the desire for a brown dog, and other such relevant things.
on new years eve, keri and i sat by the fire, and made a list of 100 things about ourselves. the goal was for them to come out as quickly as possible, and completely devoid of thought. well, not devoid of thought, but the intent was for them not to be premeditated. a stream of consciousness if you will. though a rather long read, my list is below. {click on the green} why i feel compelled to post this list here, is rather a mystery to me, but such it is. soon to follow this post, will be another long one about the art and obsession of creating the "perfect" mix cd. stay tuned. oh yes, and happy new year~
1. I want a brown dog quite badly
2. james is one of my favorite bands
3. I prefer wool socks to cotton, but get annoyed when my feet sweat
4. I was born in redwood city, and wish that they hadn’t cut down all of the redwood trees there
5. my dad has lost a good majority of his hair
6. my mom is missing a good majority of her stomach
7. I play guitar, but not really as well as I’d like to
8. I find myself fascinated by the phenomenon of shemales
9. I have a close friend named Christian, that I miss deeply, who is not religious
10. I like to run cold water on my face in the mornings before i do anything else
11. I have a friend named ben, who aside from being a great writer, does not care one way or another if he runs cold water on his face in the mornings, a fact that I discovered while camping with him in the woods.
12. though I don’t like driving, I sometimes miss moving down the highway on the way to work at randi’s house
13. while I’m not all that inherently good at math, I like it quite a bit in some strange way
14. I just took the GRE and didn’t do as well as I’d hoped, and even though I don’t believe it is a measure of intelligence, I wish that I had done better, as I would feel smarter.
15. I often tell people that I speak Spanish better than I really do
16. I miss di-di {my grandfather}
17. I love really good red wine, and want to have enough money to buy it all of the time
18. when I turned 18, I went to the strip clubs in san Francisco, and found myself rather disgusted, though I wanted to be turned on.
19. I have on more than one occasion sat looking at porn for three hours.
20. I don’t like parties very much
21. I don’t want to lose my hair
22. I fart more than I’d like to admit, and most of them smell awful.
23. I want to live in Spain {again} at some point in my life
24. I’m terrified of dying.
25. I would prefer to shovel manure {preferably chicken-shit} than snow
26. when I was younger, I used to wish I was not white.
27. I want to go out to a Mexican restaurant for dinner, but there aren’t any around here
28. I feel bad for the people in asia right now, but not bad enough to really do anything, which makes me sad
29. I miss my friend greg a lot more than I admit
30. I don’t like the majority of the pants that I own
31. I miss playing soccer, and wish that I had made it to the world cup
32. I want a vespa
33. I want to learn how to speak French
34. I don’t want my fingers to get all big and puffy like my fathers, as I’m afraid it will diminish my guitar playing ability.
35. I want a pair of red tennis shoes
36. I don’t understand why it seems that my fingernails seem to collect dirt so much more quickly and thoroughly than most peoples’
37. I wish I could go out to eat at honga’s restaurant in telluride tonight
38. I often think about bonnie boek when I brush my teeth with toms of maine cinnamint toothpaste, as I used it at her house for the first time
39. I will probably be really bummed out if I get rejected by ALL of the grad schools I’m applying to
40. I want to hike the pacific crest trail someday.
41. I like the idea of being a surfer, but don’t really want to surf
42. I enjoyed the film pulp fiction immensely, while keri did not, though we didn’t see it together
43. I used to like eating peanuts with granny and di-di
44. I wish my car was a volkswagon passat
45. I like to watch cats lick their paws
46. I confess to spending many years wishing that my cock was really big, as I somehow equate that with greatness, or rather the lack thereof with mediocrity
47. keri’s smile is the best I have ever seen in my life
48. I want a blowjob right now
49. I love my parents, but probably don’t express it enough.
50. I wish I could go out with ben jahn tonight and get drunk
51. I discovered while watching the documentary about Motown {and the funk brothers} that I really do like the bass lines on that music quite a bit
52. I wish I had toured with jane’s addiction
53. though my hair is thinning, and it would probably look crappy, I sometimes want my long hair back
54. I like the color green a lot
55. I do not like the name jane, as it sounds too proper
56. I wish I could be really fat for a day to see what it feels like
57. I have made the switch from boxers to boxer briefs, a thing I could never have expected, and am quite happy about it
58. di-di’s next door neighbor was named bob
59. I like broccoli
60. I greatly prefer showers to baths
61. pizza is one of my favorite foods
62. if it wasn’t bad for you, I would probably smoke cigarettes now and then, especially in the winter
63. I’m glad that I’m as tall as I am
64. I wish my stomach was a six pack, but it doesn’t really bother me that much that it’s not
65. I just thought about crystal, the woman who gave mike and I a ride in her truck, in Nebraska, and wished I could tell her that I admire her strength. {long story}
66. I want to ride my bike across Europe
67. I don’t really collect anything, other than my toe and fingernails, but sort of wish that I did
68. I wish I was a better cook
69. I enjoy listening to music and walking down a relatively busy street at night
70. red is currently one of the colors I like most
71. I don’t much care for the way I “suck in,” when I laugh
72. I’ve only used the word “baby” in a song once, as I usually find that it sounds ridiculous
73. I love it when keri say the word ridiculous
74. I wonder from time to time what jeff mcdowell is doing, and it makes me miss my childhood
75. if there is one musician that I never got to see that I would like to, it would be jeff buckley
76. I sometimes make it sound to people like jeff buckley was a great singer but a mediocre guitarist, when really I think he was amazing at both…it helps me to feel less mediocre
77. I like my moms sister quite a bit
78. my aunt lois is really overweight, but seems happier and more alive than many other people in the family
