Saturday, October 30, 2004

The Blow & Candy

Tomorrow night I'm going to Wallaceburg to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters at Conk's house. Looking forward to it. I'm not allowed to make the kiddies dance for their loot though...

On November the 6th, The Blow is playing with Barcellon Pavillion and The Yachts(??) at some out of the way place that I've never heard of before in Toronto. I want to go!

Edit
How could I have fogotten?? Tonight is the big Devil's Night party at 21 King. I have no costume. Uh oh. Hopefully Value Village will have something for me.
Suggestions have been:
Audrey Hepburn, a doctor, sorority girl, and my own lezbo stereotype. But there are two guys who have already decided to dress as 'diesel dykes' tonight and I think that might be more entertaining. So yeah.

Friday, October 29, 2004

Perspective Check

I need to sit down and have a long chat with some good old friend, a perspective check. Things are pretty good for me right now. I have a reliable group of friends around me, an education that I'm not paying for. I have a girlfriend that cares about me. Maybe the relative ease or the routine of my life is making me restless, prone to the over analysis -- and amplification -- of simple and meek issues. Situtataions and issues that, a year ago, I might not have given a minute's attention to; situations and issues that I might have even thought exciting and progressive. For years I've thought about the value of counselling, the worth of guidance from a professionally objective ear. Years ago I thought that it could help me and, in turn, those I cared about. I refused to engage in counselling and therapy: I let years of my life waste; I failed my Sister. After 2001, I resolved to seek advice and perspective before I could lose sight of what the real issues were again. I'm starting to feel the dissipation of that resolve. It's four years later, I've nearly turned full circle on the decision. I don't want to lose myself in a fog of dream-come-true. I don't want to be the person who gets what she wants but is so distracted by it that she loses sight of how she got it or forgets what it is that she was looking for. I can't stop growing here, now. I can't get caught up on the little things, or let myself into a mindset of now-or-never.

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Birthdays Displaced

From the wild Barfday to today. Sorry tonight was a let down, Haz. Tomorrow we'll celebrate.

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Making A Difference, Paul Simms

Did a lot of reading tonight - of news stories, personal pages, and editorials. This piece, written by Paul Simms in The New Yorker, is the best thing I've seen all day.

Kosovo's General Election

Story for Conk.

John Peel

John Peel has died at age 65.

Attn: Hasdeep

Has, I'd like to borrow your course reader from MIT025 if you still have it. I want to get the names and works of some of the authors. Blackmore should post them online. Does he have a website, btw?

New Natives

CBC RADIO 3 has a beautiful piece entitled 'New Natives' in the current edition (Oct22-28).
Sometime soon I'd like to visit Tofino. What a nice name that would be for a kid.

back-off-buster.mov (video/quicktime Object)

back-off-buster.mov (video/quicktime Object)

To Do List

- Prioritize upcoming papers

- Read:

-- Isbister, "Promises Not Kept" (Ch 7)
-- Morrison, "Canadian Aid: A Mixed Record and an Uncertain Future"
-- Pratt, "Alleviating Global Poverty or Enhaving Security: Competing Rationales for Canadian Development Assistance"
-- Teevan and Hewitt, "Introduction to Sociology" (Ch 7,8)

- Prepare Thursday's discussion assignment

BitTorrent FAQ and Guide

BitTorrent FAQ and Guide

Wired News: No Paper Trail, No Problem

"...critics have said the machines eliminate the ability to do a recount...".

Monday, October 25, 2004

This Bus is Musical

This Thursday, LondonIndie and friends are heading to Toronto for a London music showcase at the ElMo. Twenty bucks gets you on the bus and into the venue. Departure is from the 'Wick around 6ish. Check out the site for details.

Friday, October 22, 2004

late night addition

The nice girl came home. ..and she says:

Sabolainen answered the door!!! And I came in and it was sooooo nice. I walked here and I was searching for the starry lights in the window, and they were there! So I knocked on the door lightly, and nobody answered. Then, I threw a stone at the window and I missed. Then I knocked again. Nobody again. Then I threw a beer cap at the window. And I missed. Then....I knocked again! And she came and got me. She's so dependable. and she's pretty and she's there and she's just. wow. you guys will never know the full Kyra cause you're not me! Well, I can give you a little insight (if you didn't already know). This girl would: give you everything she had if you asked her to. She believes people should be giving and caring ALL the time, regareless of what our genes say. She says I smell nice all the time. She has a the nicest smile and she smiles a lot!! She's just too good to be true. I love you sabo!! haha
Keep playing that keyboard cause you're going to be in a band soon. kyra's b button is kinda roken!! it's driving me crazy.

night!

My night is a Phil Elvrum song

Today: Got out of bed in the late elevens. Came home, read, showered, read, made macaroni and cheese, got a call from Conk asking if I was going up to campus - I said not yet, read, read, read...went to campus. But not before missing the Richmond 6 once.

Later this Afternoon: Read at Taylor, walked to Talbot and back, read.

This Evening: Took the Anthro 281f exam; got my reasearch proposal back, 78%. Went to 21 King where a nice girl made me soup and gave me a beer; annoyed her with my keyboard explorations.

