“Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.” – Sir Terry Pratchett

where ya headed tonite...where you goin?

Happy 4th of July everyone!

yayyyy the sun is out!

trivia question for the day -- do they have a 4th of july in scotland?

answer -- yes. it comes after July 3rd and before July 5th :)

couple links -- article about twitter and sports and stuff, good globe analysis Keeping you posted

crazy video of the robot doctor helping ppl out, pretty cool -- Hospital robot helps doctors treat distant patients

have good celebrations everyone, peace

cambridge dance party tubes

i've come to peace with twitter

ok i'm not hostile towards twitter any more. it still symbolizes two things to me

1. the death of writing. it's now a special pleasure to read something written by someone that is not in txt form. actually writing something legible has just become a very rare and important thing. i really think this is a shift change in our culture. just look at me! -- i don't even capitalize anything! everyone is affected -- once you start txting and twittering you lose a sort of formality with language (granted, this is possibly a good and bad thing)

2. the ease of blogging. we call it twittering or tweeting, but it's just blogging. i actually think that's kinda cool. if ppl want to maintain a website from their phone, then more power to them. of course it's just one more thing that adds to us being so busy and overwhelmed with technology all the time, but i think that learning from using computers is one of the most important skills in the world today, and using twitter can actually be productive, so i back it.

sun is shining

in my imagination. rain pervades.

i'm swimming in a pool in california. it's 80 degrees. in my imagination...

quiet beeps

"I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever."

- Daniel Webster, 1830

the new mount kimbie ep is called "Sketch On Glass"

here's a review. watch out.

we ride

so i think this website has been submitted to search engines and stuff. bout to blow up. are search engines finding me now? who knows. will this website ever help someone wanting to find something via a search engine? who knows.

well lets see. i can attract search engine traffic. here let me list some keywords. britney spears. michael jackson. there that should do it.

or heck, let's throw in a couple more, see if we can really bring in that traffic -- cuttlefish, vacuums, wyomimg, quantum mechanics, trampolines, fighter jets. there that should be good. all those random keywords might get picked up my some search engine crawler.

but i dont want to get in trouble for using bad methods to drive traffic to my website. so yeah, lets pretend that this blog is about cuttlefish, vacuums, wyoming, quantum mechanics, trampolines, and fighter jets.

it has been all along

here's the first photo i took at the starkey show. it's of a different dj but still pretty cool.

now it looks fine tho

k nevermind

these photos are from sf tweed, you get the idea

"On my flag got red and blue.
Yes I said it red and blue."

my blog ain't loadin right in firefox

looks messed up. might have to switch templates.

firefox 3.5 is pretty excellent tho. finally, a decent web browser. it only took til 2009.

when i drop my cellphone on the ground

when i accidentally drop my cellphone on the ground or elbow it off a table in my room, it harmlessly falls to the ground. there's a case on it. it doesnt break. like an iphone. the screen stays intact. thank goodness.

friday night was the cambridge dance party. i wouldnt have made it if jeff hadnt tipped me off about it. i went last year after finding out about it on boston.com, pretty much outta nowhere. i relied on chance this year too, and thankfully made it.

it was madness. i swear everyone shows up to this thing. more ppl than you can imagine. they close down a part of mass ave, get a professional soundsystem, all these crazy lights, its awesome. there are 4 huge speaker stanchions (ooooh good word, almost as good as evince), images projected on city hall, a dj booth, etc.

i showed up after 9 or something, the guy played michael jackson the whole time, which was pretty awesome, and a fitting tribute. it's sad that he passed, but it was good that we celebrated his life and music.

so yeah, there were more young ppl out in the middle of the street than at anywhere else in greater boston from about 7-11pm on friday night. they have to shut it down at 11pm cause there's a senior center right there.

i showed up with matt and adam, we danced a bunch, watched some breakdancing, sang along, watched it rain, watched the rain miraculously disappear, etc. there are 3 youtube videos that ill post in case you want to check it out some more

later!

