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P’s Favorite Albums of 2011

Published on December 19, 2011 in music, running and video. 2 Comments

My top 15 records of the year, in an undisclosed order, each with representative video:

Les Blanks – In Country

Baxter Dury – Happy Soup

Panda Bear – Tomboy

tUnEyArDs – whokill

Yuck – Yuck

Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania

Wye Oak – Civilian

Moon Duo – Mazes

The Men – Leave Home

Hella – Tripper

Computer Magic – Electric Fences EP

Belong – Common Era

Black Angels – Phosgene Nightmare EP

Forma – S/T

Wild Flag – Wild Flag

Honorable Mention:
Sons & Daughters – Mirror Mirror
The Ettes – Wicked Will
Widowspeak – S/T
Pure X – Pleasure
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
Com Truise – Galactic Melt
Beach Fossils – What A Pleasure
Ladytron – Gravity the Seducer
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath 1972
Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pines
Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore
Ducktails – Arcade Dynamics
Raveonettes – Evil Seeds
Blackout Beach – Fuck Death

This sounds terrible

Published on August 3, 2010 in running. 0 Comments

The Beer-Every-Mile SF Half Marathon: 13 Beers in 13 Miles « Exercising While Intoxicated.

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Rosetta’s Pictures of 21 Lutetia, an asteroid discovered in 1852

Published on July 14, 2010 in running. 0 Comments Tags: .

Lutetia — and Saturn!! – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society. More here.

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Un-balanced “Granny Knot”

Published on July 14, 2010 in running. 0 Comments

Ian’s Shoelace Site – Slipping Shoelace Knots, Crooked Bows.

It’s going to take me a while to process this, but I think it may help me finally tie my shoes properly.

via Anti-mega.

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Published on April 30, 2010 in running. 0 Comments

rockthatfont.com. via mefi.

P Tron’s Mix for The Human Boy Max

Published on January 16, 2010 in running. 1 Comment

My sister asked me to provide a soundtrack for my nephew Max’s “robot dance party” 6th birthday party. He’s a Kraftwerk fan, so I used kraftwerkiness as a theme. Some awkward edits to avoid cursing, and a few obvious crowd-pleasers for the adults, but I’ve had fun listening to it for the last few weeks.

P Tron’s Mix for The Human Boy Max

I assumed a new identity for this mix: P Tron, a robot from space. That was probably the best part.

I’m told that the party consisted of listening to these jams and disassembling machinery including a broken DVD player and an old busted credit card machine from my mom’s library. And games and robot costumes. Sounds like a good time was had by all… wish I could have joined them.

How did I not own this domain?

Published on December 23, 2009 in running. 0 Comments

RunPee 2.0 is live

Oh, and I ran the NYC Marathon, finally.

Published on November 11, 2009 in nyc, running and travel. 0 Comments

Activity Details for ING NYC Marathon 2009

This is satisfying to watch

Published on September 23, 2009 in running. 0 Comments

Organic Form & kind of

Published on April 12, 2009 in books, machines, music, running, uh do what now? and video. 1 Comment

Organic form

The wonderful bookish blog A Journey Round My Skull has a post this week highlighting the fact that Charles Seliger: Redefining Abstract Expressionism is available (at least partially) on Google Books.

I was shocked to see Seliger’s 1944 work Organic Form in my RSS reader, as it’s a piece I’m well familiar with– it was the basis for my kind of project from 2004.

I need a big long project like this one again– I’m already getting excited about the possibilities for all the new basement space we’ll get in our new house (coming Saturday!).

Anyway, in honor of being reminded of this guy, here’s the final phase of my project, a short video, uploaded to youtube and magnificently degraded. Better versions here.

Shamrock Run (I’m actually back at it!)

Published on March 8, 2009 in running, sports and syracuse. 0 Comments

shamI ran the Tipperary Hill Shamrock Run 4 miler in Syracuse on Saturday. It was my first race since the Buffalo Marathon in May. It was great to be back with a group again, and I’m looking forward to the spring racing season here.

