Decade In Review:

2000 - Listened to to Saves the Day, Bad Religion, Millencolin, Pennywise, and Greenday. Stopped reading Tom Clancy books. Read some Vonnegut, Orson Scott Card. Did not enjoy middle school. Memory not very clear.
2001 - Continued middle school. Saw Fight Club and felt 'blown away.' Experimented with violent video games. Listened to Thursday, Finch, Thrice, and Taking Back Sunday. Went on some family Vacations to Canada.
2002 - Moved schools and began high school. First day someone asked "are you emo or something?" Decided to say "Yes" in response. Started listening to metal. Went to first underground metal shows. Read Neuomancer by William Gibson. Started to understand the internet. Discovered indie pop.
2003 - Read Hemingway. Refined anti-social behavior. Went to punk teen center often. Listened to hardcore music. Started DJing parties.
2004 - Read The Hipster Handbook. Felt very smug all the time via being two to four years ahead of mainstream culture.
2005 - 'Got stoned' for the first time. Developed sleep disorder after reading Grapes of Wrath.
2006 - Read Jorge Luis Borges. Wrote first novel Carraway's Suburbia based on liberal reading of The Great Gatsby. Graduated from High school. Went to Europe. Got drunk in Croatia. Watched films by Jim Jarmush and Wong Kar Wai. Moved to Seattle from the Eastside. Took psychedelic drugs. Began doomed college relationship.
2007 - Listened to electro. Started to blog often. Read hipsterrunoff. Went to China to study film. Ended doomed relationship. Read Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville. Worked in Seattle club promotion. Rejected from American Apparel interview for lack of elegance.
2008 - Had a good relationship, ultimately doomed. Discovered Tom Waits. Went to 2+ concerts per week. Compiled second novel 4233 7th Ave. from blog posts.
2009 - Read Fredrick Barthelme. Graduated from college. Moved to Oakland. Worked at American Apparel for 2.5 months. Wrote I Am Happy That You Are Grappling With My Life Choices. Directed Sorry I Like To Party.