How Much My iPod Loves Me

It just played these five songs in a row:

• Real Real Gone - Van Morrison
• and, in a way - wayback machine 
• Mishto - Gogol Bordello
• Rhythm & Soul - Spoon
• Sukie in the Graveyard - Belle & Sebastian

Old Found List on Facebook

Remember when we used to make lists on Facebook and then tag people and then they'd make lists? Aahh, the good old days. Here's one I just found from January of 2009, and I thought it was cute, and still fits:


USING ONLY ONE WORD! (It's not as easy as you might think!) Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It's really hard to only use one word answers. Be sure to tag the person you received it from!

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your significant other? home
3. Your hair? bedhead
4. Your mother? longdistance
5. Your father? step
6. Your favorite thing? bookclub
7. Your dream last night? confusing
8. Your favorite drink? coffee
9. Your dream/goal? painting
10. What room you are in? studio
11. Your hobby? reading
12. Your fear? a lot
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? home
14. Where were you last night? openings
16. Muffins? blueberry
17. Wish list item? nothing
18. Where you grew up? Memphis
19. Last thing you did? dishes
20. What are you wearing? sweatshirt
21. Your TV? Lost
22. Your pets? none
23. Friends? awesome
24. Your life? good
25. Your mood? relaxed
26. Missing some one? always
27. Car? Jeep
28. Something you're not wearing? shoes

Movies Quoted on a 6-Day Girls' Trip

• Raising Arizona ("Say, that reminds me...")
• Forrest Gump
• Goodfellas
• To Have and Have Not
• Moonstruck 
• Love Actually ("That is a lot of _____, David.")
• When Harry Met Sally ("I've been looking for a red suede pump...")
• Top Gun
• The Hangover
• Austin Powers (all of them)
• So I Married an Axe Murderer
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Airplane ("and don't call me Shirley.")
• Miller's Crossing
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
• Caddyshack ("So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.")
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding ("It's okay, I make lamb.")
• Spinal Tap
• Waterboy
• Anchorman
• American Pie ("One time? At bandcamp?")
• What About Bob
• Sixteen Candles
• Grease
• Fools Rush In
• Back to the Future
• Pretty in Pink
• Trading Places
• Elf
• Pulp Fiction
• Full Metal Jacket
• Blazing Saddles
• The Godfather
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Say Anything
• The Jerk ("I don't need anything else. I need this!")
• The Princess Bride
• Rainman
• French Kiss
• Return of the King
• Sweet Home Alabama
• Steel Magnolias
• Cool Hand Luke ("Any man caught playin' grab-ass spends a night in the box.")

Don't worry, we had real conversations too. A little.

A Quote About Lists

"You do not seem to come in the old lists that I learned when I was young. But that was a long, long time ago, and they may have made new lists."
-Treebeard
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Words I Have Saved in My New Phone's User Dictionary

• grown-ass
• HAAAAAAAAA
• Hm
• non-fat
• ok
• Sheesh
• u
• Woohoo

List I Saw in Two Different Places at Flicker Street Studio

Coast to coast
Extra low
Stir something up

Things on the Bookshelf Next to My Front Door

1. books
2. four pairs of glasses and three cases
3. four bottles of sunscreen
4. a bag of geodes
5. bike repair equipment
6. a stopwatch
7. two packs of gum
8. Toasti Toes, self-activating foot warmer (one pair)
9. a bowl of Werther's
10. Rain-X
11. the dust jacket from the de Kooning biography I borrowed from Greely Myatt four years ago
12. artwork to be framed
13. artwork not in need of framing
14. a chess board
15. photo albums
16. yearbooks
17. diplomas
18. a 2009 road atlas 
19. a Kindle Fire
20. one pipe in an ashtray with a Zippo
21. three candles
22. zip ties
23. a bowl full of keys and pens
24. a lamp
25. T's work badge
26. my keys