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I rented the 2nd season of "Slings & Arrows" tonight. I love this show, especially Geoffery and Ellen, especially the way Ellen is constantly apologizing. Here is a fantastic interchange.

The Rehearsal Hall

Ellen: So, I called them. They said I have to bring in ALL my receipts. Three years worth.

Frank: Crikey!

Cyril: Claim everything, dear. That's what we do. Acting is your trade. Your tools are your mind and your body. Claim everything! Makeup, skin cream, shampoo...

Frank: And every book that you read and record you play. We as actors have to be in touch with the zeitgeist.

Cyril: Oh, here she goes...

Frank: It's true, Cyril!

Cyril: The last album you bought was Frank Sinatra's "Duets."

Frank: Well that's because there were people on it I'd never heard sing before. Terrible album...

Ellen: This is disastrous! What can they do to me? Worst case scenario.

Frank: Prison?

Ellen: Aw shit!

Geoffrey: Excuse me? We're rehearsing here. Could you possibly shut the fuck up?

Ellen: Sorry. Sorry everyone. I'm being audited!

Everyone: Ooh, fuck off...

Ooohhhhhh mm YEAH YEAH! OooOOO!

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs made me do it.

The battery is dying on my iPod. It's frustrating and sad. That damn thing knows me so well. Should I get a new one altogether? Should I send it away to get a new one installed with the caveat that I pay for shipping and they're not responsible if the whole operation goes to pot.

But, as a girl I know would say, "Don't worry about it." And she seems to say it in such a way that I don't really worry about it. So there's your hopelessly conflicted inner/outer for the day.

Anyway, in honour of Meg (the iPod), here's a quiz from long long ago that she always helped me with:

How does the world see me?
Song: Leisure Suite
Artist: Feist
Comments: Laid back? Comfortable? Enterable? ew...

Will I have a happy life?
Song: Lovesong of the Buzzard
Artist: Iron & Wine
Comments: Well, I'm a buzzard... which doesn't seem particularly mirthful... but I am in love, which is positive... but I AM a buzzard...

What do my friends really think of me?
Song: Eliminator Jr.
Artist: Sonic Youth
Comments: I am loud, discordant and sexually charged.

Do people secretly lust after me?
Song: Little Brother
Artist: Grizzly Bear
Comments: Gross...

How can I make myself happy?
Song: I Think I Have a Chance With This Guy
Artist: What's Her Face
Comments: Oh, iPod...

What should I do with my life?
Song: Sweet Dreams
Artist: Tori Amos
Comments: Study Freud?

Why is life full of so much pain?
Song: Chills
Artist: Peter, Bjorn & John
Comments: People need more sweaters!

How can I maximize my pleasure during sex?
Song: Candy
Artist: Iggy Pop
Comments: Mmm, so many options...

Will I ever have children?
Song: Femme Fatale
Artist: The Velvet Underground
Comments: If I meet a dangerous woman. This probably won't end well.

Will I die happy?
Song: White Unicorn
Artist: Wolfmother
Comments: I will die MAGICALLY happy.

What is some good advice for me?
Song: Eau de Toilette.
Artist: Emily Haines
Comments: If I was going to see anyone today I would have showered! GET OFF MY BACK!

What is happiness?
Song: Cry Freedom
Artist: Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
Comments: The end of the movie "Braveheart." Or social justice, whichever.

What is my favourite fetish?
Song: Black Cherry
Artist: Goldfrapp
Comments: See the above answer concerning "candy."

How will I be remembered?
Song: This Devil's Workday
Artist: Modest Mouse
Comments: As a complex Biblical metaphor? That's cool...

What I Currently Have on "Repeat"

1. Between the Bars (Elliot Smith cover) - Emily Haines & James Shaw
"The things you could do
You won't but you might."

2. Lump Sum - Bon Iver
"Colour the era
Film, it is historical."

3. California Dreamer - Wolf Parade
"I thought I might have heard you on the radio but the radio waves are like snow."

4. Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone - Islands
"Laying low in a tropical hideout
If anyone finds out
I'll turn their lights out."

5. I Don't Want to Grow Up (Tom Waits cover) - Scarlett Johansson
"Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down."

6. Pink Bullets - The Shins
"Oh what a contrast you were
To the brutes in the halls
My timid young fingers held a decent animal."

