Side of Aug’s head, Patti Smith at MoMA

Aug and Jeff playing chess at Shaker

The part of my live radio show where I describe Polaroids

View from my new office

Car I bought for $1300, that runs fine but I constantly worry is going to break down

Some beets I bought at the co-op where I buy all my food now

Film crew

Wrapped up last year in Brooklyn. David and Molly had a nice Christmas Eve party where I consumed many tamales. Jenny and Dan had a nice cookie party where I consumed many cookies. Saw Patti Smith sing a few songs at MoMA. There was a party at 169 bar in honor of Kelly and I quitting our jobs. I went out to dinner a lot. Mostly I thought about my new job I got at MASS MoCA and how I was going to go about moving and getting all the stuff I needed. I packed everything. Breathed a lot of dust in. Kept myself steadily sick. Ended up getting a uhaul and drove it up to the annual Shaker Meadows NYE party.

NYE was pretty chill and a good amount of fun. Lots of good food and being lazy and some partying. This year everyone went back to Brooklyn, and I stayed behind to live up here.

Stayed a week in Artist’s housing with Sandman. She’d work on her stuff all day and I’d come home and we’d eat something pretty healthy for dinner, try and watch tv or a movie with no luck. She left and I moved up the hill to Clarksburg to my rental house. It’s big. I think I’m finally used to the place, but it’s too big. It snows once or twice a week, and the weather is pretty miserable.

I really enjoy my new job. There is a lot to do, some urgent, some long term. It’s strange to be kind of in charge. I have to decide what I’m going to worry about and what not to think about. Instead of working on projects. I have to invent them and then work on them.

Esha has been coming up every two weeks for long weekends. Life is pretty domestic when she’s here and I look forward to it. She likes the big house and the couch in the kitchen, but not the part about it not being in New York.

Last weekend Blume came in from KC, Mike and Aug came up from NY, joined by Nick P from LA. Blume brought a bunch of video gear and we worked like crazy interviewing people in the museum for a video I hope to edit within the next 10 days. We were 5 young men hanging out, drinking craft beers, eating hamburgers, talking about our careers, playing dominoes, watching super bowls, making up jokes, trying to come up with million dollar ideas. It was nice to see everyone. I feel like we’re all real grown up now, but still have this weird, close connection that makes me wonder if it was like … destiny that we became friends?