79. I think jeff buckley’s lyrics were, for the most part, quite bad
80. I don’t think that I would like the taste of catfood
81. I love gary larson comics
82. I do not love charles shcultz comics presently, but remember a time when I did.
83. I love to watch logs burn in the fire.
84. I used to love hotdogs {most recently veggie dogs} but since mike put them in the pasta, I find myself turned off by them at the moment. {no offense mike}
85. I miss mike.
86. I miss reid, and wish I could sit on the floor with him and conlon drinking wine and playing music tonight.
87. I miss new york.
88. I’m really glad that I chased some stranger down the street, {in new york} then accused him of stealing my jacket, when he had not done so.
89. I may shave my head again someday, even though I hate the process of growing it out.
90. whenever I hear fugazi, it makes me want to play electric guitar.
91. I am six feet tall, but wish that I was six foot three, which I know is silly.
92. I wish that I needed reading glasses, {why???} but would prefer it if I never had to have another eye exam again, as it was a miserable experience for me, {passing out} a fact of which I am not proud.
93. I typically don’t like the blues. {music}
94. one of my favorite things about mookie {one of our cats} is his overly large paws.
95. I despise the band phish, and would probably like them more {though not much} if they spelled the name correctly
96. I love ice cream
97. I don’t like the fact that ben and jerry’s has a flavor named after the band named phish
98. I really enjoy clipping my toenails
99. I think that Aron Ralston {the guy who cut his hand off} is a really bad writer.
100. I love keri smith a lot
Posted by jeff pitcher at January 4, 2005 10:52 AM
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and happy new year to both of you, too! =)
i had a brown dog once. gorgeous short-haired sleek copper, actually. green eyes. Catcher was his name. still think about him all the time when i walk around parks and lakes, wishing he was with me still.
okay, on a happy note...
wow, 100. that's A LOT. i could barely come up with the usual count of 10, and all completely burdened with too much thought rather than devoid, unfortunately. after racking my brains out, i came up with only a handful (and that's pushing it)...and yes, though we all have our own share of odd ones (and i'd love to hear some of the wildest ones you and keri came up with "devoid of thought"), i have to say one of mine is very simple, something that more than 75% of the american population already do regularly and with such ease, yet for me, it would be the greatest feat...
what is it?
to eat red meat again after nearly 10 years of being scared sh*tless of it. no, no, i didn't avoid red meat for animal rights or other political reasons. i simply couldn't stomach it after my pre-med college years when i was required to do research on a foul-smelling, formaldehyde-preserved cadeavor at UCSF as part of my internship. i have NO IDEA how doctors, detectives and professionals of the like conduct autopsies on rotting flesh. (oh, i'm getting nauseous just thinking about it.) laugh if you will (and justly so; it's not something i'm proud of), but i can't even handle tv series like CSI or ER. yes, i'm a sad, pathetic case.
anyway, yes, yes, eat red meat again. get more iron. one can take only so much spinach as an iron-rich substitute.
oh boy.
sh*t, i'm scared.
anyway, sorry for the melodrama on such a minor thing. but i must do this or come this april, my instructors at Le Cordon Bleu will chew me up and spit me right back out without an ounce of remorse. they will burn me at the stake for even THINKING of not incorporating the use of (and having an appreciation for) red meat in traditional french dishes like chateau-briand or filet-mignon or god knows what other bloody red meat dishes they expect us to spit out by the dozen in a matter of minutes.
jeff - i remember you were vegetarian. are you still?
sincerely,
-b
p.s. and the ever so typical - to lose 10 lbs.
Posted by: Brina A. Johnson at January 6, 2005 04:19 PM
finally had the chance to read your 100 new year's list.
HILARIOUS. god, i love how it's so "human." love it, love it, love it. good laughs.
gosh, we all have much more in common than we think (or want to admit).
i thirst to surf, but am too chicken to hit bigger waves.
"which" greg? - the old roomie, or old band member (singer)?
i'd rather shovel snow than crusty-caked chicken shit. and it's snowing in seattle now, too. lovin' it!
i wish i was 2 inches taller...be 5'8" like Annette. then i wouldn't have to clumsily tippy-toe to kiss my husband.
cooking is one of my best skills, but only b/c i eat way too much (and don't quite know how to pass gas, so my belly aches all the time).
my husband's a carefree atheist, and i'm a guilt-ridden catholic.
red meat still makes me gag.
i don't get why my husband has 6 different Nirvana CD's. aren't they all the same freakin' classic songs???, just recycled???? and i don't get the thrill of his old Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, nor Presidents of the US CD's.
i'm a geek - i love shakespeare.
i love live local bands, and no matter how shitty they really are, they all sound good after 2-3 pints of hard cider or beer.
i think Canadians are so friendly, are misunderstood by ignorant Americans, and have a wickedly great sense of humor!
i love my husband, Scotty, so so much.
Posted by: Brina A. Johnson at January 10, 2005 05:02 PM