Tonight: Walked the nice girl to GT's, went in for a bit, met her ex-boyfriend from first year and a nice person named Erin. Left alone. Walked up Richmond and over to Talbot, almost past The Last Drop and then Ian called my name. Talked with Ian for a bit, promised (again) to go listen to him spin at the P.Keaton soon. He is a very kind boy. Enjoyed looking up at the crane before turning onto my street. Got home, locked the door, put on something warm. Went back and unlocked the door just in case the nice girl happened to come by. I don't know how I'm feeling.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Tigersushi

Cute site: Tigersushi.

MEG Montreal

.:MEG MONTREAL:. looks so very, very cool and i wish that i could participate.

IFILM

My site was visited by this guy who has a link to "Jon Stewart's Brutal Exchange with CNN Host." While I've yet to get the clip to play for me, the site looks like it might be a useful one. Take a look but discontinue use if you find yourself 'building buzz' for a swath of blue-chip companies. (IFILM boasts of this sideeffect in their About section.)

Aileen Koh...

has a blog entitled 'I cry and my heart breaks only because of beautiful things.' Really caught my attention.

Indie Soundtracks

pitchfork story

Email from Ariel

Got this email from Ariel this morning;
a wonderful inbox find:

kyra,
how are YOU? it's been too long since known what's happening in each
other lives, ie. "caught up", it's just "we need to catch up" has such a
horrible ring to it.
You know the only email I had of yours was the hotmail one which i'm not
sure if you use anymore so i searched for you name online and two
interesting things came up: one was your blog page, of which sadly i
read more now (two years post by the way) than when you were making it,
and the second one was an article you did for the Gazette refering to
some article i think. Anyway found the western address in the end.
How are things?
I'm in Northern THailand right now, CHaing Mai and shortly heading
across the border, east to Laos. Being outside of the western way of
thinking has really been making me think about life, ethics, school
towards job, everything really but in a whole new perspective.
Southern Thailand - the beaches are incrediably packed with Tourists who
are trying to escape their boring routine desk jobs for a couple of
weeks by "letting themself go". Bangkok wasn't very nice for that reason
cause most people we met were on their way or on their way back from the
beaches. SO Toti and i decided to go North and avoid that whole
hullabaloo. CHiang Mai is crazy, the thai people here are insanely
educated, there's book stores on every other corner carrying FIVE copies
of the same book i had to specifically order in Toronto. I wouldn't mind
living here actually, there's roof-top completely overgrown with plants
bars, where the only thing you can see above the skyline is temple ruins
and the stars. There's a rasta strip back alley with a serious of small
patioish bars holding live bands, bonfires, reggae beats and Bob Marley
murials run by dreads down to their bums Thai hippies. Nicely off the
beaten track. Just last year the prime minister (who graduated with BUsh
in Yale by the way), implement all these laws to "improve Thailand in
the international front" but inturn taking away their fun; the Marijuana
laws have skyrocketed towards the Thais (the police couldn't care less
about us tourists) making everyone shit scared to go near the stuff, and
instead of alcohol being served allnight everywhere by law has to close
at 1am. Every Thai i've met hates him for many other reasons too i'm
sure. So it's far less rough than it used to be. You could easily come
here ( maybe not the North ) from say Britain and not feel at all out of
your comfort zone.

I'm in the process of writing you a letter and i promise to actually
mail it to you this time.
hope everything's well at your end, tell me whatever's on your mind.

miss you, ( i think about you more than anyone over here you know, and
we don't even communicate for goodness sake )

ariel


Keep safe, Air. Hooray for you!

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Hard Knock Life

11Am-Noon: Breakfast and coffee.
12:30PM-3:00PM: Laundry and MSN
3:00-?: Studying J.Isbister's "Promises Not Kept" at Taylor
8PM: Going to see The Organ play! Hiphip!

Monday, October 18, 2004

clean out your hard drive!!
there is new music to be heard.

music this week

~ The Organ is playing at the office tomorrow night. Tickets are an affordable $7.
~ Saturday Looks Good To Me is at the same place on Friday. The prospect gets a psuedo-meh rating.

Seven Months

This 18th makes seven months with Constance. That's quite a lot of time. I'm feeling very lucky. ...understatement. I love you Conk.

Sunday, October 17, 2004

link

The Chronicles of the Illustrious Edward Windermere.

You Are Here

I am here.
I'd rather be here or here.
(First photo found by googling "paris bar," last photo is from Jerry's online album of his world travels.)

Saturday, October 16, 2004

BarfdayGirl

Hasdeep drank her face off last night. Commendable.

Thursday, October 14, 2004

FunkyDancer

Happy birthday, Meghan!!

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

THIS IS THE NEW YEAR

You are reading entry number one, third edition. If you've found your way here from allovertheplace you'll soon recognize that kslog is basically a cleaned up, slightly-evolved version of its decrepit aotp predecessor.
Entry number one, second edition, can be found here. aotp's time has arrived and the blog will be permanently archived in the coming days.