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I REALLY dig lists but I am not as fond of new year's ruminations. Not trying be pretentious here...really, especially in light of all of my fine friends who have posted resolutions, reflections, and other curiousities. What I dig are lists... ALL of the time! A similar quandry for me is Giving and the Christmas spirit. I like giving in March, June, and September. I don't like being prompted to generosity through nostalgia, cookie smells, and Bing Crosby songs. I realized one day in Trader Joe's that I was buying better cheese, better wine, and chocolate, because of the prompting Christmas cheer there. I was feeling 'generous' and 'celebratory' and hence manipulated. To preach, I am for more constant reflection, more rigorous generosity, and maybe less regret? That is my new year's resolution I guess.

List of awesome tidings or things enjoyed in the last 3 months.

Great Sights:
Amazingly absurd and delightful animations by Tom DesLongChamp who I met at a Half-Handed Cloud show (good place to make a new friend).
Eastern Promises----or better titled Cronenberg makes you wear a film for a week.
Juno - trendy but heartful
Week End - Jean Luc Godard (still picking my way through those new wave films)
Darjeeling Limited - came out with the same Wes Anderson flag I went into the theatre with 'cept I bowed at his new maturity and grace.

Beautiful new sounds:
Chris Schlarb - Twilights and Ghost Stories
Son Lux - At War with Walls & Mazes
Efterklang -Parades
LAKE
and especially in LAKE - Ashley & Eli

Delectables:
Dreadnaught- 3 Floyd's Brewery - only east of the Mississippi baby
Theo Chocolate - My christmas gift...a tour through the only Organic, Free Trade chocolatier in the US. Oh Seattle.
Big Wood Festival - Brouwer's is amazing and this festival with only wood aged beers was like tasting the rare and unusual. Lots of 'wows' and 'ohhhs' and 'ummms'.