My List

Everyone & their mother has a list this year, so I say WHY THE HELL NOT ME?! With millions of lists floating around this “list season”, what makes mine special? IT’S MINE, and if that isn’t considered special in your world, I invite you to cease reading immediately!

Best Films I Caught This Past Year
Mysterious Skin
Brokeback Mountain
Walk the Line
March of the Penguins
Eating Out

Films of 2004 That Didn’t Change My Life Until 2005
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A Home at the End of the World
Garden State
Closer
Napoleon Dynamite

Best Television Series
Entourage
Weeds
Grey’s Anatomy
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
The Starlet

Best New Band
Elkland

Biggest Pet Peeves
Pleated Pants
Hot Guys Dating Ugly Ones
When People State the Obvious

Songs
Every Ship Must Sail Away – Blue Merle
Sound of the Underground – Girls Aloud
I Want to Know What Love Is (Remix) – Wynonna
Flow with My Soul – Adam Joseph
Thinking Over – Dana Glover
Elaborate Lives – Aida the Musical
Song for a Friend – Jason Mraz
Different – Acceptance
Let Go – Frou Frou
No Other Way – Jack Johnson

Favorite Soundtrack
Garden State

Men of the Year
Jeremy Piven (Entourage)
Paul Verlaine (French Poet)
Gary the Bartender (Verlaine)
Nick Lazzarini (So You Think You Can Dance?)

Women of the Year
Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds)
Parker Posey (Hurlyburly)
Anggun (France)
Carrie Underwood (American Idol)

Favorite Sites/Blogs
Pink is the New Blog - http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/
Tvguide.com Watercooler - http://www.tvguide.com/TV/Watercooler
Michael Lucas’ Blog - http://www.lucasblog.com/
Towleroad - http://towleroad.typepad.com/
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/
Urban Dictionary - http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Hiring Revolution - http://www.hiring-revolution.com/

Understatement of the Year
“Coming out to your parents may require a tremendous amount of emotional energy on your part” – a self-help website

A Taste of Some of My Favorite Posts of the Year

Belief

A Poem Inspired By Closer

Done and Done

The Essence of Love Begins When Infatuation Ends

AIM convo of the year
theotherguy: I wish to have sex.
davidwattsmiller: that was random horniness, wasn't it!?
theotherguy: Meh
theotherguy: Maybe I could fuck you later tonight
davidwattsmiller: maybe i could meet you in person before i decide if i want ur dick up my ass...
theotherguy: lol
theotherguy: oh you work THAT way :-)
davidwattsmiller: lol
davidwattsmiller: yeah, i'm one of THOSE!
theotherguy: okay
theotherguy: lunchtime

Quotes of the Year

“The only thing you have to be by the age of 23 is yourself.” – Reality Bites

“If only you were a gay man so that I could obsess neurotically about you and fall in love with you and then meet you and be completely disappointed and disillusioned.” - from a random blog

“I looked in the mirror yesterday morning and the person I saw staring back at me was so hot I wanted him to fuck me. Of course he was a bottom so there wouldn’t really have been any point, but still, I looked damn good.” – Anonymous

“You dream of a committed relationship, but you may have to sleep around to find it. That doesn’t make you a slut though. Or does it?” – Anonymous

“If you’re working this hard, it’s not working.” – The OC

“I want Jesus to come back and say, ‘that’s not what I meant’” – Margaret Cho

“If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work: “Hello, Can’t work today, still queer”. – Robin Tyler

“Who needs a therapist when you have an entire town praying for you?!” – Marky Mark

“My lips hurt real bad.” – Napoleon Dynamite

“Friends are guys you just haven’t fucked yet!” – Entourage

“You are so hot I want to have 2 or 3 abortions with you.” – MR

“Just know that my caring for you runs deeper than any beliefs that I have.” – JSR

“Family can be whatever you want it to be.” – A Home at the End of the World

“…and we’re done.” – MD

And the quote of the year:

“If you’re not happy for me, you’re not invited to the party!” – Me

Honorable Mentions

“I don’t have time to be myself.” – MD

“Do you want a safe life, or an authentic one?!” – Nip/Tuck

“There is no punishment too extreme for the crazy bastard who came up with the idea of fidelity.” – Anonymous

“I’m gonna hang out with my wang out and rock out with my cock out” – Anonymous

“Sometimes in order to deliver a good punch, you have to step back. But step back too far and you’re not fighting at all.” – from One Tree Hill

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

“If life’s a journey, it’s the detours that really count.” – Elizabethtown

“Considering how stupid both of us have been, this is an entirely appropriate ending.” – Desperate Housewives

“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” – Henry David Thoreau

“If this isn’t love, I don’t think I can handle the real thing.” – Great Expectations

“I just did cardio, I won’t work out yet.” – BC

“The way to get over someone is to get under someone else.” – One Tree Hill

“Getting too far in front of a wave is just as bad as being behind it.” – from Summerland

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.” – Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

“If you can’t make it here, welcome to the club.” – from Robots

“I told him, with careful and kind words, that he could go fuck himself.” – from a random blog

Stay tuned for an in-depth look back at a-year-in-the-life-of-David when he gleams some knowledge from his sometimes-too-dangerous-to-blog journal. It promised to be a scroll clicker!!