"Preview All" is so key to my everyday lately. I've been craving for new music a lot a lot lately, so I hit the Amazon and get tastes of all these different albums, as needed. I still have this DRM aversion to buying music on iTunes so I've never gotten anything from there besides free items -- even though I know I heard that they were stripping the DRM (for the more part??); Amazon has always been DRM-free, so that's the only place I've ever actually bought digital music. The sound quality sounds good to me, so that helps. I can't really remember a difference with the iTunes ones I have because I think they were all before they started selling them at the higher bitrate....
As of today I've been with my significant other, aka S/O, for ten years. It's gone by unbelievably fast and I'm happier about our relationship now than I was ten years ago (and I was pretty ecstatic about it then ...). I feel like I won the lotto that really counts in the end!
I got to enjoy a delicious pancake omelet next to Jennay Gump yesterday, formerly Ms.
Buttercup ALMOST went unnoticed at Jinky's on Sunset as she dined in her casual jeans, brown Uggs, t-shirt, and hat - but I have a sharp eye. I also noticed her FLAWLESS skin. She was so pretty, you guys. Also dining with her - a dude who gave off a friend vibe.
Also, how many years did this poor lady have to endure restaurant servers cleverly acknowleding her order with, "As you wish." Jesus.
Not a big surprise, but there you go.
Oh-Ten? Two-thousand and ten? Ten? What will you say when you have to say 2010 aloud?
Bruce
So here will be my list for the year, to be updated/added onto as they come to mind:
- Take more pictures/video
- If I had a darkroom setup, I'd love to learn how to develop my own pics and then I would definitely use my T4 more. As it is, using my old digital fuji will suffice for now... until I get that Ricoh...
- I have a Sony miniDV that's sitting in its gun case (the person I bought it from actually gave me the gun case she kept the camera in; it's pretty sweet)
- The caveat to this is that I hate how documenting takes you out of the moment/place, but on the other side is that it can motivate you to go seek them..
- Make more things
- Write more
- Create things -- I wanted to learn some woodcarving, but we'll see how that goes.
- Make some fun websites, just to make them.
- Go on Twitter less
- As Niko and others, including probably everybody reading this, have found out: if you go on Facebook (handled) and Twitter less, the more you can honestly ask people "so, what have you been up to?" as opposed to saying something more along the lines of "so, I saw on fb/twitter that you __________..", which is horribly disgusting as a conversation starter. It translates to "so, I've been lurking you because I haven't had the motivation to have direct contact with you whether through verbal communication telephonically or en vivo." I try not to bring up subjects this way the same way I avoid using the phrase "touch base" like the plague.
- Also, since I don't give up the good in little bites on Twitter, I should have more material to blog..
- Try new exercises
- Works different muscles/muscle groups and adds diversity
- This could also include new/more outdoor activities -- ideally, this would involve rowing a scull boat at some point during the warmer months
- Smile more
- Hatin is so last decade
- Yo. Grow up.
Kenneth over at the Kenneth in the (212) blog posted his commentary about an image of skanky people doing the skank on a train in the NYC Subway system that has, apparently, been making the rounds around the NYC blogsphere.
Interestingly, last year I actually witnessed people having carnal relations on the Times Square Shuttle train. I promise, I saw it with my own eyes so this isn't some kind of ... "A friend of a friend's friend saw these drunk skanky people doing the deed on the train." kind of thing. I personally saw the drunk skanky people actually doing the deed with my very own Asian eyeballs!!! For future reference, if you ever walk up to a waiting subway train car and there are two people at one end of the car and about 30 people at the other end of the car and EVERYBODY'S eyes are glued on the couple at the far end ... The chances are really good that the couple is drunk and doing the DEED!
Also for future reference, NYC is NYC and you should feel perfectly comfortable taking out your cell phone camera and taking a bunch of pics or a short video clip for your blog. Being an out-of-towner, I was a bit hesitant to make such an assertive move and I've regretted it ever since. I have no proof other than my word that I, indeed, have seen people doing the DEED on a train. Sigh ...
Perhaps the very best part of the experience is that New Yorkers are hilarious and after people got over the shock, the running commentary was SO New York ... It was like living an episode of Seinfeld ...
It's a new decade. From now on ... NO REGRETS!!! ... Manners and propriety be damned ... Next time I'm getting those pics or that video!!!
