Now this is my kind of spooky.

I love period piece thrillers!

Friday Gold

-My creative title for the day.
-I love the colours in the picture.
-I typed Philip Glass into we heart it, and this is what came up.
-Good enough.
-My mind feels a bit vacant.
-And my computer is halfway down in the battery power.
-Pity.
-I hate commercials on youtube.
-Blood sucking lawyers!
-Yes, that's what they are.
-Piggypiggypiggy!
-I love how the word meow works in different languages.
-German: miau! 
-Swedish: Mjau! 
-Dog imitations are even better.
-In French: Ouah! Ouah!
-In Dutch: Woef!
-Don't even get me started on the duck sounds
-Kvaak, Kvaak.
-Oh, languages.
-Lalala...
-It's another one of those clips that have been circulating in my head randomly for years on end since I saw that movie.
-Amazing I even managed to find it.
-Another amazing thing I found from my childhood, for you Canadian bambinos out there who may remember (and possibly Northern American babes, if you happened to get a tv station called YTV).
-Gon' to town!
-But not really.
-I'm sorry I was wack.
-But not really.
-I can't believe it, I'm losing to a rug.
-I think I'm going to look back on this particular post and cringe.
-Then again, my mind is pretty devoid of serious content at the moment.
-However, the music I have made magically appear below is not of silly content. In fact, it's rather nice!
-And that is how I will conclude for the day.

Ta'ra!

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Songs that Remind Me

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Over the past four years of university especially, there are a few songs that are reminders of particular moments of where I was and what I was doing at the time. They were the songs I worked to at my desk, to drown out noisy neighbors, and to relax myself at night when the thoughts of work and tests kept me awake. I would associate them with the seasons, and what I was obsessed with at the time. Ahh, memories!

1. The Painted Veil Soundtrack. Listened it during my first year, and especially adored this track.

2. Dreaming of You, by the Corals. It reminds me of March (first year again), for some reason. And this commercial, which I actually like better than the original.
3. Lily Allen. When I think of LDN I think of spring, and the end of exams. And funny enough, The Fear reminds me of the end of my second year!
4. Philip Glass. I can't get enough of his music! The Hours, Metamorphasis, Glassworks. Minimalist perfection! Once you hear his music, there's no turning back.
5. Rain. And thunder. Perfect for drowning out the stupid noisy neighbors above.
6. The Beatles. But that's a given.
7. This is gonna be a bit weird, but Goodbye Lenin. Reasons unknown. I just liked it. At 5:00 in the morning once I was finishing up a death essay, and I played this song as I concluded it. It made me feel... Triumphant. (And I gave the movie three stars)
8. Mika. I listened to this often, and I danced to this for a ballet performance once.
9. This song will forever remind me of Lost, even though I heard it long before university.
10. Ella Fitzgerald. Usually while walking or on the bus.
11. Jesus Christ Superstar. Another... Odd late night work song.

Friday Contemplations

-Nothing like a violent snowball fight to kick off the season.
-And from 1895, no doubt!
-Right now, it is cold enough to snow.
-I saw snow outside last night, but not enough.
-I like socks... To an extent.
-Da-ang, I think I've fallen into that weird zone of youtube. Yet Again.
-Have I entered... The Twilight Zone?
-Holy mother of something, I think so.
-Enjoy having that song stuck in your head until the end of time.
-You're welcome.
-I am really on a video kick today.
-I wanna start running/walking every morning.
-I thought that to myself as I lay in bed this morning.
-At quarter to eight.
-Precisely.
-fufufufuh.
-And no, that was not the beginnings of the questionably(?) dreaded f-word.
-Incase you were wondering.
-But probably not.
-As in anybody does anymore, nowadays.
-I saw that in a play once, and every so often that just randomly pops into my head.
-Like now.
-Fufufufufh.
-Nutcracker Suite.
-Christmas.
-Ahhh.
-Starbucks holiday drinks.
-Funny how the popularity of them can bring in the holiday spirit with full force.
-"Oh my gosh, Starbucks has their peppermint mocha out, it must be almost Christmas! Aaah!"
-I had that last year as an iced drink, and it was soooo good.
-There is a bluejay outside who knows where to get his peanuts.
-Such majestic creatures.
-Trust your gut.
-The Sound of Moussaka.
-Okrahoma!
-The King and Wine.
-Oh dear, I'm at it again. Only with Rogers and Hammerstein musicals.
-Ich bin hier fertig. (Trans: I am finished here.)

From here

I heard it this morning.

First Christmas song. Of the season. On the radio. Eeeeeeee!!!

(We're getting closer...!!!)

Music for a Thursday Afternoon

Things that make me (very) happy

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1. Coffee/tea and a good book.
2. Standing outside early in the morning watching the sky, and taking in the fresh air.
3. Listening to the right music at the right time.
4. Watching old movies, and admiring the clothing of the period.
5. Dogs. Especially shaggy ones.
6. Lindt Lindor dark peppermint truffles.
7. When Christmas music starts playing on the radio.
8. The Beatles doing goofy things.
9. Chocolate cake.
10. My bright red trench coat.
11. Tap dancing to fun songs.
12. Watching birds at the bird feeder.
13. Looking through old picture albums.
14. Dinners with friends and family.
15. Collecting mugs of various kinds.
16. Iced coffee on a really hot day.
17. Watching an act of kindness play out in public.
18. Squirrels.
19. Breakfasts in restaurants.

From here

Thoughts on a Friday

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-Feeling a bit chilled.
-Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
-I vaguely remember that tv game show.
-I'm pretty sure I always wondered why Carmen never made an appearance.
-Adds to the intrigue.
-I hear Jennifer Lopez is being considered for the role.
-I personally don't think she'd be such a bad choice.
-In fact, I think she'd be rather good. Given the fact that Carmen barely makes her presence known in the show, til the end.
-Go ahead, throw eggs at me for thinking that.
-I would watch this for sure.
-How people come up with these ideas is beyond me.
-Maybe Waldo's hiding out with Carmen.
-We got our new tree placed in our front yard.
-All limbs and twigs right now, but someday it will become a leafy green giant.
-Homes for the squirrels and birds eventually.
-By the time it grows really tall, I'll probably be driving my kids back to show them the house I grew up in.
-This is kind of cute, but it does make you wonder.
-It looks like the beginnings of some creepy/romantic movie with a glowing pillow.
-Wherein her SO had passed away the year before, and one night as she was crying into her pillow, it would start glowing.
-Creepy, yet comforting.
-I would like a glowing pillow.
-Remember those stuffed animals whose tummies would glow after rubbing them or something?
-They may have been Carebears.
-I remember a friend from when I was young used to have one of these, and she kept it in her freezer, because it would glow better or something.
-I think.
-The glowing pillow also reminds me of what could be a Harris Burdick (again!) story.
-All stemming from the image of a woman about to carve into a glowing pumpkin.
-Halloween?
-It's November.
-Another month closer to Christmas.
-Closer to snow, closer to home.
-Christmas music on the radio.
-Meticulous.

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I said I'd bring this back...

In honour of Movember, I re-present to you the famous stache' of Mr. Selleck... As seen on others.