• oh, god!
• royal tenenbaums

• london (june 15 - june 20)
• berlin (june 21 - june 26)
  • the cylinder of nabonidus at the pergamon
  • kaiserwilhelmsgedächtniskirche
    • super hahn doner
  • currywurst
• amsterdam (june 27 - june 29)
  • the anne frank house
  • biking
  • fries
  • rembrandt museum?
  • june 29
    • call to confirm v.fancy lunch
• paris (june 30 - july 4, 2pm)
  • july 2

• ✔ rain shell
  • thanks dack!
• ✔ pack cover
  • thanks dack!
• ✔ sturdy zippy pants
• bear canister?
• water bottles
• logistics
  • ✔ campsite in yosemite
  • ✔ wilderness permit
  • where are we sending food?

• astounding + t = outstanding
• falling + i = flailing

• waking up at 7 AM
• rushing to catch a bus
• time passing slowly
• time passing quickly
• thinking about time
• rushing in a group of people
• meeting a group of russian people
• eating cereal out of a bowl
• looking for a bowl to eat cereal out of
• looking for a bowl to eat anything out of
• making my mind up, trying to choose a seat
• making my mind up in general, especially if the decision involves a verb that rhymes with "take"
  • which slides can I make?
  • which pie can I bake?
  • which leaves can I rake?
  • which snow can it flake? -- this is how y...

• 2009 -- ad hoc at home
• 2010 -- freddie & me (comic book about freddie mercury)
• 2011 -- cooking from quilt country: hearty recipes from amish and mennonite kitchens

• wild rice with bone marrow and celery
• brussels sprouts
• ice creams
  • fennel
  • sweet potato

• ✔ a fun bike ride
  • mount diablo / east bay
  • pacifica / peninsula
  • west oakland
  • ✔ pizzeria picco / scale model of SF in Marin
• brunch at canteen
• ✔ liguria bakery
• ✔ saturday night: that vandella concert
• ✔ tourist club
• ✔ can tomatoes
• ✔ cook something complicated
  • heirloom tomato salad from ad hoc
  • brioche
  • another epic burger
  • ✔ every ice cream in the world / david lebovitz's book

we did pretty well at this list!

• find out about bear canisters
• concoct a first-aid kit
• check weather
  • obsessively
• ✔ get a couchsurfing host!!
  • ohhhh yeah matt in portland
• how is the snowpack?
  • crampons rentals??
  • call rental company -- 406-888-5454
    • are crampons step-in?
    • are you renting a lot right now? how many do you have?
  • mostly play it by ear, consult with park rangers regarding what hikes are snowy, be honest about your limited snow navigation abilities
• how do we pick up our backpacking permit?...

• ✔ melon and tomato salad
  • basil and/or mint
• ✔ chicken liver mousse
• ✔ smoky corn and jalapeno dip
• ✔ carnitas (lamb?) tacos
  • pickled red onions
• ✔ guacamole with fresh corn
• ✔ bean salad
  • padron vinaigrette

good job team!

• entire channel of lego music videos
• entire channel of 4900+ live queen bootlegs, with commentary on each song

• stevia
• lumpia
• nutria
• zambia

• odyssey
• connoisseur
• fuchsia

• all orange foods are healthy
• if you eat something fatty and then eat something healthy, like carrots or oatmeal, the healthy food absorbs all the fat and removes it from your body
• if you're sick and you keep drinking water and going pee, eventually you will pee out all the germs in your body and be healthy again, and this will happen much faster than if you are not peeing all the time like a crazy person
  • you can tell if you're drinking enough water by taking a vitamin and then drinking water until your pee is clear

• new bart map
  • it is so sad and gray and bereft of extraneous information
• new firefox
  • where is the recently closed tabs button??

