It's 5:30, my usually quiet Japanese next-door neighbour has put on the soundtrack of Garden State. Japanese are weird man ... I love them. Could it be that they are also up for the impending game? hmmm, I doubt it.

Funny thing is that I woke up to the tune of "Such Great Heights" by Iron and Wine, which is a track I heard for the first time a few days ago when my friend sent it for me saying how great it was, and which is a track I heard today at lunch at some random Jewish restaurant.

It's 3 hours to the big game. I also discovered my alarm clock battery had slipped out. I just set it again. I'm going back to sleep. The soundtrack is still playing.

        how can you not be impressed by the absolutely gorgeous typography? I mean, for fuck's sake, it's crazy. For one thing, it's transcending the borders of the post, it also appears to be in front of the box, yet it is transparent so you can clearly see the underlying text. To make it even more marvelous, it is underneath the linkdump box. Not to mention the gorgeous color. Oh, AND you can select both the post text AND the background text, separately and easily, and copy/paste it. So you have this beautiful multi-featured type royale floating around majestically and you don't even comment on it? Tsk Tsk. What a waste of elegant typography on un-appreciative audience. Oh and happy Persian new year.

As I was walking home on Bloor St. today, I saw a couple of guys walking by, one of them looked awefully familiar, but I couldn't remember right then who he was, as he walked by me, within a fraction of a second, another older guy appeared in front of me, just walking out of the store I was walking by. He too seemed very familiar.

A few seconds later, I finally remembered who they were. The older guy was a professor I TA'ed a course for last year, and the other guy was one of the other TA's in the same course !!!! It's not super exciting or mind blowing, but still, I'd say the fact that three totally separate people, who only know each other through this one course, would come together after a year in the same coordinate in time and space, is at least mildly amusing.

I probably wouldn't have remembered to write about this were it not for another, slightly more bizarre, incident that just happened. My friend who was here for a movie, was wearing his jacket and getting ready to leave, and turned on his discman just before leaving. I could hear the music coming out of the headphones, that he wasn't still wearing.

It was a very weird, annoying, electronic music. A short patter than kept repeating, very sci fi. Just as I was thinking about how scary that tune was my friend began explaining how that short track had appeared out of nowhere on the CD that he burnt just prior coming to my house. He said he has never heard that track in his life and he's sure he doesn't have it on his comptuer and even if he does, he didn't burn it, but it somehow appeared on the CD as the first track. I guess it could be a glitch in the burner. But it is a clear track; a really scary/annoying electronic pattern repeating, gradually increasing in volume before dying out.

Anyway, I gotta admit I was sort of freaked out. I advised him not to listen to that track!

In other, less weird news, we saw Motorcycle Diaries (finally). All I want to say is that I thought this was the most over-rated movie of last year. Neither of us liked it. Actually I sort of hated it.

Oh and back to weird stuff, today for the first time when I got home, instead of having my keys ready while walking the hallway to my door, I took my student card out and tried to swipe it when I got to my door (my office door works like that), but I guess that's just my reoccuring absent-mindedness.

Anyway, if I disappear or something I'm probably abducted by aliens.

I've added the 'gods n goddesses' to my sideblog. a collection of links to websites of my favorite illustrators.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, ... and freakin

again.

        I hate you.

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I just saw Pen-ek Ratanaruang's "The Last Life in the Universe". Think "Lost in Translation", set in Thailand, but less Hollywood, slower, more minimal yet hallucinative. It was brilliant. The experience was like browsing an all-star issue of Print , thanks to Chris Doyle's cinematography.

Incidentally (or not), my two other recent favorites are Lost in Translation and Eternal Sunshine. Detect a pattern here? Apparently I'm a sucker for weird romances with inconclusive endings, and I can't believe I just said that.

As always, the campaign speech concluded with the celebratory heiling of the nazi kitchen gloves to the unidentified flying object, also known as the missing Star Trek prop.

Stephen Colbert just gave away the ending of the Million Dollar Baby on the Daily Show, quite intentionally. That son of a bitch!