Thirty six nights spent out of Manhattan, which, when expressed as a percentage (10%), seems like a good chunk of the year. This data is tracked using Daytum which is excellent for people who like to data-mine their own lives (like me). Next year will have no days in Austin and many fewer days in [...]
The big winners for 2009 were Phoenix and oddly enough, Aimee Mann. It’s pretty uncharacteristic, but since Thanksgiving I’ve been listening to Mann’s @#%& Smilers (2008) basically exclusively save for a few excursions into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (It’s Blitz) and my 2009 mainstay, Phoenix (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix). I was pretty disappointed with Zero 7’s [...]
Amazon.com Widgets
These are the books I read this year. Six thousand nine hundred and sixty one pages of bookish goodness, in order of recommendation (within each category)…
Fiction:
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
City [...]
It’s not totally accurate or representative (since Last.fm can’t account for what I listened to in my car during the first half of 2006 or on my iPod throughout the whole year), but it’s a good sampling of the artists I like.
Top Artists
1 Zero 72 Sufjan Stevens3 Death Cab for Cutie4 [...]
It’s been a busy three weeks:
Business
I sold most of my furniture on Craigslist.
I threw out a small country’s worth of junk.
I sold some possessions on eBay ($650!)
I gave away all sorts of junk to Goodwill, Salvation Army, and a tag sale.
I packed up a third of my remaining belongings and sent them away to long [...]
Rather than a best of music, movies, books, events, etc list, here’s a list of the best things that I discovered or happened to me in 2005.
(I believe in starting at an arbitrary point, so number twelve is where we begin)
12. BoingBoing, Delicious, MySpace, Upcoming, Last.Fm, Google Maps, and all those other wonderful internet [...]
Zero 7 – Red Dust
What do our favorites say about who we are? Do changing favorites reflect a changing self or do our favorites simply reflect our current taste? I find that my favorites tend towards my recent pursuits and that new tastes are apt to knock old stalwarts off the list. I’m impressed [...]
1. 100+ bobby pins does not a happy Anne make…
This I learned at my brother’s wedding. Apparently I’m a real hairdo wimp. I guess that’s a result of my having never had to endure the pain of the 8 hour hairdo before. I lasted from about noon to mid-way through the reception before I had [...]
I like lists of favorites. Actually, lists in general suit me well, but favorites are always good to have written down. This evening I’m feeling a favorite list coming on. Tonight’s speciality:
My 5 Favorite Ways to Waste My Free Time (this month)1. I.D. magazine2. KCRW streaming3. the NYTimes & [...]