• a fixie
  • "I have one speed. I have one gear. Go."
• a problem set from m.i.t.
  • "you can't process me with a normal brain"
  • (well, this is how problem sets made me feel a lot)
• the ark of the covenant
  • "I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."
• ziggy stardust
  • "I’m tired of pretending like I’m not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars"

• super bowl
• ash wednesday
  • "if you have any church commitments, make sure that you are absolved of them this year."
• academy awards 2009
  • "everybody knows sean penn, kate winslet, and slumdog are going to win anyway, so who really needs to watch?"
• final game of world series 2010
  • in fairness, she could not have known it would end in five games
• sam's mom's 50th birthday
• sunday after all 2011 halloween parties
• only solar eclipse passing through california during years 2000 - 2020

• ethnobotanist

• mail / male
• incompetent / incontinent
• of course / off course
• pop / poop
• tips up / tits up

• pickled carrots
  • yellow, orange, red, purple
  • different herb for each
  • maybe like nutmeg, thyme, spicy, thai basil, ginger, dill, coriander...
  • maybe also tiny pickled beets, because they are so cute. maybe other vegetables
• chicken and egg
  • morels and peas
• nicoise salad for spring
  • tuna on top of pencil asparagus
  • arugula in lemon vinaigrette
  • sprouted beans in tarragon vinaigrette
• potatoes, spring onions, and fava beans
  • spring onions slowly cooked, maybe also garlic chives.
  • fava beans and fava leaves

• For years, sake has been the Leonard Cohen of drinks: passionately adored by a small cadre of loyalists, but relegated to the category of “mysterious obscurity” among the masses.
• ACROSS the United States, artisanal pizza joints are opening faster than Natalie Portman movies. But inside those imported ovens, pepperoni — by far America’s most popular pizza topping — is as rare as a black swan.
• Because the dining room is in daylight at this time of year, it reminded me of Cloris Leachman without makeup or stage lighting.
• And lobes of dismal-flavored sea urchin served over thick lardo and heavy toast were just dreadful: the eighth band after Nirvana to write loud-soft-loud music and call it new.
• a “charred” flatiron steak with the t...

• lindy hop sunday
• house of air
• bike to sonoma
• bike to pacifica
• heidi and ween in mendocino
• steak au poivre
• castro valley mini golf
• ✔ sumo grub everything fried restaurant

• caroline
• nick normile

• sine / cosine
  • odd numbers / even numbers
• dog / cat
• red wine / white wine

• glacier national park
• foie gras au torchon

• radical feminism
  • radical anything-ism, really
• five loko
• punk'd
• hedwig and the angry inch

• life and times of harry truman
• richard feynman (I have been a bad nerd)
• toba event
• seal
• balkans
• black sea
• knot-tying

I did not really succeed in doing any of these, but I did read the shipping news

• I want my wine glass to break when I drop it, because otherwise how will I know I'm alive.
• all this stuff made me wonder what seemingly unexplainable things I do that are actually just parasites trying to reproduce.
• (re: names of deities) I know. "God"...who came up with that one
• I think all the violence was brought on by a combination of factors, including the depressed economic situation, failure to integrate into French society, your mix CD, racism...
• Sometimes I cut myself while opening wine bottles. Jesus, it's disgusting all written out like this!
• and then there's silence and you realize you have nothing interesting left to say and might not ever again.
• I have been feeling like there's going to...

• I'm sarah... sarah problem?
• chip?
• thanks...
• those are my dried cranberries!
• your pertinent breasts
• if you let go I'll leave

• flutes
• skirts
• pearls
• needle and thread
• gift certificates
  • chick fil a
  • in n out
  • sports basement
• guitar picks
• sport watches
• calculator
• colored pencils
• russian notes
• pencil sharpener
• hole punch
• kleenex and toilet paper
• old cd's
  • andrew pants
• cables

• socca
• nicoise salad
  • ad hoc-ish
  • sesame on the tuna?
  • arugula?
  • preserved lemon vinaigrette?
  • rose wine (a-dubs' favorite)
• broccoli soup
  • goat cheese
  • walnuts or croutons
  • special cotes-du-rhone
• roasted chicken
  • on top of thinly sliced potatoes and shallots or onions
• hazelnut french toast
  • who else has an ice cream machine?

