January 2011
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January 29, 2011: 5 completely mundane things I...
Conquer the mountain of laundry spilling forth from my closet.
Buy some wool socks because I am tired of my feet being cold.
Finish & return my overdue library book along with some cans of tuna fish.
Go for a run and not die.
Clean out, organize and box up everything in the attic so the squirrels can’t get to it.
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January 27, 2011: 5 things that made me happy...
Waking up and not feeling like I’d been run over by a truck. Probably had something to do with going to bed at 9pm, which I don’t think I’ve done since I was 12.
Remembering that tonight is the Sundance USA screening of Letters From The Big Man at the Belcourt.
Finding a long-forgotten H&M shirtdress in the back of my closet at the very moment I was ready to cry about my...
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WatchThe Civil Wars on Leno, 1/13/11. It should be a crime for people to be this talented.
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New Year's Resolution Naysayers Suck
So it seems that the Cool Thing Of The Week amongst those who spew out unsolicited advice day in and day out (see: “blogger” and “social media guru”) is to pooh-pooh New Year’s Resolutions. I happen to like New Year’s Resolutions. I like the start of a new year, kind of like I like making the first marks in a brand new notebook. I define things in my past by the...
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Thanks for the music, 2010.
My 2010 playlist, which I sort of gave up on ordering halfway through. My sincerest apologies to anyone who is startled out of their Jónsi listening trance by Katy Perry:
And a shoutout to one Mr. Justin Vernon, who despite not releasing any new music of his own this year appears no less than three times on my 2010 mix.
My top twenty albums of 2010:
The Age of Adz, Sufjan Stevens
Sigh No...