• MaggieMudd - black tea soy milk ice cream
• Liberty Cafe - celery & apple soup, veggie pot pie
• B-Star (vegetarian noodles, lotus chips, warm choco cake with ginger ice cream)
• 231 Ellsworth
• Chapeau!
• Slanted Door - green papaya salad and spring rolls
• Modern Tea - Civil War waffles
• Chika (San Mateo) - OMU RICE
• Grand Pu Bah - limeade, beetle leaf wrap, pomelo salad, basil crepe (small plates are best; don't get sweet & sour taro next time), beer ice cream w/ fried banana, pumpkin creme brulee
• Bouchon
• Ubuntu Napa - savory autumn fruits salad
• Garcon
• Foreign Cinema brunch - best French toast...

Alphabetical, because I'd have no idea chronologically..

• Amy Mann (Fillmore; Stern Grove)
• Arcade Fire (Warfield; Berkeley Greek Theater)
• Ataris (UCLA)
• Broken Social Scene (UCLA)
• Camera Obscura (Great American Music Hall)
• Cat Power (Fillmore)
• David Choi (Great American Music Hall)
• Decemberists (Warfield)
• Get Up Kids (Slim's)
• Gnarls Barkley (Golden Gate Park)
• Jenny Lewis (Fillmore)
• Iron & Wine (Great American Music Hall)
• Kathleen Edwards (Fillmore)
• Kinna Grannis (Great American Music Hall)
• The Killers (Bill Graham Civic Auditorium)

• Amy Winehouse album
• New Bright Eyes album
• Beyonce, B'Day (9/05)
• Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveSounds (9/12)
• Xiu Xiu, The Air Force (9/12)
• Decemberists, The Crane Wife (10/03)
• Lady Sovereign, Public Warning (10/03)
• Blood Brothers, Young Machetes (10/10)
• Young Jeezy, The Inspiration: Thug Motivation 102 (10/10)
• Clipse
• New Bloc Party album
• Lily Allen

• get at least 7 hours sleep each night and wake up at 7am
• find a fabulous new apartment - decorate accordingly
• buy tons more clothing ^_^
• cook more
• run a half-marathon
• learn to budget money
• include art in my life, every day (esp. get tons of new music!!)
• do more crazy things with my hair
• be less shy
• have more enriching relationships
• travel
• learn to genuinely like myself
• read the news every day
• spend dramatically less time on the Internets
• go to New York City
• write more and transition to a words-related career

• Nellie's Dryerball
• Zimbardo book
• more jeans
• more shoes
• Karyn Cantor storybook necklace
• Tokidoki
• new sunglasses
• DS Lite + Animal Crossing
• Enneagram book
• We Love Katamari
• DHC White Sunscreen
• 1" capuchons from TAP

Albums that I keep returning to, year after year and for the rest of my life.

• Morrissey - Vauxhaull and I
• Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
• Mates of State - Team Boo or Bring it Back
• Arcade Fire - Funeral
• Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
• Cat Power - The Greatest
• Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
• Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
• Fiona Apple - When the Pawn

• Juno
• Year of the Dog
• Darjeeling Limited
• Ratatouille
• Once
• The Simpsons Movie
• Colma: The Musical
• Waitress - thumbs up, Nathan Fillion ^_^
• 28 Weeks Later (disgusting and disturbing.. loved it)
• Grindhouse
• Babel
• Children of Men
• 3-iron
• Serenity
• Home Movie
• Oasis
• Pan's Labyrinth (simply amazing)
• Pursuit of Happyness (aka pursuit of boringness)
• Spinal Tap

Things I must learn how to cook

• tortilla soup
• red velvet cake - failed.. will try again
• really good guacamole
• butternut squash risotto (any kind of risotto)
• cinnamon french toast
• really good black bean dip
• onigri - w/ pickled plum?
• curry fried rice
• mapo tofu

Songs that I have been digging lately.

• The Shins "Starlight"
• The Tyde "Do it Again Again"
• Futureheads "Favours for Favours"
• The Radio Dept. "The Worst Taste in Music"