I think it helped looking through the year end charts and realising I actually liked music this year. Which is perversely disappointing. Like the Kate Tempest album. Like the Gruff Rhys album. Like the Run the Jewels album. Like the Madlib album. That's four albums I actually like - been ages since that happened. And, as things stand, I've got more gigs booked than theatre trips - I feel like I'm back in my early twenties.
Saw me some pretty good theatre this year. Last thing I saw was Golem - if I actually was still in my early twenties I would have loved it with it's anti-capitalist stance. As it was I thought it was clever and fun, rather than blow your mind amazing. Not certain what the thing I liked most was. That's a lie, I am fairly certain. Streetcar... was ace. Skylight was ace. A View... was ace. Titus Andronicus was suitably gory and I really enjoyed Urinetown. But it wasn't any of them. It was The Play that Goes Wrong. Somehow it managed to live up to my ridiculously high expectations.
Not been too shabby a year for travel. Got into double figures for countries (yes, I'm aware that that's more in a year than a lot of people go in their life time), managed seven new European capital cities (think Sarajevo was my favourite, although Athens ran it close) and saw three of the most famously spectacular coastlines in the world. As I said, not too shabby.
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