Bad Copy

Well we did it, guys. We got through another year on this corroding planet. Objectively, there’s not a whole lot to celebrate right now if you live in America, especially if you’re a sane and morally sound person. But there have been worse years. I won’t say this year started out great; but there was definitely a sense of hope and optimism among the people I surround myself with at the beginning of it. Granted it drained as the year went on, but we kept truckin’ and we did what we could.

While everything crumbled around us, there were some pretty sweet records and movies that came out this year. There were also some pretty cool things that happened in my personal life that I feel are worth sharing. I also put some of my favorite photos in here, both from concerts I attended and some other shoots I did. If you’re still reading this, I appreciate you and I hope you like the photos!

Anyways, here are some of my favorite things from this year. Enjoy!

Top 10 Favorite Records

1. Vacations – No Place Like Home (No Fun Records)
2. Drug Church – Prude (Pure Noise Records)
3. Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs (Rise Records)
4. Dehd – Poetry (Fat Possum Records)
5. Touché Amoré – Spiral In A Straight Line (Rise Records)
6. Kings of Leon – Can We Please Have Fun?
7. Origami Angel – Feeling Not Found (Counter Intuitive Records)
8. Wallows – Model (Atlantic)
9. Ginger Root – SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
10. Delta Sleep – Blue Garden (Sofa Boy Records)

Top 10 Favorite Songs

1. “One Night Stand” – Blink-182
2. “At Sickness” – Alkaline Trio
3. “Chow” – Drug Church
4. “Goodbye For Now (feat. Julien Baker)” – Touché Amoré
5. “Giddy Up” – Ginger Root
6. “Higher Road” – Origami Angel
7. “Mood Ring” – Dehd
8. “M Television” – Kings of Leon
9. “Slow Motion” – Vacations
10. “Your Apartment” – Wallows

Top 10 Favorite Movies

1. Alien Romulus
2. Longlegs
3. Dune: Part 2
4. Deadpool & Wolverine
5. Love Lies Bleeding
6. Will & Harper
7. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
8. Wicked
9. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
10. The First Omen

Favorite Moments

1. Celebrated another year of marriage!
2. Stepped up my photography game, took a lot more photos, and got better at editing.
3. Ran a 10k and beat my previous time!
4. Saw Blink, Alkaline Trio, and Weezer all in a year.
5. Got a 2nd job at Zia Records here in AZ and love it!
6. Started couples therapy.
7. Got a bunch more tattoos.
8. Went to Disneyland with our best friends.
9. Started playing golf.
10. Survived.

Resolutions

1. Be more creative
2. Learn a new skill
3. Pick up a new hobby
4. Prioritize my mental health
5. Give less fucks what people think

Favorite Photos

Going into the new year, and the next few of them, please don’t take moments for granted. Hold your loved ones, give your friends a phone call, make the plans you said you’d make forever ago, take more photos, and just be cool and close with your community. The next few years, and probably the foreseeable future, will be hard for a lot of people, especially any non-straight, non-white, non-male people in our lives. Things are going to fucking suck over the next 4+ years, and we just need to fight like hell, hold our friends/family close, and remember to enjoy what we can in this shitty world.