I missed getting my PR for four miles by 1 second! I felt pretty good, but even though I’ve been running a lot in Syracuse, but I was not ready for the hills on this course. My splits were 6:40, 6:54, 7:56(!), and 7:39. This is why I hate short races– my cruise control doesn’t work. Mile 3 featured some of the steepest hills I’ve ever run. My total time was 29:21 (I ran a 29:20 at a race in Central Park a few years back– that race, of course, wasn’t too hilly), average pace was 7:16/mi. I wanted to break 28 minutes, but I guess that’s a goal for next year. The hills in Schiller Park, near our new house, will be a great training ground.  I finished 206th, which put me just about in the top 10%, but there were some superfast folks out there.

This was the first run I’ve posted in a while– mostly because my Garmin GPS wasn’t compatible with my Mac until recently, and I’m happily without a PC laptop from work. All my recent runs are up now, including my first couple of 5+ mile runs in months. I’m feeling great, and hope to be back up to some respetable weekly milage in a few weeks (I’m at about 15 now, hope to be up to 25 soon). Once I’ve got my base back, I can start training for NYC again– this time less ambitiously. I received my guaranteed entry email a few days ago, now I just have to shell out again.

I probably would have thrown 6 interceptions.

Published on January 10, 2009 in running. 0 Comments

Just sayin’. Let’s not overreact. We have a solid team.

Our new frozen neighborhood

Published on December 18, 2008 in brooklyn, running and syracuse. 0 Comments

We found a place last weekend in the Hawley-Green neighborhood of Syracuse. It’s half of an old house– 2 floors, 2 bedrooms. I should be able to easily walk to work, and there are plenty of little restaurants and a coffee shop nearby. The landlord (and the community) seem incredibly nice.  Kelly, for some reason, felt it necessary to tell our landlord that I love wearing long underwear. I do, but dang. I thought that was private.

A street view view of our new street (taken in warmer times– we’ve noticed that the google van was in Syracuse on the most beautiful day of all time).

Oh, and I ran three miles on the treadmill the other day– it’s nice have sore quads again. I hope to get at least a few Prospect Park runs in before we leave. But it’s supposed to snow here, so we’ll see.

No more wisdom teeth, running resumes soon, Go Panthers.

Published on December 8, 2008 in pain and running. 1 Comment

I had my wisdom teeth extracted on Friday, and it’s messed with my sleeping schedule so much that I was actually awake to watch the end of the Panther game tonight. What a great second half… I’ll never get to sleep now.

I had gotten up to about 3 miles at a time on the treadmill before the surgery, and everything felt great, so once I’ve fully recovered, I should be out on the road again. That is all.

This is just to say

Published on October 30, 2008 in running. 0 Comments

I ran a mile yesterday. On the treadmill. Relatively no pain or twinginess. So, when everyone else is running the marathon this weekend, at least I have that. Plus, I can sleep as late as I want!

Sensory deprivation in Austin;going off the grid

Published on October 4, 2008 in austin, infostudies, pain, running and travel. 2 Comments

I”m in the Jet Blue Terminal at JFK this morning, on my way to Austin to take my qualifying exams. I meet with my committee chair Monday morning at 9, get my 4 questions, and begin writing around 50 pages worth of answers by 5pm on Friday. I polled some of my colleagues and have decided on the following as my game plan:

  • As Joe suggested, I will plan all of my meals in advance. This should be fun and delicious, since I have a super long list of Austin restaurants I miss. Having Kelly and others around to deliver the meals, as Don suggests, is going to be helpful.
  • Lisa convinced me that I should only spend about 3 hours each day reading and reviewing literature so I can force myself to write for the rest of the day.
  • I’ve asked Kelly to reset my bloglines password so I can’t procrastinate with my RSS feeds.
  • Everyone suggested avoiding staying up all night writing and trying to adhere to my regular sleep schedule, until perhaps Thursday.
  • Save save save save.

I’ve brought with me my APA publications manual and a bunch of pdfs and things I’ve written, but that’s about it.  I’m excited and nervous to see the questions I’ll be answering.

Kelly and I are staying in Austin until the 12th, so we’ll have time to relax once it’s all over.

