your own fucking ten - summer 2009 edition

my new friend chris
being courageous about pretty foolish, risky things
climbing mountains/camping with my hiking club NWA
dreaming about norway
coon skin cap
tuesday: adventure day; discovering every corner of tennessee (aka east tennessee hysterical society)
david pajo
stuuupid romance
shrimp and grits at the beast
mad men, i guess

living somewhere that isn't new york for a few months
working w/ awesome ppl at my internship (and working w/ cool material also)
the wire
zankou chicken's garlic paste
seeing friendly faces from my past in unusual settings
grouper's dragging a dead deer up a hill lp
obnoxious crap w/ my bank resolved (for the most part)
getting a handle on biking in LA
mark arax's west of the west
amoeba music amoeba music amoeba music

1965 Plymouth Valiants with hydraulic suspension
tennis at the park
MODIS EVI
baritone telecasters
no Jake Peavy no credibility
chicago beef sandwiches all day every day
well-written resignation letters
pu'erh mini tuochas
cucumber chili helado
I don't want to watch your show any more Keith Olbermann you're officially too annoying

trader joe's maple leaf cookies
post-gig in & out burger
watching night gallery episodes in the wee hours
two favorite words in the english language: "clearance sale"
non-keffiyeh scarves as fashion accessories (and shawls for when it's cold out)
i have fantastic planet and the dark backward shipping from netflix
the trailer for robert rodriguez's shorts
birds chirping in the early morning
shredding old mail and receipts in the shredder
the mashup of keyboard cat + klutz bret michaels

every episode of the sopranos
tuna melts
watching as much baseball as possible
wayne wonder and sean paul
drinking beer in the daytime
driving to one of the coasts
growing a beard
sleeping until at least 11 every day
keeping my room clean
thinking funny thoughts

where are you interning, donna rouge?

road bike + long rides
getting shit done/stack me up some paper
the woods + walking in them
lemonade slushies
making plans
pretending we're food critics when we go out b/c my gf & I watch a lot of food-related television
trying not to drink too much, but when I do, not fucking around: Wild Turkey, LI iced-teas
kitty-cat buzz cut (goodbye daily nests of hair all over the place)
amusement parks
rooting out long-neglected clutter

the impossibly perfect weather
instant indian food from Trader Joe's
taking pictures
letting my hair grow out but taking proper care of it this time
almost every bill paid in full
my impossibly hot girlfriend
being the cool uncle (even if via Facebook)
not buying expensive new things and totally having made peace with that
evil killer kitty cat continuing to mellow with age
having the best landlord in Chicago

pool less than a mile away
summer storms that sweep in out of nowhere
local pbs feed that gets bad reception and sounds like math teachers are having cuss words bleeped out
various types of frisbeeing
gigs aplenty
total beardlessness
jenny lewis 'jack killed mom'
chevy chase inn, lexington's oldest bar (est 1933), also the closest to home
sweaty hugs
karaoke birthday parties where you change key lyrics to the birthday boy/girl's name

making my four-month old daughter laugh
the rare hours when I'm asleep
On the Beach and Time Fades Away
Bitte Orca
In the Loop
getting enough students to maybe relax about money for a little
getting shortlisted for an academic job for once
my grandfather so far responding to chemo like a champ (knock wood)
july in nj: ready for summertime chillin and grillin on my parents' deck
finally watching freaks and geeks!

5 o'clock shadow
the gaslight anthem
cheap wine
embarking on road trips at midnight
saag paneer
camel filters
girl wearing my shirts
text messages
carrots
$1 LPs by punk bands i've never heard of

get bent: pacifica radio in studio city

VNV Nation's Of Faith, Power and Glory
Loud trashy gay men riffing on Howl's Moving Castle
The incipient crop of heirloom tomatoes in the garden
The end of another academic year
The June gloom weather and its departure
Up
Gus Arriola's Accidental Ambassador Gordo
Chard enchiladas
Hanging at Wurstkuche with get bent, rrrobyn and admrl
...and did I mention VNV Nation and their upcoming tour and...

Loud trashy gay men riffing on Howl's Moving Castle

oh, transcript, please

d.r.: good gig! i have childhood memories of hanging out at WBAI (new york pacifica station) in the '80s, when my mom was involved there.

ned: saw up yesterday... sweet little film. i think the ice cream store was meant to be fosselman's!

embarking on road trips at midnight

oh yeah, new fan of this right here...especially love rolling into destination at sunrise

long, hilly, rainy runs
adorable cats
high school friends
giving drinking a rest (most of the time)
summer of viking middens, round 2
summer of viking metal, round 2
date lined up upon my return
new everything - city, apartment, furniture
old friends in new city
including my best friend from college - 5 years together for grad school, starting this august!!!

my best friend told me he cried the entire way through up

thats a lot of tears

he stays very hydrated

my kidz
my maria
my new store
western mass
seeing live music
being able to hang with maggie again
eating maggie's food at her restaurant
meeting cool people
real supermarkets
my new column that i love writing and preparing for

swimming at twilight
blueberry yogurt
suit shorts
dvd boxset of jeeves of wooster
tan lines and long limbs
my painfully improving tennis game
canvas deck shoes
not being able to tell one day from the next
"winter song"
walking home after dancing all night

n/m i regret that list now

well you can do it again!

i would regret listing "suit shorts" too

i think the ice cream store was meant to be fosselman's!

No I gather it's an actual place in Oakland!

http://www.fentonscreamery.com

nice! will add that to the list for my next trip up north.