• list of people whose names have become verbs
• list of self-referential songs
  • this used to be on wikipedia and I miss it every day

• dizzle
• alex
• colin 1
• hung
• earring couchsurfer
• caroline

• how many atheists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
  • none--they don't believe in them
• what kind of shower would greg die in?
  • a wheatier shower
  • (greg keeps it gluten-free)
• did you know amber rose is a pastry chef?
  • no
  • yeah, kanye was really sad when they broke up. he wrote a song about it. it was called 'tartless'
• all elephant jokes
• what's red and bad for your teeth?
  • a brick

• thanksgiving (11/25)
  • turkey in black mole
    • need to go to a mexican grocery to look for peppers
    • do neighbors have an avocado tree?
  • potato pave
  • kabocha squash pie
  • fennel ice cream?
    • pumpernickel crumbs or some shit
  • something with miso-walnut dressing (pumpkin?)
• ballsmas 3? (12/18)
  • cancelled--remove from your google calendar
  • gnocchi
  • knots
  • still need to make these though

• "I hope it's stillborn."
• "maybe she's so unhappy because she's a beard."
• "so apparently I was saying such objectionable things about this homeless woman on the subway that someone felt compelled to give her food out of pity. no, not just give her food, but make a big show out of taking, like, an apple out of her groceries. I was happy, because she got a meal and I didn't have to give it to her."
• "I also made one of my shitty students cry when I read out loud the log I’ve been keeping of his ridiculous behaviors to his mom - is it bad that I can take such unbridled joy from the suffering of a child?"
• "I was with Ben and some friends waiting in line for something, and we got butted by some dude in a wheelchair. I may or ma...

• assuage / sausage
• process / corpses
• peanut gallery / peanut allergy
• neurotic / unerotic
• american / cinerama

• french laser breakdance
• julia roberts is coming
• kashmir

• somebody to love
• love, reign o'er me
• gloria
• letter from an occupant
• five years

• frozen yogurt
• used clothing
• fresh produce
• beads

• ✔ frances
• ✔ spqr
• ✔ pizzetta 211
• ✔ pizzeria picco
• outer sunset crawl
  • ✔ old mandarin islamic restaurant
  • ✔ judahlicious
  • mostly because of the names
• ✔ sons and daughters?
  • thanks dack!
• atelier crenn?
  • price went up
• chez simone
  • sounds charming
• central parc bistro
  • well reviewed and close to jeff

• toy story
• wok and roll
• bee movie

• roths-gormleys
• brian crimmel (lv2prty)
• mike miller
• robbie
• dr. bill cutter (she is 81)
• fil, glo, and sarah dale deangelis
• debbie rice

• the iPad
• complete stranger throws cat in rubbish bin!
• julian assange

• red: porn star look-alike
• black: washed-up child star
• yellow: cautionary tale for seat belt wearing
• pink: felicity cast member and basic cable star
• blue: well-adjusted middle-aged gay man
• green: ultimate fighter

• ocean, ocean, ocean. I'll beat you in the end.
• there is water on the bottom of the ocean
• the ocean is the ultimate solution
• your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark

• using grill lighter
• dsus4 on guitar
• wiping butt

• judge judy dubbed in other languages
• drag queens who dress up like patti smith
• oregon trail parody where you go to portland and end up as a hipster

• like PLO I don't surrendo
• peace out, she'll kill you like uma
• is your dad a dealer? cause you're dope to me
• tighter than j. lo and her jeans, tighter than r. kelly and his teens

MIA is pretty much my favorite poet next to walt whitman

• sell the god damn television
• replace your god damn brakes
  • good job now you need a new tire
• buy some god damn print cartridges
  • thanks csaba
• buy one more god damn picture frame
• plant some gosh darn greens
• bean tepee
  • even though it looks like a child made it... and not a smart child
• learn how to use thumb when finger-picking

• I'd like to be a gallery, put you all inside my show
• my brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
• I wish you could swim like dolphins can swim

• mainstream media
• men who have sex with men
• mechanically separated meat
• miami sound machine

• ordering off-menu
• faking your own death
• attending an infomercial taping
• licking the wall of a salt mine

• it's in the detonator
• the bride punching her way out of the coffin
• nick cave: THERE IS A WAR COMING!
• my name is ellen james

• your stomach
• in the detonator
• the crown

• madonna
• lady gaga
• alex trebek
• miss cleo
• kim cattrall
• christiane amanpour

