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an appointment with destiny

ok so i was going to post some images of more homework but blogger won't let me...in fact blogger has crashed twice in the last 5 minutes... so, i'm not sure how much time i have so i'll just leave you with the song that i have been ocd-playing on my ipod and computer over the last 4 days.

Clinically Dead - Chad VanGaalen

Clinically he was dead
But the motor inside his head was still working
So they plugged him into a machine
And let his brain dream

But people cannot tell you
There's no way around it
People cannot tell you
There's no life without that

And it's another prank call
In the middle of the night
And it's a silver white moon
And it still shines bright
And it's another prank call
Why don't you put up a fight
And dream on
Dream on
Dream on

Clinically I was dead
But the modem inside my head was still working
So they put me into a machine
And let my brain dream

So people cannot tell you
There's no way around it
And people cannot tell you
That there's no life without that

And it's another prank call
In the middle of the night
And it's a silver white moon
And it still shines bright
And it's another prank call
Why don't you put up a fight
And dream on
Dream on
Dream on

Because I have a billion other things to do...like sleep...

Thanks to Squid and Tense Teacher, here's a taste of what's in my iTunes party shuffle:

1. Rudi, A Message To You - The Specials
2. She's Automatic - Rancid
3. It's My Own Fault - John Lee Hooker
4. Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
5. Headlock - Imogen Heap
6. If Your Mother Only Knew - Rahzel
7. Portland, Oregon - Loretta Lynn
8. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys
9. Is That Love - Squeeze
10. Rental Car - Beck
11. Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers
12. In Heaven - The Pixies
13. Hung Up - Madonna
14. Out In The Park - Sarah Slean
15. Refugee - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
    
16. Deep - Pearl Jam
17. Grass - XTC
18. Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
    
19. Come and Get It - The Beatles
20. Kid A - Radiohead
21. Path of Thorns - Sarah McLachlan
22. My Doorbell - The White Stripes
    
23. Mozart Serenade in B-flat - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
24. The Weight - The Band
25. My Favorite Plum - Suzanne Vega
26. Sanctified - Nine Inch Nails
27. Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo - The Bloodhound Gang
28. A Taste of Honey - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
29. Spiderman - Tenacious D
30. Mr. Ambulance Driver - The Flaming Lips
31. Flappin'my Pie Hole - Rodolfo Wehbba
32. Tenderly - Oscar Peterson
33. Thunder Kiss '65 - White Zombie
34. Clinically Dead - Chad VanGaalen
    
35. In Repair - John Mayer
36. Honky Tonk - Brian Setzer
37. Chilly Will - Spank Rock
38. Space Lord - Monster Magnet
39. A Satellite's Return - Ammoncontact
40. Lookin' For Love - Karen Ramirez
41. Summer Turns To High - R.E.M.
42. Gonne Leave You - Queens of the Stone Age
43. Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
44. All We Are - Fischerspooner
45. Losing California - Sloan
46. End Theme - Zero 7
47. Best of You - Foo Fighters
48. Boomin' Granny - The Beastie Boys
49. Falling Elevators - MC 900ft. Jesus
50. Yellow Sun - The Raconteurs
51. The Marshalls Are Dead - Bloc Party
52. Heavy Metal Christmas - Twisted Sister
53. You Wouldn't Like Me - Tegan and Sara
54. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
55. Folkloric Feel - Apostle of Hustle
56. Dear Confessor - Immaculate Machine
57. Way Down in a Hole - Tom Waits
58. Blow at High Dough - The Tragically Hip
59. Sugar - Ladytron
60. Boy From School - Hot Chip
61. It's All You - Sebadoh
62. What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie
63. Valerie Flames - Starlight Mints
64. Fistful of Steel - Rage Against the Machine
65. Never Give Up - Common
66. The Eraser - Thom Yorke
67. Anniversary Song - The Cowboy Junkies
68. Demon Days - Gorillaz
69. Out of Egypt - Sufjan Stevens
70. Oh Shooter - Thicke
71. Cubicle - Rhinocerose
72. White Fang - Bill Frisell
73. Lacrimosa - Regina Spektor
74. Just Friends - Charlie Parker
75. Better Off Dead - Death From Above 1979
76. Ghetto Rock - Mos Def
77. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
78. Angel - Massive Attack
79. All Hail Me - Veruca Salt
80. Cruisin' for a Bruisin' - Reverend Horton Heat
81. Rough House Blues - Buck 65
82. Funtime - Iggy Pop
83. Try Honesty - Billy Talent
84. Legs - ZZ Top
85. Silent Seven - Controller.Controller
86. La La Land - Green Velvet
87. SOS - Rihanna
88. Louie, Louie - Toots and the Maytals
89. Boyz-In-The-Hood - Dynamite Hack
90. Sexy Ladies - Justin Timberlake
91. Feelgood By Numbers - The Go! Team
92. Glorious Day - Weezer
93. Get Back - Ludacris feat. Sum 41
94. Sunday Morning - K-os
95. King Without a Crown - Matisyahu
96. Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
97. You Gonna Want Me - Tiga
98. Bro - Goldfinger
99. The Police and The Private - Metric
100. Memories are Made of This - Johnny Cash
     

