Neck Candy

An assortment from events past:

• The Luxury Home Tour of Deer Valley/Park City (Volunteer)
• Sprint Ultimate Airwave Aug 25, 2001 at Utah Olympic Park (VIP)
• CLICK! with your guests - Seattle Sonics (Know Your Stuff)
• Relay For Life benefit concert [Soul Providers, The Combustion Collective and Humidiflyers] May 12, 2004 (Buddha Bellies Team Member)
• DCA Temporary ID 5/30/00-8/30/00 (Office of the Commissioner)
• Sprint Ultimate Airwave Aug 24, 2002 at Utah Olympic Park (Foundation Guest VIP)
• US Freestyle Ski Team Tommy Hilfiger party at Suede. Performance by Fright
• Green Futures Charrette, Seattle (Downtown B)
• Event Sensations 05, Dance Heads Seattle, WA (CSEME 2005 Exhibitor)
• Coldwater bar and grill (DSA guest)
• Jet Set Sports "Touch of Gold" Holiday Celebration 20 Dec 2001 at Grand America Hotel (Guest of Jet Set Sports)
• Merrill Lynch Celebrity Ski Classic Dec 6-9, 2002 at Deer Valley Resort (Deer Valley Lodging)
• 2003 Freestyle FIS World Championships Jan 29-Feb 2, 2003 at Deer Valley (US Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation Guest)
  

1998 Mix Tape

SIDE 1
If I could talk I'd Tell You - the Lemonheads
Everything Shines - the Push Stars
??
Alternative, Baby - Reel Big Fish
Basic Instructions - Burlap to Cashmere
Don't Hate Me (Because I'm Beautiful) - Nerf Herder
Under Smithville - For Squirrels
Hold Her Down - Toad The Wet Sprocket
??
Hell To Pay - Leah Andreone
Pinball Wizard - the Who
Me - The Push Stars
??
Take On Me - Reel Big Fish

SIDE 2
Take On Me - Reel Big Fish (oh, the tapes where the song continues on the other side)
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
She Came On - Super Deluxe
Busy Bee - Ugly Kid Joe
Without A Trace - Soul Asylum
Please Don't Rock Me Tonight - Fountains Of Wayne
Lack of Motion - the Push Stars
Superman - Goldfinger
Something's Wrong - K's Choice
Imagine - Blues Traveler
Navy Bean - Tracy Bonham
With or Without You - U2
Something's Always Wrong - Toad The Wet Sprocket
Passion - Pat McGee Band

K.E.X.P. hit list (circa '08)

Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
JuniorBoys - in the Morning
John Vanderslice - Exodus Damage
The Budos Band - Scorpion
Blotto - I want to be a lifeguard
Ben Folds - Landed
DeVotchka - The Enemy Guns
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa kwassa
Deny - default
Link Wray - Rumble
Amy Winehouse - You know I'm No Good
MC Lars - Hot Topic is Not Punk Rock!
sewn - the feeling
Manu Chau - Me Gustas Tu
Jane Fonda - Mickey Avalon
Alias - Exodus Damage - remix for John Vanderslice
Harvey Danger - Little Round Mirrors
Akrobatik - A to the K (feat B-real)
Iron & Wine - Boy with a coin
The Black Keys - Have Love, Will Travel
Remy Zero - save me
The Blakes - Modern Man
Built to Spill - Goin' Against Your Mind
S Club 7 - don't stop movin'
McClusky - to Hell w/ Good Intentions
Stiff Little Fingers - Barbed Wire Love
The Mountain Goats - No Children
Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go
The Avett Brothers - Will You Return
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Handle w/Care (w/Conor Oberst, M. Ward & Ben Gibbard)
Jamie Foxx feat Ludacris - Unpredictable
The Thrills - Big Sur
Kasey Chambers - The Captain
Skream - Midnight Request Line
Various - Hater (Album: the World is Gone)
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
Rogue Wave - Bird on a wire
Foo Fighters - Dear Lover
Clem Snide - I love the unknown
the Decembrists - Engine Driver
Groove Armada - At the River
Rocky Votolato - White Daisy Passing
Bowling for Soup - Girl all the bad guys want
Guster - Center of Attention
The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
120 Days - Come Out (Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone)
Fugazi - waiting room
DJ Logic - French Quarter
Goldfrapp - Ohh la la
The Black Angels - Bloodhounds on My trail
Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
Ben Lee - Gamble Everything for Love
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Killing Me - the Rewinds
the Vines - TV Pro
The Mars Volta - the Widow
Sun Kill Moon - Carry Me Ohio
Rinocerose - cubicle
Soul Coughing - Super bon bon
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Bishop Allen - click, click, click, click
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
Feist - My Moon My Man
Okkervil River - Our live Is Not A Movie or Maybe
Minus the Bear - knights
Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything
Bishop Allen - Like Castanets
Stellastar - My Coco
Yeasayer - 2080
Cancer Rising - Wait A Minute
Grizzley Bear - Knife
The Impressions - Women's Got Soul
The Church - Under the Milky Way
The Go - Yer Stoned Italian Cowboy
The Fratellis - Flathead
DJ Dolores - J.P.S.
Nortec Collective Presents:Bostich & Fussible
The Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon
Port O'Brien - I woke up today
the Stills - still in love song
The cure - the lovecats
Bare Jr - You Blew Me Off

2008 Movie night: the list (in no particular order)

Poltergeist
Rushmore/Royal Tannebaums (sic)
Dumb & Dumber
the Big Lebowski
Trading Places
Living in America
the Jerk
Fatso
Mallrats
The Muppet Movie
Tombstone
Citizen Kane
Singin' in the Rain
The Jazz Singer
200 cigarettes