The only real bummer I can foresee is that I’m still in physical therapy for my leg so I can’t run Town Lake at all while I’m there.

Ok, going underground….. now!

For now, this is true; unreleased jams to ease you into fall

Published on September 15, 2008 in music, pain and running. 0 Comments

My legs feel better today than they have in weeks. My left knee is still a little tweaky, but I when to a cycling class today and felt good as new. My leg actually felt better after the hour ended. It was nice to sweat without grimacing in pain, been a while since I did that. Stretched more and iced afterwards, and, as of 10pm, still feeling great. We’ll see how I’m feeling in the morning.

Planning to hit up a couple of more cycling and yoga classes this week, and then I’ll have some recovery stories to tell (I hope) when I finally get in to the physical therapist next Monday.

Sound wise, I just realized that my current (and several-months-standing) favorite band, Black Moth Super Rainbow, has a free EP available on their site to get us excited for the “Drippers” EP, which drops scratch-n-sniff CDs & 10″ vinyl soon. A few other mp3s on there site as well. Enjoy.

BMSR – Drippy Eye

BMSR – Sun Lips

Another slow two, now with more pain

Published on September 9, 2008 in pain and running. 0 Comments

I was feeling so good after Sunday’s 2 miles, I decided to go to an easy yoga class Monday evening, then try for another 2 on the treadmill. I was nice and stretched out, but about 3/4 of the way through my run, I got stiff in my left knee, this morning it was very sore and weak again. I guess I’m not ready for two-days-in-a-row again yet, no matter how loose I am.

I had visited my doctor just before the yoga class, and we spoke about where I should strengthen. He know’s I planning to run the marathon, but he didn’t seem worried. Interested, though. I think he’s just glad he doesn’t have to break any bad news to me. He told me to beef up the ibu dose, ice more, and gave me a referral to physical therapy that he seemed to think wasn’t so important. I am, however getting worried that the next 7 weeks will breeze by with out a chance to recover fully. I’m making the promise to myself that I won’t run if I’m not up to it. Even kinda not up to it… the aftermath of no running for weeks is not worth it. I can always just run across the bridge to Brooklyn and straight into an ice bath. No shame in that.

It is amazing, though, how much a little strecthing can make unbearable pain disappear immediately, I’ve been good about getting at least 2 20-30 minute stretching sessions in daily, even despite the working late so much. I found my knee brace today, and hope that’ll give me the support and compression to get me though the day between stretches.

I was meeting with a good friend and music professor on campus today, and when I told him about my sorta injury, he asked to make sure I was using the RICEV method.

me: of course! Wait, what’s the V?
him: Vodka. It goes with the ice.

Made it through 2 slow miles; somehow on top of the Runlog this week; Go Panthers/Bills!

Published on September 7, 2008 in running. 0 Comments

So I actually made it through 2 miles on the treadmill today, feeling rather well all along. The back of my knee was still a little bit sore and weak, but I think I’m getting better. From the looks of RunLog, other people may be in the same shape as me– no one’s posting miles this week.

I’m going to keep up the 2-miles-at-a-time on the treadmill for most of this week, I think, then I’ll head back to the park.

But, now that it’s Sunday, running is irrelevant: Football is on. Kelly and I are scouting new places to watch the Edwards-led Bills and the Smithless Panthers. I love the fall.

Rain, stretching, an actual weekend; some mixes of note

Published on September 6, 2008 in music and running. 0 Comments
1980s Pioneer SE 20A BR

1980s Pioneer SE 20A BR

First post-paper weekend is such a relaxing thing. Had a late week at work, teaching a few library instruction classes. Last night, my class ended at 8:30, but the library closed at 8, so I sent my class out to realize that they were trapped in an empty, darkish library. Nice. A long week indeed.

Despite the weird schedule this week, I managed to get 3 yoga classes in and have doubled up my stretching routine– once in the morning, and once at night. Now that i’m ready to run, though, we’ve got all this Hannah rain, so I may start out the treadmill for a few miles in the morning.

Headphones-wise, a few mixes & tracks of note:

I’ve also got a new mix in to Libby, that maybe we’ll see soon. In the meantime, check these oldies of mine: