2004 lists of tings and dongs [updated]
best year: 2004 [that was a tough choice]
best month: april [that was easy]
most overrated fad gadget: iPod [yet again and even iPod porn did not help!]
best food: roasted chicken flavored crips by zweifel [and vegetarian even]
best trend: blogging a novel [keep em coming]
best tactics to survive the us-election traumata: bittorrenting the daily show [humour might heal all wounds, eventually, at some point, maybe]
best new techy thingsie: CC for sampling license [finally but i am so not complaining]
saddest techy thingsie: apple [they have gone so microsoft]
biggest bummer: george duubeli bush [duubeli bleibt]
most hideous word: nipplegate [we demand more nipple and less gate(s)!]
nice try: microsoft trying to push into the blogging business [think different]
saddest revival: art getting censored [but hey, farting is still legal - in some places]
best and - okay okay - only selectah j mix: he said blah blah blah
best dj mix: sofabar by dj ramax
favorite new threads: spamshirt [it is it is]
favorite blogses: xradiograph [blog.art] raymi the minx [life is poetry] dailykos [daily political rants]
funniest swf: numanuma.swf [best not to drink a glass of milk while watching this] [via habi]
most naive swiss [ex]politicians: christoph blocher, for asking google to correct the “jaemmerlicher waschlappen” search results and ruth metzler, just because…
sure signs i must be getting hella old: not one but 2 of my favorite magazines died The Face and jockey slut R.I.P.
more R.I.P.: susan sontag. john peel. joe strummer. johnny ramone. marco pantani. & way too many in southasia, sudan and iraq. and worldwide daily from malnutrition.
who should not do lists like these: people like me who can only barely remember the last few months
that’ll do. i won’t do more.
as i was still trying to decide if i should do a propper end-of year-list or sumink obviously these | guys did the best possible job ever…
and gooogle was pretty damn close…
APRIL, my friend, is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
which is zactly why i love it, coz` its tuff yet luscious, stretchy yet lusty… basically its when i start going outside after winter hibernation to greet the sun.