1.  pitch writing to pitchfork, popmatters again, post medieval, work for the journal, rhizome, no more potlucks, little joe, yeti, journal of country music, disolve. (no, writing regullarly working on something, yep, nope, working on a performancce. yep, editing a peice for them, no)
2. one conference proposal a week. (once a month)
3. regular cd review place (popmatters)
4. think about sex and country music website, journal, book one of something (talked during emp, had conversations, continue to this emp) 
5. find place for clifton hicks and snakes. see what's happening with maura. (maura dead, send hicks to a few places, not sure)
6. pitch art shows 70s big bush, design show, supercut, montreal satan, camh, (pitched to two places, nope, sent a few emails, dropped, pitched and waiting)
7. film work with geoff. (?)
8. keep up with jukebox (yep)
9. a- average (yep)
10. thesis written. (yep)
11. apply once a month for some money making venture. (did this)
12. one hang out a week, with buddies. (v. much so)
13. ask one person out a month  (yes)
14. seattle in april  (yes)
15. concordia conference in march (Yes)
16. xspace in april. (yes)
17. chicago in july. (sept)

2015 Goals: 

a) either Loyola or Vanderbilt, or list of other options.for other phd)

b) Calgary in Jan, Saskatchewan in Feb, Slave Lake, Maybe Nashville, Seattle in April, Vancouver in the first third of the year, Montreal in June for language school, Sudbury, Toronto in Sept

c) Shore project 

d) Finish book review project, find a book review editor next year. 

e) find a place for deer hunting essay

f) Agent, Proposal, First Chapter for WM book, Edit what I have

g)  Write more about visual arts and film 

h) Talk to Punctum about autism book. 

i) Curate  Bush show. 

j) more academic publications, outside  of conferences.

k) find place for CAMH, Supercut work.

l) talk to DC3

m) sleep more regullarly

n) dental work

o) work out feelings about low church work. 

Reading In Bed W/ Gore Vidal, and the heartbreaking fourth chapter on Vidal's companion of 40 years Howard Austen. Their arrangement--a kind of sexless middle and then boys on either side, seems incredibly typical of an upper midde American artistic bourgeoisie---having someone do all of the work of propping the genius up, and having the genius just be this monster of narcissism and cruel uncaring ( For other examples, see Auden and Kallman, Ginsberg and Orlosvosky, Merill and Jackson, Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo, Ned Rorem and James Holmes, even Isherwood and Baechelor) (Auden and Isherwood as late Americans is something worth noting beside.--for all the conversations about how did what to whom in which circumstance, the emotional topping and bottoming, the careful notice of power, and the age differential suggests a topping/bottoming outside of strict sexual positions. Add class to the mix and it gets really really messy  I am sure their are examples of more caring and less caring--but figuring out how much of it was sexual, how much of it was the domestic work of keeping house or keeping emotional regulation or drinking in check, and how much of it was having a second for dinner, and how much of it was managing a public life--these were dedicated open questions, that I think are vastly under-represented. (This seems to be slightly different in queer circumstances than the anonymous work of the housewife--perhaps because the ambiguous sorting out of the queer domestic had not be slotted into a kind of propriety I might be wrong about this point). This is not limited to boy on boy though (see Muriel Spark and Penelope Jardin, or Stein and Toklas and though it seems mostly American, the  book has this great quote by Edmund White about Margaret Yourcenar and what her life long companion did. or didn't do). I think there is a longish book to be written about what exactly the role of a secretary is.