Nothing to write, so we just uploaded a list of 2009:
1) How did you begin 2009?
John Sacks: With my then girlfriend.
Roberto Strife: Unhappily.
2) What was your status on Valentine’s Day?
John: taken.
Roberto: Madly in love with my ex, together in Rotterdam.
3) Were you in school (any time this year)?
John: Only as a teacher.
Roberto: All of it.
4) How did you earn your money?
John: Teaching English.
Roberto: Promoting, writing, designing.
5) Did you have to go to the hospital?
John: Once, for my grandfather.
Roberto: Believe I haven’t, pretty special for a clutz like me!
6) Did you have any encounters with the police?
John: Not that I remember.
Roberto: No close ones.
7) Where did you go on vacation?
John: Not.
Roberto: Man, we’re boring! Me neither!
8 ) Did you buy anything over € 1200?
John: Yes.
Roberto: Does renting a house (if you can call it that) count if you make count yearly?
9) Did you know anybody who got married?
John: Nope.
Roberto: No, but I do know a hot girl that, sadly enough, got engaged.
10) Did you know anybody who passed away?
John: My grandfather.
Roberto: Just my innocence.
11) Did you move anywhere?
John: Nope.
Roberto: I moved out of my father’s flat.
12) What concerts/shows did you go to?
John: None.
Roberto: Tiesto, Lange Frans & Baas B, Partysquad (All Dutch) All American Rejects, Forever the sickest kids, Mindless self indulgence, With Cruel Intentions (friend’s band, twice) and probably something I forgot.
13) Are you registered to vote?
John: Indeed I am.
Roberto: Me too.
14) Who did you want to win Big Brother?
Both synchronised: Don’t know, don’t care.
15) Where do you live now?
John: London, UK.
Roberto: City of the damned and capitol to the Dutch, Amsterdam.
16) Describe your birthday?
John: with my loved one.
Roberto: Lonely whilst not alone.
17) What’s one thing you thought you’d never do but did in 2009?
Both again: One night stands (yes, plural).
18 ) What has been your favourite moment?
John: Every moment I can think of with my ex.
Roberto: Two weeks ago, when I finally realized, all I have here in this house, is mine. It kinda made me happy, been happy ever since (which is particularly strange for a writer on this site).
19) What’s something you learnt about yourself?
John: I can be very dependent.
Roberto: Sex does not make my world go round, and that I can be happy on my own, but rather not be.
20) Any new additions to your family?
John: No, not one.
Roberto: Only a few cuts for awhile, but we’re in the progress of fixing.
21) What was your worst month?
John: We’re in it!
Roberto: Guess my birth-month, April.
22.) What music will you remember 2009 by?
John: The downfall of society is this year marked by Lady Gaga.
Roberto: Overkill-Lazlo Bane/Colin Hay.
23) Who has been your best drinking buddy?
John: Before December it was my ex.
Roberto: Actually I’ve been a teetotaller for quite a while in 2009, before that decision, I was too fucked up to drink with a buddy.
24) Made new friends?
John: Roberto of course and a few others.
Roberto: Define friendship.
25) New best friend?
Together: Classifying your friends by best and worst is unclassy.
26) Favourite night out?
John: Every night is special in a different way.
Roberto: Too many ties to write down.
27) What do you look forward to most about 2010?
John: Updating this site regularly.
Roberto: Being happy for a change, getting my web-business up and running.
28 ) Whose behaviour merited celebration?
John: Society does not deserve celebration this year.
Roberto: My own at the buzzer.
29) Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
John: Society’s and my ex’s.
Roberto: My mother’s, my sister’s and by far more my own.
30) Where did most of your money go?
John: Alcoholic beverages.
Roberto: My living arrangements, and my ex.
31) What do you wish you’d done more of?
John: Being happy.
Roberto: Counting my blessings and writing.
32) What do you wish you’d done less of?
Both: Fighting, worrying, fucking and drinking.
33) How will you be spending Christmas?
John: With a pint in my hand.
Roberto: With the one person I can always count on, my dear father.
34) Did you fall in love in 2009?
John: Only out of it.
Roberto: Mournfully yes.
36) What was your favourite TV programme?
John: None really.
Roberto: Californication.
37) Do you hate anybody now that you didn’t hate before?
Roberto: Hate numbs the mind and is thus bad for you. It consumes instead of contributing.
John: I actually agree with that
38 ) What was the best book you read?
John: Been brushing up on my William S. I’m an old sap, so Romeo & Juliet.
Roberto: How horribly shameful, I fear it’s new moon, starting on higher reading (Charles Dickens) though!
39) What was your greatest musical discovery?
Roberto: All American Rejects
John: What the? I haven’t discovered any, quality of new music is mostly shite.
40) What was your favourite film of this year?
John: Don’t remember actually, couldn’t have been too good then.
Roberto: My favourite is still and always Cruel Intentions.
41) What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Roberto: More writing, less drinking and fucking. More hope, more faith, more people who cared, more love.
John: Could agree with that, though a better host for TWS would have helped also!
42) What kept you sane?
John: My own mind.
Roberto: Have I ever been? Well then I should say my dearest friends and my even dearer father.
43) Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Roberto: Every year the same, always Alyssa Milano. Runner-up is Alexis Bledel, don’t know why, but those sweet eyes make me want to whip it out!
John: Haha, you dirty cad! I’ve always fancied Adriana Lima.
44) What political issue stirred you the most?
Both: Can it be positive? Then it’d of course be the current American president.
45) Who did you miss?
John: All the people that left.
Roberto: My mother, my sisters’, the other relatives I haven’t spoken to in a while, and other people that weren’t there.
46) Who was the best new person you met?
John: Roberto.
Roberto: Again with the classifying, I guess that would be.. Well I don’t know!
47) Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
Both: Well that is undoubtedly that: The world sucks, deal with it!
48 ) Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
John: Bloody nonsense.
Roberto: Just look up the lyrics of Dance inside yourself.
49) Where are you going to be at New Years Eve?
John: Same as Christmas!
Roberto: No specific plans yet.
50) What do you hope 2010 is going to bring you?
John: Luck, love, and whatever cliché I can think of. Oh, and a prosperous “The world sucks”!
Roberto: Less heartbreak and more of this crazy little thing called happiness, and of course I hope to meet my true love, if she’s there at all.
Hope you enjoyed learning a bit more about us!
Roberto Strife & John Sacks