• nickname if I had ever gone on nickelodeon guts
• sing "maurer music electric revival" at the end of bombs over baghdad
• after preparing homemade sauerkraut, write "maurerkraut" on gift jars and distribute as gifts

• lord of the rings: fellowship of the ring
  • drink on "ring"
• harry potter
  • drink when there is magic
  • optional
    • fire
    • sexual tension
    • hermione says something smart
• roxanne
  • split into two teams
  • one drinks on "roxanne"
  • the other drinks on "red light"

• "bogoroditse devo" from rachmaninoff's vespers
• "sandwich day"
• a poached egg
• blue lake green beans
• "america" from west side story (movie)
• "annabel lee"
• a pizza, a salad, rose wine, friends

• "let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini"
• "did your eyes hurt when you were born? because you're the only girl I've ever loved."
• "to call this 'beyond the pale' would be an insult to albinos."
• ✔ "war requiem? more like whore requiem."
• "dramaturgy? more like trauma-turgy."
• "a heart full of larb"
• "onward, christian hipsters."
• "that night he was haunted by apparitions of all the well-hung men he had encountered in his life, a sort of repurposing of both the concept and title of 8 1/2" (work on this, make it the opening line of a short story)
• "do I know you and you look like wayne coyne." (to robbie's friend brett)
• "someone call ralph nader, because you're unsafe at any speed!" (after being knoc...

• start composting
• no more canned beans
• communicate with shana daily
• thank you notes

• thisiswhyyourefat.com
• lady gaga
• oprah

• mila kunis / milan kundera
• susan sarandon / susan lucci / sally field
• palestrina / ginastera
• brandi carlile / belinda carlisle
• heston blumenthal / fergus henderson
• neil young / neil diamond
• jeff jarvis / joe jervis
• lars von trier / gus van sant

this list failed to fulfill the potential of its first entry

• incorrectly adding an extra "s" to the end of someone's name (e.g. "julia childs")
• overblown arrangements of "carol of the bells"
  • also, most arrangements of "carol of the bells"
  • especially the one by trans-siberian orchestra
    • also, all songs by trans-siberian orchestra
• ugly sweater parties
• tupperware without lids
• the @ sign
• just spelling a word the way it sounds when you could easily look it up
• only having to dial like five numbers on a campus phone because the rest are put in automatically

"people have to learn to distinguish between a 'need' and a 'want'" -hvn

• FEDORA (brown)

• gay bowling alley
• churracos
• fried oatmeal food cart
• bagel skinz
• "fat people twister": the game show
• deep-fried stuffing
• faghagblog
• manhandle

• new mown hay
• big sky country
• summer thunder
• the saddest book you ever read
• the only girl I've ever loved
• alabaster altarpiece
• hey mama wolf
• solitary Saturn
• your perfect verse
• lonely as God
• gospel feast
• close-huddled oxen
• unto certain shepherds
• my huckleberry friend
• castle bravo
• ermine furs adorned imperiously
• cathedral town
• deliberately poisoned
• southern ocean
• unreal city

• blizzard of '96, central PA
• supertyphoon of '09, california

• muscular and chewy
• hauntingly aromatic
• a diesel-like hint and darker mineral presence, like being in a mossy, wet cave
• like licking the armpit of a really sexy woman
• bloody ball bearing in the mouth
• I was surprised to experience so much cat piss in the aroma.

• tenzing
• tanzen wir!
• super energy pill
• the franklin badge
• the jane chord
• tangularity
• gamera glasnost
• slow backup technique
• ethel rosenberg and the conspirators
• germ theory of disease

• bjork covering "touch me" (the doors)
• mariachi cover of "one more cup of coffee" (bob dylan)
• white stripes covering "(not your) steppin' stone" (monkees)
• devendra banhart covering "the origin of love" (hedwig)
• mary j blige covering "psycho killer" (talking heads)
• jazz band that plays at cheeseboard covering third movement of beethoven's pathetique
• david foster wallace writing an article about the metaphysics of wine tasting (sadly impossible)
• patti smith covering "cactus" (the pixies)
• peaches covering "when doves cry" (prince)
• prince covering "friday" (rebecca black)
• cher covering "yoshimi battles the pink r...

