happy birthday blog!

So this blog is exactly a year old today. Here's a quick entry (which took me a lot longer to put together than I thought) on the highlights.

Month with the most entries: March 2008
It was a good month.

Single entry with the most pictures: New York - part 2
27 pics total (second place was 18). The Museum of Modern Art lets you take pictures.

Single entry with the most external links: YouTube
16 total. It was a slow blog day. Apparently I had just discovered the Internets.

Best meal: Hands down this one went to New Year's 2008.
Way to go, Chef Newstrom!

Most verbose: Color Madrigals order
Anytime you get a composer talking about their process they tend to pontificate.

Least verbose: Close Up
This photographic exercise was an obvious choice.

Most useless: Run for the Border
For some reason, I felt the need to write about Taco Bell. Of course, the discovery of a "secret" menu item at the border should never be taken lightly.

I've taken (what turned out to be) many trips since I first started this exercise in self-aggrandizing. Here are the times I ventured far enough from the Twin Cities to warrant multiple pictures and/or a blog entry:
Indianapolis
New York City
Lincoln
Seattle
Wyoming/South Dakota
Stinson Beach/San Francisco
Ashland
Milwaukee
Fargo
Sacramento

There have been plenty of premieres in the last year. I wrote about the ones that I could be at:
Sleeping Out: Full Moon
In Magna Symphonia
Color Madrigals, Vol. 1
Color Madrigals, Vol. 2
Renascence
Color Madrigals, Vol. 3

So that's a year. Here's the actual Belief and Technique for Modern Prose by Jack Kerouac that caused me to haphazardly name this blog.

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from the bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yrself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You’re a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

And, finally, a blurry relic from my teenage years that nobody checked for grammar.