7. Gobbleldigook - Sigur Ros
"La La lalalalalalala La La."

8. Lovely Head - Gold Frapp
"Frankenstein would want your mind
Your lovely head."

9. The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
"She would throw a feather boa in the road
If she thought that it would set the scene."

10. New York Telephone Conversation - Lou Reed
"Did you hear who did what to whom, happens all the time."

11. Dramamine - Modest Mouse
"I said what I said and you know what I mean."

12. Ohio - Neil Young
"We're finally on our own."

13. Mississippi Goddamn (live) - Nina Simone
"The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddamn
And I mean every word of it."

14. Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
"And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you."

15. Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits
"He flows like the big muddy but that's ok
Pour him over ice cream for a nice parfait."

16. Peace Beneath the City - Iron & Wine
"Give me good legs
and a Japanese car
and show me a road.”

17. At Last - The Do
"A man I can trust
Trust with my dust, oh ho."

18. Knife (Grizzly Bear cover) - CSS
"When I look into your eyes..."

19. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes
"Dear shadow alive and well
How can the body die?"

20. I Was Made for You - She & Him
"Cause I have been waiting for a long, long time for a boy like you."

21. Down Boy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"I'll stand for the sake of my friend
I will see him there."

22. We Put a Pearl in the Ground - St. Vincent
N/A.

23. So-so - Brooke Waggoner
"He wanted to know
how I liked Del Rio
And if the lack of snow had made it all perfecto."

24. Brown Bear - Bell
"Clouds shaped like bears are just water in air."

25. Horse & I - Bat for Lashes
"Horse and I, we're dancers in the dark."

26. I Don't Blame You - Cat Power
"They said you were the best,
But then they were only kids."

27. The Engine Driver (live acoustic) - Colin Meloy
"I'm a county lineman on a high line, such a high line
So will be my grandson."

28. Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover, live) - The Raconteurs
"Come on now who do you, who do you who do you who do you think you are?"

29. Pull Shapes - The Pipettes
"I like to disco
I like to rock n' roll
Well I like to hip-hop."

30. Glory Box - Portishead
"I'm so tired, of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow."

31. Reckoner - Radiohead
"You were not to blame for..."

32. Pavlov's Daughter - Regina Spektor
"I hear them say my name
Regin-ah, Regin-ah, Regin-a-a-ahhhh."

33. Our Hell - Emily Haines
"We're paralyzed, we apologize
Our hell is a good life."

34. Cosmia (live) - Joanna Newsom
"Can you hear me, will you listen
Don't come near me, don't go missin'."

35. Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan
"Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled."

Andrew Goes to a Cottage!

Clodhoppers of Portuguese Suede

This is the prettiest song Bob Dylan has ever put to wax.

Coming Soon...

Pictures from the series "Andrew Goes to a Cottage!"

Change is hard, or at least weird.

How things change...

In Paris, Craiglist was the conduit through which I found 4 jobs (3 of which panned out), entertainment, and a whole mess of really awesome friends. I didn't think it would be unfair to assume that I would be able to use this same system when I got back to Peterborough, but man... ugh... Peterborough's Craigslist is nothing but a series of scams and weird older men trolling for threesomes.

How did things get this far?

...Minus the colourful sweaters

This is literally what it was like trying to communicate in France (including the look of disappointment and disbelief on the people's faces followed by awkward silence).



Alright, there were a few colourful sweaters...

And I also made this list!

Things I have done in the past fews days include, but are not limited to:

-Moving back home
-Said goodbye to all those I knew and met in Paris. This will assuredly be temporary because they're all awesome people and I will definitely reconnect with all of them.
-Bought my first cell phone.
-Received my first text message (From my sister Jessica) and my first phone call (From a girl named Amy who I met in Paris and knew for a period of maybe 6 hours, but is super-cool and lives in San Francisco. It was a wonderful connection, very random)
-Sent my first text message on assurance from Sam "Candleabra" Burns that it would be like watching a sunset. It was pretty awesome.
-Met a girl named after a state (thumbs up!).
-Met a guy named after an actor (thumbs down!).
-Reconnected with Liz, Evan, and Nick.
-Got two rolls of analog film developed. It's very "I have to show you in person." I'm very happy with the results.
-Unpacked some. "Spread out" is a more accurate term.
-Nearly got scammed by a nun. Ask me in person about this one.
-Bought Nora a new set of bowls.
-Downloaded music like mad. Wolf Parade, you make my knees weak.

And now I will go and have dinner!