Evan Rose
...was born in Dallas, Texas, traveled, lived in the Bay Area, DJed, studied architecture, collected furniture, played drums, and is now a web developer and IT consultant in New York City. Here's more.
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When I'm not working on mtv.com, I build web sites and web based applications for small businesses and individuals. I also help those businesses and individuals with their Macs and networks. Here's more.
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Friday January 27, 2012
March 2011, Recapped
Mom visited again
New iPads were announced
Went to the Scope Art Fair's VIP opening and met Trevor
Went on a cruise to Cozumel, Mexico
Saw a cabaret show
Won a $100 or so playing blackjack
Visited the bridge of the ship (which is rare and special)
Visited "Passion Island" (fun) on a spinny boat (not fun)
Won $65 playing blackjack
Got burned to a crisp
Was ill for several days
Met my new boss
Had lunch with Bennett who was in town
Went to DC
There was a huge earthquake in Japan
Saw an amazing lego architecture show
Sprang forward
Went to Baltimore
Heard Larkin was pregnant
Saw Tim play
Saw Radiolab Symetry Show
*
Five year anniversary of the start of Ze Frank's The Show
Started watching it again, then gave it up in pretty short order (and so did he)
A whole bunch of people went all crazy*
March 18th; a significant day*
Saw the brain exhibition at the MoNH
Went to Josh's birthday dinner
Saw the play "A Comedy of Errors"
Had BONE MARROW POPPERS at EO
Zach came into town
Went to Sara's birthday party
Bought a replacement peacoat (for the one I foolishly gave away)
Got my bespoke wallet I designed in the mail
Met Frank Muytjens, Jenna Lyons and the Sartorialst at a J Crew Show
Went to 12% event
Had a big deal fall apart
Wednesday January 18, 2012
February 2011, Recapped
Borrowed a ton of money
Celebrated Beer Table's third anniversary
*
Had an unpleasant experience*
Went to a nude drawing party
Had a crazy fun time at Trash Bar with Heather
Went to an opening
Was kind of a mess there for a couple of days
Mom came into town
Heard Aaron and Robyn had gotten engaged
Heard Brian and Ashley were pregnant
Went to Jenny's opening
Went to the Westminster Dog Show
Made a family tree with my mom
Heard Chavella's was moving
Reconnected with Lora, which was nice
John K. came into town
Saw Enid Ellen
Saw Cornelia, Julie's band
Had a fun movie night*
Heard I was getting a new boss
Went to Chris Grygo's birthday party
Went to an Oscar party
Wednesday January 11, 2012
Clothing Inventory
After long last, I cleaned out my closet. This is a list of what I got rid of (though I should have made a list of what I kept, it'd be far shorter):
To INA:
- Polo military shirt
- Ted baker corduroy shirt
- Citizen of Humanity black cord jeans
- Theory stone kaki pants
- Michael Kors linen shirt
- Zoza trousers
- Blue SEW custom shirt
- unstructured Theory suit (unworn)
- Rag & Bone trousers
- White Rogues Gallery shorts
- Diesel long sleeve t shirt
- Theory cream sweater
- Theory concrete trousers (favorites)
- Grenson boots
- Puma Black shoes
Threw Away
- Calvin Klein pajama pants (favorites, from '02)
- white trash jean shorts
- GStar Raw pinstripe shirt (an All Time Favorite)
- Fruit of the Loom dirty white V neck
- Grey sew custom shirt (an All Time Favorite)
- 4 pair CK boxer briefs
- White GStar Raw shirt
Gifted
- Custom SEW houndstooth shirt
- James Perse Long T
- Black linen Calvin Klein shirt
Buffalo Exchange (don't do this - just put this stuff out on the street - wasn't even worth the time to take it over there)
- Favorite Grey Levis
- Older favorite tight grey Levi's
- Lindsey's TFS shirt (never liked it in the first place)
- Black penguin button down
- Uniqlo trousers, never worn
- Uniqlo blue pinstripe linen shirt
- Uniqlo houndstooth linen shirt
- Uniqlo trousers (half of great suit)
- Brown Uniqlo suit (unworn)
- Penguin Gingam suit
- Yoga pants (a gift)
- Grey H&M bathing suit
- Uniqlo blue kaki shorts (unworn)
- Penguin plaid shorts
- Another Penguin plaid shorts
- Old levi boot cut jeans
- Grey Hoodie
- Banana rep slight V neck sweat shirt
- Uiqlo long sleeve T
