i stood in the snow for 10 minutes

a little something i put together. it's 5 minutes long.


in the snow for 10 minutes from chinalily on Vimeo.

productive

i spent a solitary christmas day tidying up the AV cables and editing/sifting/purging my belongings.

my main concern with cables are:
- they need to be off the ground for ease of vacuuming/swifering
- they must be more than 4 inches away from the baseboard heaters

so i used some green gardening velcro tape to wrap my cables. amazingly, i spent almost 2 hours on this ensuring the the weight of the looped cables didn't cause speakers to topple, etc.

and behold...





and since i was back there, i detached the shaw cable from the tv. i haven't had cable for about 7 years and was excited to have it back so it was disappointing when i turned on the cable to the local news (citytv, i think) and found it way too flashy and noisy. after 5 minutes i turned it off.

after about 1.5 weeks, i remembered i had cable and turned it on again but couldn't find anything interesting on the basic cable package.

so, goodbye cable.

the white stuff

taken on my patio yesterday...

it's the tops

for those of us who like to compile (and read) these things, here's my top lists for the year.


. FILMS. . .
#7 Orz Boyz
#6 Still Walking
#5 Synching Blue
#4 Heima, a light documentary about Sigur Ros
#3 The Savages
#2 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days
#1 Lives of Others (ok, i know this film came out in 2007 but i only watched it this year)


. MUSIC. . .
#5 Black Mountain: In the Future
#4 Ladyhawk: Shots
#3 Fleet Foxes: s/t
#2 Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
#1 Radiohead: In Rainbows


. EATING OUT. . .
#6 2 chefs/aurora/medina
#5 Trattoria
#4 Chambar
#3 Grub
#2 Pied-a-Terre
#1 Boneta

this might be my favourite picture from 2008:

...

yes. i'm back.

in other news, it's like a winter wonderland out there.

no, i'm not talking about canada's wonderland. and i don't think anyone deserves a canadian passport unless they experience a truly mediocre disneyland knock-off like canada's wonderland either.

but i digress.

snow = i rock my "they're not ugg" boots ALL THE TIME




also, i was doing some cleaning and rearranging of furniture when i came upon this:


it says "44" then below it "291." i don't recognize it. please let me know if you've accidentally left pharmaceuticals at my condo.