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Our fridge needed to be defrosted, so we pulled it out from the wall to unplug it.  I noticed that our French press was at the back of the counter, where it usually was wedged against the fridge.  "I'm going to break that," I thought.  Normally, my next thought would be, "I should move it before that happens," but I was still making coffee in the ( Read more... )

It would appear that I rather dislike Nuit Blanche ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed that a large meteor was heading toward earth, and I lived in the building that was located at the precise coordinates predicted for its impact.  There was an evacuation proceeding, but I could see the object approaching when I looked out the window, and feel heat generated by its descent.  I went through the apartment, ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot of 19th century fiction lately.  When I was younger, I used to say that I really couldn't read fiction that was written before the 20th century, but my tastes have changed.  It has largely to do with having a greater attention span, I think.  I think also my skill at penetrating narrative to get at the "point" of a novel has ( Read more... )

Today we went to see the Picasso exhibit at the AGO.  The curators had almost as much to say about the women in Picasso's life as about anything else, which, I suppose, makes a lot of sense.  It appears as though Picasso had almost as much to say about those women as about anything else, as well.

It struck me that each of the six women with whom ( Read more... )

Do you wake up in the morning feeling like there's something you should do just to make the day start off right?  Do you feel as though when there are little breaks in your routine through the day, it's nice to "check in" somewhere before getting back to things?  Have you ever had someone walk into your life and take up residence there as though ( Read more... )

Rob says you guys would understand something about my fashion sense if you knew that I get some ideas from the B-52s.

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I'm always tinkering at the piano, playing a bunch of different stuff, largely Bach, or Romantic stuff, or Ravel.  Darwin will hum along with the ones he knows.  Today I picked up a Mozart piece I played for my grade 9 exam 20 years ago.  There was a lot of noise in the room, but Darwin announced that he liked this music pretty much right away when ( Read more... )

I like that people has been uploading rips of my old vinyl.  Saves me wearing out the grooves.

I like this one pitched down, but in any case one of the best electronic albums of the 90s:

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I loves me some agro drum n bass:

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(Edit: OMG 5:51 on the Ed Rush)

OK, one more I just turned up.  What a fantastic sample :p

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I had a different album by these guys.   ( Read more... )