Now I have no clothes and have not had any interest in getting anything new. A blessing and a curse
Wednesday January 4, 2012
January 2011, Recapped
Started two crazy projects, one I thought was stupid, the other everyone else thought was stupid
Quit eating cookies
Celebrated three years without a cigarette
Had strange email correspondence
Was writing about it way back then*
Didn't DJ or get a vacuum cleaner
Went Salsa dancing
Dad visited
Made a family tree with him
Ate at Minetta Tavern and had the $26 burger
Bought a ton of VZ that never did anything
Went ice skating
Went to Sharon's birthday dinner
Went to church
Went swing dancing
Found out my building was getting foreclosed upon
Lost my goddamn wallet
Went to Flicfest (and heard some bad news*)
Played bingo
Had amazing dinner at The Modern
Went to Flicfest again
Went to Flicfest a third time
Ate at One if by Land, Two if by Sea (and Heather sang!)
Saw Tracy Dunbar, who was in town
Heard that I wasn't going anywhere
Went to Flicfest a fourth time
Found out an old friend had died
Saturday December 31, 2011
New Years Eve: A Look Back
I did a lot of things this year, about which I'll write more soon, but not quite all the things that I wanted. Here's a look back from last year (and here's more from middle of the year review and a followup).
- I only took two dance lessons - I even let a groupon for two more lapse.
- Didn't give up the New Yorker and am almost hopelessly behind. For some reason I think an iPad 3, when released, at which point I will immediately purchase one, will help me with that.
- I killed off two of little performance/conceptual art pieces in the middle of the year. One was too time consuming and the other, annoying to others.
- I didn't not make my lunch but once and nor did I do much cooking.
- I didn't take any drum lessons and nor did I make a mix tape.*
- I did not, but should have reread my journal every month. As it stands, I continued to do a year-end review which makes me realize I'd missed a lot that had been going on far longer than I would have liked.
- I didn't do as much exercise as I'd liked, but two injuries at the end of the year were kind of to blame. I also didn't ride my bicycle (or motorcycle) nearly enough.
- I didn't eat a single piece of candy, again (it's been over two years), and didn't have any cookies either. I also, at some point in the spring gave up eating bread by itself and towards the end of the year, in a show of solidarity, potatoes.
- I increased my net worth by 74% (despite expensive gifts [you're welcome, mom!] and several pricey trips) and in the middle of the year, stopped keeping track of every cent I spend and started letting Quicken do more work for me than it had before, which was liberating.
All those things being said, both the good and bad, I made more mistakes this year than in many other years, but also had more successes, which I think means I did more (and certainly had more fun) this year in general than in past ones. I'll be posting a lot of those things in the coming weeks and hope you find them interesting. Here's to a happy and successful 2012 for all of us!
Saturday October 22, 2011
Tumblr Blog
I've started one where I post things I find that I'd email to friends. Follow along here: evanrose.tumblr.com.
Tuesday August 16, 2011
Beer Table Pantry
Yesterday was a momentous day: after a year and a half of involvement, huge checks, run-arounds, impatience and being a shoulder for my good friend Justin to cry on, the beer store in Grand Central Terminal in which I am a partner finally opened. Bless Justin's heart for the 18 hour days he's put in day after day for months and months (he continues to run Beer Table in Park Slope at least six nights a week) and his wife and child for bearing his absence. I'm looking forward to a prosperous seven years in that space - which is only getting sweeter by the presence of a new Apple Store and Shake Shack around the corner. Kudos and all involved and get thee there and spend!
Additionally, a new version of Beer Table's site was relaunched with a new design and powered by Wordpress. A new version of the Pantry's site is coming soon. Check it out.
