Wayward Saints

so 2009 was quite a wild year. it's weird to look back on a little bit. i spent new years at brandon's in escotown. promptly thereafter moved from king st. to 28th and telegraph. life slowed down a bit, i started what was to be my last semester at the academy of art university, and had a cleanly shaven face. i turned 24 in february, had a dance party in my bedroom, and woke up comfortably alone, as i did most every morning of 2009. there is a bit of a blur there for a little bit, i worked an went to school a lot, and then at the end of march halcyonaire spent a week at tiny telephone for the first session for "dread hymn". shortly afterwards, after a solid three years of consideration, i decided it was time for me to end my enrollment at the academy of art university. thrilled with the new prospect of starting my artistic endeavors outside of my experience in that institution, i took to riding my newly converted bike throughout the east bay. i miss this time quite a bit. i worked very little, lived off of what i had saved, and just rode a lot. i experimented also with a lot of different lettering styles, some may or may not have found their way onto this here blog. most likely not. did my best to hang out a lot with friends and kicked it pretty hard. i mean, HARD. in the later part of april i went on a short west coast tour with lewd acts. had a lot of fun, spent sometime in portland (two days?) and hung out with jocelyn for her birthday. bruised alex's ribs in seattle, almost fought a cab driver. came back, continually kicked it hard. brandon came for a few visits, we ruined each-others livers and memories. during one of these visits in what i think was actually late may, at a party at sebastian's house in berkeley i caught the eye of a young lady by the name of liz freeman. we talked about being from san diego and had a shared distaste for a certain individual we both knew. went for a long walk in search of more drink and later that evening exchanged numbers after some friends and i left her apartment where we had moved to from the previously mentioned house. i continued to hang out for life, working minimally a week. around this time in june i was hit with a bill from AAU telling me i owed then upwards of $5000. this and a number of other factors led me to the decision to move back down to southern california to live with my parents again for the first time since august of 2005. hung out with this liz freeman character a few times on her porch, watching a liquor store, talking about whatever. i came down at the end of june to help my parents move about three blocks to the new house where i was going to live with them. on the third night of us moving my grandmother, sally, had a massive stroke that caused or was a 25% brain bleed. i saw her in the hospital with no answers and boarded a plane back to the bay to spend my last month in the bay. i feel sad, thinking about both of these things. i probably always will. spent that last month having quite a good time, hung out with liz a few times and learned that she too was moving back to southern california. i move down, start school, start work, do that. a lot of both. october brings david bazan to san diego, along with me seeing that show. i think i've visited liz every week since then. (oct. 3rd?) that brings me to now, where i have been working, schooling, and visiting san diego. i get to see a lot of my friends who i didn't get to see a lot while living in the bay. i am sure i left a lot out, but i am getting tired after this red wine and i am sure i lost anyone reading this by now. i will condense this year in far better manners in another way. also, will have a "best of" list for '09 and maybe will work on one for the decade. 2009 was a year where i re-discovered a lot of music, or, got into a lot of music that wasn't quite new. until then... live in peace