Milestones, 2013

Things to be thankful for:

• Meeting Morgan & every day after
• Alida's recovery
• Improved heart health
• Jeremy & Anna
• Being part of the leadership team @ Rumble

Memorable events:

• Paul & Erin's Wedding
• Super Bowl XLVII w/ dad, Justin, Jeremy & Anthony in New Orleans
• Burning Man #2
• Ballistic @ Cabo San Lucas
• Thanksgiving w/ Morgan & crew in Seattle
• Egg Night 6
• Lake Tahoe trip
• MIT Sports Analytics Conference
• Balloon Fiesta
• EDC/Stag Party
• NG prototyping w/ Josh & Adam & crew
• Andrew & Sam's Bend wedding
• Working w/ Adam & Art & crew
• Napa birthday
• Buying a new car
• Bonfire at Ocean Beach
• Gary's 75th birthday
• Morgan's 3 birthdays

Performances seen:

• Primus (left after 4 songs)
• Jared Diamond
• Nick Kroll
• Pinky & the Brain (the voices of)
• Todd Barry
• Portlandia Q&A
• Rob Huebel & Paul Scheer
• Celebrity Autobiography (Janeane Garofolo, Maria Bamford, Rachel Dratch & friends)
• Super Bowl: Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson
• Lisa Loeb
• The Specials
• Bay Area High School Poetry Slam Finals
• Sarah Chang
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Nicholas Carr
• Bob Saget
• Temple Grandin
• Lettie Cottin Pogrebin & Gloria Steinem
• EDC: Hardwell, Fatboy Slim, Tiesto, Markus Schultz, others
• Allen Ginsberg memorial reading at CJM
• David Byrne & St. Vincent
• Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z
• Richard Dawkins
• Margaret Atwood
• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Martha Wainwright
• Balloon Fiesta: Darius Rucker
• Davy Rothbart
• Anjelica Huston
• Frank Gehry
• Ann Patchett
• Alice Waters
• Amy Tan
• Jonathan Richman

Memorable restaurants:

• State Bird Provisions
• Bouchon
• Baker and Banker
• Le Charm
• AQ
• La Ciccia
• El Gaucho
• Andre's
• Sage
• The Prime Rib
• Sadie's

Books, 2013

Books that leapt to the front of the stack:

• Buddha Vol. 1-8
• Ready Player One
• Shakespeare: The World As Stage
• Grantland Quarterly Vol. 1-6
• Infinite City: a San Francisco Atlas
• Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons
• Are You My Mother?

Books purchased this year that are in process:

• Inferno: the World at War
• A Brief History of Nearly Everything*
• Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
• McSweeney's Vol. 13

Books I finished, no regrets:

• Skellig
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Habibi
• The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
• Daily Rituals
• A Feast for Crows

Books that were on the right path until they weren't:

• The Art of Fielding

Books that I finished after getting through 2/3's many years ago:

• The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

Books that I have already forgotten:

• Raven Girl
• New York Drawings
• The Signal and the Noise

Books I couldn't maintain interest in:

• Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
• Why We Broke Up
• The Metaphysical Club
• Sugar, Salt and Fat
• A Short History of Women
• Thinking Fast & Slow
• Herb Caen's San Francisco: 1976-1991

Books purchased this year that I haven't started yet:

• Great Streets
• All Over the Map
• A Dance with Dragons
• Moby Dick
• Stray Bullets Vol. 1
• Locke & Key Vol. 1
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
• Midnight Cowboy
• The Wizard of Earthsea
• The Innocence of Objects
• How Music Works
• The Complete Calvin & Hobbes

Movies, 2013

Film I enjoyed most: 

• Short Term 12

Films, distinct and memorable:

• Before Midnight
• Gravity
• Pacific Rim
• All is Lost

Films that inspired me to check Wikipedia immediately after viewing:

• Rush
• 20 Feet from Stardom

Films, with no regrets:

• Blue Jasmine
• Nebraska
• Frances Ha
• Crystal Fairy
• 42
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

Films where a group of underdogs stand up and clap for someone who stood up for a worthy cause, which somehow spoils the entire film:

• Dallas Buyer's Club

Films I've forgotten about already:

• Iron Man 3
• Oz The Great and Powerful
• American Hustle
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• The Great Gatsby
• Ender's Game
• This is the End
• The Book Thief
• Lee Daniels' The Butler

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Films I wanted to see but haven't yet: 

• 12 Years a Slave
• Fruitvale Station
• Don Jon
• Mud
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Blue is the Warmest Color
• Her

Films I probably won't see that I considered:

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The World's End
• Captain Phillips
• Philomena
• Wadjda
• Ginger & Rosa
• Salinger
• Frozen
• Saving Mr. Banks