So let's get this out of my system.

Life is not fair.

It falls to us not to give up when it's conspicuously unfair to the people around us.

I'm thinking of the fact that I'm wearing my soldier t-shirt not for its facile answers to problems (shoot it more!) but because it stands for a powerless person facing hopeless odds.

Not giving up, though.

I hope ( Read more... )

So, the dream consisted of somehow being Nicolas Cage in Lord of War and trying to procure an F-16 that could transform into a Harriet jet. (To impress some girls, I think. Though they were no longer interested in the jet at that point, but the objective had become more important than its business driver.) Somehow I knew how to fly it, though my co ( Read more... )

The dream is always the same.

I go to my old Hebrew school to check out a choir practice. It was typically labyrinthine - you couldn't find anything; ramps led everywhere. (Perhaps influenced by the synagogue website I'd visited earlier.)

I was early for rehearsal so I dropped in at a service, filled with disapproving faces and Big Donors, of which I ( Read more... )

First gig for Countermeasure A Cappella. South somethingorother mall, Mississauga. A qualified success. Nobody will accuse of of fastidious overrehearsal, but we started to find our groove and eventually made it through our three setlets.

No real progress today, otherwise.

Tomorrow's the concert proper. JCC at Bloor and Spadina at 8pm. Get there ( Read more... )

Enroute to another choir rehearsal, the Tron: Legacy soundtrack is my traveling music. With Flynn's opening monologue, the whole thing has me thinking in a very zoomed-out way about thinks. A little solipsistic, which maybe isn't that bad a thing, though (you know the solipsism joke).

It's very much a Movie Score, despite its pedigree, with echoes ( Read more... )

Also the LiveJournal iPhone app seems to be in Russian-style broken English now. Having just read "Fatal System Error" this makes me a touch, well, circumspect.

That's not a very good reason, but also bleh. Tumblr, how your gravity pulls me...

Two very vivid recurring nightmares:

- attending the weddings of ex-girlfriends
- friends and/or pets dwindling away into nothing

Both of these things waved hello to me today.

On 30 Rock this week, someone asked "is this a dream?" Tracey stuck his finger in his mouth and said "nope, my teeth are loose."

Lol @ the shared nightmare experience.

Wow.

Here I am having made it to Boston, and here is Serge, reminding me that he has move away from gorgeous Vancouver because of the gruesome economic situation.

Miscommunication got us a bit snarled. I have ditched my friends so I can sit and chill in a conference theatre and watch the PA guys talk about their web tv show. Really touching, actually ( Read more... )

I was treated to Customer Loyalty Rewarding at Indigo Eaton today. To a greater tune than anticipated, and I feel bad. I feel as though I've taken advantage of the customer retention policies of an already strapped store.

I was picking up Hyperion, Fall thereof, and The Dosadi Experiment. They comped me Fall of Hyperion but the actual deal was ( Read more... )

If you don't look forward to seeing me, let me know. I don't want to waste your time either.