December 5, 2009:
FANCY DRESS CHRISTMAS MOVIE PARTY.
Place: My awesome Toronto home.
| 1. |
Start up a conversation with a stranger in a coffee shop.
3 cheers |
1 person |
| 2. |
Make a website for my art.
|
4 people |
| 3. |
Better understand Photoshop.
|
1 person |
| 4. |
Learn how to fold paper cranes.
1 cheer |
3 people |
| 5. |
Clean out my old Pickering room.
|
1 person |
| 6. |
Have my family over at my place for a home-cooked meal.
2 entries . 1 cheer |
1 person |
| 7. |
Take up ice-skating again.
|
1 person |
| 8. |
Take up skiing again.
|
4 people |
| 9. |
Go to a cottage, rent a cottage, or go camping.
|
1 person |
| 10. |
Really learn how to play the flute again, even if it takes taking classes.
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 11. |
Pick a bouquet of wildflowers for someone.
|
1 person |
| 12. |
Organize a student art show.
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 13. |
Go rollerblading with others.
|
1 person |
| 14. |
Take an A.Q.
|
1 person |
| 15. |
Buy a plant.
|
14 people |
| 16. |
Apply to summer artist residencies.
|
1 person |
| 17. |
Create a body of artwork that celebrates being alive.
1 entry |
1 person |
| 18. |
Acquire a wide-angle or fisheye lens.
|
1 person |
| 19. |
Host a movie night.
1 entry |
8 people |
| 20. |
Finish all the books on my bookshelf that I haven't yet read.
1 cheer |
2 people |
| 21. |
Cook a dinner with someone.
|
1 person |
| 22. |
Use a sewing machine.
|
5 people |
| 23. |
Take a yoga, kickboxing or hip hop dance class.
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 24. |
Try acai berry.
|
1 person |
| 25. |
Go swimming.
|
225 people |
| 26. |
Visit a new foreign country.
|
3 people |
| 27. |
Volunteer with an organization advocating a cause in which I believe.
|
1 person |
| 28. |
Write & illustrate a children's book.
|
8 people |
| 29. |
Participate in at least five arts events or initiatives in or around Toronto.
1 entry |
1 person |
| 30. |
Make ten mixes for ten different people.
6 entries . 1 cheer |
1 person |
| 31. |
Write a poem.
|
334 people |
| 32. |
Make art for somebody.
|
1 person |
| 33. |
See a play.
|
63 people |
| 34. |
Write an article.
|
125 people |
| 35. |
See a psychic.
1 cheer |
46 people |
| 36. |
Relearn how to drive.
1 entry |
4 people |
December 5, 2009:
FANCY DRESS CHRISTMAS MOVIE PARTY.
Place: My awesome Toronto home.
“i put on an argyle sweater and put on a smile.” [a mix for matthew m.]
1. band of horses – funeral
2. the constantines – soon enough
3. owen – good friends, bad habits
4. owl city – fireflies
5. animal collective – lion in a coma
6. wintersleep – weight ghost [live]
7. elliott smith – between the bars
8. atmosphere – trying to find a balance
9. bright eyes (ft. emmylou harris) – landlocked blues
10. ben lee – i am a sunflower
11. hot chip – and i was a boy from school
12. broken social scene presents kevin drew – safety bricks
13. ugly casanova – parasites
14. elliott brood – fingers and tongues
15. j. period & k’naan – let’s start (fela kuli tribute)
16. the national – baby, we’ll be fine
17. damien jurado – letters & drawings
18. lowest of the low – bleed a little while tonight
19. dj rupture & sindhu zagoren – mole in the ground
This week in “Wednesday Repairs” (the students decided this name was less lame for our wellness group), I asked students to write down one positive goal they would exact this week and report back on how it went. This was mine.