2.place we were happiest to visit: Key Club, Benton Harbor Michigan
3.place we were happiest to leave: Los Angeles
4.movie: pie in the sky, the story of Bridget Berlin
5.art: Christian Marclay film at White Cube, london
6.event: getting metal removed from Alison’s eye
7.bar: Silver Dollar, Benton Harbor, Michigan
8.people: the post code warriors that broke all our windows
9.song: cheekbone hollows by Child Ballads
10.best thing that came in the mail: 20 heat sealed bananas in plastic
11.books: all Truman Capote all year.... interchanged with coney island of the mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti