José Marques

• Get my own place
• Continue to have fun at work
• Spend more time with friends/family
• Blog more and tweet less
• Travel outside of Europe
• Lose weight
• Continue to be happy

I’m starting to prepare to move to a new place, and by preparing I mean getting rid of stuff I’ve gathered all my life: old CDs and cassettes, inumerous gadgets like my first walkman (still works!), the discman from my first college years (that doesn’t play beyond the third track), old headphones, gamepads. And paper, I keep lots of paper: magazines, device instructions, ticket stubs, flyers, post cards, boarding passes…

It’s all crap, useless and worthless, but every piece of it means something to me: people, places, events… and I’m having a very hard time sorting it out. I will not have room for all of it, but at the same time I can’t throw it out, it’s too emotional and I know if I do I will feel an enormous loss.

This is process is far from peaceful… and I just started!

2008 was the year of making lists, lists about everything, list until you drop!
Making a list has become the favorite task of bloggers who want to show up on Digg… but I still have to do this one. I do this “favorite albums of year” thing for future reference. I just go to my Last.fm profile, check out the albums that got more rotation on my playlist and sort’em out by relevance. So here it is:

• Sigur Rós – Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
• Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
• Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
• MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
• Blood Red Shoes – Box of Secrets
• Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line
• Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
• Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
• Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
• The Black Ghosts – The Black Ghosts
• Little Joy – Little Joy
• Does It Offend You, Yeah? – You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into
• Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
• Aaron Thomas – Follow The Elephants
• Cold War Kids – Loyalty to Loyalty
• Hercules And Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair
• Late of the Pier – Fantasy Black Channel
• Portishead - Third
• The Raconteurs – Consolers Of The Lonely
• Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
• Foals – Antidotes
• Spiritualized – Songs in A&E
• You Say Party! We Say Die! – Lose All Time
• Santogold – Santogold
• Fucked Up - Chemistry Of Common Life

I should make a mixtape of my favourite songs…

I really gotta stop posting videos, but I found this Simpsons skit particularly funny and had to share it here.