Discussing the destruction of emo with Angela and Caitlin
- A three hour conversation with Susen in which we both realized we were growing up
- High school graduation!
- Walking down the bike trail in the middle of the night
- Alright, this could go on forever, so I'm not going to keep this up.

We'll call this post, "Best of." I haven't decided whether or not I want to bother with a "Worse of."