"trying to think of LL lines in the back of my head"

rap lyrics again. this might become a theme.

i went and saw Starkey at goodlife bar in boston on wednesday night. the starkbot. the starkbass. the man of seclusiasis. the man from illadelphia. the legend from mary anne hobbs's generation bass show.

going in, i knew that the bar was high. this show had the potential to be better than the Caspa show that i saw last year, but it would be a tall order.

the winner? Starkey, by a nose. or a record. or a laptop. no matter -- he killed it. dropped exclusive tunes, got on the mic, got the crowd fired up, played straight for an hour and a half, very high energy. had the place thumping.

though it was raining, a good crowd showed up. rowdy and loud and amped. i took some photos that ill post later. here's the terrible flyer (not just my opinion, the boston dubstep djs felt the same way).

it was Starkey's first show in Boston, so we had to show him how we get down. i screamed a lot. i tried not to elbow anyone. a speaker blew out suddenly but came back to life, Starkey accidentally shut off his system at one point, but it was an amazing set with many highlights.

i talked to dj alex incyde for a while. we talked about hotflush recordings (the label he works on), online publishing, the north shore, nyc, sub.fm, bedroom broadcasting, etc. dj pandai'a dropped a brand new mount kimbie tune. incredible.

here's the link for hotflush. they've gotten a lot of attention with mount kimbie. i really feel that mount kimbie is revolutionary and making their own sound.

Hotflush Recordings

i'm very lucky to live in boston where i get to see some of the best dubstep djs in the world, though Starkey says that he plays "street bass." his gutter music is chock full of thick bass and big beats. a night i wont forget

davesplat.com

it's official -- i've registered a domain. which you might ask? what else...

davesplat.com

it's been fun doing this blog and having ppl read it. i wanna give a shoutout to the top readers/non creepers -- you know who you are. i'd post your names but i'm actually not even entirely sure who reads this anymore.

please support me by commenting, emailing, etc. i actually have an email address @davesplat.com now, but i dont feel like putting it on the blog. so, if you dont have my email address and want to get in touch with me, please just post a comment.

thanks yall. couldn't have done it without you (oh yeah and im allowed to feel particularly good about maintaining a blog and not letting it die because now you all have twitter and i cant even understand what's going with all the @'s and stuff. it doesnt make any sense. but please keep it up, cause ive started checking yall out.)

this blog is a creative outlet for me, it lets me be weird, and it helps to have a responsive audience. so crush me, cause it's the best kind of motivation

and in the spirit of randomness, here's the first google image result for davesplat. this is not me, but it's still a dave, and he's still a splat.

peace

-d

there was a soccer game yesterday

one team lost. one team won. i may write about it later, but i just read a couple terrible writeups about the game, so i'm just gonna let us all enjoy the moment for a bit before i chime in. best to just criticize bad sports writing rather than produce your own.

misteeryus

party all dudes party jake party bens. sleep sleep back to sleep. rain rain mist rain. humid humid sticky.

and when we left, and it was all, i had to go, on my way, i was just, it was good, 9:48, out of bed, catching up on, whenever, show up at, on our way, hi im, here take, do you want, man im, you guys got, with, lets, whatup, hi!, take this, i cant, i need to, my knees, the loudest, what time, its late, thanks for, still, just, make us wait, all over you, rewire, me in, stay, after dinner, in front, water, good job, to think, look tired, comin from, out.

life is a game of chance of precipitation

haha! had to get that one out there

also, Mr. Kanye West has taken over Mr. 6Blocc as my favorite artist. i realized that last night. kanye is ahead of everyone. i really feel like he's always ahead of the game, ahead of the media, ahead of entertainment, ahead of everyone else. he's ahead of new york, he's ahead of la, etc. not sure if that makes much sense.

but if you listen to him its like he's from the future. fast forward.

the hollow tree

rainbow-colored raindrops cling to branches and plop in myriad hues on forest floor.

the edges of numbers become fractals when magnified.

beat matching blends dual vibrations into a shimmering thump.

