Winter Reads
January
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Love is a Mixtape - Rob Sheffield
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
I horseback rode for 11 years. I started when I was really young and spent most of my childhood and all of my teenage years around horses. For personal reasons - the death of my horse - for stupid reasons - time, money - for any reason I could think of - school, transportation issues - I quit 2 years ago and haven’t stopped regretting that decision to this day.
I spent the day today kicking around a barn filming a horseshow for school and I thought I’d upload a few screenshots from the footage. Filming horses ain’t like filming bands. Not only were my fingers completely frozen, those animals don’t sit still for a minute! I had fun though, in a heartbreaking, nostalgic kind of way. One of those things I’m going to try to have to make time for again in the future. No more stupid excuses.
My latest Shoppers purchase: Extra strength Cold FX, Bentasil lozenges, massive bag of Halls Vitamin C.
Yup. Someone woke up sick this morning.
The Dakota Tavern remains my favourite venue in Toronto to shoot shows. More photos of Dwayne Gretzky and Topanga over on my photo blog.
Sounds like a museum exhibition worth checking out in New Orleans.
The Historic New Orleans Collection currently is showing The Eighteenth Star: Treasures from 200 Years of Louisiana Statehood. The show contains stories that have defined Louisiana since its entry into the Union on April 30, 1812, as the eighteenth state.
The show will stay up until January 29th.
above: Drinking water donated after Hurricane Katrina by Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 2005.
(via yckmd)
I miss the nights that Z would play this on the battered guitar hanging around the house. I miss the annoying frogs outside my window. My smelly roommates. I miss my family. I miss home.
Everything about this is just way too fucking cute and it’s cracking me up.
6 years of working in restaurants is finally catching up to me. I think my right wrist is starting to give. I don’t want to self diagnose but carpal tunnel seems pretty likely right now, at least in its earliest stages. I’ve been feeling a lot of numbness in my wrist and hand the past few months and it’s starting to worry me. Shooting pains from elbow to fingers aren’t uncommon. Tonight it’s really bad - dug out an old tensor bandage to hopefully get some relief. I hope this doesn’t get serious.
Oh man oh man oh man.
Possibly doing Osheaga AND Bonnaroo this year? AND my drive to Newfoundland? Yes. So much yes.
Yesterday we wrapped on the music video I’ve been shooting these past few weeks.
We listened to the song at least 70 times in the span of 13 hours yesterday. Last night, the song was stuck in my head. Today I can’t even remember how it goes.
I have high hopes that it turns out okay. If it does, you will see it soon. If it doesn’t, you will see it never.
