DC Bands Share Their 2010 Resolutions

With New Year’s Day right around the corner, you’re probably thinking about your New Year’s resolution. Here to help inspire, enlighten, or simply entertain you, are resolutions from some of the bands that have appeared on DoS’ site over the past year.

“The Gypsy Sons’ New Year’s resolution is to nurture our good relationships and try not to let the Jagerbombs knock us off the stage!”
— Johnny The Hammer, The Gypsy Sons

“The Death By Sexy resolution for 2010 is to play more rock music this year, finish our next album, and to buy new underpants. Also, we will stop obsessing over Twilight, like that’s possible.”
— Jason

From Jess, Lightfoot: “I made like 8 lists. Edited. Remade them. Pondered. Screamed. Kicked. This is what I decided to go with:

1. Don’t start any new bands with a boyfriend/lover/fling.
2. Stop eating chips and salsa as a meal substitute.
3. Ask people more questions about themselves.
4. Fall in love. Or something.
5. To stop over-thinking what I will say when blogs ask me to submit my thoughts.
6. To lower my expectations for true friendship with my fish Mr. Eggleston; he consistently bites the hand that feeds him.
7. Win an EGOT, duh.
8. Pay attention to details more: if I leave my coffee cup on top of the roof of my car and drive away one more time…
9. Read less.
10. Stop judging other people for their stupid New Year’s Resolutions.
11. Try not to break Brad Pitt’s heart when I dump him.
12. Stop getting annoyed that people assume I am Jewish. It’s just a nose folks.
13. Wear my retainer more.
14. To never feel guilty for liking my skirts short and my att

1) Heed the advice of my elders:

“I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell
But goodbye’s too good a word, gal
So I’ll just say fare thee well
I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right” — Bob Dylan”

“For 2010, we would love to meet new people and make new friends. We also want to write new songs, play fun shows, and make some positive contributions to the world.”
— Ian, Once Okay Twice

From DeVille:

Trevor: “In 2010 I’m not gonna make any outlandish resolution. But since we’re still in 2009… First complete the finishing touches on the album. Pick up some sort of hobby or addiction, something productive of course. Theatre acting, bungie jumping, or learn to fly a helicopter. Better my skills as a boe staff fighter. maybe train to become the next karate kid or a professional downhill runner in the attempt to loose 16-23 lbs. Fall in love, and pick up film photography and devloping the film in my bathtub. Who knows what this new year will bring. I might pick up listening to Ella Fitzgerald on vinyl or go to a bluegrass festival. Again big things are happening, ’something wicked this way comes.’”

Ian: “I’m going to be ambitious 2010. I want to release the DeVille album, firstly. (Preferably to critical acclaim and fanfare. A parade would be nice.) I’m trying to re-learn the piano. I plan to write and record a solo release, hopefully collaborating with some of the fine musicians I’ve met since moving to DC. And also, I’d like a skateboard, a Super-Soaker and a Power Rangers Megazord action figure. Thanks, Jesus! Happy Hannukah!”

Pat: “I’m resolving to spend more time in the outdoors. I want to feel the earth between my toes.”

GiGi: “I have high expectations for 2010. My personal New Years Res is to take the dance class I got a gift certificate for. And to hopefully keep it up. Trying to get my Beyonce on ;) Bring the “Sasha Fierce” out of me. But most importantly I need to work my ass off and have our CD in your hand by March. 2010, here I come!”

From Tomas, The Petticoat Tea Room: “We feel that this poem encapsulates our hope for the next year and beyond really.

I question myself, but to endure is divine?
I appreciate time and all that it offers
But it moves to a rhyme of no certain manners
And is in my eyes a figment of tries
Failures most of the time

I steel to force forward and outpace my hopes
might I not find
The purpose I seek or the meaning of life?
have I tricked myself that the world cares for mine
that the last breath will free me of binds
when I’m constrained by the mind and made clinging to body?

my life is a moment, a blink in time
but I feel called in this moment
to establish a role with the patterns of soul that make me whole.”

“We are finally going to patch up the glory holes in our practice space. Turns out there is too much of a good thing!” —The Moderate

From all of us at DoS, thank you for an amazing 2009! Have a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve and we’ll see you in 2010!