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A Post-Katrina List

Bruce Sterling - Heavy Weather
Delta Works
Booze in all of its wonderful forms
Las Manitas Migas
Guero's Tacos
Austin's Cafe Culture
St. John's Coffeehouse - like the old days
The Green Room - like the wild west
Red Beans & Rice
Friends & Family
Cov Love
Cox Communications

Spring Inventory

Here's a list of what I've been up to this Spring:

Books
The Zen of CSS Design - Shea/Holzschlag
Web Standards Solutions - Dan Cederholm
Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type by Kimberly Elan
The Designer and the Grid – Lucienne Roberts and Julia Thrift
Typographic Design - Meggs
Smart Cycling - Arnie Baker
Virtual Light - William Gibson

Movies / DVDs
I Heart Huckabees
Forrest Gump
De-Lovely
Songcatcher
24: Season 2
Friday Night Lights
Closer
Ray
Deadwood: Season 1
Sideways
Spanglish
Sin City
Bad Education
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Days of Being Wild
House of Flying Daggers
The Motorcycle Diaries
Primer
Breaking Away
Hotel Rwanda
8 1/2
Quicksilver
Ladder 49
Vision Quest
Naked Lunch
La Dolce Vita
American Flyers
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2046
La Dolce Vita
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Arrested Development Season 1
Amelie

Music
KCRW
KEXP
Grand National – Kicking the National Habit
Doves – Some Cities
Block Party – Silent Alarm
M.I.A. – Arular
Beck – Guero
Savath y Savalas
Nouvelle Vague
Justus Koehneke
Brazilian Girls
Gorrilaz - Feel Good Inc.
The White Stripes - Blue Orchid
Daft Punk - Human After All
LCD Soundsystem
The Bravery - An Honest Mistake
Sunlandic Twins - Of Montreal
R.E.M. - Murmur, Reckoning, Dead Letter Office & Life's Rich Pageant

Projects
Aboutcox.com CSS Retool
Ecommerce Launch
Neworleans.cox.net
Cox Direct Mail Pieces
Jlangenbeck.com CSS/XHTML Redesign
Cox Newspaper Ads
Cox Marketing Intranet
Cox Rich Emails
Cox Web Banners
Spasticrobot.blog
Sugarcane Recordings Site
Design Experiments

Events
SXSW Interactive
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Giro Fever
Spring Vacation

Stuff
Bianchi Milano 120
Water
Life Improvement
Quit Smoking
Hot Coffee with Skim Milk
Skim Lattes
Bagels
Tacos
Cheerios with Skim Milk & Bananas
Red Beans & Brown Rice with Turkey Sausage
Grilled Tuna
Salads
Healthy Sandwiches

Reasons to be happy this weekend:

1. Paolo "Il Falco" Savoldelli somehow found the strength to keep up enough with Simoni and Rujano to squeak through today's penultimate Giro d'Italia stage with the Maglia Rosa still on his back. I wasn't able to watch the whole thing this morning but I'm heading out to watch it with my homeboys in a little while. The part I saw this morning on Il Finestre was some of the best racing of the year thus far.
2. Before the race I'm going to stop and buy these totally kickass pedals for the Bianchi.
3. Shanna's Whole Foods discount is the most amazing thing to me right now. We went hog wild on groceries last night and didn't even break the $200 mark. I'm so happy to be eating heathy and delicious food every day.
4. I got a fresh haircut today.
5. Tomorrow my Mom and I are going to meet my Sister and her boyfriend in Ocean Springs to check out the Walter Anderson Museum and to have a nice bite to eat on the coast.
6. It's a three day weekend

Summer Vacation

I just wrapped up almost a full week of vacation time. Instead of going out of town I decided to stay in New Orleans and did whatever I wanted to do. It was a great week full of relaxation punctuated by moments of intense ejoyment.

Here's what I did:

• Cleaned up my PowerBook and installed Tiger
• Had an eye examination and ordered new eyeglasses (something I haven't been able to get done in years)
• Logged nearly 70 miles on my bike
• Hung out with old friends Mungu and Casey
• Watched the Giro over beers with my Bike Geek friends
• Ate Chiken Tikka at Salt n' Peppers, Bun & Springrolls at Pho Tau Bay, and a delicious Reuben Sandwich from Charlie's Deli
• Shopped for used books at Kaboom
• Watched Episode III
• RELAXED

Holidays

Next week I'm taking some much needed time off to relax, shop, exercise, and otherwise rejoice in the splendor of New Orleans. Here's a list of some of the things I plan on doing:

Watch the Giro at the R Bar with my Bike Geek pals
Install Tiger
Revamp my powerbook
Replace my wireless router
Finish my f@cking website
Get new eyeglasses
Purchase some much needed cycling gear
Ride my bike at least 10 Miles a day
Take lots of photos
Go to the Gym
Visit NOMA, the D Day Museum and the Ogden
Go shopping for used books
Hang out in cafes
Catch a matinee or two
Shop for summer clothes
Eat some ethnic treats

Summer Preview

The hot, humid Summer air is arriving this week on the tail of one of the most glorius Springs I can remember. Along with the miserable heat comes some of the finer pleasures of Summer. Here's a list of some things I'm looking forward to this season:

Events
Louisiana Bicycle Festival
Tour de Lousiane
Tour De France
Vuelta a Espana

