A little Boney M., including an music video that I had no idea existed until this moment. No written explanation does this justice: I wrote this on Friday: I moved to this city two weeks ago, and now I have a home! Moved in on Wednesday. I feel pretty lucky that I found an apartment […]
Read more "Heima! (Or, At Home)"First, a pause to remember the veterans on this Remembrance Day, including my grandparents. (This is made extra-special by the fact that none of us will get to see this exact date again.) And on to the less important stuff… I am off in a little bit to get on with the mad scramble that […]
Read more "11.11.11."It’s been awhile since I posted here, but I have been busy with the big life changes and whatnot. Here is “Some Chords” by Deadmau5, since he just played here on Saturday and he’s Canadian, so that’s awesome: The most exciting thing that happened in October, something that I had been looking forward to since […]
Read more "To A New City!"I am living in a tiny Canadian town right now and it’s grey and rainy and blah. Naturally, escapism is a priority for me at the moment (or it runs my life, whatever). What better way to live “from near to far” when I can’t literally do that than to watch beautiful movies set in […]
Read more "Living Vicariously through Juliette Binoche"Mount Vesuvius was an experience not to be replicated, to be sure, but the city of Pompeii itself is a fantastic, hazy dream. Here’s some reading accompaniment by an artist I recently discovered, SBTRKT. This song, “Right Place,” samples Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place” – who would have thought that this audioperfection could ever […]
Read more "Viva Italia! Part V: The Ruins of Pompeii"On our fourth day in Italy, we took a train to Naples, climbed Mount Vesuvius, and visited Pompeii, the ancient city that died in a day. Here’s a song called “Midnight City” from M83’s new album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming – this entire trip to Italy seemed like a dream, so it’s appropriate. And I […]
Read more "Viva Italia! Part IV: Mount Vesuvius"
from near to far 