List #709: 5 Thoughts on Duluth Public Schools

List #709: 5 Thoughts on Duluth Public Schools

1. You should support taxes that help them, because they produced me

2. One of my great desires as an elementary school student was to explore the then unused portions of Lincoln Middle School

3. Nettleton Magnet School was doing STEM before stem was the new sexy edu-trend

4. A surprising number of teachers/administrators 'followed me' from Middle School to High School.

5. I liked it when they had a Gifted and Talented program.

List #688: 5 Thoughts on Hearts (the game)

List #688: 5 Thoughts on Hearts (the game)

1. People don't like it when you only always try to shoot the moon

2. No breaking hearts on the first trick is a silly rule

3. I had a lot of fun playing it in High School

4. Diamonds are my favorite Suit

5. It's more fun to subtract 26 from your score than add it to others if you shoot the moon

List #680: Favorite AD&D 2nd Edition Campaign Settings

List #680: Favorite AD&D 2nd Edition Campaign Settings (in order)

1. Forgotten Realms

2. Dragonlance

3. Dark Sun

4. Ravenloft

5. Al-Qadim

List #658: 5 Books That Were Important to Me as a Teen

List #658: 5 Books That Were Important to Me as a Teen

1. Catcher in the Rye (I purposely read it before it was assigned for school. I liked it less as I got older (and actually 'understood it')

2. This book of Ayn Rand quotations (because it was really useful for debate)

3. Miles Davis' Biography

4. The Drake Raft Field Trip

5. Les Miserables (because it turned into a super fun project)

List #577: 5 Thoughts on Old Notebooks

List #577: 5 Thoughts on Old Notebooks

1. I used to know a lot of stuff

2. I don't think kids-these-days really take notes

3. A lot of my education is in a bin in the basement bathroom closet

4. I wonder how much different writing a history thesis is in the world of over-accessible e-information

5. I enjoy my old doodles (particularly from when we were studying the "Great Cat Massacre" in Junior Colloquium).

List #461: Pranks I Have Been Involved In

List #461: Pranks I Have Been Involved In (or at least witnessed)

1. Convincing my Mom, Dad and Band Director that I had to drop band to take Biology 2nd semester of senior year or I wouldn't graduate.

2. Rearranging Jal's CDs

3. Freezing a bucket of underwear

4. Victimized far too many times to mention.

List #436: 10 Favorite Things Played in Band in HS

List #436: 10 Favorite Things Played in Band in HS (Wind Ensemble)

1. Shostakovich Symphony #5

2. Jupiter (Holst)

3. Dies Natalis (Hanson)

4. Second Suite in F (Holst)

5. Procession of Nobles (Rimsky-Korsakov

6. Valdres

7. Hobbits ( de Meij)

8. #19 (warm-up)

9. that norwegian thing (Bombadier)

10. The Barry Manilow Medly

List #435: Fictional Educational Institutions I Would Like to Attend

List #435: Fictional Educational Institutions I Would Have Liked to Attend (and maybe what I'd study)

1. MacDonald Hall

2. Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (Phasing)

3. The University [from the Kingkiller Chronicles] (Artificery)

4. Llama School

5. Sunnydale High

6. Bayside High

7. Wayside School

8. Blackstock College (History)

9. Neptune High

10. Hogwarts

List #434: A Few Important Facts about the Fatboy Society

List #434: A Few (but not all) Important Facts about the Fatboy Society

3. There have always been 3 of us (me, small paul, hogan, hans)

3. We are each 2013 pounds

3. We are 113% Irish

3. We tower

3. We are a unanimous democracy

List #381: Track List of a Classic Mix Tape 3

List #381: Track List of a Classic Mix Tape 3

A:" Beatles and Stuff"
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
Help from my friends - Beatles
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds- Beatles
Twist and Shout - Beatles
Beatles Forever - EHS Wind Ensemble '9?
Cannonball - Breeders
Cut Your Hair - Pavement
Sister Havana - Urge Overkill
???
Longview - Greenday
Blackhole Sun - Soundgarden
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
Kim the Waitress - Material Issue