Let me- Let me- Let me talk to ya

here's a great photo of Rena and Jed getting married. and there's Gabe, marrying them, as a justice of the peace of the great state of Vermont. what a beautiful photo.

im still not feelin 100 percent, weather is muggy, but at least it isnt raining nonstop. went to atwoods and sox game tonight with family, good times. dice k is struggling tho. totally cause he did the world baseball classic

oh well. at least letting daisuke win the world baseball classic for Japan made a lot of people in japan happy. like, millions of people. i guess thats cool. theyre down with boston.

I- I- I talk that

illllllness

i'm illlllllllll.

i'm a little sick, not feeling so great. just fighting something, im not in rough shape or anything, im starting to sound a lil like a frog tho.

kg and big baby will get me amped and help me kick this thing

bluegrass at the cantab and way too many links

went and saw bluegrass at the cantab with arthur last night and some friends. bumped into some friends on the way out. arthur made dinner. amazing. a great night for which i thanked him.

i have a bunch of stuff that ive been saving (slash starring emails that i send to myself for later posting). i dono why i hold on to these things for so long then finally put them up months later. but better late than never

first, go check out Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds. you just enter in an address or some text and it abstracts it and colors the words and stuff. i did one for my blog but it wasnt very exciting, but ill try it again and post the image.

second, enjoy this link One Greg Oden, 365 Days Project. this professional photographer took a photo every day with a greg oden action figure. the captions are amazing. i really really liked this one. found it via 365 days with an inanimate Greg Oden

third, pure fun silliness - Dickensurl.com. enter in a URL and it "shortens" it with a dickens quote. just tried it with my blog address and got this http://dickensurl.com/b0c4/Oh_gracious_why_wasnt_I_born_old_and_ugly. you know those url shortening things? i like this more than bitly or whatever the other ones are :)

fourth, very sad but necessary link - AP poll: Most students stressed, some depressed. it's a long article and not very exciting, but the gist is that an enormous percentage of college students are depressed. plain and simple. like, hundreds of thousands of kids it has to be. makes you wonder what kind of resources are available to them on campus, and how easy it is for them to ask for/get help

some more quick ones: Over the Wall - Abstract City Blog (artsy rendition of the berlin wall, its good to not forget about stuff like this)

Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud. i use the tagline "a blog to be read aloud" because i think it's kind of funny, and because my Dad used to tell me to read stuff like poetry aloud, that it's the only way it can really be understood. i can't really state anything unequivocal about reading aloud, because i honestly dont do it that much and i dont read enough poetry, but its something to keep in mind

that's it for now. i hate to overwhelm, but this is the only way to post some stuff that impressed me. phew, im out of breath.

cya

I have to admit i love the title

a new poem by Rena Mosteirin (thanks again!).
originally posted on White Whale Crossing


I have to admit i love the title

(a poem composed of fragments of Davesplat)


First of all, ladies and gentleman,
these boats have like 12 people on them

and they're on the ocean for days and weeks at a time
and there's like no space (the T was crowded but bearable)

and the captain was from Winchester too, believe it or not. Massachusetts.
(Get this -- the coxswain is from Winchester!)

Some guy who just wanted to shoot jump shots with me
went and got his shoes.
A good day (except the celtics lost, we're not gonna talk about it)

and i sound nothing like Yeezy.
This song rules.

There was an enormous oil tanker right in the middle of it all,
make it your desktop and you'll be able to get through the offseason.

Jeff: Doin' Work

Jeff graduated from Union yesterday. the commencement was magnificent. we sat under a tree so we did not have to shield our faces from the sun and we did not get sunburned. Jeff was happy, he showed me the Hug Bot, it was all very lovely.

Dad and I booked it on the drive home, and now I'm back, tired from getting up so early yesterday, but feelin good.

here's the man himself, just past the steps of the Nott Memorial, on the way to walkin across that stage. (note the yellow tassel -- it's cause he got anthro honors! who's the man...)

