List #428: Favorite Grätüïtöüs Ümläüt and School of Velocity songs

List #428: Favorite Grätüïtöüs Ümläüt and School of Velocity songs (originals only)

1. Astronaughty

2. Sugar Song

3. Here We Go Again

4. Number 5 [Glide]

5. Number 1 [Solo]

6. Kanadian Youth

7. Wide Awake (as played live)

8. Stars in Your Eyes

9. Victim of Fashion

10. Telltale Signs

11. Apart (a Good Idea)

12. Think Fast

13. Campers are Fighting in the Bathroom Again

14. May-September (Little Boy)

15. (the lost songs) Truckasaurus, Rockomotive, Can't Stop the Rock & the Country Rock Song

List #427: 5 States I'd like to visit (that I never have properly)

List #427: 5 States I'd like to visit (that I never have (properly))

1. Montana

2. Oregon

3. Alaska

4. Hawaii

5. Colorado

List #426: Favorite Coins

List #426: Favorite Coins (U.S., in order)

1. Buffalo Nickels

2. Nickels

3. Pennies

4. Dollars (the new gold ones with the presidents)

5. Quarters

6. 50-cent pieces

7. Dimes

List #425: Favorite Musicals

List #425: Favorite Musicals or rock/folk operas

1. Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog

2. Astronaughty

3. Jesus Christ Superstar

4. Once More with Feeling

5. Hadestown

6. Big River

7. Avenue Q

8. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

9. Aesop's Foibles

10. Newsies

List #424: Favorite Singers (Male)

List #424: Favorite Singers (Male) (or at least favorite voices)

1. Mike Patton

2. Mark Kozelek

3. Ben Gibbard

4. Al Sparhawk

5. Stephin Merit

6. Andrew Whiteman / Kevin Drew

7. Harry Nilsson

8. Mike Doughty

9. James Taylor / Michael Franks

10. Justin Vernon

11. Andy Williams

12. John Mayer

13. the guys in TV on the Radio

14. Peter Gabriel

15. Justin Timberlake

List #423: Favorite Punctuation

List #423: Favorite Punctuation (or non-letter/number characters or operators)

1. (

2. )

3. ?

4. '

5. <

6. :

7. ; (though I'm still never sure if I do it right)

8. / (you better call it right, too)

9. ...

10. ++--==//**SQRT[]

List #422: Favorite Muffins

List #422: Favorite Muffins

1. Banana Nut

2. Blueberry

3. Cranberry Orange

4. Almond Poppyseed

5. Lemon Poppyseed

6. Raspberry Sour Cream

7. Bran

Bonus list: Things that are not muffins

1. Chocolate "muffins"

2. Chocolate Chip "muffins"

List #421: 10 Truths and A Lie: George Washington

List #421: 10 Truths and A Lie: George Washington

1. Patrolled the Land on a Horse Made of Crystal

2. Had a Wig for his Wig

3. Had a Brain for his Heart

4. Made Love Like an Eagle Falling Out of the Sky

5. Chopped down a Cherry Tree

6. Killed His Sensei in a Duel (and Never Said Why)

7. Invented Cocaine

8. Will Kick You Apart

9. Saved Children (but not the British Children)

10. Was 12 Stories High, Made of Radiation

11. The Sons of His Opponents Wished That He was Their Dad.

List #420: Favorite Characters on "Weeds"

List #420: Favorite Characters on "Weeds" (note that this is all "Little Boxes" era)

1. Shane "Strange" Botwin

2. Uncle Andy

3. The Theme Song

4. City Councilman Doug

5. U-Turn ("Thug Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry")

6. Marvin

7. Conrad

8. Isabelle

9. Sanjay

10. Kat (only because of who played her)

List #419: Favorite Rappers/Hip-hop musicians

List #419: Favorite Rappers/Hip-hop musicians

1. Young MC

2. Del tha Funkee Homosapien

3. Adam WarRock

4. Snoop

5. Jay Z

6. Atmosphere

7. Heiruspecs

8. Natalie Portman and Chris Parnell, also, The Lonely Island

9. The Beastie Boys

10. L.L. Cool J

List #418: Things to Stuff Peppers with

List #418: Things to Stuff Peppers with

1. Lamb

2. Cumin

3. Cayenne

4. Cinnamon

5. Coriander

6. Paprika

7. Ginger

8. Onion

9. Apricots

10. Almonds

11. Mint

12. Feta

List #417: Comps Joys and Nightmares

List #417: Comps (Senior Comprehensive History Thesis, Carleton College) Process Joys and Nightmares

Joys

1. Getting to do research in the Carleton College Archives

2. Nightly Snack-bar Study Breaks with Jason

3. Reading and Writing about Jazz

4. The independent study that led up to it

5. The satisfaction of completing it (and the Sevy 211 All-nighter for completion)

6. One of our seminar classmates thinking that Jason and I were "together"

7. Interviews with former Carleton students involved in Jazz on campus

8. How it nicely fit into other activities of the year (Bob Brookmeyer, Mark Applebaum, John Hasse)

Nightmares

1. (literal) Dreaming that a particular professor was trying to kill me in a train yard while I was trying to ask him to advise the paper

2. Being told by that professor (in real life) that '[He] only advises comps that get distinction, and mine wouldn't get distinction.'

