2005 - Year In Review

Hello everyone,
As I always do, I'm writing up my little summary of the year gone by. Without further ado:
(Anything Australian is in Italics)

Favorite Albums
Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
Ben Lee - Awake Is The New Sleep
Bernard Fanning - Tea & Sympathy
Common - Be
End of Fashion - End of Fashion
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
John Legend - Get Lifted
Kanye West - Late Registration
Lior - Autumn Flow
Nickel Creek - Why Shound The Fire Die?

Honourable Mention
Blackalicious - The Craft
Charles Jenkins - The City Gates
John Mayer Trio - Try! John Mayer Trio Live
Sarah Blasko - The Overture & The Underscore
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
The Roots - Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide To Understanding The Roots

Favorite Singles
Missy Elliot - Lose Control (ft. Ciara, Fatman Scoop)
John Legend - Ordinary People
Z-Trip - The Get Down (ft. Lyrics Born)
Lior - This Old Love
K.T. Tunstall - Black Horse and Cherry Tree
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

Gigs/Events
The Waifs @ Hi-Fi Bar
The Roots @ Metro
John Legend @ Mercury Lounge
Good Vibrations Festival (Arrested Development, Scissor Sistors, Mylo, Cuban Brothers) @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl
B Sharp Big Band @ The Night Cat
Die On Your Feet (play at Comedy Festival) @ Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne Victory soccer matches x 2 @ Olympic Park
Socceroos vs Uruguay @ Federation Square
Caulfield Cup @ Caulfield Racecourse

Movies
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Hotel Rwanda
Batman Begins
Kung Fu Hustle
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire
Three Dollars
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Ong Bak

Books
Only 1 - The Da Vinci Code

Running? Again!
The Run to the G - April - 10K run again. Time: about 50:00. Not bad as I only started training 3 wks before run!

Highlights 2005

• Saw Australia - went to Northern Territory for 10 days - what a trip! And Sydney, Lakes Entrance, and Albury - all in the past 3 weeks!
• In The Black - Paid off my college/uni bank loan in half the time that the loan was meant to be!
• Old jobs - goodbye Altona Beach Physiotherapy. Only 10 months there, but good fun, but no life
• Moved out of home - free at last
  
• Rice paper roll night/Farewell Alicia night - bittersweet
  
• Played mixed netball - rules are annoying, but fun with friends
• Engagements - Nadine/Jen/others, now for the weddings
• Bought drum kit - now if only I had time to play it...long live Yellow Fever
  
• Movember - as hard as I tried, I couldn't grow a moustache for 30 days - don't know if that's a highlight or a sad bit...
• Ruth again - let's keep dancing. Honk
  

Sad bits of 2005

• RIP Yank Tank - it was written off to that junkyard in the sky
• Hardly contacted friends and family in US - very sorry

Looking forward to 2006

• Travelling the world - here I come
• Weddings, weddings, weddings

DN