hey, 2008
in no particular order, with no theme, and entirely incomplete, bests/favorites of 2007 -
(which in all actuality will probably only reference the fall, or even just the months of november and december, because i sure can't remember all the way back to last january)
gossip girl, and the ny magazine recaps of each episode
sophie calle, amy cutler, alberto burri, miranda july, elinor carucci and amy wilson
summer bikes rides on an italian medieval wall
lucca, lucca, lucca
panda bear, jenny lewis, beirut, lil' mama, andrew bird, electrelane, m. ward, feist, MIA and lemuria
the venice biennale
carrie brownstein's npr blog
big damn prints
large pieces of linoleum
kara walker at the whiteny, richard serra at moma, global feminisms at the brooklyn museum
cupcake baking
learning to love you more
playing cards with my family
six flags end of summer roller coaster day with jason
jeremiah brown
prague
juno, broken english, superbad, 30 days of night, hot fuzz, 28 weeks later, grindhouse, sicko, no country for old men, wristcutters, sunshine, the darjeeling limited, etc, etc, etc.
graphite - solid, powdered or otherwise
seeing the mist with ryan
my mac laptop
my brother being a real person again
playing drunk uno
weekly soup dates with sarah
damages, the office, pushing daises, top chef and america's next top model
birthday dinner with jb at blossom
on beauty by zaide smith, kafka on the shore by murakami, the history of love by nicole krauss, no one belongs here more than you by miranda july and the unbearable lightness of being by kundera
i could proably keep going.
and if you care, a list of the books i read in 2007 -
dirty sugar cookies - ayun halliday
dry - agusten burroughs
the wonder spot - melissa bank
magical thinking - augusten burroughs
the pact - jodi picoult
on beauty - zadie smith
little children - tom perrotta
no touch monkey! - ayun halliday
animal dreams - barbarar kingsolver
a taxonomy of barnacles - galt niederhoffer
kafka on the shore - haruki murakami
sputnik sweetheart - haruki murakami
tar baby - toni morrison
the pilot's wife - anita shrieve
the story of jane: the legendary underground feminist abortion service - laura kaplan
the history of love - nicole krauss
you remind me of me - dan chaon
sellevision - augusten burroughs
birds of america - lorrie moore
a wild sheep chase - haruki murakami
memories of my melancholy whores - gabriel garcia marquez
harry potter and the deathly hallows - jk rowling
no one belongs here more than you - miranda july
our former lives in art - jennifer s davis
man walks into a room - nicole krauss
the boy detective fails - joe meno
hairstyles of the damned - joe meno
dictee - theresa hak kyung cha
and i'm just about to finish the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera
alos, i started and never finished -
extremely loud and incredibly close - jonathn safran foer
bed - tao lin
invincible summer, an anthology - nicole j. georges
doris, an anthology 1991 - 2001 - cindy gretchen ovenrack crabb
love in the time of cholera - gabriel garcia marquez
until i find you - john irving
my reading slowed down considerably due to the few essays/articles a week i had to read for my "body politics" class this fall.
and that's that.
of course, the end of the year has made me feel all introspective and reflective, and making promises to myself that i'll proably never keep. i feel like going away this summer and being so removed from my life for a big chunk of time had the same effect, and i made the same kind of promises and pledges at the end of that. now, 4 months later i've managed to half uphold some of them while others were either never thought about again or discarded after a few weeks. so we'll see how this year goes.
most of all and at the top of the list, i'd like to be more mindful, of basically everything. i feel like i live my life totally distracted and sometimes kind of half-assed. also up there - be way better with my money. oh man.
when i actually start to think about it, the idea of this coming year is sort of paralyzing, as going into it i can already cite two pretty big life changes that'll take place. we'll see i guess.
and speaking of - i only have one semester of graduate school left. this past semester i don't think i was present enough. or at least not focused enough, and definitely not productive enough. lately, i keep having these paralyzing moments where i wonder if this was a good choice. and i mean, yes. yes it was. going to grad school has changed things for me in terms of art and what i'm doing in totally amazing and fantastic and unpredictable ways. and i've loved it, and it has been really good. but was it really the best choice i could have made? that's a different question.
i feel really shaken about this coming semester. i feel unprepared and shaky and unsure about what's going on in terms of my thesis, and i wish i had at least another year to think on it. and then, theres that whole part where i'll graduate and...yeah, and what? yikes.
it had been so long since i'd written in this that i had all of these ideas about what i wanted to say, but now i'm bored and distracted, so w.
most of all, i just want fantastic and amazing things. i need to be more proactive about helping that along.