Books
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Movies
Kicking and Screaming
Star Wars Episode III
Howl’s Moving Castle
War of the Worlds
Cronicas
Dark Water
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Last Days
The Brothers Grimm
Nightwatch
Tony Takitani
Broken Flowers
2046 (FINALLY!!!)
The Constant Gardener

Other Stuff
Trips to the Coast
Creole Tomatoes
Swimming
BBQs
Road Trips

Hot List

Bianchi Milano 120
Exercise
Deadwood
24
Wasa Crispbread
Not Smoking
Bloc Party
1950's Fellini

Things I did this weekend

in chronological order:

• Had Springrolls & Charbroiled Pork Bun at Pho Tau Bay
• Had a scoop of Pancotta Gelato at Brocato’s
• Watched Friday Night Lights (amazing) followed by Closer (utterly horrible)
• Got an Iced Mocha and drove across the Causeway to Covington
• Drank Iced Tea at St. John’s and worked on my site revamp
• Had dinner & drinks at Etoile with the Saladinos and the Valentine-Smiths
• Watched the Jody Smith Trio at the St. Tammany Art Assoc.
• Attended the Friends of OFF Gala
• Had breakfast with the Montgomery/Nail continuum
• Played basketball with Grayson
• Drove back across the Causeway to New Orleans
• Worked on my site revamp some more
• Did 3 loads of laundry
• Straightened up the house
• Enjoyed some delicious Chicken Tetrazini that Shanna made
• Watched 2 episodes of Deadwood Season 1

Some nice sites & resources

• Lineto
• StyleGala
• Designer's Toolbox
• Surfing the Creative Process
• 9 Ways to Improve Your Website
• Tadalists

Inventory for Winter 2004-2005

Here's my Inventory of Winter 2004-2005. It's everything I've been reading, watching, consuming, listening to, working on, doing and consuming for the past three months. This installment marks four solid years that I've been keeping these. It's a really great way to keep track of my cultural intake and productive output.

Books
Whitney Biennial 2004
Les Halles Cookbook – Anthony Bourdain
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Sussanah Clarke
The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
A Grammar of the Multitude – Paolo Virno
Multitude: War in the Age of Empire – Hardt & Negri
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson

Movies/DVDs
The Incredibles
Ray
Finding Neverland
Sex and the City Season 6 Pts. 1 & 2
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary
Intermission
I, Robot
Elf
The Battle of Algiers
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Collateral
The Door in the Floor
The Manchurian Candidate
We Don’t Live Here Anymore
Maria Full Of Grace
Code 46
Anchorman
Hero
Frida
The Village
All The Pretty Horses
Mi Familia
24: Season 3
Traffic
Tortilla Soup
Before Night Falls
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Real Women Have Curves
The Aviator
Raising Helen
Shaun of the Dead
JFK
Immortal Beloved
What Have I done to Deserve This?
Man on Fire
Sex and Lucia
Mondays in the Sun
Napoleon Dynamite
Gilmore Girls: The Complete Season 2
The Forgotten
Wimbledon
She Hate Me
Donnie Darko: Director’s Cut
Laurel Canyon
Crooklyn
Waking Life
The Grudge
The Girl Next Door
Malcolm X

Music
Arcade Fire – Funeral
The Organ – Grab That Gun
Trojan U.K. Hits Box Set
Nortec Collective – The Tijuana Sessions
M83 – Before The Dawn Heals Us
Mardi Gras Music
Beck – Guero (leak)
Beck – Hell Yes EP
Daft Punk – Human After All (leak)
KCRW Music
Steely Dan
Late Doobie Bros.
Michael Mcdonald
Mercury Rev - In A Funny Way
LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
Kings of Leon – Milk
Inara George – All Rise
Mia Doi Todd – Manzanita
Jon Brion – I <3 Huckabees
Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
Elliot Smith - From a Basement on a Hill

Projects
Aboutcox.com CSS Retool
Ecommerce Launch
Neworleans.cox.net
Cox Direct Mail Pieces
Jlangenbeck.com CSS/XHTML Redesign
Cox Newspaper Ads
Cox New Orleans Intranet
Cox Rich Emails
COX Web Banners
Spasticrobot.blog
St. Anthony Ramblers

Events
Courtside at the Hornets
Holiday Cocktail Party
Cass & Heather’s, New Year’s Eve
12th Night Party, St. Anthony Formation
Krewe du Vieux hangout
30th Birthday
Metronomic Underground
Krewe of Muses hilarity
Krewe D’Etat / Rebirth Brass Band
Endymion Party
Lundi Gras Hangout
The March of The St. Anthony Ramblers
Blonde Redhead / Interpol @ Twiropa

Stuff
Pastrami & Corned Beef Sandwiches
Hot Mochas
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe
Mountain Dew
Camel Lights
Homemade Chicken Fried Steak with Cream Gravy
Satsumas
Holiday Treats
Corned Beef & Cabbage
Hoppin’ John
Honey Roasted Wasabi Ginger Pecans
Sopa de Lima Y Tortilla
Lil’ Ray’s 24 Hour Diner
Slices @ Brooklyn Pizzeria
King Cake
Valentine’s Treats
Chorizo Paella
Puerco Mojo
Slices at Brooklyn Pizzeria