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please don't take this seriously. i don't.
From First To Last

—Emily

I’m old enough, and used to be scene enough, to remember what Sonny did before Skrillex.

2011 - A Year in Books

 Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

The Erotic Poems by Publius Ovidius Naso
 
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

The Art of Love by Publius Ovidius Naso
 
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
 
Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks
 
Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso
 
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
 
Apollo’s Angels by Jennifer Homans
 
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
 
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
 
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
 
One L by Scott Turow
 
A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
 
A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
 
A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
 
A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

2012 New Year’s Resolutions

- Learn Yiddish
- Make someone cry tears of joy
- Get fat
- Get skinny again
- Appreciate Oprah, ironically and after the fact
- Go cliff diving (read: watch YouTube videos of cliff divers)
- Buy a unicycle
- Invent a new stringed instrument
- Release an acoustic dubstep album
- Buy a zoo
- Realize buying a zoo was a mistake and sell a zoo
- Reconnect with old friends
- Cook my way through Julia Child’s cookbook and blog about it
- Make the varsity track team
- Snuggle with a wild dog
- Get a tattoo on my arm that says “See, I have this and still have an awesome job. Your parents are lying to you.”
- Break dance. No, not breakdance, literally break dance
- Overcome my fear of being fed canned yams by an elderly woman
- Figure out pita bread
- Keep looking out for part three of the “Cha Cha Slide”
- Begin writing a screenplay in Starbucks about a kid writing a screenplay in Starbucks about a kid writing a screenplay at IHOP
- Eat an entire animal
- Make sure she knows every day how amazing she is, and that not a single moment goes by that she’s not on my mind

Bruce Springsteen

—I'm On Fire

Sometimes it’s like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull, and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul.