Quick post

Really bad weekend, had to take care of an emergency work situation. We had K's parents over too, so I didn't get a chance to spend a lot of time with them. While they were here I did manage to go out on a 'date' with my wife for once. We went out to a nice Italian restaurant and saw a movie at the Davis Theater. Feel tired, stayed up late finishing stuff up. N's teething again, she seems like she's in a lot of pain, poor baby. Can't write much today as I have some potentially hardcore meetings this morning. I feel confident that I can handle whatever problems I'm presented with.

We should always know that we can do anything.

Terminally Chill - Neon Indian
Go Do - Jónsi
(This Is) The Dream Of Evan and Chan - Dntel
Celestica (Alcala Remix) - Crystal Castles
Talamak - Toro Y Moi
tribulations - LCD Soundsystem
In For The Kill - La Roux
This Orient (Astronomer Dub) - Foals

Yeah, if you were born rich enough to pretend you're poor

All to All - Broken Social Scene
Real Love - Delorean
Galang - M.I.A.
Turn It Off - Phantogram
A/B Machines - Sleigh Bells
Low Shoulder - Toro Y Moi
Face To Face On High Places (Jesu Remix) - School Of Seven Bells
LCD Soundsystem - One Touch - LCD Soundsystem

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One thing I know is that the first things you do with any new medium are worth keeping. You may later on down the line become such an expert in Abelton that you feel your early recordings are very amateur but other people will not. I have a theory. If you look at the first three movies of any actor you pretty much get the feel for them. Of couse there are exceptions. But the same for albums and musicians. And sometimes the early work is the best. More raw primitive etc. Whatever. And even your own conceptions perceptions will sometimes limit you so you are more free at the beginning

-CMP

Your hatred will make me famous

Final Offer - Styrofoam
Tell 'Em (Rodway Remix) - Sleigh Bells
Yulia - Wolf Parade
Tenderoni (XXXChange Dub) - Kele
OMG(Vindata Remix) - Usher ft. Will.I.Am
2080 - Yeasayer
Half Asleep - School Of Seven Bells
Home (RAC Mix) - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

I often bust out with the random dance moves

These Are My Twisted Words - Radiohead
Courtship Dating - Crystal Castles
Deli - Delorean
Ring Ring - Sleigh Bells
Do The Astral Plane - Flying Lotus
Blood On Our Hands (Justice Remix - Death From Above 1979
Whirring - The Joy Formidable
Rome - Yeasayer

The evolution of a revolution

Superfast Jellyfish (Don Diablo Remix) - Gorillaz
Tighten Up - The Black Keys
Stick to My Side (Four Tet Version) - Pantha du Prince
Year's Not Long - Male Bonding
Run the Heart - Sleigh Bells
XXXO - M.I.A.
Sun (Short Bloom Remix) - Caribou
Soft Shock - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I know all the words to these songs

A More Perfect Union - Titus Andronicus
Drugs - Ratatat
Kaili - Caribou
Grow - Delorean
Vietnam (LightsoverLA Remix) - Crystal Castles
Something Good Can Work (THE TWELVES remix) - TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
Sweetest Kill - Broken Social Scene
Regenerate - Booka Shade

Mismatched, yet strangely adorable

World Sick - Broken Social Scene
Delorean - Big Weekend - Lemonade
Heaven's On Fire - The Radio Dept.
Walk In The Park - Beach House
Wildcat - Ratatat
What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had To Go This Way) - Wolf Parade
Fences (Def Starr Version) - Phoenix
Lady Daydream - Twin Sister

Psychological manipulation

Stay Close - DELOREAN
Living In America - DOM
A Drowning - How to Destroy Angels
Ghost Pressure - Wolf Parade
Knife (Girl Talk Remix) - Grizzly Bear
Party With Children - Ratatat
Home - LCD Soundsystem
Re: Stacks - Bon Iver

I hardly know her, c'est bon.

Sister Saviour Black Strobe mi - The Rapture
Feel So Good (DJ-KiCKS) - The Juan MacLean
A Juicy Intro (Ha! Yes Remix) - Notorious B.I.G + The xx
2 say my name - Holy Ghost!
Plastic People - Four Tet
Amazon (Diplo Mix) - M.I.A.
Tell 'Em - Sleigh Bells
Stuck on Repeat - Little Boots

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Top results are reached only through pain. But eventually you like this pain. You?ll find the more difficulties you have on the way, the more you will enjoy your success.

Juha Vaatainen, former Finnish athlete and winner of the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter gold medals at the 1971 European Championships

Can you imagine yourself as a fish

Well K. is going through some hormone/pregnancy sickness so after we grilled she fell asleep and I have to take care of N. now. Looks like I'm not running today, I wound up taking her to the park for a while. I didn't get hardly anything done this weekend, except almost done with the Ableton training. N. is going crazy - right now the only thing she eats is Lucky Charms cereal, but only the marshmallows. So every time she eats all the marshmallow she throws a tantrum until I make her another bowl of cereal.

Oh yeah and we sold my car so now we're down to one car - my wife's shitty Ford Focus hatchback. And I have to take the train to work tomorrow.

I don't know how I'm going to like taking public trans to work. I think it's probably going to suck, especially in the winter. I may get to do some people watching and I may save some money (but not much probably). What I'm hoping for is that, now that I'm taking the train to work I can read and do work while travelling to and from work - so I'll get to put in an extra two hours work a day, and I'll be more productive on the job. I'm sort of forcing myself into a situation where I have pretty much nothing else to do but apply myself more at work, so hopefully I'll start doing even better at work and eventually I'll get a better job. That's the best thing that can come out of this. Since K. is a teacher and doesn't work in the summer she won't need to drive for the next three months anyway and I could take her car to work if I want, but I think I'll still try to take the train to work.

In the fall, when the new baby arrives, we'll have to upgrade K's car to a larger car that will fit two baby seats - probably a compact SUV. Our number one choice right now is like a Subaru Forrester or Outback - I'm also really pushing for Volvo wagons. At least my wife and kids will be commuting in style.

We had a great weekend, though. We applied for our passports. Then we basically hung out at my mom's pretty much all day yesterday and today. We grilled out pork chops today, which were excellent. And we took N. to the park too, I love that. I think I get as much of a kick of going to the park as she does. She'll go to bed soon, she seems pretty worn out from this afternoon. I'm going to ask my wife to make fruit and peanut butter smoothies, fold laundry, then study Ableton the rest of the night until we fall asleep. I don't really want to go back to work tomorrow but such is life.

New 16 week marathon training plan

Switching from my old plan, which I've already completed 1.5 times, to this more hardcore 16 week plan from runnersworld - because I want to lose more weight basically.

