Food

Top 10–New York Trip Edition

1. Coney Island
2. Hot dogs at Nathan’s
3. Other Music
4. Strand bookstore
5. Pizza in Penn Station
6. Black & white cookies
7. New York Public Library’s original Winnie-the-Pooh collection
8. Breakfasts at Holiday Inn Express
9. Not having to sit through US men’s world cup loss because I was at a wedding reception
10. The Cloisters

Bottom 3

1. Coney Island Museum (just plain sucked, even if admission was only 99 cents)
2. Humidity
3. Forbidden Planet New York (big letdown after the London store)

Top 10

1. iPad (software still iffy but device is amazing.  Watching Netflix in my office between classes is awesome)
2. M.I.A. (new album should be interesting)
3. Sly and the Family Stone’s Fresh (have been listening to this a lot–forgot how awesome it is)
4. Wind (hey, in the desert, when the wind goes away, the heat arrives–and stays)
5. Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky (even better 2nd time around)
6. Emeralds, Does It Look Like I’m Here?
7. Mutek 2010 (damn–I’ve been wanting to go to this for 10 years, and I haven’t made it yet.  Perhaps next year…)
8. BBC America (has replaced Comedy Central as my default channel)
9. Steak (mmmmm)
10. John Scalzi’s Whatever

Bottom 3

1. Lost finale (massive cop-out to turn the flash-sideways into purgatory.  I never thought I’d say this, but Star Trek: The Next Generation kicked this show’s ass as far as complex, intelligent finales)
2. Angels (Kowbell’s broken leg encapsulation of the season)
3. Oil

Top 10

1. Barak Obama (finally, health care!)
2. Opening Day (Go Angels!)
3. iPad (though since I ordered a 3G model, I won’t be getting mine until late April)
4. Joanna Newsom (yes, I will review Have One on Me–when I have a spare second)
5. Lost
6. Parks & Recreation
7. Caprica
8. Ableton Live
9. Top Gear
10. Ham

Bottom 3

1. Fox “news”
2. Teabaggers (the crazy kind, not the John Waters kind)
3. Spring (where I live, spring is the gateway to the hell that is summer)

A First-Draft Version of FW

Top 10

1. Angels baseball–doing well despite the injuries/tragedies of this season.
2. Mapsadasical–my latest source for excellent music recommendations (and some nifty photos to boot)
3. iPhone 3GS–32 GB storage space means waaaaaay more music in my pocket at all times.  Plus it’s faster and the video camera is excellent!
4. Landon Donovan–Redlands-born US national team player and LA Galaxy star just had a phenomenal Confederation’s Cup and is the dominant player on the US side.
5. Finnegans Wake
6. Pizza Chalet
7. Sleep
8. New Doctor Who
9. Feedly
   
10. Adult Swim in all its glory (from Squidbillies to Venture Brothers to everything else–awesome weirdness galore)

Bottom 3

1. Summer heat (it’s 111 today in El Centro, and it’s not even July 4.  August is usually the hot month)
2. Republicans
3. TV networks that spend more than 5 minutes on Michael Jackson’s death

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Top Ten

1. Water
2. The Beta Band’s The 3 EP’s
3. The Vaselines
4. Planning trip to London in January
5. New Squidbillies
6. Feedly
7. Top Gear (and I’m not even a car person)
8. JG Ballard’s Vermillion Sands
9. Touch
10. Flickr

Bottom Three

1. Grading essays
2. Eating too much junk food
3. Heat

Top 10

1. 30 Rock
2. Easy Star All-Stars, Radiodread
3. Jeremy Davies on Lost
4. Kode9 & the Spaceape, Memories of the Future
5. Venture Brothers 3rd Season on DVD
6. JG Thirlwell, The Music of JG Thirlwell, Vol. 1 (Original Soundtrack)
7. King’s Hawaiian Sweet Rolls
8. Ableton’s Live 8
9. Dub Echoes
10. JG Ballard’s Vermillion Sands

Bottom 3

1. Republicans
2. Hysteria over Swine Flu
3. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (sorry, guys)

Originally published 5/2/09

Here’s a list of 20 places and things I like (in no particular order):

1. Sigur Ros
2. Boards of Canada
3. The LA Angels
4. Children of Men
5. Finnegans Wake
6. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto”
7. The iPhone App Store
8. Rib-eye steak
9. Sunday nights on Adult Swim (Venture Bros, Metalocalypse, Squidbillies…)
10. Sleeping in
11. The British Library
12. Lawrence of Arabia
13. The Daily Show
14. Doctor Who and Blake’s 7
15. Dublin
16. Red Vines
17. Everything Kafka ever wrote
18. Monty Python
19. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
20. Maps

Originally published 7/21/08