Another List of Seven Things:
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OK, I've been tagged by both Sophie, and tubaart. Naturally, their lists are similar, but not identical, so I am combining their categories into one . . . MEGA . . . SUPREME . . . 'SEVEN THINGS' LIST.
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Seven things to do before I die:
1. Have a gaggle of babies
2. Skydive
3. Master the art of cooking
4. Complete the Eskrima Serrada curriculum.
5. Be able to do alternating sets of pull-ups and handstand pushups starting with 20 reps and counting down 1 rep for each successive set: (20-20/19-19/18-18 . . . 2-2/1-1)
5a. Be able to do the Crossfit Workout of the Day
6. Read an article about my work in the New York Times
7. Buy my father season tickets (good seats) to see his Jayhawks play ball, and buy him a modest home to stay overnight in when he comes up during the weekend.
Seven Things I cannot do:
1. Write PHP/ASP, ActionScript, or DOM/AJAX
2. Win the DMC competition
3. Run up a wall and do a back flip
4. Take apart and put back together an automatic weapon
5. Understand what the fuck most religious people are really thinking
6. Control other human beings
7. Abandon my integrity
Seven things that attract me to where I live:
1. Sophie
2. Eric and Stephanie, and jessej
2. The gentle spirit of the people, set against the power and majesty of the land.
3. The history of this community
4. Kansas Basketball
5. Summertime!
6. Relative proximity to my family.
7. The fact that my baseline monthly cost of living is less than my rent on a room was in San Francisco.
Seven things I say most often:
1. What the fuck is wrong with white people?
2. ______ looks like ass.
3. She needs Jesus, that's what she needs.
4. Do you need some peppermint tea?
5. Keep your hands up
6. You can't stop Matt Klinemann, you can only hope to contain Matt Klinemann
7. Guns don't kill people, Eric P___ kills people.
Seven beverages that I love:
1. Water
2. Coffee (particularly the fine, fine coffees from the Bay Leaf)
3. Hendrick's Gin martinis, wet and dirty
4. Dr. Pepper
5. Vruit
6. Odwalla Superfood
7. Fat Tire beer
5. Seven books (or series) that I love
1. The Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin; the best novels I've ever read. By a severed head.
2. Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle by Neil Stephensen; the second best novels I've ever read.
3. 500 Years After and The Pheonix Guards by Stephen Brust.
4. Samurai Philosophy: Hagakure and the Book of Five Rings. Let's lump The Art of War into this category.
5. Shamballa Training, Chogyam Trungpa
6. Touching Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
7. The Three Musketeers, by Alexander Dumas
8. Seven Bamboo Tablets of the Cloudy Satchel, by Kwan Saihung
6. Seven movies/dvds I watch over and over again (or would if I had time)
1. Jim West's Fight to Win
2. DJ Q-Bert's Complete Do-It-Yourself Vol 1 Skratching and Vol 2: Skratch Sessions
3. Queen Margot
4. Tombstone
5. Unforgiven
6. Gangs of New York
7. The Simpsons, seasons 1 inifinity
Seven things I would do over and over again (if I had time):
1. Have crazy freaky rabbit sex with the hottest thing since nuclear fission all over the house and this world.
2. Teach gentle people to fight.
3. Scratch records for an adoring public.
4. Revel in clean code and marvel at page-loading times.
5. Play with my goddaughters.
6. Hang with my friends and family.
7. Spill beverages on myself.
<My List Has Theme Music>
Seven things to do before I die:
1. Have a gaggle of babies
2. Skydive
3. Master the art of cooking
4. Complete the Eskrima Serrada curriculum.
5. Be able to do alternating sets of pull-ups and handstand pushups starting with 20 reps and counting down 1 rep for each successive set: (20-20/19-19/18-18 . . . 2-2/1-1)
5a. Be able to do the Crossfit Workout of the Day
6. Read an article about my work in the New York Times
7. Buy my father season tickets (good seats) to see his Jayhawks play ball, and buy him a modest home to stay overnight in when he comes up during the weekend.