• seams to fit
• in full swing
• go figure

• spontaneous drunk singalong of the bleeding heart show, possibly around a campfire
• finding out that shana's great-uncle is actually philip roth
• that warren zevon song is actually called "werewolves of thunder", and someone makes a movie with that title using it as the theme song
• recording a song in which I say "bridge" right before singing the bridge
• making a movie during which there is a scene where two people fight with swords while balancing on a bunch high voltage wires, so if they touch two wires at the same time they die

• bombs over baghdad (outkast)
• quia respexit humilitatem (bach's magnificat)
• st. elmo's fire (brian eno)
• reckoner (radiohead)
• return of the frog queen (jeremy enigk)
• most of quatuor pour la fin du temps (messiaen)
  • also joie du sang des etoiles (messiaen)
• the crucifixion (britten)
• peaches en regalia (zappa)

• I would die 4 u
  • learn dance first
• ✔ because the night
• ✔ where have all the cowboys gone?
• ✔ somebody told me
• ✔ 99 luftballoons
• ✔ maybe this time
• ✔ jolene
• ✔ you know I'm no good
• ✔ tiny dancer
  • substitute name of friend for "tiny dancer"

ones that other people have done

• ✔ lithium
• these boots were made for walkin'

• "we're going to put the limes on his nipples"
• "we have to go back when they open to look for colin's shoe."
• "two guys came out of both bathrooms!"
• "it's not a furry party; it's a costume party."

• walt whitman
• gogo yubari
  • the bride
• mothra + two girls that summon mothra
• flo and kay, world's only living autistic savant twins

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• group costume: all the robots from mega man 2
• ✔ julia child
• werewolf bar mitzvah
• octopus michael jackson
• beavis and butthead (and cher)
• lucy and ethel
• the grinch, stealing christmas
• benjamin franklin
• wile e coyote and roadrunner
• little mac (punch out!)
• judge judy

• electric feel (mgmt)
• the mollusk (ween)
• weird fishes (radiohead)
• i am the walrus (beatles)

• iranian revolution
• information about bart delays
• finding the creme brulee cart
• tina fey observing, "why do I even chew corn anymore?"

• gary danko
• garment district
• god damn

• "When someone else is using the regular toilet it’s amazing how quickly one of the most enjoyable moments of my day can become one of the least"

- jess kim, on funky squat toilets in japan

• "There was also a complimentary teacher appreciation luncheon, which I forgot about until after I had already eaten the lunch I packed. I had two lunches today!"

- caroline

• ✔ okonomiyaki
• ✔ korean burrito (with kimchi in it)
• pasties
• cat
• montreal smoked meat

• crepes on cole
• walk of shame
• moss on trees
• mouse brain juice

• onion rings
• ✔ braised lamb
  • I forgot this was even on the list
• ✔ popovers / gougeres
• ✔ pita
• ✔ english muffins
• ✔ gnocchi
• ✔ mayonnaise
• poutine
• pommes dauphinoise/anna
• ✔ something with harissa
• paneer cooked in clarified butter
• ✔ preserved lemons
• ✔ chickpea panisse
• ✔ some kind of filled pasta
• ✔ bitter melon
  • still do not like it
• ✔ bone marrow
• fresh squid

• tracey does conan
• hard ball / negotiation
• sandwich day
• apollo, apollo
• anna howard shaw day

• washing dishes
• salty fried potatoes
• warm lava-like egg yolks
• multivitamins (placebo)
• mint tea

• munitia ballade
• ridonkula akimbo
• nima salami
• robin wing
• costco morpheus
• katt binder
• mako plantain
• nuku laruku
• chanan buchanan
• aramaic sandtart

• cooking
• blogging
• choral singing
• relating anecdotes about growing up in central PA
• meeting david byrne

• are passing cars running their windshield wipers?
• are people carrying umbrellas?
• are there raindrops falling into standing pools of water?

