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More positive

Published on February 6, 2009 in Bicycle, Future and Radio. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

I just found out Sunday
I was lis­ten­ing to an inter­view with Sally Car­son (Fix­pert) on Bike Talk on KPFK today and she was say­ing cool stuff about the way you should act as a cyclist. About not being all aggro and flip­ping the bird, but just truck­ing along in all weather hav­ing a good time. When you send out pos­i­tive vibes to drivers, you inspire them to bike because it looks so fun (and then you won’t inspire dri­vers to hate cyclists more). 

I needed to hear that. I some­times get really frus­trated with cars and suvs cut­ting me off or almost hit­ting me and I yell and flip the bird. It can really get to me, about how cars have more rights, and can just run you off the road, and that the police or who­ever would take their side. And how cars con­tribute to smog and exhaust just chok­ing me and short­en­ing my life. Bitches. 

But like Laura tells me, it is not worth get­ting so mad and worked up over. Also, like Sally said, you can inspire them to ride bikes, which is like bet­ter for the whole world. And they were talk­ing about on the show that any­one on any kind of bike (road, moun­tain, beach cruiser, fixed gear, what­ever) is GREAT because it is SO MUCH BETTER than them dri­ving around in SUVs. There is no rea­son to be an elit­ist about it. The main goals of the cycling com­mu­nity should always to have more peo­ple riding. 

I have always been inspired by peo­ple like that, being so cool and nice to every­one. I feel like there are elit­ist and accept­ing cool peo­ple in any com­mu­nity. I would like to be more like that, not all aggro and elit­ist all the time, but be really cool, pos­i­tive, and accept­ing. We all have a right to love life and not to be shamed for trying.

Ten Thousand

Published on July 16, 2007 in Music and Radio. 4 Comments

I joined Last.fm as a new years res­o­lu­tion of sorts. I was inspired by Kottke’s post, and, in gen­eral, my love for stats. So, need­less to say, I’ve been check­ing up on my Last.fm account from time to time. Today, some­thing very excit­ing hap­pened: Between Jan­u­ary 3, 2007 and now (July 16, 2007 at 4:17 pm) I have lis­tened to 10,000 songs.1 If I con­tinue at this cur­rent rate it will take me almost 6 years to get to 100,000, the next big mile­stone I guess. Any­ways, here’s the stats.

My top 20 artists so far this year are as fol­lows:2
1. The Blow
2. YACHT
3. Mirah
4. Bob Dylan
5. Deer­hoof
6. The Right­eous and Har­mo­nious Fists (rep­re­sent!)
7. Manta
8. Cat Power
9. Adrian Orange
10. Dear Nora

11. The Bad­ger King
12. Wu-Tang Clan
13. Bobby Bird­man
14. Tom Waits
15. Prodigy (of Mobb Deep)
16. Laven­der Dia­mond
17. Dirty Pro­jec­tors
18. High Places
19. CocoRosie
20. Belle and Sebastian

None of these are really sur­pris­ing… If there was a “Top Time Elapsed” I think Pub­lic Radio Inter­na­tional would be higher (cur­rently 29) up in the list because all the pod­casts I lis­ten to are around an hour each.

Some fun graph­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tions:
my main­stream per­cent­age
And a weird gooey graph

1This includes my time at work (where I lis­ten the most, 8–5 Monday-Friday since the sum­mer began) and home (Far less than work lately because I’m at home less. Plus lately, with no inter­net con­nec­tion at home, I don’t know how much is being tracked). This does not include my iPod (I know you can track your iPod lis­ten­ing, but I haven’t got­ten around to it yet, plus I haven’t really used my iPod much lately).

2Not includ­ing the cur­rent month.

I Heart Public Radio

Published on July 10, 2007 in Radio. 1 Comment

I lis­ten to a lot of Pub­lic Radio, espe­cially at work. Here’s what I choose to lis­ten to on a daily basis. And why.

Fair Game (web­site/iTunes)
Fair Game plays a huge part of the first half of my work day. Not that the show is that long. I look for­ward to Fair Game so much. It’s funny as hell. It’s like the Daily Show for the radio, but dif­fer­ent. The show is def­i­nitely aimed at the younger gen­er­a­tion. And let me tell you, we can’t get enough. Also, Faith Salie is cute as hell. “We like her air­headed gig­gles jux­ta­posed with astute commentary.”

This Amer­i­can Life (web­site/iTunes)
The best part of Mon­days is com­ing to work and lis­ten­ing to This Amer­i­can Life. So beau­ti­ful, so tragic. I’m sure you’ve already lis­tened to or at least heard of This Amer­i­can Life, so I’ll move on.

The Writer’s Almanac (web­site/iTunes)
Your daily dose of Gar­ri­son. Com­bines his­toric fac­toids and poetry, all wrapped together in 5:20.

Radio Lab (web­site/iTunes)
I recently dis­cov­ered Radio Lab (via This Amer­i­can Life). At the begin­ning of the pod­cast the announcer says: “Radio Lab is a lim­ited run series.” So far, online, there are only 5 episodes. This show is great because it has the pro­duc­tion qual­ity of This Amer­i­can Life and is like Myth­Busters. Not really like Myth­Busters, but is based on inter­est­ing exper­i­ments and expe­ri­ences. The show leaves you with the feel­ing that life is beautiful.

KPCC (web­site/iTunes)
When­ever. Ran out of pod­casts? Lis­ten to stream­ing Pasadena Pub­lic Awe­some. And, if you give them money, you get a tote.