dear deuce
it's been so long, and i've been so lost. i've stopped by occasionally and read a lot of the posts during my usual hypnotic click-through-the-internet-before-bed swing, and even woken up the next morning to find half a post written but never posted (then never posted).
i'm really putting my final touches on a best of 2007 list, being so far behind in listening to all the music being cranked out. so my 2008 list is all retreads, and now that i've seen all the blog lists and shit i'll start listening to that and my 2008 list should be done around... May. anyway, my guess is that i listened to 25 new albums that came out this year and my five favorites were
Deerhunter
Clinic - Do It! (no love for clinic's best album in years, anywhere?)
Atlas Sound
Bonnie Prince Billy
Spiritualized
but 2008 for me was about being back in the states and being able to see live shows. this year, mostly in Denver, I saw the Constantines, Silver Jews, Octopus Project, Low, Calexico, Malkmus, Eef Barzelay, and Caribou/Fuck Buttons (in dallas). My favorite three shows stand above though, and they were
Spiritualized (best show in a long time)
Radiohead (in Dallas)
Sigur Rós at Red Rocks right in the middle of fall
In 2009, I'm moving again. This time to Korea. My girlfriend and I are going to teach English for a year, make money, and travel around Asia. We'll be teaching elementary school in Jeonnam province, in the southwest of the peninsula. It won't be like Kenya for a lot of reasons, but we're pretty excited to be off doing shit overseas again pretty soon. I'll have internet this time and probably a blog rather than mass emails... I'll keep the deuce posted. Or maybe I could just post all my ruminations here and point my aunts and uncles this way.
Happy 2009 deuce, and happy Merriweather Post Pavillion Day!
13 comments:
Rob,
I miss you. Please inform me next time you are in Texas.
I have a really awesome group of students right now who are juniors. I can't leave them. But I'm looking at trying to find something in Alaska as soon as they graduate. I know I've been saying that for years, but we'll see. Anyhow Alaska is a state that is surprisingly close to Korea.
When do you leave?
I love Korean food. I've taught three Korean sisters in succession (two have graduated) but every time they come back from college, we go to Koreatown in Dallas and eat. I envy you getting to eat bulgogi and gai bi spare ribs whenever you want.
It's embarrassing that we haven't talked in a while. And it's shameful that I'm writing you via the motherfucking deuce. (Sorry Deuce).
But hit me up dog. Your presence in my life is missed.
Your Friend,
Alyssa
good luck with everything. please post pics often. that would be super cool. kim chee is nasty nasty nasty. i probably spelled it wrong too.
it's kim chi.
it's nasty
you're right, it's disgusting.
january 5th 2009 lilasshole and armentrout agree on 1 thing
is it the first time?
i think maybe i've agreed with stuff you've said before but I didn't want to give you the pleasure of knowing it.
Yes! Post pictures and good luck!!
Start a blog and we'll check it. You could post here, but do you think your aunts would appreciate Todd's poetry?
And write Trout proper. Sounds like you guys got lots of catching up to do.
I've heard people can make a bunch of money teaching English in Asia. Apparently you can make extra money talking to businessmen for 15 minutes on the morning to warm them up for business dealings.
my friend teaches english in japan. he makes a decent amount living there. nothing crazy though. but when he tutors outside of class (which i guess under his contract is a no no but everyone does it?) you make some extra cash. but also the japanese government takes like 200 bucks a month and puts it into a savings that he can't touch until he leaves and applies for it back in the u.s. i can't wait to go there in july. i'm so excited for my first big boy trip.
i have a friend who is a puppeteer in japan.
trout do you have an iphone? i saw an app the other day that made me think of you. it was for a theremin. you swing your arms around holding the phone i guess. i wish i had a theremin.
i do have an iphone. i'll have to check that out.
thanks for the tip, friend.
yes the money is supposed to be pretty good. housing is covered and the cost of living is lower than the states. i'll be making about 20x more than in kenya, so i'm prepared to feel like a billionaire.
but they could probably be giving me half and i'd still be doing it. i just want to move about again, explore another area of the world for a while, and do something reasonably interesting mon - fri. i'm super pumped about good food all the time, and that snowboarding in korea is pretty damn cheap. i've only gone once here in CO but it's definitely a new hole i plan to throw all my money into.
i'll definitely do a blog with lots of pictures (i finally got a new camera and am retiring my old one, the original digital camera i think). and i'll stop by here more often to read todd's stanzas and hear about/comment about music.
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