• kona porter
• moose drool
• boont amber
• poppy jasper
• summer sam
• lionshead (fuck yes)
• edel-weisse

• glacier national park (before grinnell glacier melts)
• mesa verde national park
• trans-siberian railroad
• bangkok
• berlin again (begin again)
• an anechoic chamber
• peru
• sarajevo
• kvly-tv mast in north dakota
• ✔ hoh rainforest in washington state
• qatar (architecture tour)
• the wave, arizona
• false kiva
• the wild wall
• the lightning field
• susquehanna river
  • traverse its entire length on land, from its clear headwaters to its sludgy vomit into the chesapeake bay

• yummy
• slurp
• gooey
• unctuous
• aioli
• bivalve
  • why would you ever use this word in a restaurant review
• protein
  • mostly when used synecdochically, e.g. the protein was overcooked

• victor gold
• peter gigante
• guy burns

• thou shalt break them
• he shall purify
• comfort ye
• and suddenly there was with the angel / glory to god
• hallelujah!
• behold the lamb of god
• all we like sheep (second part only)

• trachimbrod
• lakefront brewery in milwaukee on a friday
• beacon street on the first of may when all the flowering trees are in bloom
• washington square park on a summer night

• verbunden (german)
• mangue, boisson (french)
• sacapuntas (spanish)
• аспирант (russian)

• ✔ (i'm not your) steppin' stone
• randy scouse git
• i'm a believer
• ✔ hey sandy
• roses
• ✔ one more cup of coffee
• ✔ crazy
• gamma ray!
• ✔ cactus

• telegraph avenue (berkeley) and haight street (sf)
• solano avenue (berkeley/albany) and college ave below ashby (oakland)
• palo alto and walnut creek
• union city and alameda

• people behind me
• people taller than 6'1"
• people who own iPhones
• people who don't have brown eyes
• people who are particularly tan
• people who wear cologne
• people wearing sunglasses
• names that begin with k
• cats

november

• visit from colin 1
  • figure out something to do in hbg. other than state museum
  • hangover brunch
• sths reunion
  • pregame with shawna
  • embarrass self, but not too much

december

• haircut
  • cheesesteaks
• visit nyc (see other lists)
• lancaster B&B with shana
  • pretend to be mormon newlyweds
  • visit wolf sanctuary
  • begin research for novel (tentative title...

• tell them "this might be on the exam"
• tell them the only time available for extra office hours is 7:30 AM
• use the urinal next to them

• wearing someone else's clothes
• not flushing after using a public urinal
• being called "buddy" by strangers
• alphabetizing things
• expressions that use both "fuck" and "shit"
  • fuck this shit
  • what the fuck is this shit?
  • holy fucking shit
  • shit-eating motherfucker
  • fucked the shit out of bears
• reading over people's shoulders on public transit
• folding things into nine sections
• walks of shame
• wearing a sweatshirt without a shirt under it
• pulling the cord on buses when it's my stop (pressing the button is less fun)
• watching steam rise from my urine outside...

• I like to wear ties sometimes
• lots of colors
• threadless t-shirts
• impressive outer layers
• my glasses are blue

• I mean
• Idonno
• so
• okay

• hummus
• vegetable stock
• bread
• guacamole
• granola
• yogurt

• mondays: chamber chorus (5:30 pm)
• tuesdays: listening to savage lovecast
• wednesdays: donuts (3:30 pm)
• thursdays: nothing (soon to be 30 rock)
• fridays: sleep

• whole wheat toast with peanut butter, honey, cinnamon and coarse salt
• toast with apples, honey and extra sharp cheddar cheese
• chewy oatmeal with bananas, walnuts, maple syrup and a little granola, with cold milk
• a split baguette with a fried egg on top
• eggs and sweet potato home fries
• rice porridge with scallions, walnuts, maple syrup and soy sauce
• an english muffin with apple butter

• kenneth the page from 30 rock
• sufjan and marzuki stevens
• lukas podolski
• mark wahlberg (c. 1991)
• prince caspian
• russ tamblyn (c. 1961)
• raphael barker
• bearded jake gyllenhaal
• halle berry
• shakira
• heidi klum
• paula radcliffe
• judi dench

• pea soup, holy basil with buttermilk snow
• fresh fettucine with fava beans
  • morels
• basil goat cheesecake, concord grape?
• apricot sorbet, vanilla strawberries, whipped cream
  • meyer lemon?

