As the twilight gathered.

Things I saw between 3-5 pm while sorta doing Xmas/misc errands:

(1) A woman in stretch pants picking up a book from Amazon at the post office.

(2) A dude with an Exploited hoodie, a KMFDM toque and a cheap mountain bike helping his buddy onto the 13S bus going uptown. The buddy held up the bus' departure while rummaging in his parka pockets for his Tim Horton's cup of change. Mainly it was the two half-full bottles of Life Brand mouthwash obscuring his search.

(3) A cashier at the Dollar Store with too much chat for a line that long.

(4) Down the scoop neck of woman's blouse at the Zeller's check out... and her to buy list that included "Socks, Smokes."

(5) Two Dairy Queen cheeseburgers.

(6) Firetrucks outside the 'mature (foreign) students' residence on Montgomery.

(7) Many crows and seagulls.

Xmas moments part 1

I was wondering if you had a specific artist.

Sure.

I'm not sure of the pronounciation, but I think it's SAWN-Dray Lurch.

Yeah, Sondre Lerche. We've had his stuff in before... but nothing at the moment. I don't think he's had anything new out on a while.

Oh? I heard him on the Ghomeshi show this morning and so...

He may have something just out, or coming out. We could order it for you. It would take about a week or so.

Oh no, I have a package going out later today.

Ah.

Well there's a few more things on this list. How about... the ABBA Greatest Hits??

Uh, no... not right at the moment.

Do you carry DVDs?

Yes, we do.

Would you have the movie Dirty Dancing?

I'm getting the sense you may need Wal-Mart on that one.

Things to do in December if your shopping is on the backburner.

When I get a little punchy and bored I like to type random words into Google to see what turns up. There is no rhyme or reason, just free association and a training in absurdist structuralism guides my tender typing digits.

Here are a few recent first listing results:

Badger Cam.

Two Pack Shack Cure.

Monarchist Bingo.

In the green room.

The lack of light is getting to me a little I think.

Or it could be my winter-driven vitamin-free diet. Or both.

I took today off from the store, mainly to get laundry done... something I neglected to do over the weekend when I had time. It felt a little decadent to take a sunny Wednesday afternoon off and wander around the hood a little.


In the morning I started the process of weeding through the storage stacks where I've relegated my Surgery Radio promos. Trying to figure out which ones should get databased and which ones should be repurposed in some manner. They date from late 2005 to now... not sure of the count... but it was fun sitting the "computer room" and listening, drinking too strong coffee.

The Xmas phone calls have been coming in with predictable frequency and disorientation for the last little while. People looking for country CDs or Xmas CDs or country Xmas CDs. Everyone loves "music" at Xmas.

I've been enjoying a blog I came across that makes available all sorts of crazy indie and foreign films. So far I've snatched an Arthur Russell documentary, a super-bad, super-fun Italian horror movie called Nude for Satan, a Claire Denis film Trouble Every Day and a Polish film (or collection of short films) called Blood of a Poet. Takes the sting out of Roger's Jumbo Buster of Blocks.

Ok, I have a twelve year old named after leafy greens tapping his toes to a GarageBand masterpiece who needs tossing out. Zip-bam!