Congratulations Jeff. you've put in a lot of hard work, just like PJ Brown :)

oh yeah, Demers suggested a link. it's cool check it out. this guy has been starting a new blog every day, for like a long time. i think hes doing it every day for a year. man, that must be hard! lotta upkeep! hard to come up with new and fresh content all the time haha

anyway here it is. the guy's really funny and he had me crackin up (did Demers teach him everything he knows?). just scroll past the first post - Year of the Blog

fingertips fingertips mouth

computer monitors are flat skins without mouths. they silently wince when pinched. changing the resolution makes their eyes dilate. computer monitors blink on shut down.

an overcast day muddles surfaces. weak light whitens then darkens porcelain. the clouds sunbathe and turn over to tan their backs. below, we stumble down dark stairs at night.

a music library holds wax recordings of extinct voices. the harmonies and choruses are etched in black vinyl, captured like a wood carving. a needle pricks the wax and sound drips. the scratchy plops collect in amoeba-shaped pools on the floor. when poked, a soft dulcet center yields to the touch.

one dimensional echoes swirl in canyons with indian ghosts. three dimensional echoes bounce off nightclub walls, eroding voices and hearing. a two dimensional echo is a single film frame. 24 echoes per second produce an illusion of movement, catching the eyes attention like a peripheral predator.

hi everybody

i have some big news!

no i dont. gotcha.

that was a little cruel. i dont mean to tease, but...im feeling impish

weather sucks in new england. it was nice briefly on sunday. now, crap. i hope that the weekend is nice.

i'm going to union to jeffs graduation on saturday and sunday. so happy for the lil bro. cant really believe hes done. all grown up now, right?

he's taller than me, but i still get to call him little. forever. haha

Rena wrote an excellent poem, again using this blog for inspiration. i will post it later. this is the 3rd time she's done this, and i'm blessed that she does this art for me. i'm a pretty lucky guy

the photo below is from a nytimes article about grilling hogs in south carolina the old fashioned way. i always read these kind of articles...but never actually get to eat the food they talk about. blast!

i cant do it this weekend, but the weekend after i wanna go to multiple farmers markets, eat local!

magic won last night. the caffeine in chocolate keeps me awake. 15 minutes in a hot tub can change your world.

i wanna go swimming

funny band names

this is all from the WMBR concert report. i hope that one day i come up with a band name as good as these...

We Met Aliens

Hot Protestants

Ledyard

Ribs

When Girls Kiss Girls

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head

Totem

He Is Legend

Black Market Hero

Previously on Lost

you can see it

hey. ive had to take down some blogs from The Internet. these blogs were either not being updated or i didnt feel that i was very close to the person whose blog it was.

i also read this nytimes article about ppl who are stopping blogging, realizing that it isnt always a pursuit with much of a reward. i wasnt gonna post the link cause its kind of a downer (focuses mostly on the negatives of keeping a blog without much of a purpose) but here it is

Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest

i have to admit i love the title tho.

so, are there any blogs out there that im missing? do you have any friends that i might know that have great blogs that should go up here? i just feel bad taking blogs down. it's like im chopping down trees, but noone hears them!

anything you want from me gotta wait

hey whats up. im really into rap lyrics lately (cool story). have you heard ego by kanye west? that's my jam right now. actually put in some effort memorizing the words. i sound nothing like yeezy. ive never really been into lyrics, always preferred the beat, but kanye is a genius, cant ignore the man

cape yesterday was awesome. did a little kayaking and sitting in the sun, hit up the beach. now i am a langosta! i am red all over. kinda ridiculous. thank god i had some moisturizer with aloe vera. i purposely didnt put sunblock on cause i wanted to get some color, but boy am i red now. its all good tho, had a wonderful weekend

i wanted to post some photos of washington winning the iras this weekend. the backdrop is so beautiful that you gotta check it out.

