i'd planned on doing a top ten of 2007 thing, but most of the songs had been posted previously, so it seemed pointless. instead i offer up a playlist of songs dedicated to the memory of the last twelve months (may they rest in peace).

the year of living dangerously

damien rice - 9 crimes
stars - what the snowman learned about love
radiohead - ( Read more... )

i still start a little every time i see it, but nothing compares to the brain freeze i experienced the first time i got that windows pop-up message:

connected to: your last chance at happiness

took me a good couple of minutes to figure out that's what zamp named our shared network. i'm proud- it's a name worthy of my own overly-emotive lyrical ( Read more... )

the weekend got off to a slow start, as i arrived an hour and a half early to meet raygunthegreat at the train station, not long before somerled also pulled into town. little did i know that it would be my last idle time for the forty-eight hours that were to follow.

from the taste of little italy festival that overtook my street, to mister_p's birthday celebration at c'est ( Read more... )

i'm a really big fan of playlists. i have them for every person and occasion, every emotion and season. i guess it's not that surprising, really, since i love both lists and (as i've certainly proven lately) music ( Read more... )

when i went to halifax for the first time, i brought only 17 songs, as my discman wouldn't play mp3s and i had run out of cdrs. half the cd was imogen heap, and the other half bloc party.

bloc party i've heard many times since, mostly due to dance clubs and parties, but as the sounds of the walk filtered in from the living room just now, i felt ( Read more... )

in addition to all the socializing that went on this past weekend, i also got to use our back balcony for the first time this season. avionflew put flowers in the planters, and i stretched out on the chairs, soaking up the sun, and reading ( Read more... )

from quantz's party on friday, to zamp's barbecue last night, and all the shopping and dinners in between, we found ourselves in constant quartets, each time coming together in progressively unorthodox arrangements of four.

it was a strange thing to discover that the greatest comfort can sometimes be found in the unfamiliar, though the lesson that ( Read more... )

in a meme that was going around a few months ago, it was concluded that the new order version of "ceremony" is the song that most reminded people of me. now, i'm sure that it had a lot to do with my having recently linked to it, but the fact is that i DO have a strong attachment to that song ( Read more... )

two equally strong but opposing forces have been building within me over the past couple of weeks, and their tandem appearance is somewhat confusing: on one side, a sudden and fierce feeling of independence, of wanting to strike out on my own, and talk to strangers, and go out at night with no accomplices ( Read more... )