3. Writer's block/ procrastination on 4th Burton during the Winter Break research stay.

4. Not having it be as thorough as I would've liked

5. Having to write words in logical, informative, prose

List #416: Favorite Burger Topping Combinations

List #416: Favorite Burger Topping Combinations

1. Sauteed Mushroom and Onion, Swiss Cheese, Mustard

2. American Cheese

3. A1, Tomato

4. Lettuce, Tomato, Cheese, Mayo (standard)

5. Barbecue Sauce, Cheddar Cheese, Pineapple

6. Mozarella and Pizza Sauce (inside the burger)

Bonus List: One topping I was forbidden to put on burgers when I was younger, but am totally going to try sometime now that I remembered about it

1. Peanut Butter

List #415: Some Facts About My Sister.

List #415: Some Awesome Facts About My Sister

1. She Has A Degree in Helping Children

1a. Possibly Even The British Ones

2. She Works at an Awesome Restaurant and Makes Me Eat and Drink Wine With Strangers There

3. She Can Run 13.1 Miles in a variety of Climates

4. So Far, She Can Beat Me in a 5k

5. She Can Sing Better Than I Can

6. She Came from a Glowing Silver Space Egg

7. She Cooks/Magic-Bulletizes Pretty Good Foods/Drinkable Meals

See Also: List #187

List #414: Ways that You, Too, Can Show Your Love and Help "My Year In Lists"

List #414: Ways that You, Too, Can Spread the Love, Change The World, and Affect Millions (okay, maybe Tens) of People Without Spending A Single Cent By Contributing to "My Year In Lists".

1. Comments! Fuel my secret narcisissm.

2. Suggest a List or Two (and I'll give you credit for the request)

3. Write Your Own Version of Any of the Lists, and spread the List-making Goodness.

3a. Write Your Own Lists For Your Own Reasons (Benevolence!)

4. Volunteer to Be One of the Elite and Possibly Do a Guest List (about me, or my year, ... narcisissm, remember?)

5. Tell Your Enemies

List #413: Favorite Colors

List #413: Favorite Colors

1. Bluandbrowne

2. Glow in the Dark

3. Green (not Olive Green)

4. Blue (Cobalt, Ultramarine, Cerulean, Sky, Electric)

5. Gray

5.5. Grey

6. Indigo

7. Indiglo

8. Purple

9. Yellow

10. Walnut

List #412: Things For One To Think About On A Long Drive

List #412: Things For One To Think About On A Long Drive (or "my favorite Modest Mouse songs")

1. 3rd Planet

2. Dramamine

3. Polar Opposites

4. Ocean Breathes Salty

5. Black Cadillacs

6. Cowboy Dan

7. Shit Luck

8. Dark Center of the Universe

9. The View

10. Float On

11. The World At Large

12. We've Got Everything

13. Dashboard

14. Never Ending Math Equation

15. Exit Does Not Exist

List #411: 6 Favorite Courses at the i(nformation)School at University of Washington

List #411: 6 Favorite Courses at the i(nformation)School at University of Washington

1. 508: History of Recorded Information (maybe my favorite class ever)

2. 510: Information Behavior ( Trent made it cool)

3. 550: Information in Social Context (though my paper was not very good)

4. 541: Internet Technology and Applications

5. 5??: Digital Storytelling (though I could've done better... online classes aren't good for me)

6. 505: Archives

Bonus List: Courses that crushed my soul in some way (not through the fault of the instructors)

1. 570

2. 580

3. 531

List #410: Some Things I Like in the Columbia/Ellicott City Area

List #410: Some Things I Like in the Columbia/Ellicott City Area (many of which will relate to food)

1. The Howard County Libraries, Central and East Columbia Branches

2. Maiwand Kabob

3. Victoria Gastro Pub

4. Comics to Astonish

5. Pho Dat Thanh

6. Today's Catch fish market

7. The swimming bridge walk

8. My Neighbors

9. Old Ellicott City in general

10. GCS

List #409: Cleaning Tasks I Don't Mind

List #409: Cleaning Tasks I Don't Mind

1. Brushing my teeth (because I love my new toothbrush)

2. Mopping the Floor

3. Washing My Car (though I'm not efficient at it)

4. Vacuuming

5. Mowing the Lawn (does that even count? either way, I like doing it)

List #408: Books I'm in the Middle of Right now

List #408: Books I'm in the Middle of Right now

1. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan (because the resolutions require it)

2.Fables, Deluxe Edition, vol.2 , Willingham/Buckingham, et al.