• green pair of shorts from undergrad
• that soccer jersey that said "ballistic all-stars"
• cowboy hat
• hanukkah plate

• what is liberia?
• who is richard nixon?
• what is pygmalion?
• what is gone with the wind?

life and art... it's possible, in theory, for them to be reversed

• babies switched at birth because the security cameras in the hospital were papered over to placate beyonce
• plane crash in the desert and the only doctor who survives is a naturopath who believes that nothing can hydrate you better than pure clean water, who goes crazy trying to find pure clean water to drink in the middle of the desert
  • inspired by alexa fleckenstein, md
  • pure clean water comes to symbolize divinity or innocence
  • religion / science
• radical calendar overhaul such that there are 364 days in a year but there's a crazy party week called xtr every 5-6 years to right the progression of the seasons. the novel explores how people grow and c...

• toast at outerlands
• aviation at blackbird
• fries at nopa
• pork belly at mission chinese
• bass at frances
• brussels sprouts at barbacco
• turkey mole tamale at oaxaqueña
• goulash at bar tartine

• simply irresistible
• the ramen girl
• like water for chocolate

• butcher paper on wall to write wishes on
  • make art project with strips of paper later in evening?
  • construction paper cutouts in the form of stars, wishbones, etc, that you can write your wishes on
• everybody gets birthday cake at 11:11 with candles
• wish bowl game
  • dream job
  • dream vacation
  • superpower
  • material possession
  • who would you have sex with
• bathtub is a wishing well
• donations to make-a-wish foundation
• still to think up
  • wish music

• the peri one
• discrimination among eight mm-type models
• brown and holtzapple

• "sounds like it could be awesome/a scam"
• "I am amazed/judgmental that this person stocks coors light"

• squares and rectangles
• making mayonnaise
• the story where the monk juggles in front of the statue of the virgin mary and she starts crying

• ...have found on youtube
  • jeopardy clue from 2002 where the question was "what is sudden death in the afternoon of a faun?"
  • the johnny bluejeans ms. pac man song
  • "then scratch it back in" from 1776
  • the student film from the critic where the girl is like "oh no! pro-mu-theus"
• ...haven't found on youtube
  • nell carter singing "karaoke star" on viva variety
  • "now I'm prune tracy!" from the simpsons
  • "one candle lighted from another" song from roundhouse
  • that poem that clarissa's computer wrote for her about a window... I think it goes like open shut open shut

• tahini, red miso, honey
• tahini, red miso, maple syrup
• tahini, apple butter
• peanut butter, apple butter
• peanut butter, maple syrup
• peanut butter, fruit jam
• peanut butter, bananas, walnuts, maple syrup, milk
• olive oil, maple syrup
• caramelized onions, poached egg
• brown butter, maple syrup, poached egg, chives

to try

• soffrito

• doppelregenbogen
• atomkraftwerkschadenporn

• paperback writer
• walk like an egyptian
• zip a dee doo dah
• istanbul (not constantinople)
• the entire lion king soundtrack

well that was easy to make

• flaming lips
• polaris
• MIA
• david byrne (solo or talking heads, sometimes both)
• neko case (solo or new pornographers)
• prince
• white stripes
• owen pallett
• outkast

seriously, I just make the same mix cd over and over with different songs

• panettone
• yarmulkes
• chopsticks

• raw pasta
• orange peels
• plain extra firm tofu directly from the container
• raw buckwheat

• consomme
  • the "consummate" stock
• supremes
  • of a citrus fruit
• ultimate pancakes
  • from vivian's millenium cafe in studio city
  • definitely really good pancakes
• perfection salad
  • http://jellypress.com/article/perfection...
• perfect food dietary supplement
  • if it is the perfect food, why is it only a supplement and not the basis of your entire diet?

• pea soup andersen's
  • friday night
  • reuben, pea soup, bats
• vivian's millenium cafe
  • saturday morning
  • ultimate pancakes, refills of tea
• bob and debbie's
  • saturday night
  • cucumber parsley soup
  • paella with kale, fennel, chorizo, and scallops
  • asparagus and roasted red pepper salad
  • mousse cake
• greg's cupcakes
  • sunday morning
  • pie for breakfast
• vegan place in culver city

• (one singing vowels, the other consonants)
• this venomous snail eats other snails.