B:"This is the Walrus"
Get off This - Cracker
Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blues Music - G. Love and the Special Sauce
Shine - Collective Soul
Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
????
Higher Ground - RHCP
Hobo humpin slobo babe - Whale
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Tori Amos
I Am the Walrus - Beatles
Amazing Grace - Canadian Brass
Pachlebel Canon - Canadian Brass

Bonus Historical Notes: The first side is Beatles themed for sure. I listened to this tape quite a bit while being a CIT at The Camp I Used To Be Affiliated With. I really like the Tori Amos "Teen Spirit." I think I know what the ??? songs are now, but I didn't have time to listen to the tape again, I only was copying liner notes. Notice that the Canadian Brass "Pachelbel Canon" appears again. "Soul to Squeeze" is still one of the best songs ever.

List #380: Track list of a Classic Mix Tape 2

List #380: Track list of a Classic Mix Tape 2

A:Psychic Venom
Self Esteem - Offspring
Undone(the Sweater Song) - Weezer
Centerfold - J. Geils Band
There She Goes - The Las
For Love - Lush
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Sabotage - Beastie Boys
Hey - Oingo Boingo
Come out and Play - Offspring
Today - Smashing Pumpkins
Sweet, Sweet - Smashing Pumpkins
Pop Song '89 - REM
Toys Go Winding Down - Primus

B:Sleight of Mind
Beercan - Beck
Green Mind - Dink
Don't - Dinosaur Jr.
I Alone - Live
Missing Link - Del and Dinosaur Jr.
Supernova - Liz Phair
What's the Frequency Kenneth - REM
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Buddy Rich Tribute
Sweet Home Alabama - Skynyrd
Lucas with the lid off - Lucas
?Don't Play with Fire? - ???
21st Century Digital Boy - Bad Religion

Bonus notes: This marks the first tape to use the "Blue Magic Card" naming convention. Many of these songs were also taped off of the DMX. I listened to this one a lot on the debate trip to Fargo/Moorhead sophomore year. I like this tape because it has Del the Funkee Homosapien on it, as well as some standard modern (at the time) rock. It also marks my first Weezer song. The Don't Play with Fire song is meaningful because the debate team had several pyromaniacs on it. This was also a good lawnmowing tape. "Don't" is a really good angry song.

List #379: Track list of Classic Mix-Tape 1

List #379: Track list of Classic Mix-Tape 1 (circa 1993-94)

Side A: "Flaming Green Peacock"
Sex Type Thing -STP
Heal it Up - Concrete Blonde
Hang On - Teenage Fanclub
Whatsamatta - Hollyfaith
We Care A Lot - Faith No More
Divine Hammer - Breeders
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Leave It Alone - Living Colour
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
?? -??
Screamager - Therapy?
Mr. Hello - Hash

SideB:"Pavon Verde y Inflammar"
Sexual Healing - Soul Asylum
Low - Cracker
Rush - Big Audio Dynamite
Slackjawed - the Connells
Real - Jesus Jones
Poetry and Prose - Primus
Low - Cracker (again?)
She Don't Use Jelly - Flaming Lips
Loser - Beck
? - Breeders
Pachelbel Canon - Canadian Brass
Edge of the World - Faith No More
Nothingness - Living Colour

note: it also had two songs by the Stereo MCs

Historical Notes: Lots of this came from the DMX service thing, so I don't know all of the names of all of the songs for sure. The title of the tape came from the banned name of an IntraMural team in 8th grade. I tried to translate it into Spanish and probably failed. This tape was listened to quite often on speech and debate trips. I also associate it with the book "Sphere" by Michael Crichton

