today in sound

Just home from a surprise trip to Winners. I hate it there and, yet, it makes me hopeful.

Actually, after work I went for cheesecake and it was harder to find cheesecake in the downtown core than I would like. We went to 5 (five!) different places that should have had desserts to go with their coffee products, but did any of them have cheesecake? Noooooo. Fuckers.

After cheesecake, I went to the VAG to get a student membership because it's so fricking cheap and I want to see a few shows coming up, and FUSE is free with a membership so I might as well. This way I can also renew it before I graduate next year. Yea. There's a neat show opening on Friday and the BC Binning is still on and the Herzog photo show... I'm hoping to go a few times in the coming months.

Met up with Terry and looked at speakers. I'm thinking the little speaker on my MacMini isn't really cutting it anymore, so it may be time to invest in a better sound. After a while I got bored looking at electronic things and suggested we go upstairs so I could look at shoes. He's a trooper and said OK.

Things weren't looking good, but then I saw a few pairs of Le Coq Sportif that looked sorta OK, but then didn't. There were Jack Purcells that were a smidge too small, fantastically cute '60s-style Unisa pumps that were too small, Richard Tyler black pumps that were too small and Betsey Johnson gold flats that were too small. I hate all other women with similar taste as me with the same foot size who got there before me. The ones I'm really broken up about were the Unisa ones.... My enormous (size 8) feet were just barely over the back and I couldn't convince myself that they fit. Sigh. Do I really need more shoes? No, really. It's a serious question. Do I? I think I'm up to 54 pairs now. Maybe it's time to start deaccessioning some of those. Especially the smelly brown Pumas.

I'm on a bender, trying to get as much music into my computer as humanly possible. I'm not sure why I wasn't doing this all along, but now it seems like I've got nothing in my library because so much isn't in. Guh. I also don't know where all these CDs came from. I suspect I could have afforded to buy a house if I hadn't bought so many CDs when I was in Japan. Fricking Tokyo Tower Records!

Doesn't it seem unlikely that a CD that I bought in 1996 from a band that broke up more than 8 years ago and hasn't had a resurgence of popularity would re-release said-album last year? Maybe it's just me. Still... I love "All Ready" right now.

Currently listening :
So Wound
By Jale
Release date: 04 April, 200