101/1001 update

[dubdobdee]

ADVENTURES:
1. Go on two-week solo road-trip to France
2. Come back in one piece
3. Plan 2008 Adventure <--- it is MOROCCO (via spain) it is in plan it is in oct-nov
4. Execute 2008 Adventure

ARCHIVES
5. Cull Records/CDs <-- SOONER IS BETTER THAN LATER would be part of this :(
6. Cull "stuff I one day plan to read" haha
7. Read rest of "stuff I one day plan to read" hahahaaagh

BOOKS
8. Finish Tristram Shandy <-- no further
9. Finish KAPITAL (all three vols) <--- no further
10. Read all books Vick as given you <--- keep getting stuck in the FLOUNDER
11. Read all books T has given you <--- way down queue
12. Read all books Sistrah Becky has given you <--- this is some novel i ph34r
13. Read SR's PoPu book <--- will be torn swiftly asunder as part of my HISTORY OF ROCKWRITE book
14. Read BW's D3r3k B4il3y book <-- ditto, tho probably i will be kinder

CAREER
15 negotiate payrise <--- solution = take on more work
16. Find new agent <--- found and he was eager then vanished
17. Kickstart media consultant idea <--- first workshop 5 june!!
18. Decide what new job direction shd be
19. Recontact academic depts re book fvck em
20. Get new job kinda sorta in bud!
21. Realise academic outreach <-- i am zaggin to zig on this, via 17

FINANCES and ADMIN
22. Complete bank transfer, sort out stupid overpayments and costs <-- STILL NOT SORTED I AM 1 X CLOWN W.MONEY
23. Take bags of coins to bank <-- only a million pennies to go
24. Do taxes every week for six months <--- haha
25. Do taxes every week for a year
26. Sort dad's taxes <-- try and do in next three weeks (once slugs is over)
27. LEARN EBAY and sell stuff on it
28. Make will :(

FLAT
29. Springclean flat <-- it is once more spring (and past)
30. Re-decorate
31. Sort out gutter
32. Sort out roofleak
33. New bathroom <-- i just ordered a new unbroken toilet! this is step one
34. New kitchen

FOOD
35. while in france eat something you never ate before
36. Re-sort spices, replace all now as dust <-- halfway through
37. Write to aunt for granny's recipes <-- written but we decided i should VISIT to pick em up
38. Make flourless cake
39. Attempt terrine
40. Make bread
41. Complete empirical research on the organ eatability league table
42. Eat (and understand) 1 x new fish every week for a month <-- must get back on this
43. Eat (and understand) 1 x new fish every week for 3 months

GADGETS
44. Replace record player
45. New computer
46. New printer
47. Re-open electronic DL faucets
48. Scanner
49. Digital camera

KNOWLEDGE
50. Learn how cars work
51. Learn how economics works (poss via magnus's dad's friend's book)
52. Re-learn how French works

PIANO:
53. Find piano teacher <-- i have her number but haven't called
54. Complete short programme <-- not doing badly here, must update kitan on the keys
55. Complete long programme
56. Get hammerfelts and strings redone

PIRATE PROJECT
57. Dubdobdee's contribution <-- advancing a little
58. Vick's contribution <-- unsure, she has many distractions
59. Joint contribution <-- way off

RADIO <--- blimey, who knew this would be the triumph!
60. Contact Mr Resonance
61. Review previous LOLLARDS series in ref series 2
62. Pitch SF programme w.Eli

SELF
63. Dental checkup <-- good idea
64. General medical checkup <-- ditto
65. Reach 12 stone <-- summer's the time! beer's the crime :'(
66. Stay c.12 stone for a month
67. Stay c.12 stone for six months
68. Get back on YOGA TRAIN
69. Swim at least 2 x week for a month
70. Swim at least 2 x week for a year
71. Exercise bike at least 3 x week for a month
72. Exercise bike at least 3 x week for a year
73. Weights at least 4 x week for a month
74. Weights at least 4 x week for a year
75. Get actual real bicycle <--- u&k
76. join gym

