Pens

This summer, a scientific research experiment was conducted to determine the best writing pen on the market. It was conducted by two reseachers, dedicated to the cause. Their control and experimental groups were representative: two people, the same in each group. It was a difficult research experiment; in fact, a whole hour was spent discussing various pens, their colour benefits, grip, drip, leak-through habits, flow, and so forth. After much deliberation, chocolate milk, and head-scratching, a conlusion was reached: the BIC round-stic grip (or was it ultra-grip?).

In any event, I believed the results, and three weeks ago purchased a box of said pens. I've been using them hard-core for these past three weeks and concluded that they drive me nuts. They just don't flow well. The ink doesn't move--you need to use an ultra-grip to drive the pen into the paper. So, I've switched back to my previous pen habits: black, liquid gel ink in the rollerball type pens (similar to Uniball); plus my handy dandy Staedtler triplus fineliners that I use to make Valence Bond Man.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

/fairly random story>

The Electric Version (part two)

I am STILL waiting to get "Mass Romantic", but I recently acquired "The Electric Version", also by the New Pornographers, and I'm loving it. They have such an upbeat catchy style...it makes me want to dance. So far my favourite tracks are "All for Swinging You Around", "Testament to Youth in Verse", and the title track.

More music:

JT's "Futuresex/Lovesounds": haven't made it all the way through the album yet (only about half-way), but it also makes me want to dance. So I do.
Favourite tracks so far: title track, "Lovestoned/I Think She Knows Interlude" (which is a truly sick song), and of course "Sexyback".

Patrick Wolf's "Wind in the Wires": Haven't listened to it yet. Maybe a few songs in the party shuffle, and what I've heard I like, but not much to say on it yet.

Sigur Ros' "Takk...": also haven't listened to it all yet, but I love "Glosoli". It's such an ethereal song, soothing but breaks out into such a swelling of sound at the end...so good.

Joel Plaskett Emergency's "Make a Little Noise": three songs on this "album". I've only really listened to two of them, and the reigning favourite is "Nowhere With You." It doesn't matter how I feel or where I am, this song puts an instant grin on my face and, again, I want to dance and jump around. Very catchy and upbeat.

And that's what mostly spinning right now, album-wise. I recommend checking them out.

The Electric Version (part one)

Get it? the electric version of the story?

I went kayaking today. In the rain. It was awesome.

I also semi-participated in a pancake cook-off and ate about 7 truly superb pancakes for dinner. The strawberry-chocolate chip pancakes were pretty good, but I preferred the blueberry ones (oh yes--the pancakes were made from scratch). Actually, the apple-cinnamon ones were pretty sick too.

I've also realized how much I love cooking. Seriously. I made spaghetti with broccoli and meatballs for dinner for several people yesterday and it was awesome. Next weekend I'm making chocolate chip cookies.

I've learned 5 chords on the guitar and I can play the four "chords" (I only know the name of one) to Tom Petty's "Free Falling", as it's apparently the easiest song to learn. Now I just need to learn the words.

It's all good. More momentarily.

Nobody knows where they might end up...

Who's excited about the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy tonight?!

I know I am!!

Bicep me up

So in making spaghetti sauce last week, I went to crush garlic as I usually do....and I broke the garlic crusher.

It just snapped.

I think it was from a dollar store. Meh. The sauce was still tasty.

Spinning

Awesome songs of the day (although it's more like the last hour)...

"I Am A Scientist" - Dandy Warhols
"Chemistry and Physics" - The Copout
"Mr Brightside (Jacques lu Cont Thin White Duke Remix)" - The Killers
"Honeybear" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Be Mine" - Robyn
"I Was Born (A Unicorn)" - The Unicorns
"Dead Disco" - Metric

Sweeeeet

I just discovered tabbed browsing in Mac's Safari Browser. I heart tabbed browsing.

Sick move

Har har. Seriously though, it was pretty sick.

It's been a while since I last posted. Also been a while since VBM, but the creative juices will be flowing shortly...

I don't even know what to talk about. It's been discussed before, but it's not hard to NOT post on this.

Ooh, two of my three cd orders finally came in..."The Eraser" is amazing, I love it. I haven't listened to "St. Elsewhere" though. Still waiting on Mass Romantic.

What else. So much. Many stories. Lots of good times. Missing people. Meeting new people. I'm learning how to play guitar, informally. Listening to sick mix cds. Listening and dancing to okay dance music and wishing it was "hipster dance music". Decorating. Writing sentence fragments. Listening to amazing live music.

Hm, those were pretty objective sentences. Ah well. I'm tired but happy.

More later.