snowy morning

Best Things of 2006 (in no particular order)



the pumps. my bestest friends in the world. i love making stuff with you guys and i don't think i could live without our "circle times." it amazes me how patient you all are listening to me bitch about the same things over and over and over again, yet you never tire of it and your advice is always right on.


grad school. just when i was neck-deep in my quarter life crisis, i started grad school at uic and a whole new world opened up to me. i can say without any doubt at all that this is the best thing i've ever done. i've met 12 other interesting, funny, motivated, supportive people and it's wonderful company to be in. and don't even get me started on the professors.


my ipod on shuffle. a lot of people talk shit about shuffle but i'm here to say it's music at its best. i'm really into randomness and chance occurences and the shuff never disappoints.

my most played songs. she smiled sweetly by the rolling stones, tell him that i love him by the shangri-las, love is the drug by roxy music, pizza party by johnny and the limelites, kites are fun by the free design, looking for a road by baby teeth, heart love by albert ayler, history lesson part 2 by the minutemen


going iceskating with my 8-year old sister over christmas. i haven't been ice skating in 10 years or more but it was the epitome of freedom and feelin' young. very underappreciated by the older, urban, bargoing set. why don't we all just get together and skate on a friday night? whaddya say?


driving to boston for thanksgiving with the big b. i know we bickered about directions and got lost every time we left the house pretty much, but it was awesome showing him where i came from and experiencing his innocent awe and brand new eyes. it was like seeing boston again for the first time.


the freeeks reunion shows at o'briens and the august spies house. best weekend of my year by far. a bunch of drunk 20-somethings jumping around, trying to relive our teenage years...and we succeeded pretty well. lots of smiles, hugs, laughing, reminding me that we're still pretty young despite all the bullshit.


reading "in cold blood" for the first time. you can never get that experience twice. wonderful, captivating book. reading "henry and june" for the first time. if that doesn't make you feel alive, i don't know what will.

favorite movies (not all released this year). the legend of leigh bowery, all the cool shit i saw in my animation class: stan brakhage, jan svankmajer, marcel duchamp, fischinger, lye, that one russian dude whose name i can't remember, a streetcar named desire (marlon brando was the sexiest man alive in his prime), william eggleston documentary, grey gardens, inside deep throat, we jam econo, the squid and the whale, umbrellas of cherbourg

and everything else i forgot. sorry, thought i would remember more! anyone want to throw some more at me i didn't include?