List #376: Ways in which my life still resembles High School

List #376: Ways in which my life still resembles High School

1. I go to School every day
2. I spend time thinking about / working on debate
3. I go to all of the Ice Hockey games
4. I play in the Pep Band
5. Sometimes there's busy work
6. I could probably be more awesome if I worked at it
7. My bedroom is a mess, and I spend most of my time there

List #348: Favorite College / Grad School courses

List #348: Favorite College / Grad School courses

1. LIS 508 : History of Recorded Information (UW)
2. Jazz History (Carleton)
3. Survey of Southern African History and Senior Seminar: Africa(Carleton)
4. The upper-level Medieval Welsh History course (UNW Bangor)
5. Musical Biography and Autobiography (Carleton)
6. LIS 510 (UW, because Trent was cool)
7. Intro Sociology (Carleton)
8. Intro Linguistics (Carleton)
9. Bandits (Carleton)
10. Francophone Literature of West Africa and the Caribbean, in translation (Carleton)

List #338: Excerpts from pages in my Journal circa 1992-1993

List #338: Excerpts from pages in my Journal circa 1992-1993 {I left out a lot of the Juicy bits}

1. Jan 7, 1992: Pretty boring day not much happened {first entry}

2. May 23, 1992: I saw Marisa today and Beth anher [sic] weird friends too... I Freaked nat about the Punisher today. It was funny. T.F.T.D. Smile :)

3. August 1, 1992: ...I want to be in the olympics but I know I won't but I'm going to try any way. {during the Barcelona summer games. This also talked about Basketball, Swimming and Gymnastics...weird}

4. Jan 28, 1993: ...Today I missed algebra and homeroom to go swimming w/Paul and dave. It was really fun. We played deep water water polo... Monday is my Birthday.

5. June 26, 1993: ... Campfire was sad. "Flicker" is a good song. Jeremy is funny. He's writing My letter. I'll always remember this week and everything in it. I wish I could stay another week -Get'm in the Mind... {this was the end of my last week as a camper. I do remember quite a bit about that week}

6. Aug 5, 1993: Nat sang last night. It was great. Saw Chad from camp. {not that Chad, though. I didn't know him yet}

7. Oct 8, 1993: Debate will be neat. Spam named Ed. Hans is cool. I like school. Drawing is fun. {"drawing" was an Art elective. Hans is still cool}

8. Oct 31, 1993: Halloween. Tami came over. It was nice to see her. Trick or treating was good. I still have Chicken Pox but I might have a mild case thats almost gone. its weird.

9. Nov 20, 1993: ... I'm 23-18 (24-17?). Whole team did well. Dave lettered. Dave and Jeremy are sick people. {this was about Debate}

10. Dec 18, 1993: Moundsview was the Best Tourney yet [.] Stayed at the Hyatt with fountains and credit card keys... Alison and Sarah V. killed Melanie's fish...
{this was a rather epic length entry... a lot of stuff happened that weekend}

List #234: Band memories

List #234: A woefully inadequate list of EHS Band memories

1. Torm
2. The French Horn sectionals and defecting to the FHorn section in Wind Ensemble
3. When the 2nd Trumpets had 17 total notes in the giant all-music-department holiday concert finale.
4. The UMD jazz combo that played at the after concert party
5. Pops concert with Steve Vecchi
6. Pops concert with Ruth Dodge
7. Playing a Barry Mannilow medly when he was in the DECC giving a concert
8. 2nd Suite in F, The Lord of the Rings music (De Meij), Dies Natalis, and Valdres March
9. The Norwegian thing that Brad Bombardier wrote for torm
10. Vice Presidenting senior year
11. Looking up to/Idolizing Nick and Nate and Andy B.
12. Jumping out the window by the French Horn shelf on the last day
13. The Blues Brother's and pizza party
14. Being 2nd chair in concert band in 10th grade and sitting next to Chris Russo (and being called Superfly)
15. Getting a letter from the Edina band (see list #233)
16. Concert Band, Jazz Band and Wind Ensemble (with a study hall that overlapped with both Red Band and Symphonic Band) senior year
17. Making jokes about the choir and choir director during the holiday concert
18. super awesome friends
19. #19
20. Hans' dyed-white choppers for Christmas City
21. Florida (see Sub List A

