// Thoughts and Bits of Data

Done, Doing, and to Do

• Whether You Were Beautiful, Wish I Was Here
• Transit Map Art
• Scan old photos (1 down, hundreds to go)

DC Hideouts

When I'm not on the computer, chances are I'm at one of the following:

• Rendezvous Lounge (Adams Morgan) - serving me well for 10 years
• The Raven (Mt. Pleasant) - serving me Miller High Life well
• Rough and Ready Furniture (U St) - seeking out neglected furniture
• My balcony or rooftop
• Marie Reed Center, swimming laps
• A soccer field somewhere in the DC Metro area
• Underground - on the subway
• On foot, burning through my sneaks
• On wheel, my two wheel Dawes SST bicycle

Invisible To All Except Those That Are Lost

I walk to and from work everyday. The round trip is about 3.5 miles. I'm amazed by the lack of courtesy people show on public sidewalks--especially pairs and groups. They rarely break to share the walkway. Instead, so wrapped up in their stroll/conversation, they expect those moving in their counter stream to stray into the "shoulder". I'm convinced I have the power of invisibility, but it only works on public sidewalks. (On most days I'm beyond the adolescent behavior of laying in a good shoulder.)

However, lost individuals are apparently immune to my invisibility power. In fact, I think I must also have the power of magnetism for those that are lost. I'm aggressively sought out to answer the likes of "where is..." "how do i..." and "am i heading...". It happens without fail whether I'm alone, in a pair, or a in loosely clustered group of strangers. In a few circumstances, when I've been in a small heard of strangers, a person has flagged me for help and by passed others. Mind you, I'm almost always wearing headphones and that's not necessarily true of the surrounding strangers. In any case, I like to assist.

Shlog (Show Log)

• Arcade Fire (2010: Paris, France)
• The National w/ the Antlers (2010: Washington, DC)
• Caribou (2010: Washington, DC)
• Trans Am (2010: Washington, DC)
• Lo Moda (2010: Washington, DC)
• Human Eye (2010: Hamtramck, MI)
• Wye Oak (2010: Baltimore, MD)
• World's Fair (2010: Washington, DC)
• Mum w/ Sin Fang Bous (2009: Washington, DC)
• GusGus w/ Oculus (2009: Vienna, Austria)
• Walkmen (2009: Washington, DC)
• Matt & Kim (2009: Washington, DC)
• CocoRosie (2009: Washington, DC)
• Camera Obscura (2009: Washington, DC)
• Nouvelle Vague (2009: Washington, DC)
• Beirut (2009: Washington, DC)
• Maria Taylor (2009: Washington, DC)
• Beirut (2009: Brooklyn, NY)
• Passion Pit w/ Paper Route (2009: Washington, DC)
• Lykke Li (2009: Washington, DC)
• Moby (2009: Washington, DC)
• Human Eye (2008: Detroit, MI)
• Diplo (2008: Washington, DC)
• Dan Deacon (2008: Washington, DC)
• Notwist (2008: Washington, DC)
• Bishop Allen (2008: Washington, DC)
• Radiohead (2008: Montreal, Canada)
• Spritualized (2008: Washington, DC)
• Radiohead (2008: Bristow, VA)
• Sebastien Tellier (2008: Washington, DC)
• Cornelius (2008: Washington, DC)
• Kevin Drew (2008: Washington, DC)
• Yo La Tengo (2007: Washington, DC)
• The Walkmen (2007: Baltimore, MD)
• Sufjan Stevens (2006: Washington, DC)
• Belle & Sebastian (2006: Washington, DC)
• Architecture in Helsinki (2006: Washington, DC)
• Clinic (2005: Washington, DC)
• Enon (2004: Washington, DC)
• The Polyphonic Spree (2004: Washington, DC)
• Broken Social Scene (2003: Washington, DC)
• Yo La Tengo (2003: Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Wilco (2003: Detroit, MI)
• The Kills (2002: Detroit, MI)
• White Stripes w/ the Strokes (2002: Detroit, MI)
• Wilco (2002: Ann Arbor, MI)
• Detroit Electronic Music Festival (2001: Detroit, MI)
• Beck w/ Beth Orton (2000: Fairfax, VA)
• Longwave (2000: Washington, DC)
• Santana (1997: Pontiac, MI)
• Allman Brothers (1997: Pontiac, MI)
• Smokin' Grooves Tour (1996: Pontiac, MI)
• Dave Matthews Band (1996: East Lansing, MI)
• Beastie Boys (1995: Detroit, MI)
• The Cranberries (1995: Pontiac, MI)
• Dinosaur Jr (1994: Detroit, MI)
• Lollapalooza (1994: Pontiac, MI)
• Pink Floyd (1994: Detroit, MI)
• Plastikman (1994: Packard Plant, Detroit, MI)
• Cypress Hill w/ Rage Against the Machine (1994: Flint, MI)
• House of Pain w/ Rage Against the Machine (1994: Detroit, MI)
• Beastie Boys (1994: Detroit, MI)
• Fugazi (1993: Pontiac, MI)
• Lollapalooza (1993: Milan, MI)
• Beastie Boys (1992: Pontiac, MI)

// Lists

Travels

• england
• scotland
• netherlands
• mexico
• south africa
• malaysia
• guatemala
• austria
• france

Nonsense

• make friends with type-Os
• drive with care
• mannequins abound
• read more audio books

Odds & Ends

• retired Zamboni driver
• soccer
• languages
  • english
  • spanish
  • sarcasm
• maps
• old furniture

Good Songs

• Random Rules by the Silver Jews (American Water)
  
• Expectations by Belle and Sebastian (Tigermilk)
• Talk Show Host by Radiohead (Romeo + Juliet)
• Falling from Grace by Gentle Waves (Swansong for You)
• East Harlem by Beirut (Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg)
• Nantes by Beirut (The Flying Club Cup)
• Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized (Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space)
• I Lost You by the Walkmen (You & Me)
• Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) by Jimi Hendrix (First Rays of the New Rising Sun)
• Modern World by Wolf Parade (Apologies to the Queen Mary)
• Consequence by the Notwist (Neon Golden)
• (this is) the Dream of Evan and Chan by Dntel (Life is Full of Possibilities)
• Skip Divided by Thom Yorke (Modeskeletor Remix)
• Until We Bleed by Lykke Li (Kleerup remix)
• Over and Done With by the Proclaimers

Good Links

• metacritic
• non-profit job links
• caedes backgrounds
• opsound

// Vitals

Tarek J. Anandan

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Bio Math

Seconds on Earth

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