Today is my 39th birthday. If anyone wants to buy me a present check out my Amazon wishlist. Thank you in advance. Oh and I love you!
John Beck
Athlete. Artist. Agnostic. Humanist. Skeptic. Unfinished.
John Beck Elementary School
Yesterday I was in Litiz, PA and I visited John Beck Elementary School. Some day I will have my own university. I have to start somewhere.
Bradley Beach 5k 2014
Not entirely happy with my 5k today. Was hoping for under 23 minutes but my official time was 23:07, 131st of 771 runners. A few months ago I suffered an MCL injury and this is only my second race since the injury (the other being last week). I guess I should be happy that I didn’t further injure it even though there is slight soreness. Here’s the digital certificate:
However, all runners were allowed free access to the beach after the race. I took advantage of that and a beautiful day to enjoy my lunch by the sea.
R.I.P. Robin Williams
In the very beginning of Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall (1979) he said that he always told his grandmother that someday he will perform live at Carnegie Hall and when he does he will give her the best seat in the house. Before the show started he introduced his grandmother and told that story. She then took a seat on the actual stage and didn’t say a word but watched the entire show. The show consisted of his usual routines, Elvis impersonation, wrestling, Tony Clifton, etc. as well as a number of special guests. After the 2 hour show was over Andy began to thank all of his guests for performing and then he thanked his grandmother, Robin Williams. Robin Williams sat on the stage dressed as an old lady for the entire performance and not a single person at Carnegie Hall knew that. It was absolutely amazing. RIP Robin Wiliams. I hope that this is another one of Andy’s pranks. 🙁
Migrated blog to WordPress
Just installed WordPress on my server and am now using it as my blog instead of RapidWeaver. I was surprised how easy it was to import the old blog. I just imported the RSS feed. I lost my theme and I’m sure links to the RapidWeaver blog are no longer functional but so far it looks like it works! Great!
Race bib and medal display
My father made me this great Uptown Gentlefriends (my race team) display for all of my race bibs and medals. It’s pretty damn sweet. Thanks dad!!!
Bucks County 10 Miler: May the Fourth Be With You
Got this in my email yesterday from the Star Wars themed Bucks County Ten Miler, May the Fourth Be With You.
Happy Mother's Day
Happy mother’s day to all the mothers out there. My grandmother recently found this old photo of my mother during Halloween. I found this picture interesting and had to share it. My mom is the one on the right, the hobo.
The Knife
Last night I saw the Knife at Terminal 5 in NYC. It was one of the stranger shows that I’ve been too. They took the idea of a concert and then took the concert out of that idea. It was a strange abstract dance performance. I enjoyed every minute of it. Though I didn’t like it as much as Fever Ray, my favorite show of all time, this show still is one of my favorite and most memorable performances.
Here are some pictures and video that I took. In order of appearance in the performance.
Top 50 albums of 2013
My favorite albums of 2013 in order from most favorite.
1. Kanye West – Yeezus
2. Forest Swords – Engravings
3. Darkside – Psychic
4. Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love Is The Devil
5. Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
6. Tim Hecker – Virgins
7. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
9. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
10. Savages – Silence Yourself
11. Holy Ghost! – Dynamics
12. David Lynch – The Big Dream
13. Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
14. Austra – Olympia
15. Katie Gately – Katie Gately
16. Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
17. Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol 3: See More Light
18. Deafheaven – Sunbather
19. Zomby – With Love
20. Burial – Rival Dealer
21. Haim – Days Are Gone
22. The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
23. Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind
24. Gesaffelstein – Aleph
25. Kavinsky – Outrun
26. James Blake – Overgrown
27. Autechre – Exai
28. London Grammar – If You Wait
29. Matmos – The Marriage of True Minds
30. William Basinski – Nocturnes
31. M.I.A. – Matangi
32. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
33. The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
34. Factory Floor – Factory Floor
35. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
36. The Field – Cupid’s Head
37. Matt Elliott – Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart
38. Suuns – Images Du Futur
39. Foetus – Soak
40. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
41. oOoOO – Without Your Love
42. Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals
43. Phosphorescent – Muchacho
44. Charli XCX – True Romance
45. Au Revoir Simone – Move In Spectrums
46. Grouper – The Man Who Died in His Boat
47. Lorde – Pure Heroine
48. Adult. – The Way Things Fall
49. Atoms for Peace – Amok
50. Depeche Mode – Delta Machine