A couple weeks after my last post to this site, Hesam & I took off to New York for a month to party with Brad and the rest of the NYC kids. In a few short hours, I’ll be on my way back to New York with my brother, Andy, and Josh to do some more of the same. I figured that I better update this site before I head out with some brief news and some music for all of you non-existent readers. Click through for updates on the last couple months, my trip around the world, my food website, two free mixtapes, among other things.

The last couple months have mostly been a blur. As I mentioned, I spent very fast 24 days in New York which were mostly spent drunk or otherwise incapacitated (read: food comas). After returning, my sleep schedule got all messed up and I was stuck on a mostly nocturnal pattern. Then the last few weeks I was up for days at a time and getting very little sleep in an effort to fix myself. It only caused my brain functions to diminish even further and I was getting really irritable and spacey. Miraculously I was able remedy this problem a few nights ago and I’m already feeling better (despite waking up at 4:30 AM every day).

Hesam and I have started planning our impending trip around the world. We’ve begun researching visa requirements for all the countries we are planning to visit (I think there are about 70 or so on the list) and will soon start working on budgeting and fund-raising. I’m really looking forward to this trip – in fact, I can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve had this insatiable travel bug for the last two years and despite having been away from home for four months or more during that time, I still can’t shake it. It’s not about escaping the situation I’m in or anything like that. It’s more like a race against time. Staring into the vastness of the world in front of me, I’m starting to feel like I’ll never be able to experience it all. We’re planning on leaving by the end of the year and will throw a huge party before we go. You’re all invited (and paying for it haha).

My food website is on hold for the time being. I went to a bunch of restaurants on both ends of the country, took beautiful pictures, and ate crazy shit (spinal cord!), but I’m still having a hard time finding the motivation and inspiration to write the content. I’m also having some trouble getting through the thousands of photos I need to edit and archive. I’ve switched over to iLife ‘09 to hopefully make the archiving easier and I’ve started to make a little progress. Click on the “Photos” link above to access my Flickr albums and see what’s new. There should be plenty of new pictures from tomorrow’s trip to NYC in the near future, as well. I suppose I should get the pics from my last New York trip up first, however. [ed: last twotrips to NYC]

Finally, I leave you with two mixtapes I made for that monthly mixtape club I’m in. The theme for this month was “cover songs.” I started with about 300 songs and, through various means, managed to whittle the list down to 42. That’s far too many for one disc, so I made two. The first has a very loose theme and the second is a free-for-all. Instead of posting the tracks here, I’ll just link through to the mixtape site where I left some comments on why I selected the songs I did.

Mix #1 “I Want To Be Like Them” [click for more info]
Mix #2 “At Least They’re Shared” [click for more info]

Or, if you don’t want to read about the mixes and just want to download them, follow this link:
http://www.minusnumbers.com/mixtape

Also, here’s a bonus mp3 for you. I titled my post after this song, but despite the sarcasm I seriously hope everyone’s having a great 2010. It has to be better than that last miserable year.
[MP3] Dismemberment Plan – The Ice of Boston