2023, Mon Ami | Varyer

2023, Mon Ami

The perfect end to an imperfect year, we're sharing our favorite memories, places, objects, and illusions from the last 365 days.

Becca's Top 10

Varyer Fave: When Adam did an unboxing video of his Panera Bread lunch order

Carlos' Top 10

  • Park hangs with my best homie Pablo. the Dawg
  • Dangerous jungle highway bike rides with my partner in crime
  • Facilitating lasting friendships among odd-ball neighbors
  • Hot summer rooftop laughs with old friends
  • Intimate group circle crying with new friends
  • Finding unimaginable connections via strange new foodz
  • Discovering the magical wonders of therapy
  • Needle love à la acupuncture
  • Natural colors of river fish under the sun light of the Flat Tops Wilderness
  • Being romanced by life via new opportunities and adventures

Varyer Fave: Ex Libris Book Club

Chris' Top ???

100 Things?

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 : Driving Permit / The Goalie / the Bear s2 / Dad Finally Able to Celebrate His 70th in a Spitfire / School Commuting / Bedtime / “The Best I’ve Ever Eaten” list / Empty Bottle Debut / Convertible State of Mind / The Grand Canyon + Arizona Nordic Cycle / A Dining Room? / / New Home Office / The Postal Service / Phish w/ the Pham / Drake Dreams

🙃 : Sweet Sweet Work Travel / MSGRPK / Pool All Time / Golf w/ the Boys / Cold Blooded Old Times / Turkey ∞ / Dead & Bro / Should Have Known / a Breather / notdyingtelluriding

🏠 : Mario Barbaglia & Marco Colombo Table Lamp / Leucos Lamps / Lichen Side Table / Record Shelves / Peter Frederiksen’s “Won’t Hold Forever” / A Corey Presha Personal Grail / Don’t Fret Family Portrait / Pitchfork Fest 2014 in Print / Deadly Prey Deadly Print (miss u Phil) / Tim Lahan’s “Emotional Time”

🛟 : The Light Phone / LayiPhone to Rest / iPod / A Point & Shoot / The Happiness Curve / Trying + Reminding / Time Moving Forward in Reverse / The Creative Act / Slow Focus / Drugs

💸 : Grand Seiko GMT Spring Drive / Evan Kinori Trampin’ Boots / Auralee New Balance 1906r / Help Heaps Land Tee / Omaha via Way Out Cache / Best Jacket Ever Made / a PF Custom Cleaver cap / Albuquerque by Worn Spiral / 🤞 / Cairns

🃏 : W I N E + Old Fashioned American Spiritzes

✌️: What is the Best? / Company of One / Chrysalis / Heartbeats / That Outside Air / Traction / Fucking Burnouts / Inspiration Move Me Brightly, or Keep Me Up All Night / The Var Side / Won’t Hold Forever Linen Print / Lake Varyer / Un-Squishing

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💿Eluvium - (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality;Gia Margaret - Romantic Piano;Greg Mendez - S/T,Blue Lake - Sun Arcs;Fred Again…+ Brian Eno - Secret Life;Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps;Sufjan Stevens - Javelin;Daniel Bachman - When the Roses Come Again;Aux Meadows - Dust Kingdom;Jeffrey Silverstein - Western Sky Meadows;BCMC - Foreign Smokes;Zach Bryan - S/T;Dean Johnson - Nothing For Me, Please;Kieran Hebden & William Tyler - Darkness, Darkness / No Services;Colin Miller - Haw Creek;Bonnie Prince Billy - Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You;Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah;Neil Young - Chrome Dreams;Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE;Oneohtrix Never - Never, “Again”;Andy Shauf - Norm;Hot Chip+Brian Eno+Goddess - Line in the Sand;Jeremy Chiu - In Electric Time;North Americans - Long Cool World;André 3000 - New Blue Sun

Izzy's Top 10

  • Fruit picking adventures
  • Flagstaff Fadeaway
  • Having the best friends in the world <3
  • Living alone for the first time and being walking distance to Publican Danske (always worth breaking vegan for)
  • Signing my first record deal
  • Visiting the Poconos w/ Doug & Don
  • Baby’s Got Rockets
  • Stalking The Wild Pendulum
  • Getting an unsolicited DM on LinkedIn ;-)
  • DJing at the Amigo Room w DJ Situps at the Ace in Palm Springs

Varyer Fave: Flagstaff Fadeaway branding and website

Jazz's Top 10

Kelly's Top 10

  • Yashica Samurai X3.0
  • Cafayate, Argentina
  • Traveling with my mom
  • Pollinator gardens
  • Polish Sausage from Sox Park on Yacht Rock night
  • Talking about ~waves~ in Paris
  • Horseback riding
  • Beer shaped ice cream cake
  • New and old friends
  • Road trips with my partner

Varyer Fave: Business trips!

Mike's Top 9

  1. These 498 songs
  2. Saving Scout Cabin lmao
  3. Endlessly recreating this scene with my 2.5-year old son
  4. Near beer
  5. We who remain, continue
  6. And the sock of the year goes to
  7. Unlocking flow in my personal workspace above the garage
  8. These 796 links
  9. Knowing when is enough

Varyer Fave: Lake Life

Taylor's Top 10

  • The UP: Copper Harbor, Houghton, & The Grand Hotel (to name a few)
  • Discovering Taylor Swift
  • Obelix
  • The Hood River Fruit Loop
  • Kids Work Daycare
  • Scoring a Ben Houtkamp piece
  • Homemade Halloween costumes
  • The Langham Hotel bathtub
  • Autumn To May
  • Going to Target with Marlowe

Varyer Fave: Nonviolent Communication Training (and lifelong trust & friendship)