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>>Things that were significant to me in 2008:

Some things are significant because they remind me of other things.

Things I did

started a blog
CTY
lost my voice as a teacher
learned how to play songs on the piano
hiking / rafting
ice skating
energy drinks
kissed, hugged, and danced with a dolphin in the Bahamas
new years in WVA

Ideas

Modernism
Existentialism
civilized machine / people as cogs, "fitting in," and measured by the social function they serve
Nihilism
psychoanalysis
social acceptance / seeking to please
Evolution
teleology/deontology
deconstruction
Continental /Analytic Philosophy
my identity
fear and motivation
aggression

Books

Watchmen - Alan Moore
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Irrational Man - William Barrett
What is an Emotion? - William James

Writers / People

Henry James
William Carlos Williams
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marilyn Manson

Film and Television

Juno
Cloverfield
Lost in Translation
Mad Men
The Sopranos
The Bucket List

Games

Hearts
Rock Band

Music

Bands
Tryad
Panic! at the Disco
Nine Inch Nails
Stabbing Westward
Avril Lavigne
Poe
Marilyn Manson
Depeche Mode

Songs
You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette
Hello* - Poe
The Perfect Drug - Nine Inch Nails
Enjoy the Silence (and the reinterpretation) - Depeche Mode
Little Bird - Annie Lennox
The Beginning is the End is the Beginning** - Smashing Pumpkins
The Take Over, The Breaks Over - Fall Out Boy
Like New*** - Deerhunter
Reflection - Tool
Xerces - Deftones
Coma White - Marilyn Manson
Great Big White World - Marilyn Manson
Running Wild**** (Extended Instrumental) - Tindersticks
Beauty Never Fades - Junkie XL feat. Saffron
Succexy - Metric
Dead Disco - Metric
Another Way to Die***** - Jack White & Alicia Keys

*from the end credits of Stir of Echoes
**from the 2008 preview trailer to the 2009 movie Watchmen
***from a compilation album promoting the NIN "Lights in the Sky Tour" and supporting bands
****from the credits of the penultimate episode of The Sopranos, "Blue Comet"
[only place I have ever been able to find it: http://hypem.com/track/315949]
*****from the title sequence to Quantum of Solace