James Agee's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
Drake's "Best I Ever Had"
Souped-up HV30
Los Angeles Film Fest
Foreign Documentaries
Ernie's (#11: bacon, hash browns, shortstack, scrambled eggs)
Ditching incompetent "co-director"
Scriptwriting
Deciding not to stalk Ant0n Y3lchin, even though I have the perfect opportunity to
Running (w/ mega-old mini-disc player!)

i would regret listing "suit shorts" too

i feel v. cool when i wear these but they are lame still wear them all the time tho

getting on the wagon (drink/smoke) and staying on
feeling better physically since jumping on said wagon
Dad's in town
Upcoming first nephew : July
creative juices flooowing
"Leonard Cohen: Live in London 2008" DVD
old school kung fu flicks
friends are still in town
having off from the 9-5 until late July
short skirts

1-10. Me because I invented these threads - Your Own Real Life Top 10

just sayin'

whatever, Mr. Arrogant.

just got married
new paint jobs in house
new old tenant, back again
good stuff in the used LP bins
finished class for electrician apprenticeship
no job, lots of time to work on house
new job for wife = financially afloat
radio show
band still practicing together after 4 years
drastically reduced backlog of audio work on computer

all the pretty girls who were at the haight ashbury streetfair today
fleetwood mac youtube clips
pepsi+milk
two different friends from europe visiting and making my life really enjoyable for a few days (in what would have otherwise been a horrible week)
bean bag cafe and its $1.92 pints and free wifi (<3<3<3 so much lately)
trader joe's panna cotta
bill callahan's last album
the first 10 minutes of Up
mom is moving to napa valley = wine tastings in my future
getting my first name as my fb username

Into seventh year of current relationship - still great.
Finished MSc exams without completely imploding from stress.
Started playing bass and making noise seriously again, and pleasantly surprised to find that people think I'm quite good contrary to my expectations.
Finally got my finger out and started learning to drive.
Seefeel.
Poker.
No debt.
Re-discovered love for tennis.
Re-discovered love for wrestling.
Bangaio Spirits

fucking off my shitty job and going YAAAAAHHHHH in their faces
pea soup, roast lamb and gratin dauphinois, just once
meadows
Ashes
and Dust - overcoming of allergy to.
Jocelyn Brooke, Denton Welch and Constant Lambert
still moments of intense heat and silence on August afternoons
seeing my brother through his bad patch
Adnams in pubs, cold Kroneys at home, deep wines whenever
Cycling EVERYWHERE

going to barcelona tomorrow.
cool friday and saturday with bros.
date last night with dream girl went well.
groundhog day.
large tax rebate coming sooooon.
the anti-histamine "piriton".
ugk.
moby dick.
guitar hero: metallica.
having prawns with tomato and rocket spaghetti for dinner.

Seeing a goddamn urologist TODAY, so he can hopefully put an end to my kidney stone woes.
Landing a job sometime very soon.
Scaring up some more freelance writing.
Getting back into biking.
Getting the Mrs. set up with new iPhone.
Awesomely firm new mattress!!
A newly re-discovered adoration for old school loves like Venom and Robyn Hitchcock.
The promise of new albums by Killing Joke and Devo (though prob. not `til 2010).
Did I mention solving the kidney stone problem?
Saying goodbye to unemployment & COBRA.

"short skirts" and "fucking off my shitty job and going YAAAAAHHHHH in their faces" : YES and YES!

my best friend told me he cried the entire way through up

― s1ock doctrine (roxymuzak), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:13 (13 hours ago) Bookmark

^i did this. i even had to stop it after 20 minutes and go for a walk.

my ten:
Kirsty, my adorable new girlfriend
Identical twins (see first entry)
Sleater-Kinney
Swimming
Walking by the river
Writing notes to myself in haiku only getting confused later on because i forgot to be specific so i could fit it in 5/7/5
Dororthy Parker
Weed
Silly season
Going vegetarian on a whim.

summer in autumn edition

ian rankin's detective rebus novels
learning things & feeling smarter
new jeans
potato and leek soup
top gun sdtrk
demon's souls
raquetball ladder
the weather this last week and looking forward to snow
apples
putting on a clean sweater in the morning when my apt is kind of cold

possible postgrad for free
cold crisp evenings
big fires
modric's healing bones
steven erikson
buying xmas presents for people
GF getting into cooking in a big way
economic meltdown making politics v interesting
everything fixed on my car
ilx generally v positive & cool lately

Potentially moving to a new place that's one block from work
NYC trip in a week and a half
Rickenbacker 330 on semi-permanent loan to me
Taking useless stuff to thrift stores and lightening load
Garlic naan sandwich w/fish at Cowboys & Turbans
Graham Day & The Gaolers
Mad Men getting the band back together
PostGreSQL code coming together
Faust & Iggy Pop interviews in Krautrock documentary
Custom wah pedal arriving next week

hardboiled eggs
racialicious.com
tambourines
drinking from jars
mixtape rap
north portland
gay house
casual cycling
frosted flakes
herbie hancock

WINTER EDITION

'happy people/u saved me'
couch naps
playstation 3
going out and dancing
shower beers
24
solo movie trips
daytime food network shows
quesadillas
'get ya mind correct'

going out and dancing

WGOADW

looks like an advanced YMCA routine^

peaches from a fruit stand on the side of the highway
the way the music swells when he sings "... and she waves a nazi dagger"
abc family's programming
cutoffs
dragon quest ix
the short wave mystery
new friends
the hammock in our backyard where i spend all afternoon reading
homemade risotto
getting offered a root beer float as i type this list

local plums! zomg juice bombs
neuromancer audiobook torrent
the lamb grilling on our bbq right now
the tomatoes from my coworker's veggie garden
Marc Maron's WTF podcast
my sister's birthday next week
kale kale kale
Winter's Bone
cranking Henry's Dream on the car stereo
our house is going to be painted!