I've received yet another anonymous comment that I think should be shared. I didn't come up with these, but I think they're fantastic and although they're presented as date ideas, any group of friends can do them too. To whoever shared these with me, thank you :)
1. Go on a search for as many good climbing trees as possible, climb as high as you both can in all of them, compile photo evidence.
2. Go to a major chain bookstore and leave notes to future readers in copies of your favorite books.
3. Have her dressed up as a ghost and you dress up as Pacman. Walk around downtown holding hands, and whenever someone sees you two, pretend to be embarrassed and run off screaming "WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA."
4. Create photo evidence suggesting that you went on an adventure that didn't really happen.
5. Dress up as superheroes and stop at least one petty crime like littering.
6. Build forts out of furniture and blankets, and wage war with paper airplanes.
7. Try and visit as many people as you can in one night and turn as many things inside their apartment upside down as soon as you can without them noticing.
8. Go to the airport, get the cheapest and soonest departing flight to anywhere, and stay there for a weekend.
9. Write a piece of fiction together outside at a cafe. Ask a stranger when you get stuck.
10. Dress to the nines and test drive very expensive vehicles at an auto dealership.
11. Do the lamest tourist thing in your area that you have both secretly wanted to do forever.
12. In the middle of the night, drive to the beach so that you arrive just as the sun is rising. Have a breakfast picnic and then fall asleep together.
13. Drive somewhere unknown and have dinner in a city you've never been to. Use fake names.
14. Go to a minor league baseball game under the stars and randomly cheer for both teams.
15. Go around the city with sidewalk chalk and draw hearts with equations inside on random things.
16. Walk around a city and perform short silent plays in front of security cameras.
17. With a camera and a pair of boots, make a photolog of a day in the life of the invisible man.
18. Walk around the city all night and find a place to eat breakfast at dawn.
19. Go to a restaurant and convince the cook to create something completely new for you.
20. Rent a movie you've never seen before. Set it on mute and improvise the dialogue.
Play like you're not a grownup! :)
The original document can be found at http://9gag.com/gag/3619
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Shoving my taste in music down your throat.
Who: Portishead
What: Trip-hop with twinges of alternative pseudo-cabaret. Two particularly popular albums - their debut album 'Dummy' and the later self-titled 'Portishead'.
When: 1991-present
Where: Formed in Bristol, England
Why: Why? They're incredible. My personal favorite song, Glory Box, exemplifies what I feel to be the signature Portishead sound - hypnotic and chaotically seductive rhythms and instrumentals, hauntingly beautiful vocals, and a wildly ridiculous level of enjoyability. I would say more, but I don't think there's a better way for me to demonstrate how great they are than by letting you see for yourself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF-GvT8Clnk Glory Box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-TqR7ZzaZQ Sour Times
Tell me what you think! Stay tuned for our next installment of shoving my taste in music down your throat.
What: Trip-hop with twinges of alternative pseudo-cabaret. Two particularly popular albums - their debut album 'Dummy' and the later self-titled 'Portishead'.
When: 1991-present
Where: Formed in Bristol, England
Why: Why? They're incredible. My personal favorite song, Glory Box, exemplifies what I feel to be the signature Portishead sound - hypnotic and chaotically seductive rhythms and instrumentals, hauntingly beautiful vocals, and a wildly ridiculous level of enjoyability. I would say more, but I don't think there's a better way for me to demonstrate how great they are than by letting you see for yourself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF-GvT8Clnk Glory Box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-TqR7ZzaZQ Sour Times
Tell me what you think! Stay tuned for our next installment of shoving my taste in music down your throat.
Monday, September 27, 2010
What it means to love and live
From the minute I got out of bed on Sunday morning I knew it was going to be a beautiful day. The sky was that perfect shade of blue, the sun was a delicate wash of light, the grass looked extra green under the dew...
My experience with An Introduction To A New View Of Love matched the aesthetic perfection of that particular Sunday, and then some. There's nothing more beautiful than total abject honesty and unconditional love and acceptance. 16 wonderful people met that morning in a comfortable living room, some of them meeting everyone around them for the first time, and those 16 people left as friends who really are joined at the heart. 16 people left with a new understanding of what it means to love and what it means to live. The best part is that my experience isn't over. My experience began yesterday, and now it's my job to make sure that everything I gained and accomplished continues and grows for the rest of my life.