also, something really cool about the winning washington freshman boat (possibly the fastest freshman boat EVER [i think theyre the fastest freshman boat ever -- they had two german national team rowers and had the fastest time on saturday, faster than the 1v!])

get this -- the coxswain is from winchester! and she went to winsor! too cool. she's the redhead in the photos below holding the trophy up. her name is Laura Denman. congrats Laura!

also posted photos of the varsity eight, the team, and the coach getting the gatorade treatment (ah memories of paul pierce and doc rivers).

also, drew, if youre reading this, i know ive been flaking on you, but were gonna chill, soon. im gonna call you later tonight and you should come over and watch the game tuesday night or thursday night if its not too late

i also watched the nba finals game last night. disappointing. after gortat and someone else missed like 4 free throws in a row i thought to myself "this game is going to be close no matter what." sure enough it was so close that it went into overtime (even tho i swear to god i saw courtney lees last second attempt drop in before it bounced wide)

aright. looks like im doing a decent job of blogging again, gonna try to keep it up. whats up with yall?

hello

hey whats up. im on cape cod, and lovin it. im comin back later today. we just paddled around and rowed around a pond a little bit, about to go to the beach

its beautiful outside. sunny and 75 degrees. couldnt be nicer.

watched the horse race yesterday. i picked dunkirk to win, who led the whole race, then got edged by summer sam or whatever the winning horses name at the end

i also watched the national rowing championships online on a live webcast over the last several days. its been a ton of fun to watch the IRAs live online, and the video and audio commentary were great. i watched washington come from behind to beat cal yesterday, an incredible sprint that brought the huskies to the gold medal stand

the races were at lake natoma in sacramento california at the base of the sierra nevadas. the backdrop was stunning

the hours i will never get back

there are hours, ungodly amounts of hours, that i will never get back. how did i spend these hours?

sitting on a couch.

watching basketball.

this is what afflicts me...

here's some good stuff from the yahoo basketball sports blog (which i really like). the best part? -- some of these jokes you would only get if you watched all of the ads and the between-the-timeouts-garbage during the agonizingly long 3 hour games. also, it's funnier if youve watched kobe doin work (ive watched...most of it)

the 2009 nba playoffs has been a ton of fun to watch. i've watched a lot of the games with clynton, just us posted up, somehow watching most of a marathon like game (having the dvr helps).

my fav moments/memories so far -- big baby hitting the game winner, courtney lee dunking on everyone, and anything the birdman does (dunks and blocks, preferably). what are yours?

i also included 3 photos at the bottom of that downhill race in england where they chase the big roll of cheese. i think it was in big shots in the boston globe recently, but i cant find the link now

from Too much Rod Benson: Amazing

"Now it's time for the NBA Finals and I wonder what craziness awaits? Maybe Jordan Farmar slaps Rafer Alston just because. Maybe Dwight Howard hits his first legendary game winner. Maybe it's a three.

Maybe Kobe misses Game 1 due to the shower he needs to take after LeBron's talcum powdered their whole house.

Maybe LeBron moves out of Kobe's house altogether and rents a copy of "Return of the King." He'll be back.

Maybe Spike Lee drops "J.J. Redick: Shootin' Treys." It follows him as he shoots treys in practice. It'd probably be as interesting as "Doin' Work" was.

Maybe a "Reggie's Mailbag" spot will be witty and funny."

still need some time

hello

hey what's up. here's another cool photo of that volvo ocean race. i cant tell you how cool it was to see that in person, to see these huge boats with 9 story masts actually racing

well i havent been writing hardly anything. at least ive still been posting stuff and still maintaining a blog (ahem roy murray and jeff. what are you, twittering? (: )

so i knew i finally had to write something. here it is.

this weekend was lovely. Rena and Jed's wedding was fantastic. I saw a bunch of people that i hadnt seen in years, made some connections, had a blast. i danced and got people to dance. i shouted and lauged and got people to shout and laugh (or at least it felt that way (: ). now i'm back in boston, it's raining, i'm tired, but everything's ok

i've been super busy the last three months, but i also feel like i've grown up a lot. i feel like i'm making better decisions, and being more intelligent about stuff and not saying stupid stuff. maybe. but i think im onto something.