Thursday July 28, 2011
New Years, 7 Months Later
From my scratch file in regards to the new year:
- Golf and drum (trap) lessons: I've not done either of these, though intend to when the weather cools. Already looking into driving ranges!
- No cookies: Haven't had a cookie since December. In addition, haven't had candy in 20 months, bread (by itself) in two, and haven't had potatoes in 3 weeks.
- Dancing lessons: Took two dance lessons, but from amateurs. Ladies who know how to dance do not want to teach it to dudes who don't - they want to dance! I've got a couple of lessons at Fred Astaire coming up in a few weeks.
- Make breakfast and lunch: Started eating breakfast, but didn't make my lunch but maybe twice. I make plenty of money; I can buy it.
- Running: I've only run twice but I definitely do a serious workout about four times a week. Now that it's summer, I'm back on my bike, too.
- Renters' insurance: I need this.
- Make a mix: I've set up my DJ gear but it's just too hot in my apartment to organize my records. It's at the top of my list.
- No New Yorker: I kept getting the New Yorker (damn auto renew!), so I kept reading it. Somehow, I am all caught up but still looking forward to giving it up in '12.
- 3 legged dogs: I am taking pictures of three-legged dogs. I haven't encountered many.
- Delicious links to Twitter also, evanrose.com links post to to delicious upon submission: I no longer care much about whatever this means. I definitely gave up the silly projects I started in the new year and have a ton of free time to show for it. Spending time on the web becomes less and less of a priority as time goes on.
- Container store box for sunnies, box for bath stuff, file folders and clothes in milk crates: Did get some organizational stuff and some shelves but messing with my stuff hasn't been a priority like getting rid of stuff has.
- Talk to [various friends] about land upstate: Held back on that but now thinking about another exciting real estate thing for next year.
- Get picture pages for photo albums, comic book sleeves, plastic boxes to label to replace crappy boxes: Did some of this, too hot and having too much fun to mess with it at the moment and that's OK. I have plenty of time.
I also look forward to clearing my scratch file too.
Thursday June 30, 2011
It's the Last Day of the First Half of the Year
...and I feel like changes are in order.
It was at least five years ago that I started tracking every cent I spent using Quicken and studying personal finance and used to regularly post updates on my finances. At some point, I reached my goal of financial security and stopped posting analysis of my worth and how quickly or slowly it rose and fell in posts such as this one and this one (which, to my surprise, were posted four and a half years ago). As of tomorrow, I am going to stop tracking every cent I spend and will instead simply keep track of the balances on my accounts without any detail other than those things that can be written off. The rest can simply be considered "Miscellaneous." The details aren't important anymore.
Six months ago, I started a Twitter based performance/art project that I thought would be fun but with the exception of a friend or two whose curiosity was roused or who were entertained, it was met with indifference or even disdain. I planned to continue through the end of the year but have stopped wanting to continue, so I just posted my last Twitter update today. That project isn't important. Also at the start of the year, I began structuring my journal in such a way that I could keep track of the start and end times of different activities in order to record various pieces of information on a special calendar. I am months behind in filling out the calendar and even just keeping track of my goings-about is boring and annoying me. This project, though I may fill in the last few months and my fill out the coming months in broader strokes, not important and thus is also coming to an end today. Fun things shouldn't be work and I hate obligation, even to myself.
I have carried around so much in boxes and in my mind for so long and after long, long last, am ready to let some of it go. These activities are some of those things and more is to come (giving up more sites I read on a daily basis, deleting bookmarks and again, trying to ease up on the Facebook, just to name a few). These things aren't important and don't serve me and I want them out. I'll keep you posted on my progress.
I will continue to write things here and in fact want to write about New Year's resolutions and things that have changed over the past year (and/or two) in the next few days. Some people might find those things interesting, as I will when I look back on this time. In the meantime, I have long weekends to spend, oceans and pools in which to swim, bicycles and motorcycles to ride, BBQ's to attend, friends to see, and time to enjoy. Those are the things that are important.