Intermediate Plan

Week	M	T	W	T	F	S	S	Total
1	Rest	2 miles GP 2 miles T 2 miles GP	3 miles 4x100 S	1-hour run, including 4:00–5:00 TUT	Rest	4 miles	8 miles	29–33 miles
2	Rest	2 miles GP 2 miles T 2 miles GP	3 miles 4x100 S	1-hour run, including 4:00–5:00 TUT	Rest	4 miles	10 miles	29–33 miles
3	Rest	2 miles GP 4x1 mile T (1:00) 2 miles GP	3 miles 5x100 S	70-minute run, including 5:00–6:00 TUT	Rest	5 miles	12 miles	35–39 miles
4	Rest	2 miles GP 4x1 mile T (1:00) 2 miles GP	3 miles 5x100 S	70-minute run, including 5:00–6:00 TUT	Rest	5 miles	14 miles	35–39 miles
5	Rest	4x1,200 C	3 miles 4x100 S	4x800 SI	Rest	5-K race	10 miles	28–30 miles
6	Rest	2 miles GP 2x2 miles T 3 miles GP	3 miles 6x100 S	80-minute run, including 6:00–8:00 TUT	Rest	5 miles	15 miles	39–43 miles
7	Rest	2 miles GP 2x2 miles T 3 miles GP	3 miles 6x100 S	80-minute run, including 6:00–8:00 TUT	Rest	5 miles	16 miles	39–43 miles
8	Rest	2 miles GP 3x2 miles T (2:00) 3 miles GP	3 miles 6x100 S	4x1 mile C	Rest	5 miles	16 miles	44–47 miles
9	Rest	2 miles GP 3x2 miles T (2:00) 3 miles GP	3 miles 6x100 S	4x1 mile C	Rest	5 miles	17 miles	44–47 miles
10	Rest	1-hour run, including 2x1,200 C 2x400 SI	4 miles	4x800 S 6x100 S	Rest	10-K race	6-8 miles	32–34 miles
11	Rest	2 miles GP 4x2 miles T (2:00) 3 miles GP	3 miles 6x100 S	90-minute run, including 8:00–10:00 TUT	Rest	4 miles	18 miles	45–51 miles
12	Rest	2 miles GP 4x2 miles T (2:00) 3 miles GP	3 miles 6x100 S	90-minute run, including 8:00–10:00 TUT	Rest	4 miles	19 miles	45–51 miles
13	Rest	3x1 mile C 3x800 SI	3 miles 6x100 S	75-minute run, including 6:00–8:00 TUT	Rest	4 miles	20 miles	46 miles
14	Rest	3x1 mile C 3x 800 SI	3 miles 6x100 S	75-minute run, including 6:00–8:00 TUT	Rest	4 miles	13 miles	45 miles
15	Rest	2 miles GP 4 miles T	3 miles 6x100 S	1-hour run, including 6x400 SI	Rest	Rest	1-hour run	27–29 miles
16	Rest	4x400 SI	Rest	3 miles 6x100 S	Rest	2-mile jog	Marathon

Definitions

Goal Pace (GP): Your per-mile goal marathon pace.

Tempo Runs (T): For 11-minute Marathon Goal Pace (MGP) (4:48:25), run 10:28 (1 mile); for 10-minute MGP (4:22:12), run 9:31; for 9-minute MGP (3:55:58), run 8:34. Recovery is slow jogging for the number of minutes in parentheses.

Cruise Intervals (C): For 11-minute MGP, run 9:56 (1 mile), 7:49 (1,200); for 10-minute MGP, run 9:02 and 6:47; for 9-minute MGP, run 8:07 and 6:06. Recovery is half the distance of the repetition.

Speed Intervals (SI): For 11-minute MGP, run 4:52 (800), 2:26 (400); for 10-minute MGP, run 4:17, 2:08; for 9-minute MGP, run 3:50, 1:55. Recovery is equal distance (e.g., 400 jog for 400 repeats).

Total Uphill Time (TUT): The total number of minutes you spend running semi-vigorously up inclines-- repeats up the same hill or total uphill time over a hilly loop.

Warmup/Cooldown: Run 15 minutes easy followed by 4x100m strides before each Tuesday/Thursday session and 15 minutes easy at the end.

Strides (S): Gradual, smooth accelerations over 100 meters (straightaway on a track), running fast and controlled over the middle third--but NEVER SPRINTING--then just as gradually decelerating. Walk to full recovery after each.

Race Day Rules: "Go 10 to even 15 seconds per mile slower than your goal pace for the first 5-8 miles," counsels coach Bob Williams. You will see a big payoff later. When things start to get interesting, say at 18 to 20 miles, you'll have some gas in the tank.

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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso

I hardly know her, c'est bon.

I don't wanna live for tomorrow

Born Free - M.I.A.
Baptism - Crystal Castles
...And The World Laughs With You (Ft. Thom Yorke) - Flying Lotus
ceo birthday - jj
A Paw in My Face - Field, The
Beautiful People - The Books
I'm Waiting for my Banshee (Animal Collective v. The Beach Boys) - Animal Collective
Odessa (Junior Boys Mix) - Caribou

No more leaky holes in your brain

If I Ever Feel Better - Phoenix
Bulletproof - La Roux
Airplanes pt. 2 f. Eminem & Hayley Williams - B.o.B.
Electric Feel - MGMT
Daft Punk Is Playing at My House - LCD Soundsystem
Baptism - Crystal Castles
Atoms For Peace - Thom Yorke
O.N.E. - Yeasayer