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grey river


grey river
Originally uploaded by Hungry J.

Kid Koala is an inspiring dude. I may not have his talent (and any version of Blue River I ever make will be nothing compared to his) but damnit I’m going to try make cool things.

If you look at my flickr pics regularly you’ll recognize this picture from when I uploaded the original. I was crossing the Osborne bridge and saw this poster for a show I was going to. And hey, the ice path on the river was pretty freshly cleared. That might make an okay picture, thought I. I only had my phone so I snapped a quick one but the intention was to return in a couple of days when more people were skating and when I had my real camera.

Last night on my way to the show, I crossed the bridge again, and lo, the posters were missing. Firk Ding Blast! I exclaimed and realized I’d have to do something to the 640×480 grayish blurfest my phone habitually produces.

Actually I kind of like working with the Treo’s crappy pictures. It means I have to play with Photoshop to make them look like anything. Makes me feel like more of a painter or something.

Whatever. That’s my story and my picture.

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while his eyes said "look how long-suffering I am, bitch"

This is from the show last night. There’s no audio. Sorry. It gives a better picture of the man’s awesomeness than the impressionistic picture I took with my phone.

This morning I had a minor incident with Rachael. At 10 I went upstairs to get some of the good morning light for painting. I turned on music to paint to. Rachael came down to ask me to turn it down. Actually she turned it down (because I was in the kitchen watching water boil) and then told me she was trying to sleep. I mentioned it was 10, not 6:30 or anything and she went upstairs.

Forty minutes later she came down again with a long thing about how Wednesdays are her only days to sleep in so I should wait until she wakes up to play music. I pointed out that I waited till 10 and she said she appreciated that, but I don’t think she did. I think “I appreciate that” is code nurses use when they are trying to patronize someone. I don’t think it works when they actually have no coercive power over their patronizee.

I’m looking forward to when she’s got papers or whatever coming up so Alison and I can have a party.

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it’s all my fault

A bit on the psychology of magical thinking:

“I think in part it’s because we are constantly exposed to our own thoughts, they are most salient to us” – and thus we are likely to overestimate their connection to outside events.

That’s true, I am constantly exposed to my own thoughts! This can be part of the writer complex too methinks. Or maybe it’s an only child thing. Whatever. I’m fucking magickal.

In other news, Kid Koala put on a wicked show. Kate and I bought merch basically because he was doing his own selling. I told him how Kate wrote a paper on him once, and he demanded to see it (she did not have it with her).

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singing optional

I have a plan. By the time I go see Kid Koala (tomorrow night!) I’ll be done something. My script Tradition is most likely to see the completion party, since it’s only got a page and a bit left. This is an important plan for me, because it’s been a lot of scattered work on too many things recently, which meant that not a lot actually happened.

This is not a new phenomenon. I have four different beginnings to one story kicking around. Not just versions in different states, but completely different things that are up to a few thousand words long. It’s frustrating.

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countdown to employment: t minus two

In the last couple of days I downloaded (legally) a bunch of Canadian hiphop I was pointed to by the radio3 podcast. Even though Wordburglar rhymed “Barrymore” with “Carey more” for the best lyric Bucky, I still like his stuff. Cadence Weapon gets a little serious for my taste, but still, he’ll play. And I love Hunnicut’s bit about Prince in the Farm Fresh song “30 in the Club.”

You know who else I like? Kid Koala. He’s coming to Winnipeg on January 23rd. I will be there. I think that might be the same day as Snoop Dogg, but it was an easy choice for me to make. A babyfaced turntablist/author of the best robot love story ever versus the man who brought us “bizzack” and “shizzle”?

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