...according to last.fm, anyway. my top 20 artists for the year:

part of me is a little let down that it isn't "weirder", but that's really a foolish thing to complain about. in retrospect, i guess i had a pretty crummy year, so no shock i went with "comfort" music. two relatedlys:

if this seems like a blog post that somebody would put up if they were posting more often, i.e. you expect there to have been more serious, realistic content before this, especially in light of the year changing and holidays and all that crap, well, you're right. there is a bunch of content in the space between this and my last post. no, you can't see it. it isn't written, it probably will never be written, and, really, there's nothing melodramatic about that. consider this my apologia to myself for beating myself up over not posting more often. just because i'm not "posting to my blog" doesn't mean i'm not recording events and generating content. it just doesn't transcribe to this format.