it only took me 26 years to grow up. is that a long time? i feel just like a child, and i am a child, but i feel like ive matured and am doing things better. i know these all sound like generalizations, but i just wanted to share that i feel like ive changed, for the better

there's so much i want to link to and write about now. i'm going to collect it all and get it together in one post. but here it is, finally jump starting some writing.

theres a lot going on, all the time, and its hard to keep up. actually, i know what ill leave you with. here's a nytimes article/blog post. i'll give you the link and my fav part. i wonder, what is happiness to you? is it lying in a boat with your eyes closed, floating and not worrying about anything? is it lying on a beach, listening to the waves, totally relaxed? is it something else? lemme know.

i think happiness for me could be many things. one of them is certainly lying down with eyes closed in the sun (matt hamilton taught me the virtues of sleep in the sun)

Happy Like God

first, from Rousseau:

"If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being there, with no need to remember the past or reach into the future, where time is nothing to it, where the present runs on indefinitely but this duration goes unnoticed, with no sign of the passing of time, and no other feeling of deprivation or enjoyment, pleasure or pain, desire or fear than the simple feeling of existence, a feeling that fills our soul entirely, as long as this state lasts, we can call ourselves happy, not with a poor, incomplete and relative happiness such as we find in the pleasures of life, but with a sufficient, complete and perfect happiness which leaves no emptiness to be filled in the soul."

next, from Critchley:

"Rousseau is describing the experience of floating in a little rowing boat on the Lake of Bienne close to Neuchâtel in his native Switzerland...On the way to the island, he would pull in the oars and just let the boat drift where it wished, for hours at a time. Rousseau would lie down in the boat and plunge into a deep reverie...Look at what Rousseau writes above: floating in a boat in fine weather, lying down with one’s eyes open to the clouds and birds or closed in reverie, one feels neither the pull of the past nor does one reach into the future. Time is nothing, or rather time is nothing but the experience of the present through which one passes without hurry, but without regret."

in vermont for the weekend

Rena's getting married! yayyy!! congrats to Rena and Jed. i'm at dartmouth and will be back in on sunday. cheers yall

Spike Drops a Genius Bomb

From Homecoming

"I never was satisfied with my social life in America. However, I had a wonderful social life in India, with plenty of friends and plenty of invitations to go out, usually more than I had time for...

...When you travel, you have to accept the unique limitations of each place and enjoy the unique pleasures of each place. Social life in India is rich, fulfilling, and easy; but materially, India is poor--there's too many people crammed into too little space, so not everyone can consume like Americans do. The activities of daily life are more difficult: eating, transportation, staying clean and healthy, etc. So, in India the senses often scream for satisfaction. If Indians are materially deprived, Americans are equally deprived (and equally unaware of it), though in a different way--they're socially deprived. It's useful to have nice, big houses, but there is a downside to them, because walls keep people apart. American toys like Blackberries, iphones, and ipods are also nice, but they bring people away from the social life around them."

what im feelin right now

hey, you gotta check out this artist, Hudson Mohawke. especially her song with Nadsroic from the Room Mist EP. sounds really good on speakers or headphones

just scroll down on this page and click the play button next to Nadsroic - "Room Mist" - (produced by Hudson Mohawk)

LuckyMe presents NADSROIC & HUDSON MOHAWKE - "Room Mist" EP

that song rules (as do the other ones, and hudson mohawke is really good)

k later

make this your desktop background

trust me

celtics lost, but a great season. click on this photo and save the full image and make it your desktop and you'll be able to get through the offseason

i saw this and it was awesome

ill tell you more about it later, but i saw these boats race out of boston harbor, it was incredible, and there was an enormous oil tanker right in the middle of it all

