I'm going to go back and make all of my previous entries private. Then I will try to procrastinate from work by posting fun pictures from South America. Then I will write more often. My brain is going 100 miles a minute (or whatever that is in km) but then I never have time to actually sit down and chat with people. So, we'll see.

EDIT: photos uploaded... some of my favourites, anyway

Sarah Polley has weird teeth... but...

My Life Without Me is one of my favourite movies and it's on tv (weird) right now. As if it makes me choose between Scott Speedman and Mark Ruffalo.

Things I will see over the next four weeks










Have a great August!

See you in September!

 

 You know, for someone who reads livejournals at least twice a day, I don't post very often...

 

 Merry Christmas everyone (and a belated happy Hanukkah)!

I'm watching It's a Wonderful Life and helping my mom make stuffing. YUM. A little over 12 hours before I can eat it...

Have a safe and happy holiday season!

 I cannot wait to go home! Haircut tomorrow, drinks Friday, lazy Saturday with the possibility of babysitting, then flying out on Sunday!

 1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click Random Article (on the side menu). That is your band's name.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

My band: Xavier Montsalvatge
Our album: Milky

Track listing for this modern masterwork:

1. Adam Watt 
2. Jiří Kochta
3. The European charter for equality of women and men in local life
4. JN Burnett Secondary School
5. Utah Lake
6. Lewis L Morgan 
7. NPL
8. Michał Wiśniowiecki 
9. Vrbno nad Lesy
10. Huskisson
11. For Tuusula
12. New Mexico State Road 404
13. Brian O'Connor
14. 2000 in country music
15. Athroostachys capitata

Okay, we did a really great job of choosing our band name, and I would friggin love to own an album called "Milky" but most of the song titles blow. We all know that 1986 was the only good year for country...

PS: Joel Plaskett Wednesday night, and Thursday night, and White Cowbell Oklahoma on Friday. Suckas.

I didn't go to the gym today. I'm saying it's in honour of Hannukah... happy holidays, y'all. I chose my Jon Stewart icon b/c he's a Jew.

I will go to the gym on Friday before the Christmas party I'm going to. You heard it here first.

 

 

 First video: Rose Cousins and Rose Polenzani in my new favourite cover of all time. Rose C is my favourite songwriter. She makes me cry at every show. 
Second video: Rose P and a group of others do my favourite karaoke tune.

 These are the top 200 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Turns out I'm pretty good at finishing the "unreadables"... or maybe I just don't start that many of them.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
Life of Pi : a novel
The name of the rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and prejudice
Jane Eyre
A tale of two cities
The brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and peace
Vanity fair
The time traveler's wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The kite runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great expectations
American gods : a novel
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault's pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys : a novel
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's travels
Les misérables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The Prince
The sound and the fury
Angela's ashes : a memoir
The god of small things
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved : a novel
Slaughterhouse-five
The scarlet letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Pu…
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud atlas : a novel
The confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger abbey
The catcher in the rye
On the road
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of…
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into …
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's rainbow
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its …
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers
Cold mountain
Robinson Crusoe
The bell jar
The secret life of bees
Beowulf
The plague
The Master and Margarita
Atonement : a novel
The handmaid's tale
Lady Chatterley's lover
Underworld
Little Women
A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes
Stardust
Jude the obscure
The chronicles of Narnia
Possession : a romance
Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
Never let me go
The trial
Kafka on the shore
Bleak House
Sons and lovers
Alias Grace
The Arabian nights
Baudolino
Confessions
The Great Gatsby
To kill a mockingbird
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Gla…
The Alchemist
Candide, or, Optimism
Snow falling on cedars
Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story
Midnight's children
White Oleander
A Passage to India
The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and …
The house of the seven gables
The lovely bones : a novel
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The amber spyglass
The histories
Swann's way
The shadow of the wind
Fahrenheit 451
Good omens
Running with scissors : a memoir
Everything is illuminated : a novel
The divine comedy
Paradise lost
The English patient
Uncle Tom's cabin
The Origin of Species
The plot against America
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling
Silas Marner
The hours
Prodigal summer : a novel
The bonesetter's daughter
Doctor Zhivago
The Shipping News
The phantom of the Opera
The Portrait of a lady
Blink : the power of thinking without thinking
Heart of darkness
The Robber Bride
The last of the Mohicans
The age of innocence
The system of the world
Tropic of cancer
The mayor of Casterbridge
The Gormenghast novels
The gunslinger
The golden compass
The Republic of Plato
The remains of the day
Cat's eye
Eragon
A Game of Thrones
Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy
The island of the day before
The good earth
A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel
The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at …
A farewell to arms
East of Eden
The book thief
Animal farm : a fairy story

 I'm still alive, I promise.

I've been so busy trying to find a new place to live (think I found it!), coaching basketball (as if I know anything about it) and, oh yeah, teaching. I cannot wait for things to calm down!

I'm going to see Ryan Adams this week, and Ben Harper next. I am so excited. I missed a free Joel Plaskett show last night but Ben will make everything better.

I'll be back with a full update soon...

 oh, and Julie - come back from Alaska already. I want photos and stories!

1. Back to Toronto tomorrow (Tuesday).

2. Not looking forward to the apartment hunting... unless the one I'm going to see tomorrow night is gorgeous.

3. Will be online for the next week straight while I pretend to prepare for the upcoming school year.