Martin Spitznagel Pianist. Composer. Writer. Filmmaker.

The Top 90 Moments of 2009

Here’s a tradition carried over from my old blog, Prayer to the Sun. At the end of every year, I make a list of the top moments in my life for that year.

Wow, it must have taken some cajones to put him on the cover of anything.

The list is not about my favorite moments, nor my best moments. These are the top moments, the “Hitler as Man of the Year 1939″ moments, the ones that changed me, moved me, taught me, inspired me, humiliated me.

They are mistakes, triumphs, failures, wild successes. Some are comprehensible by anyone, others belong only to me. They are not listed in any particular order, only the one in which I think of them.

If I left out a moment you think should be here, don’t be upset. Exact your revenge by leaving a comment!

Martin’s 90 Top Moments of 2009

1. Finding out on a conference call, while in the process of cleaning out Jessie’s grandfather’s house, that my employer had been sold to a company nearly 20 times its size.
2. Shooting the SSCC Golf Invitational video with Mark and friends, including arriving an hour early to the course to secretly film the epic opening with Mark.
3. Mark’s epic drive at the SSCC and then chasing evil SSCC squirrel up the hill at Cacapon Resort.
4. Having a friend say “how dare you” to me in anger and actually mean it.
5. Selling out of my CD, “Tricky Fingers,” halfway through my concert in San Antonio.
6. Getting a fire started at the campsite in Shenandoah using wet wood, an air-mattress pump, and the fabled “awkward catamaran” log structure I invented.