On New
Years morning I noticed that I was still getting wifi from Coffeetime and that
they were open, even though their lease was supposed to have run out on
December 31. Maybe Raja gave them an extension.
The west side of the Dollarama parking
lot was full of parked cars. Usually there are only one of two that early in
the morning. A lot of people were walking as well; I assume they were walking
home from New Years events and parties.
I introduced the bow pose into my
yoga routine. While lying on my stomach I bend and lift both legs while
reaching my hands toward my feet. When I was much younger I was able to reach
my ankles and lift my legs but my left knee can’t bend that far anymore. The
exercise is going to cause a cramp until my leg muscles get used to it.
I memorized the first two-thirds of
“Bébé gai” by Serge Gainsbourg.
I worked on my journal and
transcribed the first page of my 1990 diary.
When I made coffee I discovered that
my last bag of milk had gone sour. Luckily I had a can of evaporated milk that
I’d gotten from the food bank.
I spent some extra time cleaning the
kitchen and bathroom sinks and didn’t have a chance to do any washing of the
bedroom floor because by the time I was done it was lunchtime.
I’ve been listening to the Bjork
discography and there's one bizarre record she made when she was eleven. In it
she does mostly covers of popular English songs like The Beatles "Fool on
the Hill" in Icelandic. This was a very conventionally produced record with
regular studio musicians backing her up. Her singing was quite good at that
time but her voice was not recognizable as that of the Bjork we all know.
What’s weird is that she looked exactly the same as she does now. She still
looks like she’s eleven. She sold 7000 copies and bought a piano so she could
start writing songs. I also listened to the three Sugar Cube albums. The sound
is basically like Punk Rock except that the band could play their instruments
and they had Bjork. She was already experimenting with her voice at this time.
In general, what I find with Bjork is that she tends not to rhyme her lyrics
and although her music is very interesting and creative, her songs are not that
great. The measure of a good song is if an ordinary voice can sing it and play
it with a slightly out of tune guitar and it will still sound good. Outstanding
voices like Bjork's can just make a mediocre song sound good just by rolling a
lot of notes around it.
I weighed 91.1 kilograms before
lunch, which is a little too much, so I’ll need to cut back on something. I had
a cheese and tomato sandwich for lunch and a thin slice of strawberry rhubarb
pie with two spoons of strawberry yogourt instead of three.
In the afternoon I did my exercises
while listening to Amos and Andy. In this story Amos and Andy open up a baggage
check place at the bus terminal. A charming woman in a red dress comes and
points out her alligator bag but sys she’s lost her ticket. Kingfish gives her
the bag but it turns out that it belongs to someone else and has over $1000
worth of jewellery inside. The police catch her but Andy is so charmed he drops
the charges. They’d left Lightning in charge of the baggage check but when they
got back the same woman has taken the bag again.
I uploaded my July 20, 2014 rehearsal
of the song Strip Tease to YouTube.
I had an egg, two strips of bacon, a
toasted bun and a beer for dinner while watching two episodes of South Park.
The first story was about vegan
alternatives to meat. At school Cartman has a heart attack every time they try
to introduce a plant based menu. A compromise is made as a mysterious vegan
businessman gets the contract to sell his “Incredible Meat”. It’s
made out of a highly processed factory made
vegetable based goo that can be made to taste like any meat. Meanwhile Randy
Marsh is losing money on his marijuana business until he goes to Burger King
and tries their Impossible Burger. It tastes like dog shit but when he hears
how popular it is he figures out how to save the farm. He turns all the leftover
marijuana plant parts into vegan meat. It tastes like shit too but in a few
minutes one gets so high that it becomes the best burger one has ever had. But
his burger becomes so popular that he puts a local cattle rancher out of
business. As revenge the rancher gives his entire herd to Randy. The cows are
ruining Randy’s crops and so he has no choice but to kill them all. This was
the plan of the goo man all along because photos were taken of Randy killing
cows, which will ruin his vegan business.
The second story is the Halloween
special but Halloween Special is also the name of a strain of weed Randy is
developing. Meanwhile Randy’s daughter Shelly has a marijuana problem. She
hates marijuana and wishes it were still illegal in Colorado. Meanwhile at the
museum Butters awakens a mummy that wants to be best friends. Every time the
mummy goes on the rampage and kills people the public blames Butters for being
a bad friend. Shelly plots to destroy her father’s Halloween special and mixes
several toxic household chemicals. She throws it on the Special but it causes
it to mutate and it becomes even more potent. Winnie the Pooh comes back from
the dead and wants to eat Randy’s brains. Zombie forms of the cows Randy killed
begin to stampede. It turns out to have been a hallucination brought on by the
powerful pot.
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