The Grande Mothers

The Grande Mothers Re:Invented played at Hugh's Room last night. One of the best live shows I've seen in a long time. Living legends bringing us the music of Frank Zappa; truly one of the most prolific musical geniuses of the 20th century.

These are the best shots out of the 15 that I got in before my camera battery died.

10 days and counting

There is so much going on right now. Wow. Ok, so I'm getting married in 10 days. A Halloween wedding. I'm super excited.

With my past event management experience, I've pretty much managed not go all bridezilla on everyone. Mostly.

We've sorted out the venue, the marriage licence, met with the officiant, wrote the ceremony, bought the cake, booked the flowers, made the guests' takeaway gift, picked up dress, suit, booked the honeymoon(sigh. honeymoon. i want to be there. right. now.). What's left?

1. Decoration of the ceremony and reception area. We're going with a harvest kinda theme. The halloween part? Everyone's going to get halloween candy, and a Nightmare before Christmas/Corpse Bride-inspired cake and the whole bridal party will be dressed in black on black except me in ivory and silver.

2. Practice dancing. As I mentioned before, Kirk doesn't really enjoy the whole dancing thing. Hence the practicing. Which is great because we're finally starting to really move together. I have to admit I was a little worried that we'd end up looking like we were in the 6th grade at our first boy/girl dance.

3. Program a soundtrack for the evening. We need to cover the ceremony, reception and our first dance. Here are some of the tracks we're thinking about including:

Ice Cream - Sarah McLachlan
Anniversary Song - Cowboy Junkies
Wedding Song - Bob Dylan
We Are Going To Be Friends - The White Stripes
Mushaboom - Feist

Any other music suggestions?

It's a good thing we've got most of it done early. I am so busy at work right now it's not even funny. Oh, and I fell on the stairs again and smashed my other leg. I was carrying a lot of shit up the stairs and the toe of my boot caught a step and well, let's just say it's a good thing I'm wearing a long dress.

kick it old school

One of my new favourite albums is Fischerspooner's Odyssey. I recently downloaded a bunch of tracks off of iTunes and I'm dancing my ass off over here. I've been checking out their dance/electronic section and I realize that I miss DANCING.

When I was in grade school I took ballet. In high school I loved going to dances. Not for the boys, but for the ass kicking jams of the late 80's.

From the ages of 17 to 23 I spent more time at raves and dance clubs than I did at home (Yes. like all good Italian girls I lived at home.) But hell, man, I used to KICK IT! Yeaaaah.

Like all good Italian girls, I was also in school full time and had a part-time job working 24 hours a week. But I was not very good at being good. I danced a lot, drank a lot, smoked A LOT of cigarettes and sometimes do some drugs 3 to 4 nights a week. After a few years I started to mostly just feel like shit a lot.

Then I moved out, did more of the previously mentioned stuff, then mostly just slept a lot.

Then I met Kirk. He was my perfect partner in crime. Then we quit the hard rocking life together. Perfect. Except for the part where he HATES DANCING. I haven't gone out dancing in oh, like 2 years. That's so pathetic.

What's even more pathetic is that my wedding is in 5 weeks and the part I'm most looking forward to, besides the honeymoon in Tobago, is the dancing.


Other recent iTunes downloads that I listen to A LOT:

Rasputina - Barracuda
Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
Apostle of Hustle - Baby, You're in Luck
Ashley McIsaac - Bitch
Princess Superstar - Quitting Smoking Song
Bing Ji Ling - Where is Your Love?
Telepopmusik - Don't Look Back
Soul Hooligan - Algebra
Brazilian Girls - Don't Stop
Billy Talent - Line and Sinker
Death From Above 1979 - Little Girl (Live)
The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez
Mos Def - Sex, Love, Money

And for Squid.

THIS is a TIM HORTONS

Note the super long drive-thru lineup.