Just came in a short while ago from taking a walk. I’m trying to make it a habit of taking a walk at around seven, while it’s still light out at that time. Between dinner and my usual bedtime I find myself wanting to nap and just overall lacking energy and a walk is just the way to cure that. Sometimes I really have to push myself, especially since I haven’t been walking so much because of one health reason or another, but now I’m at the point where just getting out the door is enough to get me going. Walked for about an hour or so (in addition to the walking to and from work — getting there, and for home and back for lunch). I like to listen to music while I’m walking and just people watch or stare at the buildings I pass. It’s not hard to do around here, especially downtown, where there’s always guaranteed stimuli.
I listened to Joel Plaskett’s Down at the Khyber on my way. More Canadian indie rock after a morning filled of just that. I discovered today that I like listening to podcasts at work. At first, I thought it would be too distracting, trying to work and listen to commentary between music, but it actually helped the day go by a little quicker and kept up my brain activity with the useless (but very important, really!) facts being spat out about Canadian Indie Rock of the 80s and 90s. (Thank you, CBC) Of course I didn’t know ANYTHING about the 80s music, but it was a good “history lesson” and was surprised that some of the music wasn’t that bad. I listened to the podcast about the 90s, next, and the hugest smile came to my face once I started to hear Thrush Hermit, Cub, The Inbreds, The Local Rabbits, all stuff I had listened to and still do… and of course other names that I recognized that I never really got into. Special commentary by Joel Plaskett!! and Andrew Whiteman!! (they played his old band, Bourbon Tabernacle Choir). They even mentioned the book that I had forgotten about, but wanted to read Have Not Been the Same: The Canrock Renaissance 1985-1995 by Michael Barclay. So now, of course, I’m on a hunt for that book because amazon.com doesn’t have it and amazon.ca takes like forevar to ship it out (I think they said it would take 3 weeks or so, and I want it in my hands, now!) I thought about it, though, and thought I might save on shipment and just pick it up next time I’m in Toronto, which, by the look of it, will be soonish.
BTW, I totally blame Anne of Green Gables for totally romanticizing Canada for me. Not that it’s really a bad thing, that needs to place some sort of blame, but I have this feeling that if I never read those books by L.M. Montgomery or if I never watched the movies, I would never hold Canada in that special kind of place that I do. It’s weird, I know.
So, I need to end each post with things I’m currently doing/reading/listening to. I have to make that a habit, too.
Watched: The Importance of Being Earnest, Factory Girl, Blood and Chocolate (over the weekend)
Read: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, currently reading NOTHING, but I am thinking of staring Out by Natsuo Kirino. This could change at any moments notice.
Right this second, I’m listening to The Rural Alberta Advantage.