• samuel barber / aaron copland
• heidi swanson psychological thriller
  • about a crazy obsessed vegetarian food blogger
  • julie and julia meets notes on a scandal
• walt whitman / abraham lincoln

• fishtail car into parking spot
• beat ken jennings at jeopardy
• fold towels

it will be able to do all of these simultaneously

• july 15-24
• ✔ get there on the train
• leave emeryville on coast starlight thursday night 10 pm
• stop in portland to stay overnight friday
  • this way you can be sure you don't miss a connection
  • also don't sleep two consecutive nights on the train
  • couchsurf overnight
  • go to grüner, genie's, maybe pok pok or something
  • maybe pick up some beer
• take empire builder, end up in west glacier Sunday morning
  • is a car needed to get around?
  • jeanne says YES
  • could get car in whitefish, drop off at a...

• a sea ghost
• a cherry ghost
• the murdering ghost that you cannot ignore
• a ghost on the bottom of a top (spinning)
• the ghost bird of lincoln's inn

• black swan
• hedwig and the angry inch

• satan
• the joker
• usa 1945-1950
• arctic monkeys' debut album

• batter my heart, three-person'd god
• tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe
• spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top
• cruelly, love, walk the autumn long

• go go godzilla (blue oyster cult)
• in the garden of allah

• ✔ chipotle
• ✔ parada 22
• house of air
• ✔ little star solano

• the winner takes it all, abba
• cold war, janelle monae
• lewis takes off his shirt, final fantasy
• little girl, julian casablancas
• i want to be well, sufjan stevens
• vesuvius, sufjan stevens
• ol' man river, as performed by judy garland

• lamber
• docent
• repudiate
• n.b.
• avocation
• role
• paroxysm

• haim saban

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/...

• pat dollard

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu...

• tavi
  • need to find link to new yorker article

• taking the elevator the maximum possible number of floors in a building
• extreme upper and lower floors in a building that are not accessible by elevator
• taking the elevator a reasonable number of floors, but for an unusual trip that no doubt inconveniences anyone else who might be in the elevator (ex. B to 2, 3 to 6)
• elevators with separate front and back doors--so you plan your trip such that you enter on one side and leave on the other
• an elevator whose doors are blocked by a filing cabinet on one floor
• elevators where you need a key to access certain floors or to summon them at all
• dumbwaiters

• television episode: scott tenorman must die
• song: bad romance

• somebody to love
• maybe this time
  • seriously if I didn't already like kristin chenoweth she would jump to the top of my nemesis list just on the basis of this song
• entire soundtrack of rocky horror
  • okay wait, at least they didn't do "I'm going home"
• livin on a prayer
• valerie
  • are these people supposed to look like they are actually singing??
• fat bottomed girls
  • I didn't even like this song until this year--clearly I should stop liking music lest it appear on glee

• the son of man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_... )
• bret michaels + ho
• socialist butterfly
• day of the dead
• land o lakes girl
• gold diggers
• skinny drag colonel sanders
• calvin and hobbes
• charlie chaplin drag king
• voldemort
• slash ("actually, this is my real hair.")
• hobo with glass eye (not really a costume)

• elusive butterfly
  • "I try to catch you in my net, but you are just so hard to get. tell me why... are you such an elusive butterfly?"
  • "I watch you fly around the world with your multicolored wings. I want to lock you in a cage so I can make you sing. tell me why... are you such an elusive butterfly?"
• here comes the storm
• shikel my lamy
• your heart says no but your father says yes
• the shaina rosenthal song
  • "hi! I'm rufus! hi! I'm meowie"
  • it was the theme song of a TV show hosted by cats played by bethany and me
  • it basically involved singing shaina rosenthal's name while doing do-si-dos

• it starts with "um"
• it ends with an ellipsis...
• you use the word "woefully"

• schmaltz
• lard
• tallow
• suet
• duck fat
• blubber

• aconcagua
• john muir trail
• bike to portland or seattle
• ✔ get reservation at frances
  • how hard can the other ones be?
• zaireeka party

• less than jake / better than ezra
• cat power / elf power / british sea power
  • also power station, if they ever become ironically hip