Presumably, the idea of yearly resolutions came about as a way to encourage people to reflect on the last year and move forward, set goals for the coming year. It's like an annual personal performance review. I've never been a fan of setting yearly resolutions, but I can appreciate the idea of a yearly ritual that forces people to reflect and reflection leads to contemplation, brain usage, focus and isn't there an app for that? You get the idea.
So, I resolve not to resolve. I'm having fun and I'll continue to do so. (That is not a resolution.)
As a 2010 send-off (and proof of just how much fun I had this year), I've done what I have the most fun doing... compiling a playlist, a yearly one, in this case:
- Laundry Room - The Avett Brothers
- Walk Alone (Feat. Truck North, P.O.R.N., Dice Raw) - The Roots
- Hellhole Retrace - Girls
- Stylo (feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack) - Gorillaz
- How Good You Are - Joe Pug
- I Love You, But Goodbye - Langhorne Slim
- Sleepyhead - Passion Pit
- Drifters - Patrick Watson
- Tightrope (Feat. Big Boi) - Janelle Monáe
- Surely - Black Dub
- Mr. Pitiful - Otis Redding*
- Horchata - Vampire Weekend
- Tangle in This Trampled Wheat - The Tallest Man On Earth
- Ghost Pressure - Wolf Parade
- Vaporize - Broken Bells
- Meet Me In The Basement - Broken Social Scene
- Swim Until You Can't See Land - Frightened Rabbit
- Singing Softly To Me - Kings Of Convenience
- World News - Local Natives
- L.S.F. - Mark Ronson Feat. Kasabian
- Congratulations - MGMT
- Runaway - The National
- Mama Don't Like My Man - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
- The Funeral - Band of Horses
- Join The Dots - The Nextmen