SOCIAL
77. Be a DJ
78. Contact T's friend RR
79. Get back in contact with DUNCAN
80. Have a meal with GE
81. Have a drink w.G once a fortnight for six months <-- he has new gf so this is not urgent really
82. Have a meal w.RS once a fortnight for six months
83. Visit all aunts and uncles

WINDOW GARDEN:
84. Weed and throw out dead herbs
85. Plant for next year (2008)

WRITING
86. complete essay for f!lm qu4rterly
87. re-pitch "why are the left such chumps abt the charts?" <-- who the fuck to?
88. place "l*c s*nte" review <-- EPIC FAIL, am sad abt this
89. complete agatha project for FT <-- got distracted
90. complete daleks 3-4 <-- these are the short ones
91. complete dalek 5 <-- am back on this
92. Amy Robot
93. post to RFN 1xweek for 1xmonths <-- is RFN dead?
94. post to RFN 1xweek for 6xmonths
95. update and correct stone lanes entries
96. restart TEACH MARK S A LESSON <-- is ilx dead?
97. complete TEACH MARK S A LESSON
98. Resume wiretapper polls
99. Write up results of wiretapper analysis
100. finish music and technology book

1000001
101. 101 new things for next 1001 days!

original here, complete with explanatory links

Comments

[koganbot]

I assume you've asked Luc for advice on this. If not, you should.

(Btw, I met Derek Krissoff on Saturday - he and his wife blew through Colorado on a whirlwhind vacation. I might ask him if he knows of any publications that might be amenable.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i haven't actually, bcz if you recall the jump-off point for my pitch was luc's own book -- when slugs8 is done and dusted on thur i will get all my dux in a row on this stupid many-lensed project

today i am mostly putting of pennies in cashbags :\

[koganbot]

Wait, I thought the jump off for the piece was my book, and Luc's was just an add-on a year or so later. In any event, neither of us is the jump now: the basic idea is "Why Are The Left Such Chumps About The Charts?" w/ me and Luc (and Tom and Lex etc.) as examples of how not to be chumps.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ok original original pitch jump-off wz indeed yr book -- that wz for nlr two years ago (who never even bothered replyin)

regussied pitch last year, to lrb and -- implicitly -- the n3w y0rker had luc's book as its timely hook

(in both cases part of the pitch was also 1967 = 40 years from pepper and the "invention of rockwrite")

yr right probbly that the hook shd be the (original) headline
-- which is some years older

much of the problem here is that i really REALLY freeeze up writing pitches as i never do writing the pieces themselves) and end up grabbling for comfort-hooks that then take over the piece

[koganbot]

So, start writing the piece and then select bits of the piece to be the pitch itself. Or start presenting your ideas to us on livejournal, and your brief presentations might well be pitchable.

Btw, my thumbnail explanation of why the left are such chumps about the charts is that the left have evolved into a cultural identity rather than just an analysis of and attempt to change society - not that being a cultural identity precludes doing analysis and changing society, but the unstated movement tends to towards embracing art, ideas, and actions because they are ours* rather than because the music, ideas, and actions are good - though of course the music is called good, and sometimes reasons are even given, and the reasons are usually terrible: the reasons tend to validate or criticize the music on the basis of whether we* approve of who makes it and how it was (supposedly) made and whom it was made for rather than on the basis of what the music actually is and does.

Of course, the whole culture, not just the left, tends to do just the same, and the nonleftist analyses tend to lean left anyway (surprisingly enough), just with the "politics" left out. And my critique of the "left" is pretty much in line with my critique in my book of academia and journalism (which could be a critique of several million other things):

(i) presentation of self - creating, maintaining, or modifying one's hairstyle, as it were - is a way of thinking, but (ii) given a choice between maintaining one's hairstyle and thinking about it, my profession as a whole will choose hairstyle over thought

*"our" and "us" not necessarily mean you and me and our buddies anymore, but there but for the grace of god go you, me, and my buddies, ya know? - and the postgrad liberal-left does tend to be our cultural neighborhood, if not our particular block.

[koganbot]

though of course the music is called good

And is often experienced as good, too, of course...