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100 THINGS THAT MADE MY YEAR

12/31/2014

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In no particular order...
  1. The inspiration for this post: Austin Kleon's 100 things that made his year
  2. Playing 22 characters in 9 plays at the American Shakespeare Center
  3. Skyping with my family and Samson the golden retriever for Thanksgiving and Christmas
  4. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  5. Excellent TV: True Detective, The Good Wife, The Americans, Frasier, Black Mirror, Orphan Black, Broadchurch
  6. Watching Tracy Letts, Michael C. Hall, Toni Collette, and Marisa Tomei in bizarre, mundane-meets-cosmic awkwardness in The Realistic Joneses on Broadway
  7. Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer concert in Harvard
  8. Buying Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel at a charming indie bookstore in Schenectady, NY (and reading it, of course)
  9. Discovering good, affordable bourbon
  10. Matt Thomas's Submitted For Your Perusal blog
  11. The comedy of John Mulaney
  12. Lynda Barry's classroom tumblr
  13. Watching most of the cast of Cabaret watch themselves on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at an Irish pub in Manhattan
  14. #PeterPanLive
  15. Getting rid of my Netflix account
  16. Writing music for in-show songs in As You Like It
  17. Patio beers and a burger with friends at Sweeney's in St. Paul
  18. Watching Big Trouble in Little China for the first time
  19. Running by myself or with friends
  20. Haunted bar for Halloween
  21. Attending opening night for a saucy and exuberant production of The Importance of Being Earnest at American Players Theatre
  22. My brother Aaron got engaged
  23. Ryan Byrd's "Two in Review" music feature on his blog (free playlist downloads!)
  24. Star Wars VII teaser
  25. The Maxamoo podcast
  26. Too Many Cooks
  27. Playing Thin Lizzy guitar solos on the trumpet
  28. Gin, tonic, mango, and pepper at the Fancy Christmas Eve party
  29. This poem: "A Brief for the Defense" by Jack Gilbert
  30. Singing "Royals" during the As You Like It interlude
  31. When my troupe collectively devoured Gone Girl
  32. The High Line
  33. Stumbling upon this The Alchemist poster from the RSC on tour
  34. The National Aquarium in Baltimore
  35. Hanging out with this dog 
  36. This interview with Linda Emond (and meeting her)
  37. Bread pudding pancakes in Chicago
  38. I was in a band...we even had a couple gigs
  39. Buying my domain
  40. Running in the woods in Canton, NY
  41. Abandoning books that I didn't like
  42. NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
  43. Skyping with my brother Dan, who lives in Guyana
  44. The Scourge of "Relatability"
  45. The awesome book reading/writing community on Twitter
  46. Attending Cabaret on Broadway (and seeing a good friend in it)
  47. The Bier Garden in Portsmouth, VA
  48. Puddles the Clown singing "Royals"
  49. Seeing 18-month-old Wilbur dance to Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly in the morning
  50. Drinking this ridiculously expensive PBR at Busch Stadium
  51. The organ in the Interstellar soundtrack
  52. Encountering some Rodin in Baltimore
  53. Brunch in Brooklyn
  54. Throwing away most of my college files
  55. Discovering the band Glass Animals
  56. Listening to RadioLab podcasts on the tour
  57. The tornado that was Jim Ridge in American Buffalo at the American Players Theatre
  58. Playing Mario Kart 64
  59. The Thai food place in Oneonta, NY (specifically, the drunken noodles)
  60. Actors preparing backstage for a show
  61. The trumpet stylings of Takuya Kuroda (on vinyl)
  62. When my fellow tourmates randomly yell "troll!" in honor of the glory that is Trollhunter
  63. Queen City Brewing
  64. Receiving invitations to audition for projects from my director friends
  65. This essay on Puddles the Clown
  66. Guardians of the Galaxy
  67. The dogs of my co-workers (Harper, Tucker, Rugby, Rocky, Ajax)
  68. Lobster Mac 'n Cheese in Boston
  69. Joyous tears during Once on Broadway
  70. The sculptures in downtown Sioux Falls
  71. Moving into a giant house, built in the late 1800s
  72. Coming up with a Harry Potter joke in Doctor Faustus
  73. Mark Strand on poetry in the Paris Review
  74. Long chats with grad school friends on the phone
  75. The Gone Girl soundtrack
  76. Blogging about the 2014 Actors' Renaissance Season
  77. The Hobbit/Office spoof on Saturday Night Live
  78. Homeland season 4's glorious comeback
  79. Writing by hand makes you smarter
  80. Seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark and Good Will Hunting on the big screen
  81. Sam Mendes's 25 Rules for Directors
  82. My friend Aaron hiked the Appalachian Trail in five months this year (2000+ miles)
  83. My Warby Parker glasses
  84. John Lithgow's King Lear blog
  85. Learning the accordion part to "Shipping out to Boston"
  86. Making playlists for tour treks across the country
  87. Having drinks with a writing professor after my brother's graduation
  88. Learning the game solitaire frenzy
  89. Reading three GIANT books: The Luminaries, The Goldfinch, and A Storm of Swords (I read others, of course)
  90. Having work secured at least until June 2016
  91. Making my parents' Christmas present
  92. Exploring the towns and cities we stay in on tour
  93. The Skinny Pancake in Burlington, VA
  94. These paintings by Seth Adelsberger
  95. Revisiting my first professional artistic home: The Commonweal Theatre and attending Ibsen's Brand (a new adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher)
  96. End-of-the-year lists
  97. Discovering Ben Lerner's novel 10:04 in the last days of the year
  98. Trader Joe's trips on tour
  99. Spotify
  100. Cooking for friends and family



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