What I Hope To Do This Summer: 2009 Edition
June 1, 2009Shakespeare In Central Park: This year, they are doing Twelfth Night starring Anne Hathaway, Raúl Esparza and Audra McDonald. I leaned my lesson from the last time I went and I’m going to try and score tickets in the middle of the run instead at the end when everyone is trying to get tickets.
100 Movies I’m Embarrassed To Admit I Haven’t Seen Yet: My DVD project of the summer will be to make it through this entire list. I’ve already knocked off five movies (and haven’t been disappointed by any thus far).
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: There are a couple of movies playing that are on my list but I think I will go to Harold & Maude on July 20th and/or Close Encounters of the Third Kind on August 17th (full schedule).
Bike-riding: My bicycle is sitting in the corner of my room all dusty and with flat tires. It’s pathetic. I’m pretty sure I only rode my bicycle ONCE last summer and that just won’t do. Since we are going to have a ton of bike racks at our new office, now is as good a time as any and get back on the saddle, literally and figuratively
Road Trip: A couple of friends and myself will be driving down to New Orleans (with a stop in Atlanta) for July 4th weekend (a.k.a my birthday). Hopefully we all make it there safely and back.
Photos: One of the “50 Things I Hope To Do or Start This Year” was one of Cindy’s photo-a-day projects. So this summer I am going to try and take at least one picture a day starting today and ending on August 31st. I imagine it will start easy and end up being a lot of silly photos in my bedroom. We’ll see how this plays out.
Concerts: No Lollapalooza for me this year but I’m looking forward to
- The Decemberists at Radio City Music Hall, 6/10
- Q-Tip/Chester French/Little Dragon/Benji B at Central Park, 7/18
- All Points West Music & Arts Festival Liberty State Park, NJ
- Friday, July 31: Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs ,Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, Q-Tip, The Pharcyde, Organized Konfusion, Ra Ra Riot
- Saturday, August 1: Arctic Monkeys, St. Vincent, Tokyo Police Club, The Cool Kids, Tim & Eric, Judah Friedlander
- Sunday, August 2nd: Coldplay, The Black Keys, We Are Scientists, Lykke Li, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Showalter, Todd Barry
On top of that, I have:
- Two weddings (maybe three if I’m up to crashing one)
- One bachelor party weekend
- Kickball
- The Fast Food Challenge
- Summer Movie season
That seems like a lot, right? Wish me luck
I think a good third of your list is on my list as well. Hahaha. Good luck!
I’m gonna make a list too. On it: a trip to NY