Sub List A: Florida Trip memories
a) Taking pictures in the "backstage" areas of Disney (when they told us not to)
b) wearing those awful furry black hats and suits in the 98 degree heat/humidity
c) completely jumping the gun on an entrance in the contest piece (in the spot where Torm specifically told us not to screw up.... yeah... that was me... sorry)
d) 'My main concern right now is getting everyone on the tram(p)'
e) Hans' autograph book for his younger sister (and how "Sam Addams" signed it)
f) the beach
g) the crowd of boys that followed Sarah Fisher every where at the water park (and how just rumor that she was going to the pool was enough to get our trumpet sectional cancelled)
h) playing a really good solo on Samba De Carrera in the jazz band concert
i) running into my good pal Chad at the Waterworld boat
j) learning Cribbage from Paco on the flight home

List #233: Pep Band Memories

List #233: Pep Band Memories

1. everything up an octave
2. Pi
3. "Milk", "Bessie" and other cheers (to taunt and confuse cheerleaders)
4. playing chords
5. "Championship," "Sirocco", "Children of Sanchez", "Winter Games"(!), "Freeze Frame", "Rock'n'Roll part II (the Hey Song", "Centerfold" and, of course, "go, team, go"
6. Torm's keys and "Purple People Eater"
7. The Birchen, and how great it felt to play after a goal
8. State Hockey, Boys B-Ball, Girls B-Ball
9. the Communist flag
10. The Mall of America and Torm's threats to send people home on the Fan Bus
11. The Edina pep band
12. the Apple Valley Game (grrrrr!!)
13. the 95 State Hockey Championship
14. the long-sleeved t-shirts (which I used to still wear for CH back when I played it)
15. playing at assemblies
16. Many more. Pitch in if you've got one

List #232: Jazz Band memories

List #232: Jazz Band memories

1. Pete Lee, Legend
2. Super Saxy Swinging Snow Shovel Sea Serpent Story Solos
3. Chameleon and Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
4. Playing at gym class dances
5. Santa Hats
6. Loud and Louder
7. lots of Count Basie
8. the solo's on Li'l Darlin' and Shiny Stockings
9. it being a great way to end each day
10. The #2 Book

List #228: 7 Important Facts You need to Know about Jeremy

List #228: 7 Important Facts You need to Know about Jeremy

1. Your Mom and Dad will like him because he calls them Mr. and Mrs. (except my Mom won't like it)
2.He Knows Things
3. He weighs 2013 pounds and is a founding member of the Fat Boy Society
4. He is 113% Irish
5. He has an awesome family and a super cool house
6. He has to sleep with the window open and a fan blowing even when it's 20-below (and he steals the covers too
7. He understands all of the Girl Rules

List #41: State Tournament Memories

List #41: State Tournament Memories (Minnesota State High School Hockey)
(East went to state all four years when I was in HS, and the year after. and I went down with the band. So much fun )

1. The "Apple Valley Game" 5-overtime Debacle in 1996 (with the unseen goal)
2. Three games, three Hat Tricks -- Dave Spehar in 1995 tournament (champions)
3. Being Forced to wander the Mall of America all day long waiting for the games
4. "Duluth East 5, Bloomington Jefferson 0, Any questions" 1995
5. The called back high-stick goal in the 1997 Championship game loss to Edina
6. Making friends with the Edina Band in 1997
7. Getting together with friends to go as 'civilians' in 1998 for the championship
8. Waving Communist Russian flags at our enemies.
9. Being taped-in by Torm... "You'll go home on the Fan Bus"
10. Going down on the Fan bus as freshen for the BJ semi-final in 1994

(11). Wondering how the 'Hounds are losing 4-2 to CDH right now even though we're out-shooting 30-10...