It's the time of year for "10 Best" lists. What's on your personal 10 Best—events, movies, music, anything—list for 2008?
Ten beeeest... anythings. I can't decide on one thing.
10- Best phone message- Left by friend Greg. Something along the lines of,
"Uhh, hey Steven,[I'm not Steven.]
sorry I fucked up your pen... I kinda uh, dropped it in a bottle of Schweppes, and then poured Pepsi on it, and then threw it at Ashley...[Ashley later confirmed that this did happen.]
I'll get you a new one. Nice message, by the way, it's very... you."[My message was recorded by my friend Emily.
'Let's break down the walls on this Truman show, bitch.' She was wearing shutter shades at the time, that may have had something to do with it.]
9- Best place- Some flea market in Montreal my mom dragged me to one day. You could buy
cockatoos and tombstones at the same time, all while being emotionally audited by the Scientologist booth.
8- Best letdown- Twilight. The book I liked [I know, I know. What the hell.] The movie was actual shit.
7- Best accidental movie disovery- How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. That is a fantastic film that I stumbled upon while channel surfing one fine Saturday evening. Lovelovelove.
6- Best license plate- I was behind a car at a gas station on Halloween, and the car in front of me had vanity plates. Those vanity plates said, I kid you not,
CONDOM. And who was the driver of this car? Some dude who looked just like Sean Connery.
5- Best triumph- The time I beat everyone at Scrabble by a whopping 109 points. That was a good day.
4- Best picture on my cellphone- Upon careful inspection, I'm going to have to bypass all the pictures I have on there of my cats and present this one to my neighbour, who I photographed one sunny afternoon carrying a case of beer around in a giant, really high-quality Cookie Monster head. Grilled cheese sandwiches were choked upon.
3- Best birthday present- Given to me by a neighbour, who found it on the side of the road. The case was that of Phil Collins' Greatest Hits; the actual CD inside, Hinder. Needless to say, I was impressed.
2- Best day- The day Ashley, Alex and I snuck into the woods behind Homesense and not only caught a toad, but found one of those tunnels where graffitti artists congregate. We sat on the concrete ledge overlooking the water and dodged grasshoppers.
1- Best worst thing on the face of this earth- My friend Wyatt forcing me to watch a video of a guy sitting on a jar, naked, so that it went
into his ass- then picking out bits of glass when it
shattered inside him. Seriously. Two girls one cup has nothing on this.
Random other stuff that didn't make the cut- Other-Alex referring to ugly surgeons as vampire bats, Regular-Alex pouring sugar into my mouth totally unprovoked, some kid dumping Lucky Charms on Ashley's porch, and the kid who wrote EMO in the snow on my lawn[I don't have any pictures of that, and it is my greatest regret.]
It's been a decent year, to say the least. and I'm really excited to see what happens next year =]