3.Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins

4. Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky

5. A Theory of Fun for Game Design, Ralph Koster

6. Silas Marner, George Eliot

7. The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fisherman, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-The-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes, Ted McClelland

8. Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris

List #407: A few things I learned on the ski-trip this weekend

List #407: A few things I learned skiing this weekend

1. Skis are tiny now!

2. I still know how to do it.

3. I don't mind being the dork that skis in sweat-pants (I had pj pants underneath for 'layering'), but never jeans!

4. Approximately every other person there (Blue Knob, PA) was #7 for the steelers (and wearing jeans)

5. Ice and rain aren't the best conditions

6. Chairlifts are still scary (especially with small children)

7. Broken glass is the greater danger of walking barefoot through the snow

8. I ought to ski more often

9. Younger kids are hilarious.

10. Good gloves are key.

List #406: 3 Foods I'm Way More Into Than I Used To Be

List #406: 3 Foods I'm Way More Into Than I Used To Be

1. Cucumbers

2. Barley

3. Pumpkin

List #405: Skiing Memories

List #405: Skiing Memories (Because it's been 15 years)

1. Having a back table in the Moosehead Saloon

2. Free ski passes because Mom worked at Spirit Mt.

3. Storing my stuff in the ski shop

4. Jamming my thumb really bad on the death cookies.

5. Skiing 3 days a week sometimes in middle school.

6. Falling off a ski lift (it was at the beginning, and only like 5 feet off the ground).

7. Learning about the "no tucking" rules while on the bunny hill (after watching Pirmin Zurbriggin and Alberto Tomba in the 1988 olympics)

8. First kiss (on a ski-lift)

9. All of my awesome (Then, and now seemingly ridiculously-awesome) ski gear

10. All of my skiing friends.

List #404: Things I Have Lost

List #404: Things I Have Lost or have had stolen.

1. My Weather Report "Black Market" cd

2. Two fleeces last year

3. My tube of chapstick (that was in a fleece)

4. a Dukes of Hazzard car (down the vents in my own house)

5. The data on a broken disc of mp3s

6. Much of the data on a hard drive

7. The Bean and Tuna can strainer

8. My old glasses in the lake

9. A He-Man Kite (age ~4 or 5)

10. Some blue hair dye (stolen!)

11. A Watch (and the lock on the gym locker in HS)

12. My previous bass amp

13. Much of a short story I started writing in 5th grade (and didn't save on the computer)

14. The rest of my ideas for this list.

List #403: A few reasons I like February

List #403: A few reasons I like February

1. It starts off awesome

2. It's the only month with a variable number of days

3. Most of the time it's the only month evenly divisible into weeks.

4. It is in the Winter

5. NFL is over

6. African American History is interesting

7. George Washington is awesome

8. 1 Word: Punxsutawney

9. "Groundhog Day" is a great Bill Murray movie.

List #402: Rules for My (Second) Year in Lists

List #402: Rules for My (Second) Year in Lists

1. The goal is 1 list published per day, each day

2. This year's lists will sometimes be more interactive/participatory

3. It is acceptable to Revisit/Revise older lists, but not excessively (it gets harder and harder to remember what's already been done)

4. Guest Lists? Yes.

5. Retroactivity is allowed in rare cases

6. Lists are Hard, dude

7. Comments are encouraged even by lurkers and FB creepers

8. Everyone is Wrong. Always.

9. It's okay to be scared

10. Permission to Suck has been obtained. The Perfect is still the enemy of the good.

List #401: 32 Years I Would Time-Travel To

List #401: 32 Years I Would Time-Travel To if Time-Travel Were Possible (and I didn't have a strict "No Time Travel!" policy). Note: tampering with major world events is generally avoided.

1. 1991 (to re-watch the World Series)

2. 2112 (to see if Rush was right)

3. 2179 (its a good number)

4. 2010 (to remind myself to get an absentee ballot)

5. 1983 (because being 4 is the perfect age)

6. 1937 (to buy Action Comics #1)

7. 1999 (to party with Prince)

8. 1679 (I just like that number)

9. 1588 (so I can defeat the Spanish Armada)

10. ~1455 (Printing of Gutenberg Bible)

11. 1986 (to read Watchmen, Maus and DKR as they were published)

12. 2008 (to remind my brother not to climb. Also to fix a number of other things
(not a great year))

13. 2012 (late-year, to make sure the world's still here)

14. 1965 (to watch the World Series)

15. 1947 (to attend my Grandmother's Carleton graduation)

16. 1977 (to see Star Wars. To see Weather Report)

17. 1997 (to do a better job on my final presentation for "Musical Biography and Autobiography")

18. 1976 (to lobby against the Copyright Act of 1976)

19. 1992 (to not cross-out "sugarcane". to avoid an embarrassing and inaccurate photo)

20. 1858 (to see Minnesota join the Union)

21. 1413 (to hide-out with Owain Glyn Dwr)

22. ~65,000,000 BCE (Dinosaurs!)

23. 1961 (to hang out with Stan Lee)

24. 2000 (to shoot more accurately in overtime)

25. ~1400 (to see Great Zimbabwe)

26. 1954 (to attend the Comic Book Hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency)

27. 1587 (to see what happened to the Roanoke Colony)

28. 2080 (to grab at the chance and be handsome farmers)

29. 1984 (to tell myself to be less weird in Kindergarten)

30. 3030 (because I love intergalactic rap battles)

31. ~20,000 BCE (most recent Glacial Age)

32. 1979 (because it would just be weird to see yourself right after you were born)