<p>List below. What about you?</p> 2009-07-10T14:38:07-04:00 <ol> <li>learn to paint</li> <li>go hiking in weird places</li> <li>drive someplace I&#8217;ve never been</li> <li>do lots and lots of paid and unpaid and for-fun web work</li> <li>build furniture or shelves of some sort</li> <li>take photos, pick one, blow it up, learn to frame and matte it</li> <li>spend more time practicing classical guitar / piano</li> <li>record songs &#8212; mostly covers, but maybe even write a few</li> <li>Create some sort of something to hang on my wall. Maybe some sort of mixed media collage like my old friend matt winters used to do. but, y&#8217;know&#8230; terrible.</li> <li>play lots and lots and lots of video games</li> <li>pick a genre of film. watch every movie by every important director in that genre. chronologically. I&#8217;d probably either go with kung fu movies or noir.</li> <li>Volunteer at a soup kitchen or something like that.</li> <li>Sign up for Habitat for Humanity weekdays. Apparently most weekends are filled by groups, but weekdays they can have individuals come out.</li> <li>Hang out with my Pop Pop and help him build shit at my various relative&#8217;s houses.</li> <li>Read more. Maybe finally read Brothers Karamazov all the way through. Or House of Leaves. Two books I&#8217;ve gotten 3/4 of the way through then gotten too busy/distracted/disinterested to finish.</li> <li>Start working on a really elaborate Halloween costume.</li> <li>Learn another programming language. Maybe haskell.</li> <li>Learn italian and polish better.</li> <li>Go to rittenhouse square during the day and sit there with a book and chessboard and wait to play people.</li> <li>Take more day trips to <span class="caps">NYC</span> and see all the places I haven&#8217;t seen. Stay at the Chelsea Hotel.</li> </ol> 70596 false 2009-07-13T20:08:25-04:00 11 0 <p>Let&#8217;s build a summer playlist! Here are the rules:</p> <p>Every comment must nominate two songs for the playlist, the next person must eliminate one song from the previous post and nominate two more.</p> 2009-06-30T10:57:16-04:00 70552 false 2009-07-16T09:51:39-04:00 16 0 <p>i just got tickets to go to vegas. i&#8217;m not sure <span class="caps">WHAT</span> i was thinking.</p> 2009-05-15T10:24:56-04:00 <p>except that airfare was cheap and i am staying for free.</p> <p>vegas on a budget. any suggestions??</p> 70351 false 2009-05-16T14:05:00-04:00 75 0 <p>performers include:</p> 2009-04-28T14:34:46-04:00 <p>they might be giants, the annuals, yeasayer, aimee mann, hoots and hellmouth, peter bjorn and john</p> <p>and a bunch of other bands i don&#8217;t care about like guster and stuff.</p> <p>anyway, for a three day pass, it&#8217;s only $40. you probably pay more just to see <span class="caps">TMBG</span>. if you&#8217;re an xpn member (like me), tix are cheap as shit. if you&#8217;re a camden county resident (like me), tix are discounted.</p> <p>it&#8217;s friday july 24 to sunday july 26.</p> <p>i tried to get peeps to go last year and nobody wanted to. and so i missed the blind boys of alabama. i figured <span class="caps">TMBG</span> was a big draw this year.</p> <p>http://www.xpn.org/music-artist/festival-2009</p> 70269 true 2009-04-29T22:25:53-04:00 75 0 <p>Despite steamed crabs being my absolute, no-contest favorite food on earth, I had my first soft shell last year. It was a good thing.</p> 2009-04-08T15:13:07-04:00 70144 false 2009-04-09T13:15:29-04:00 http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009/04/a-beginners-guide-to-soft-shell-crab-season.html 11 0 <p>i actually <span class="caps">HATE</span> two of the headliners</p> 2009-03-30T13:57:48-04:00 70087 false 2009-03-31T06:59:54-04:00 http://www.apwfestival.com/ 75 0 2008-04-03T07:15:58-04:00 67982 false 2008-04-04T16:47:46-04:00 http://www.barbecueweb.com/ 11 0