W things I like

It seems the past 8 years have left a bad taste for W in many people's mouths. Here's a small stab at attempting to begin the healing process and re-mediate the situation:

water, welcomes, winter, wax in the form of candles, western mountains, wool hats, willingness, wiggling on the dance floor, wine, worn jeans, words, wocka wocka wocka, willy wonka, worthwhile pursuits, working outside, wise-ass jokes, Widmer bros beer, wall painting, waving, W hotel bar, Whiskey in concept only, whistling, Whistler, wearing earrings, wide loads on the highway, watching birds, walking, whales, wide wale corduroy, waves

Things that will never be my Facebook status

-just won the lottery!
-is headed out to buy illegal drugs
-brought a prostitute home last night
-got waxed in the nether region this morning
-thinks the only way to shed these extra pounds is purging
-tore it up at AA tonight!
-was late to work due to brown bottle flu
-is in massive debt
-got arrested yesterday
-bought cheese shaped like the virgin Mary on eBay
-went to school with half these people and still can't stand them
-just booked a Chernobyl vacation
-would really like to have someone to go to sleep next to
-opted for veneers
-is actually completely bald
-is walking around naked
-wants you more than you know

s things I like

Surfing, Soccer, Sand, Saltwater, Saltwater Taffy, Singing, Swing Dancing, Sundays, Saturdays, SAILING, Serendipity frozen hot chocolate, Serenity NOW, silliness, signatures, sounds, SUNSHINE, smiles, sad songs, sappy songs, songs, sweets, sending mail, stripes, solids, SKIING, snowboarding, snow, spades, steak and eggs, Santa



and Charleston

Listing isn't just something that happens on a boat

The other day at a friend's house I was reading their book of lists - Milk, Eggs, Vodka. Quite amusing. The past few days I have been doing some major spring cleaning (technically I have until June 21st!) and cleaning both my desk at work and my room at home. I figure I should go with it while I have the motivation; if we average the trending of the last 29 years, the mood should again strike me in about...well...29 years.

So, since I have been digging through papers who age can only be determine through radioactive carbon dating, I have come across some lists of my own with no idea of what they mean. So, in honor of Milk, Eggs, Vodka, here are my own lists (if I was really doing this I would take a photo and upload that. Maybe tomorrow.)

List from work says:

Chris Hahn
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nursing home


what could that possibly mean? I have absolutely no idea who Chris Hahn is...or what he (she?) has to do with a nursing home.


List from home says:

supplies
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-grapes
-spaghetti
-apples
-knee high socks


feel free to use your imaginations on that one...I can't imagine what kind of supplies these were, or what I was attempting to do with them...

This one is too irrelevant to know the connection: today's Song of the Day was inspired from watching Striptease earlier (I had never seen it before) and this has been stuck in my head ever since.

Song of the Day: Little Bird by Annie Lennox

If you could do anything, what would you do?

Tonight I was talking to a friend of mine about her job, which she hates...but she's not sure what else she can do that would still pay as much as she makes now.

Money needs aside, it got me to thinking about what I would REALLY want to do, if I could really do anything. I think that the possibilities are so endless that to just start from scratch and try to think of things is not only difficult, but also somewhat counter-productive because you become limited by your own known parameters and experiences.

So, here's a list of actions I would actually like to do every (well, most) day(s), if I had the choice:

-not have to get up early (i.e. before 9) [says the one with a 7:30am meeting in few hours]
-help people in some capacity
-make the physical world around me better
-do something creative
-talk to different people throughout the day
-organize people in some kind of fashion (like for an event or purpose but not limited to only those)
-connect people/work to other relevant people/work (let's try and cut-down on so much internal wheel re-inventing)
-be outside
-travel occasionally

-[to be fair I dance almost every day, but just for myself - I don't think I would want to make that part of my official list, although it is an action I would want to continue on a daily basis]
-[same with listening or playing/making music]

I think that's a pretty good place to start. Now I just need to figure out what occupations could possibly fit that description. Or maybe it's time for me to make my own. Any suggestions?

If you could list just the actions that would make you happy every day (ok, most days), what would they be? Are you working toward making that a reality?

Song of the Day: Workin' for a Livin' - Huey Lewis and the News

Trying to find me a better way to get from the things I do to the things I should

I am being insolent to myself. I don't want to go to sleep and yet the only person this sleep deprivation ultimately hurts is me. I don't know why I'm having a battle against myself. Here are things that would be such a better usage of my time other than figuring out my next scrabulous move...

Resume - I need to apply for an opening at work and this is a key component
Papers - I'm doing some major housekeeping, and getting rid of papers feels great
Clothing - A friend just gave me some nice clothes that no longer fit so I could be putting those away
Misc Crafts - I have a poster to put together, a few paintings to do, and I need to get my art supplies organized
Small moving - I got some furniture from a (different) friend, and need to move out my bedside tables and move that one in
Selling - There is a bunch of stuff I have to sell but first I need to take a digital photo and then post it
Yoga - ok, so I wouldn't be doing that right now, but if I was asleep I would get up early and go to class...I decided a few hours ago this wasn't happening
Writing - I could be creating something more coherent such as an essay, diatribe or other such subject-driven works plus I have a few letters/postcards to write and send

How can you revolt against yourself? Does it even accomplish anything other making yourself more behind in the long run?

Song of the Day - Under the Milky Way by The Church