Saturday 12/31:
Sometimes there are good surprises in life. A little surprise snow this morning to finish this year.
Friday 12/30: Listening to Lukas Graham's Mama Said and thinking how it addresses poverty and having pride and growing up without the material things but with love. It's a good song.
I'm also taken by the James Baldwin poem Munich, Winter 1973.
Wednesday 12/28: Sitting here at home looking at photos of mine from the 1990s and thinking about how different the world was then and how in so many ways we've grown boring. I'm not even feeling nostalgic, but pre-24/7/Facebook world was a lot more fun. Anyway, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star from Sonic Youth was one of my favorite albums from the 90s.
Thursday 12/22:
Sunday 12/18: Writer David Sedaris will always make me laugh. Growing up in the country we didn't waste food either as we would throw the table scraps into the woods at the edge of the yard and something would eat them if it wasn't our own dogs.
Saturday 12/17:
I will take my quiet and cold weather sunrises any day over the sunrise in summer. This was from one morning this week.
I lost a couple of days of writing this week due to research that took longer than expected, but I did very much enjoy the Chinese lantern festival at Centennial Olympic Park on Monday night.
Sunday 12/11:
This morning after sunrise the sky had the appearance of a snow sky. A storm was coming and I stepped outside to feel the damp cold. It was the kind of cold that with the help of a light breeze on a Sunday morning sneaks its way past your scarf and underneath your big wool coat to get inside you. The bones are cold and the cold is a quiet cold deep inside. I like this cold. With the blanket of overcast, sound travels farther than normal and my ears were gifted the sound of the distant train whistle.
Beautiful sounds.
Saturday 12/10: It was so refreshing this morning at sunrise to walk out into the heavy cold and hard frost as temperatures dropped into the mid 20s. You feel so alive when it is this cold. Hooray!
Wednesday 12/6: I watched The Handmaiden. The first movie this year that I have seen that I couldn't figure out the plot turns in the first ten minutes. It's a great movie and might end up being my favorite for the year. It's a wickedly good movie.
Sunday 12/4: Raining and cold this beautiful morning. It reminds me of one of my favorite Christmas songs, Carol Of The Bells. The raindrops are the piano notes.
Saturday 12/3: I stepped out into the morning cold for the sunrise. The remaining stars in the sky were fading in the west. This is to me what sunrise sounds like. It gets me every time I listen.
Thursday 12/1: This story made me laugh out loud. I loved the pics of the person dressed up as a gorilla. Thank you people for the laughs.
Wednesday 11/30: A couple of years ago I saw this Bob Dylan inspired video about quitting Facebook and thought it was spot on. It focuses on the artificial and unnatural social aspects of the site in a creative way. It is worthy of viewing. As a side note: this is the original Dylan video.
Tuesday 11/29: I woke up early this morning to enjoy this wonderful rain. I had to see, hear and smell the raindrops. This is the first significant rain we've had since early September. I don't think I have ever gone this long without seeing rain in my life and that's not an exaggeration. In honor of the happy rain, this song.
Sunday 11/27: Much like the unfortunate election, this has been a bad year for finding movies I like. Normally by the end of November I have seen several movies that I would have enjoyed. So far, the only movie that I have thought was very good was Mountains May Depart.
Saturday 11/26: Ahhh still so good two decades later. Experiencing the last of the fall color in the city. Awww Kai is no longer at DRTV, that's kinda weird after all these years, but I guess that was to be expected after he left HK last year and moved back to the UK.
Friday 11/25: "And I will never be set free as long as I'm a ghost you can't see." It will forever be one of my favorite lines from a song.
Saturday 11/19: Life is better without Facebook. No more of that insane asylum for me. Philip Glass you write such beautiful music. I'm off to the mountains again tomorrow to enjoy the cold. It has been a sunny, cold and windy day. It feels like winter and I love it. I'm about to listen to a radio version of Watership Down on BBC Radio 4.
Friday 11/18: A quiet night at home. I watched SenSommer, which is a Danish movie. Listening to Under The Milky Way by The Church and thinking about the 1990s, I always loved this song.