1.20.2007

experiment: low-key christmas

which you really wouldn't guess seeing as how while i'm typing this, my mom is pulling two cheesecakes out of the ovens, adding to the apparently inadequate dessert fare we already have: pumpkin cake, oatmeal cookie dough (does anyone actually like cookies better than dough?) toffee, and about 10 half gallons of ice cream, none of which are coffee flavored. but you see, this is post-christmas and is surprisingly high-key and high-production in light of the christmas trio of me, mom, and dad. i don't think we've ever had a christmas with less than 6 people, so it was a pretty quiet house. but super relaxing after a really weird and semi-stressful run toward graduation. as...
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1.04.2007

experimental art(s)

2006: The AwardsBOOKfirst place: bilgere's haywirehonorable mentions: paper cathedrals, letters to a young poet, meditations in an emergencylet-down: the fact that i've been trying to read karenina for like four months and am only approx. 50 pages inFILMfirst place: the three burials of melquiades estrada honorable mentions: jesus camp, inconvenient truth, thank you for smoking, you can count on me, eat drink man womanlet-downs: apocolypto, little miss sunshineALBUMfirst place: the books "lost and safe"honorable mentions: psapp "the only thing i ever wanted," jóhann jóhansson "englabörn," (band of) annuals "repondez," fleetwood mac "rumours"let-downs: sufjan stevens, arctic...
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