Seven Things I cannot do:
1. Write PHP/ASP, ActionScript, or DOM/AJAX
2. Win the DMC competition
3. Run up a wall and do a back flip
4. Take apart and put back together an automatic weapon
5. Understand what the fuck most religious people are really thinking
6. Control other human beings
7. Abandon my integrity
Seven things that attract me to where I live:
1. Sophie
2. Eric and Stephanie, and jessej
2. The gentle spirit of the people, set against the power and majesty of the land.
3. The history of this community
4. Kansas Basketball
5. Summertime!
6. Relative proximity to my family.
7. The fact that my baseline monthly cost of living is less than my rent on a room was in San Francisco.
Seven things I say most often:
1. What the fuck is wrong with white people?
2. ______ looks like ass.
3. She needs Jesus, that's what she needs.
4. Do you need some peppermint tea?
5. Keep your hands up
6. You can't stop Matt Klinemann, you can only hope to contain Matt Klinemann
7. Guns don't kill people, Eric P___ kills people.
Seven beverages that I love:
1. Water
2. Coffee (particularly the fine, fine coffees from the Bay Leaf)
3. Hendrick's Gin martinis, wet and dirty
4. Dr. Pepper
5. Vruit
6. Odwalla Superfood
7. Fat Tire beer
5. Seven books (or series) that I love
1. The Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin; the best novels I've ever read. By a severed head.
2. Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle by Neil Stephensen; the second best novels I've ever read.
3. 500 Years After and The Pheonix Guards by Stephen Brust.
4. Samurai Philosophy: Hagakure and the Book of Five Rings. Let's lump The Art of War into this category.
5. Shamballa Training, Chogyam Trungpa
6. Touching Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
7. The Three Musketeers, by Alexander Dumas
8. Seven Bamboo Tablets of the Cloudy Satchel, by Kwan Saihung
6. Seven movies/dvds I watch over and over again (or would if I had time)
1. Jim West's Fight to Win
2. DJ Q-Bert's Complete Do-It-Yourself Vol 1 Skratching and Vol 2: Skratch Sessions
3. Queen Margot
4. Tombstone
5. Unforgiven
6. Gangs of New York
7. The Simpsons, seasons 1 inifinity
Seven things I would do over and over again (if I had time):
1. Have crazy freaky rabbit sex with the hottest thing since nuclear fission all over the house and this world.
2. Teach gentle people to fight.
3. Scratch records for an adoring public.
4. Revel in clean code and marvel at page-loading times.
5. Play with my goddaughters.
6. Hang with my friends and family.
7. Spill beverages on myself.
The seven people I am tagging:
Boxing drills as instructional metaphor
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Last night, I was working on the speed bag, letting my gaze abstract and releasing my whole thought process. When you are working the bag it's like a zen thingpaying attention doesnt really serve you. If you strike the bag at the wrong angle, the central hinge that holds the bag in place rotates, and the bag begins to move at angles against the motion of your hand, making a good rhythm impossible: chaCHUNK . . . CHUNK . . chunka cha chu
When you strike it correctly, the bag itself is a blur, snapping backwards and forwards too quickly to track, but the central pin that holds the bag in place does not rotate, it shifts only marginally: chaCHUNK chaCHUNK chaCHUNK chaCHUNK.
So, if you try to watch the bag, your hand gets confused, and you mis-strike, but if you watch the pin you have this correct frame of reference, and your brain knows where to put your hand.
And I started thinking that life is like this as wellthings follow a pendulum, back and forth, ups and downs come so quickly that by the time we've focused on one state, it's all changed again. But despite the impermanence of circumstance and the fickleness of fate, some things are steady and constant; babies smell good, sunshine feels good on your skin, food tastes good, sex with integrity is ecstasy and Stevie Wonder is a musical genius.
The trick is to keep your attention focused on the pin and let the bag do its own thing.
