Whee...salsa dancing is fun.
...and survived.
Durian actually wasn't as bad as it had been hyped up to be - it definitely had an odd odor but nothing as legendary as I expected. Given that, it suppose it was only natural that the flavor and texture didn't strike me as anything to die for either. I probably wouldn't go out of my way to get it, but I probably wouldn't reject it off-hand if someone offered it to me.
In any case, that's one more item off the list of odd foods to try.
Blisters on your heels just sucks for walking.
A solid album but not as strong as Ultra Blue. Stay Gold is probably my favorite track - a soulful down tempo piece sung over a simple piano & drum arrangement.
Probably the most jarring song on the album is Boku wa Kuma (I'm a Bear) - a theme to a children's show that has been tacked on for promotional purposes. Given all the other songs, it just really doesn't fit.
Portishead is back after everyone left them for dead.
Third is a varied affair when it comes to its sonic signature - the singing and certain guitar riffs are about the only constants remaining; everything else sounds nothing like what they had on their earlier albums.
To be honest, I still need time to digest this - Third is one of those albums that requires a few listens to decide exactly what I think about it.
Saturdays=Youth is what happens when an electronic group decided to make a tribute album to John Hughes films. And just in case it wasn't obvious from the songs, the artwork hammers the point in by featuring a bunch of pretty young things dressed up like the cast of The Breakfast Club & other such teen angst films.
Thankfully, the lush updated New Wave sound is done very well. Definitely my favorite M83 album.
A few months ago, I picked up a Nintendo DS (insert "It prints money!" animated gif here) on a whim.
After putting in a good amount time with it, you can easily see that the Wii truly is the DS' big brother. That said, the DS works so much better because it just doesn't have that movement lag that the Wii does when you're using the Wiimote in pointer mode. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the DS successor adds an accelerometer or three for motion control fun.
So far I've been going through the quirkier, more DS-ish games:
In order to reduce the barriers to eating better, I decided to join the local natural co-op and make it my primary grocery store. Thankfully for my lazy self, the co-op is just two blocks away from my home and conveniently on the way home back from work on busing days. Hopefully I'll be able to work in more home cooking into this routine as well.
And in a further step towards hippieness, I've even bought canvas grocery totes. Clearly I am doomed!
Finally! Now I need to learn how to juggle while doing So Deep.
Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" was the piece that marked the end of my life as a violinist. It was one of two pieces that the high school symphony played my sophomore year. I already had a poor experience in symphony up to that point, but having to audition for chairs on "Pictures at an Exhibition" totally unprepared (I focused on the other piece) left a bitter taste in my mouth. In the end, I didn't even show up for the actual performance - I had that much contempt for the whole experience. The piece was just the final nail in the coffin - the one year hiatus from violin lessons probably killed things more than anything else - but the whole experience left me with a bit of grudge against "Pictures at an Exhibition".
However, I think I'm finally able to appreciate "Pictures at an Exhibition" without holding deep feelings of resentment. Almost by fluke, I attended a performance of it last night. This performance was the first time I truly had a deep appreciation and understanding of the structure and inspiration of the piece. It almost makes me wonder if things would've been different if I had a conductor that could've conveyed the power of the piece all those years ago.
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