Jeremy's 2008 Favorites
Favorite New Movie
Slumdog Millionaire
Favorite Old Movie
Chinatown
Favorite Documentary
The Up Series
Favorite Quote
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
- Ralph Nader
Favorite New Album
New Amerykah, pt. 1: 4th World War - Erykah Badu
Top 10 Albums
1. Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
2. Spirit of the Forest - Baka Beyond
3. Luna Park - KiLA
4. The Rebirth of Hooch - Jimmy Swift Band
5. Guero - Beck
6. OST - People Under the Stairs
7. '93 Til Infinity - Souls of Mischief
8. All Balls Don't Bounce - Aceyalone
9. Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo
10. Transistor Radio - M. Ward
Took the most courage to...
Share a poem at a poetry slam open mic
Hottest day
100+ degrees, Supai, Grand Canyon, May, 3200 ft
Coldest moment
Whiteout on top of Santa Fe Ski Basin, January, 12000 ft
Tastiest New Mexican food
Hands down: Duran's Central Pharmacy, Albuquerque
Most successful vegetable grown
Tomatoes - south facing wall, good soil, well watered: hundreds of tomatoes
Most Undeservedly Unplayed Board Game
Scotland Yard
Favorite and Most Addictive New Hobby
Online chess
Favorite Book
Neither Wolf nor Dog
Favorite Pastime
What else? Checking the weather on the internet 10x a day. And going ballistic (eye plastered to the window) anytime it snows.
Quintessential American Experience
Fiesta Bowl, Phoenix: Texas 24, Ohio State 21
Quintessential anti-American Experience
Watching replay of shoe thrown at George Bush
Thoughts from 2008
Why do I always see cops speeding without their flashing lights on?
Other than during the wet season (July and August), it rains perhaps one out of thirty days in New Mexico. Yet both times we've moved (neither during the wet season), it rained. Coincidence? I think not.
I have experienced the biggest snowstorms ever recorded in Philadelphia and Halifax, and the biggest snowstorm in several decades in New Mexico. Coincidence? I think not.
How do you convert an anti-capitalist environmentalist hippie into a money-loving business freak? Give them a solar sales job.
How do you start as a socialite and end as a hermit? Move to New Mexico.
What is completely natural to a New Mexican but completely foreign to an Easterner? Pray for rain.
"We live by and believe in capitalism, until we screw up." That is the message I get from the banking and automotive bailouts. What happened to taking responsibility for one's actions?