Last night, I was working on the speed bag, letting my gaze abstract and releasing my whole thought process. When you are working the bag it's like a zen thingpaying attention doesnt really serve you. If you strike the bag at the wrong angle, the central hinge that holds the bag in place rotates, and the bag begins to move at angles against the motion of your hand, making a good rhythm impossible: chaCHUNK . . . CHUNK . . chunka cha chu
When you strike it correctly, the bag itself is a blur, snapping backwards and forwards too quickly to track, but the central pin that holds the bag in place does not rotate, it shifts only marginally: chaCHUNK chaCHUNK chaCHUNK chaCHUNK.
So, if you try to watch the bag, your hand gets confused, and you mis-strike, but if you watch the pin you have this correct frame of reference, and your brain knows where to put your hand.
And I started thinking that life is like this as wellthings follow a pendulum, back and forth, ups and downs come so quickly that by the time we've focused on one state, it's all changed again. But despite the impermanence of circumstance and the fickleness of fate, some things are steady and constant; babies smell good, sunshine feels good on your skin, food tastes good, sex with integrity is ecstasy and Stevie Wonder is a musical genius.
The trick is to keep your attention focused on the pin and let the bag do its own thing.
Records I bought yesterday
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Muahhahahahahaha.
Diplo Florida (double LP)
Donald Byrd - Think Twice 12"
Eliot Lipp - Immediate Action #10 12"
Eliot Lipp - Rap Tight 12"
Junior Reid - Haul & Pull Up 7"
MIA - Galang (Dave Kelly Remix) 12"
Owusu & Hannibal - Delirium 12"
P-Love - All Up In Your Mind LP
Prefuse 73 - Security Screenings 12"
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives 12"
Q-Bert Breaktionary Vol.1 (got doubles, bitches, what!) LP
Slugo - Godzilla Remixes 12"
Spacek - Eve 12"
Various Artists - Rewind Vol. 4 12"
Various Artists - Sound of LA Vol. 1 EP
Various Artists - Sound of La Vol. 2 (featuring Cut Chemist and Sa-Ra) EP
Muahhahahahahaha.
Diplo Florida (double LP)
Donald Byrd - Think Twice 12"
Eliot Lipp - Immediate Action #10 12"
Eliot Lipp - Rap Tight 12"
Junior Reid - Haul & Pull Up 7"
MIA - Galang (Dave Kelly Remix) 12"
Owusu & Hannibal - Delirium 12"
P-Love - All Up In Your Mind LP
Prefuse 73 - Security Screenings 12"
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives 12"
Q-Bert Breaktionary Vol.1 (got doubles, bitches, what!) LP
Slugo - Godzilla Remixes 12"
Spacek - Eve 12"
Various Artists - Rewind Vol. 4 12"
Various Artists - Sound of LA Vol. 1 EP
Various Artists - Sound of La Vol. 2 (featuring Cut Chemist and Sa-Ra) EP
VIEW 25 of 55 COMMENTS
I think I love the rock chalk jayhawk chant. College fans are so rad. Really, they put NBA fans to shame in almost every possible way. Yeah, we've got DePaul and Northwestern here, but those games really don't have andything resembling the fire that it you I've seen from major programs. The crowds always seem so electric. Reminds me of what I see from European soccer and the good ol' days when the NHL was worth a damn.
The competitive energy of thousands of people is truly something to behold. In '03, I was lucky enough to have stumbled across tickets to what turned out to be the Cubs' Wild Card clinching double-header. Madness. Sheer madness. Real college programs seem to capture that big game fire on a regular basis. I'm so psyched for you that you've got it right in your back yard.
I'm no football nut, but there's been a gaping hole in Chicago sports since the departure of da Coach.
Unpopular though the choice may be, my friend - I look for the Chicago Bears to run the table at this month's NCAA tournament.
BEARS!!!
Should you ever feel compelled to hear jackass Chicago sports talk in all it's insane, biased glory (brutal accents ans all), you simply must listen to these assholes some afternoon. Someone saw fit to give these nut-jobs four (4!!!) hours of air time every afternoon. Truly frightening.
Mac, Jurko and Harry
i hope your day is going really super excellently.
did i mention missing you?