12/18

i'm thankful that d and i deep-cleaned and reorganized our house this weekend. i'm thankful for all the new space. i'm thankful that though we had big plans for going out and doing things on saturday, instead we stayed home and ordered fancy pizza and ate chocolate and watched tv, which was wonderful. i'm thankful to recommend that you do not watch the mountain between us, which was really terrible even by disaster movie standards and was largely composed of scenes of kate winslet and idris elba's characters sleeping because they were tired and cold.

i'm thankful, instead, to recommend this epic article about titanic by sarah marshall. i'm thankful to have learned about niche memes. i'm thankful for this article about resisting empathy with villains. i'm thankful that snapdragon seed pods look like little skulls. i'm thankful for michael pollen. i'm thankful for this hairless cat who looks very unhappy to be outside. i'm thankful for this failed attempt at biscuits and gravy. i'm thankful for one of the "better" song parody fragments i have come up with. i'm thankful to aspire to write a killer list like this one about nigel farage about an american politician i hate.

i'm thankful for this relaxed loungey beat tape, which is lovely peaceful background music. i'm thankful for pop 2 by charli xcx, which i haven't fully digested yet, but which has three songs that i think are totally stunning: backseat, out of my head, and track 10. i'm thankful for the impeccable use of EQ. i'm thankful for the new n.e.r.d. album, which is thrillingly strange. i'm thankful for the three most popular songs by fleetwood mac, which are a beautiful set. i'm thankful for the song exploder with perfume genius. i'm thankful for sharon olds. i'm thankful for black thought.

i'm thankful for this game gorogoa, which is challenging but beautiful to watch. i'm thankful for the book i've been reading, ninefox gambit, which was a slow start because of a lot of sci-fi jargon but which is full of fascinating ideas and interesting characters. i'm thankful for gummy vitamins, which i hope work too. i'm thankful for magritte. i'm thankful for this artwork made by winding a single black thread around a grid of nails on a wooden board to create an intricate portrait. i'm thankful for the thing that gets you to the thing.