To Mathew, who told me about this event and who took me to LA with him. To Erin and Jon, who hosted this workshop and who were so loving and generous to share this experience. To the rest of the incredible people I was surrounded by that day.
Thank you.
Anyone who wants to know more should click here (all about the workshop) or here (Erin Ross's blog, Getting That You Matter) or here (Erin's website). These are incredible people doing incredible things!
PHEW! This is the end of the post. So stop reading and go make somebody's life a little bit better. It's not that hard to do :)
Also, SNACK! Yum. Peacing out in 3...2...1...
BYE B- //#error/=already_peaced_out//>
My experience with An Introduction To A New View Of Love matched the aesthetic perfection of that particular Sunday, and then some. There's nothing more beautiful than total abject honesty and unconditional love and acceptance. 16 wonderful people met that morning in a comfortable living room, some of them meeting everyone around them for the first time, and those 16 people left as friends who really are joined at the heart. 16 people left with a new understanding of what it means to love and what it means to live. The best part is that my experience isn't over. My experience began yesterday, and now it's my job to make sure that everything I gained and accomplished continues and grows for the rest of my life.
To Mathew, who told me about this event and who took me to LA with him. To Erin and Jon, who hosted this workshop and who were so loving and generous to share this experience. To the rest of the incredible people I was surrounded by that day.
Thank you.
Anyone who wants to know more should click here (all about the workshop) or here (Erin Ross's blog, Getting That You Matter) or here (Erin's website). These are incredible people doing incredible things!
PHEW! This is the end of the post. So stop reading and go make somebody's life a little bit better. It's not that hard to do :)
Also, SNACK! Yum. Peacing out in 3...2...1...
BYE B- //#error/=already_peaced_out//>
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Let it rock
I'm in!
I will be dancing in a Graham piece during the Martha Graham Company residency at Pomona, both in March and later for the Pomona Dance Spring Concert.
I can't tell you how wonderful it feels to know that I will be dedicating myself to dance again. I won't lie and say that I'm not nervous about throwing myself into a style that I have next to no training with (my audition was essentially a test of my mimicry skills), but I can't wait to learn! And hey, being a part of this project means I can officially call myself a dancer again.
And now, I leave you with Uliana Lopatkina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtsrOJcAAYk&feature=related
Damn her.
I will be dancing in a Graham piece during the Martha Graham Company residency at Pomona, both in March and later for the Pomona Dance Spring Concert.
I can't tell you how wonderful it feels to know that I will be dedicating myself to dance again. I won't lie and say that I'm not nervous about throwing myself into a style that I have next to no training with (my audition was essentially a test of my mimicry skills), but I can't wait to learn! And hey, being a part of this project means I can officially call myself a dancer again.
And now, I leave you with Uliana Lopatkina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtsrOJcAAYk&feature=related
Damn her.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Won't stop 'til it's over
After beasting through a cog psych test and generally being a productive member of society, I'm proud to say that I'm having a wonderful day.
What's new in my life? I'm currently working on a collection of short stories that I hope to be semi-finished with by the end of the semester. My goal is to complete ten 600-1200 word stories and be sufficiently happy with each one to allow others to read them. Ultimately I'd like to get them published, and I have great, vague, looming plans as for what will happen after that, but for now it's all about taking it one step at a time.
As of today, I have completed one and there are two more dans le progrès. I would give a summary of the first one to be finished, but I'm not even particularly sure what it's about and I know I'd just screw it up trying to explain.
The last class of the day awaits me. Make somebody laugh today, and stay classy!
What's new in my life? I'm currently working on a collection of short stories that I hope to be semi-finished with by the end of the semester. My goal is to complete ten 600-1200 word stories and be sufficiently happy with each one to allow others to read them. Ultimately I'd like to get them published, and I have great, vague, looming plans as for what will happen after that, but for now it's all about taking it one step at a time.
As of today, I have completed one and there are two more dans le progrès. I would give a summary of the first one to be finished, but I'm not even particularly sure what it's about and I know I'd just screw it up trying to explain.
The last class of the day awaits me. Make somebody laugh today, and stay classy!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Technopornography
http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/05/25/in-2020-we-can-wear-sony-computers-on-our-wrist/
BEAST. Now keep in mind that this is purely my gadget lust talking, and I still need to think about durability, practicality, etc. etc. But all the important things aside, it's damn cool.
BEAST. Now keep in mind that this is purely my gadget lust talking, and I still need to think about durability, practicality, etc. etc. But all the important things aside, it's damn cool.
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