Bryan's Alamanac of the Best Days of 2009

The purpose of this list is to analyze each and every memorable day of the year and how they affected me, and my peers through the year. These are filled with bias, and as such will be very good.

Here's what made the cut.

11 Honorable Mentions:

"Barnes and Noble: House Dick"
"Halloween: A Surrealistic Nostalgic and Loving Tale"
"Flowers, Sunday, and I'm Gonna Be REALLY Depressed, Like forever"
"The movies weren't bad, it was the people. (Aaron Eckhart Love Story)"
"Invite Yourself to Others Birthdays equals Realizations"
"Park: Slender Frame Day"
"Bowling is Depressing, and I Like to speak of pasts that still haunt those and others"
"Soccer Game, a Duel of the Wits, and a Lesson in Confusion"
"Guatemala: Land of Opportunity"
"Kira's Birthday: Life affirming epiphany that I might enjoy others company"
"4th of July: Just.. just fuck this."

5 Worst Days Ever:

"Transformers 2: I Want to Fucking Die"
"Sonja's Backyard Adventure: Why I liked 28 Days Later"
"Kari's Birthday Party: This is really how it ends, Fuck."
"Fucking on my Couch: A Study on why I will never host again."
"Hey, shut the fuck up: A complete analysis of failure over the year, and why."


6 Best Days Ever:

"Fairground of Happiness, Not Anymore, Jake's Birthday, and The Secret Lives of Others Revealed: A Symphony"

"Relay for Life: Reasons and Ideas Why I am off the fucking Boat"

"Mexican Water Ballon Warfare: Grudge Two and Realizations of another World"

"The Bike Ride to the Metawaters of the Moss Family: I Had the best Summer out of anyone ever"

"Sugar Please: Why I lost faith in the majority of my Friends"

"Pioneer Man: This is why Incest fucked everything up, you fucking idiots."

Expect it in the coming weeks.

Aimless Ideas: Writer's Block

After battling writer's block for a good month or so, I've finally defeated it with a new song that I am writing, it is one of the most structured songs I've wrote, and I have multiple demos of certain parts, this will be exciting. Definitely one of the sadder, yet uplifting at the same time songs, This one will be a keeper for sure.

Aimless: To not end on a sour note

The old king has come back, it's been long enough, tranquility is back in order.

The majority of everyone can rest easy now.

I'm really happy for them, and I hope everyone else is too, hopefully things are in favor this time.

Everyone gets what they deserve.

Aimless Ideas: How Sad

It's sad when your supposed friend actually hates you, when they admit in a way that none of their friends matter, that only one person matters, and you know it's just a farce.

I wish certain people would be open about it, so I wouldn't have to waste my time being friends with them, so no one would have to. Because in the end, all that matters to them is a relationship, one they blindly believe is more than what it really is.

That sad thing is that, they are blind, calling others blind, they believe they have reached their own personal level of being a god.

But there is nothing wrong with being in love, no I assume it could happen, but it's fucking hard to believe when you are some 16-year old kid who can't respect anyone. Someone who says things only when no one can hear them, but continues to live a fake life.

A real coward, one who is afraid to face the backlash and criticism of his own peers but can attack them in the dark and say how much they don't mean a thing to him.

So the question is, if you really don't give a fuck, why are you dragging everyone else along for the ride? Can't you go to your own personal heaven alone and not continue to brag how great you are doing? How better you are?

What went wrong, what happened?

The thing is, the really sad thing is, maybe you were like this the whole time, and only recently showed who you really are. How sad.

Piggy.

Nothing can stop me now

Reasonably Untolerable

God forsake those who see what's ours
and claim it as their own

Seen from distances created by the hours
you've met the person you'll never get to know

Now what's left to say
only confirms what no one ever said

A game of chess or checkers
luck is favored by those who need it most

But don't believe for a second
it's fine to take what took so long to start

From downhill to light headed
how is it not seen, it's senseless to pursue

Build your own from the ground up regardless
I'm sure it was doomed for you from the start

You say you talk so much
but you're never spoken to
You say you talk so damn much
but there's no one whose said they've spoken to you
You say you talk so much
and for me the way out is through

Track Review: Harvey Danger - Woolly Muffler

Ah, Harvey Danger how overlooked you are, ever since they released their first single "Flagpole Sitta" back in 1998, the poor band never really got the recognition they deserved. So here is "Woolly Muffler" a deep cut and fan favorite from their debut album "Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?" and it's damn good.

With it's hysterical lyrics about the fantasies and desires of a relationship with someone, finally getting it but then slowly realizing it's not all it really was set up to be, and it's final poetic justice twist; revealing that the narrator only enjoyed the relationship when it was a nice, controllable, consequence-free idea, the messy reality of being in a relationship is undesirable to him, so he's leaving. And not doing it gently.

This is what really makes this song kick all kinds of ass. A nice fuck you to people who want something serious in climates that don't call for it.

Oh and the music, yeah I ordered a ton of overdrive and downbeat chord progressions and choruses like "Friends will turn against you/People disappoint you everytime/So if you've got greatness in you/Would you do us all a favor/And Keep it to yourself"

It's too bad that no one wanted to hear Harvey Danger's greatness. Luckily, they didn't listen.