I'm doing 37 things
someday – the strokes – is this it?
sore loser – amy kuney – ep
fall on me – r.e.m. – eponymous
sympathy for the strawberry – sonic youth – murray street
i typed for miles – jets to brazil – orange rhym….
before three – the cure – ?
what we’re all about – sum 41 – spiderman sndtrk
acid eiffel – laurent garnier – ?
yesterday is here (tom waits cover) – cat power – dear sir
rebellion (lies) – arcade fire – funeral
oregon – unreleased – me
Houston's Life List
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1. Love without fear
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2. stop pushing people away
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3. Practice yoga 30 times in 30 days
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4. become a better conversationalist
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5. stop clenching my jaw
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6. read all the books on my shelves
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7. consolidate my writings
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8. resolve my dad's estate
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9. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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10. Practice yoga regularly
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11. find a new favorite place or two
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12. finish my degree
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13. have 3 months expenses in savings
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14. make some more guy friends
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15. have multiple streams of passive income
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16. show up at the airport with a bag & a passport & take the first flight available.
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17. post 43 images that speak to me
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18. buy a digital camera
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19. become more comfortable showing affection
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20. Kiss a stranger
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21. Learn Italian
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22. go to a cover night for a band i love
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23. see Rocky Horror LIVE
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24. collect record company annual samplers
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25. Read Demons by Dostoevsky
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26. go on a ghost hunt
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27. Take part in a scavenger hunt
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28. Publish a poem
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29. get a new job
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30. finish my 15 new songs
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31. unpack the boxes of CDs and books in my room
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32. Make A List Of The Shakespeare Quotes I Love
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33. make a sock monkey
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34. get in to group therapy
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35. do it with a boy!
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36. come out to my parents
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37. Clean up my mac and find some cool new app's
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Recent entries
hi. i’m at 25 classes in 32 days.
FAILURE!!!! O it burns. ;)
on the upside, i did my first handstand yesterday, and my first real crow! then I fell down laughing. on the downside, though, sometimes i have to cry during class and that’s made me at times wary over the last 2 weeks about actually going back to the studio, to go through it again. A lot of “what’s – going – on here?!” with the robot arms and the wax museum eyes.
But it’s worth it – rebuilding muscles that atrophied years ago; standing up straight without pinching my neck forward; clenching the jaw less; i’m more emotionally open (obviously); mentally clearer; more productive in general.
i’ve been keeping track of which class on which day, so i could start over at 10 classes in 12 days, but i’m about to start a 9-5 job, so that’s going to 86 my daily yoga schedule. :(
I’m sticking with yoga, though. i’ve raised some interesting questions of it and of myself through this practice, so continuing feels right. and wow there’s a whole lot of other people into this yoga thing, too, and that’s pretty great. ;-) [possible goal: find a way to make affectionate understatement consistently readable via the internet… hm.]
So here’s to you – as the Seattlite raises his second porcelain mug of fresh ground, french press, Organic, fair trade, locally roasted and sold 100% holy Lake Tawar, Sumatra java – yogis and yoginis: Keep Bendin!
Middlemarch
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
recommended by Barbara Kingsolver in her collection of essays, ‘Small Wonder.’ – which is a book-crossing book i found in the wild today at the seattle muni courthouse. i had to search a vacant desk to find it – thankfully the guard was about 50 feet away and seemed occupied.
ps. and to help me in this goal, i’m going to take a lesson from Kingsolver, and say if a novel doesn’t begin to reach me in 30 pages – out with it!
