December 2009
12 posts
To Do List For Next Year
In no particular order:
No.1 Learn how to play either banjo or mandolin.
No.2 Get motorcycle license … then get motorcycle.
No.3 Don’t die on No.2.
No.4 Hike the 93 miles around Mt. Rainier.
No.5 Successfully make a drinkable batch of beer.
No.6 Take advantage of the Northwest mountains and woods.
No.7 Go to Vancouver.
No.8 Figure out how to make potato chips.
No.9 Finish...
Punctuation At The End
So I guess this is it. 2009 comes to the weary end and we all move on to the next journey. Of course for the first month or so we’ll all be writing “2009” as the date … or at least I will be. It’s been a good year. Got a new apartment and only had to carry the couch a block, but then spent and hour and a half trying to get it through the doorway. I now feel like I...
Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Pond Hockey →
Pretty solid documentary about playing hockey on frozen ponds and lakes. Makes me wish I grew up in Minnesota.
WatchOld video I made in college and stumbled upon this morning.
TAPLiSTER →
Uses Twitter to create a list of where to find your favorite brews in your city. All the information comes from Twitter users tweeting, for example, “Stone Smoked Porter at Linda’s Tavern #ontapsea.” Pretty cool idea.
“Anyone else ever feel like God is just a failing freshman biology student and...”
– J. Andrew Camp
2009 Is Over Already?
Best Favorite Albums Of 2009: Another year has come and gone like the hazy layer of fog on a morning windshield. In those 12 short months hundreds of albums have been released, thousands of songs have hit the charts, and the average number of skinny jeans sold is still on a steady increase. 2009 in my mind was a year full of a lot of debut albums. If not “debut” as in a bands first full release...