I have a running list of things that I really think people should read, see, or hear, and I always mean to post about some of the latest ones on my blog, but I often don’t get around to it. So here you go, for your Monday morning, some things that I think you must read, see, or hear:

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MUST READ

• “The International Traveler” by John Common. John, a fabulous musician and friend of mine, wrote a really cute, funny piece about how to have fun in your own hometown as an “international traveler.” Check it out!
• “What We Haven’t Learned from the Potato Famine,” a blog post at The Reluctant Eater, a local blog. The history nerd in me liked this, mostly because I’ve studied Irish history, but I also like the take this blog has regarding food issues that most of us probably don’t think about every day. I highly recommend following this blog!
• The brand-spankin’ new InDenverTimes.com, somewhat of a replacement for the now-closed Rocky Mountain News. I could go on and on about what the loss of the Rocky means to Colorado, but I’m not going to — just go read a short post I wrote about the closing of the RMN and visit the website that now strives to become an important source of news for the Denver metro area.
• Helvetica Alternatives. Design geek material but very, very cool. I’d have to say that I like Frutiger Light the best.

MUST SEE

• My Own Corner: Daddy Bruce’s BBQ. Bruce Randolph, Jr., or “Daddy Bruce,” is a legend here in Boulder. I’ve been lucky enough to learn some piano scales from Daddy Bruce, and his little BBQ shack is just down the street from where I live. I hate to think that sometimes I forget to stop by once in a while even though he’s nearby, so I’m going to make it a point to go more often.
• Photos by Rande Kamolz. Rande, my favorite source for new music and one of my partners in crime, takes some really rockin’ photos. Recently, he snapped some neat shots from our night in Denver for the Bishop Allen show. He hasn’t been posting as much lately, probably because he’s busy like all of us, but I always enjoy when he does.
• The Tauntaun sleeping bag. Um, HOW COOL! The geek in me really likes this. The only thing that would be better would probably be a life-size, talking Ewok (did you know that some of what the Ewoks say in Ep. VI is Tagalog? They’re saying, “There, is it a tree? Beautiful!” No, seriously!).
• The trailer for Where the Wild Things Are (at a cool, newly-favorited blog called The Nerdist). This is going to be awesome. My co-workers and I discussed tonight how we think it might be fun to go see it slightly trashed and as a big, rowdy group. It might just happen!

MUST HEAR

• Reckoner/Lockdown Mashup by DJ Earworm. I absolutely love this mashup of “Reckoner” by Radiohead and “Love Lockdown” by Kanye West. I actually, in a weird way, kind of like Kanye’s newest album, 808s and Heartbreak, but this mashup is better than the original “Love Lockdown.”
• Lily Allen‘s new album, It’s Not Me, It’s You. I’ll be seeing Lily Allen perform this week at the Odgen Theater in Denver, and I am oh-so-excited! She’s a favorite and I can’t wait to hear her live. I really hope she doesn’t disappoint, but it’s hard for me not to have high expectations of her. Thursday is going to be a fun and interesting night for a lot of reasons, but however it turns out, I hope I’ll be making some great new concert memories.

This might be something fun to do weekly. We’ll see. I can be lazy about things like this, but I’m trying to write more and more often (really in hopes that my efforts will bleed on over to the schoolwork and freelance stuff I should be doing instead of merely blogging). Hope you enjoy some of my picks this week, and I look forward to writing another post like it!