Fog and flub mar start of yacht race

and here's the photo gallery which you should def check out. these boats have like 12 people on them or something and they're on the ocean for days and weeks at a time and there's like no space

Volvo Ocean Race

hrm

hey, i'm taking a little time off, i'll be back atcha soon

oh yeah and i saw the limits of control and it was very disappointing.

on the other hand, the celtics are playing great, and the weather's nice.

k cya

hey, a couple things

first of all, ladies and gentleman, i present to you, The Hunt for Gollum (2009)

Watch it on TheHuntForGollum.com

pretty terrific! let me know if you like it, it's worth watching, 40 minute independent movie, that looks a lot like lord of the rings, except for the bad audio mixing (all the human characters whisper and are hard to hear). besides that, it looks scarily like the real lord of the rings. good times!

kentucky derby and celtics game yesterday were awesome

weather on saturday was nice, i went out to the basketball court and some guy who just wanted to shoot jump shots with me went and got his shoes and threw down a dunk from way above the rim. pretty sick, i didnt see it coming, hopefully see him out again there soon



oh yeah, and WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS

cool live headhunter video

not that i watch a lot of internet video, but i like this one

Headhunter LIVE AV Dubstep / Techno Performance @ Stuk, Belgium from VectorMeldrew.

Edited version of the first ever Headhunter live dubstep/techno audio visual set that took place at the Stuk arts centre in Belgium on the 14th February 2009. This set was part of the artefact festival.



Visuals performeced live by Alex Donne (http://www.vectormeldrew.com)

night vision

hey, i'm gonna try blogging again. lemme right the ship...

this is a cool rusko album cover.

yeah, it's been a good week. last sunday we grilled! fantastic. serious charcoal grilling. grilled up a ton of food. i grilled chicken and cheeseburgers. wonderful. looking forward to more of it this summer. (summer? could it be?)

yeah it's nice outside. but of course tmrw im getting my car serviced, so ill be stuck inside reading a book for an hour or two (actually not such a bad thing, reading time is a precious commodity these days)

i've found a couple books that i wanna get on interlibrary loan (buying books is not sustainable, but im not sure how easy these are gonna be to get from natick or wherever they are)

The Inner History of Devices, by Sherry Turkle

America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat, by Harvey Blatt

i dont think theres much point in linking to books that i just THINK are cool but havent actually read yet. doesnt show much initiative on my part

yup. last two celtics games have been awesome. actually, the second game was one of the most exciting games ive ever seen. (then donny marshall reminded me that ray allen and ben gordon were guarding each other, so they might have just been LETTING each other hit all those ridiculous shots)

oh yeah i briefly posted about the limits of control a while ago. this is the new jarmusch movie, i think its getting a limited (! hah) release on may 1st, and I hope this includes boston. i cant wait to see it.

its the boston independent film festival this week. i blew it and didnt get tickets for Children of Invention, but i'm gonna rally and go see Breaking Upwards on sunday night with kate and chris and rob, so thatll be good. then its just a gametime decision on whether or not i go see a movie tmrw. unclear at this point

hmmmm, what else is going on.

warm weather

indie film festival

celtics

i need a haircut, bad.

i wanna go bike riding in the fells tmrw but not sure im gonna pull it off.

k ill tty tmrw

a good day (in some ways)

a good day (except the celtics lost, we're not gonna talk about it)

i got to go to the red sox game. Sam took me and it was fun. there were really drunk ppl in front of us (surprise). before we left i realized i had unconsciously been kicking the person in front of me. oh well.

the sox beat the orioles, 6-4. i've got a couple photos i could upload from my phone. good times tho, not cold or rainy. except the seats were so small, like, about as wide as my laptop. so i had to stand up after every half inning. i made it tho, and the T was crowded but bearable.

the Dartmouth freshmen heavyweight crew beat bu and rutgers. this is the first time that any Dartmouth crew has beat BU in a while. definitely a long time since the freshman did. we did my freshman year, so hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.


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