So, so far Interview With the Vampire is to vampire fiction what Lord of the Rings is to fantasy. I knew this, but I understand it more completely now.

I love starting books. Books are always the best in the first half.

Got three button-up shirts (one green, one lavender, one rust-coloured), some Fenchurch jeans, and some dress pants at Value Village on Sunday, for like $45. What can I say, I fuckin' love Value Village.

Adam and I briefly went over to Louise's house for her birthday and they were watching the worst movie in existence, Top Gun. I remember watching it at age 12 or so and wondering what the hell the fuss was all about - even back then I was anti-war and anti-machismo. Anyway, it's pretty funny to watch, now. Perfect MST3K fodder.

I'm on book 9 of the Sookie Stackhouse series. They're pretty fucking awful, but at least this one has some, as fandom calls it, ESN (Eric-Sookie nookie). After this, I'm gonna listen to the Anne Rice vampire novels on audiobook.

It's official: Andy and Cohen are moving out of our house in January, and Trent's moving in. Andy and Cohen were good roommates, but I'm super stoked to have Trent, too. We haven't decided if we're going to have a fourth person yet.

Adam's road bike team had a dinner at this ridiculous barbeque house on Saturday called Dix (double entendre intended). Every single item on the menu, including all the salads, had meat in it, except for their one veggie burger, which read: "Veggie Burger - $30. ...Just kidding, it's $10.99, but why are you ordering a veggie burger?" And their beers were fucking huge -- they looked like a litre. It was all fairly ridiculous, but it was fun, too, if only because of the company. Adam had pulled pork shoulder, and one of somebody's beef ribs, and somebody else's pork rib.

I've been on another Ursula Le Guin kick. I read Changing Planes, and then Lavinia (not as good), and now it's Unlocking The Air. I also got Always Coming Home from the library.

I write little mini-reviews of most of the books I read on my librarything account. Re-writing them over here feels redundant.

Google reader is still occupying most of my internet time (mainlining/streamlining internet awesomeness!). I did get into an argument with somebody on Facebook today, over whether saying "How much?" to an attractive woman (i.e. implying she is a prostitute) is inherently misogynist. FUN TIMES. It's because I meet random people on facebook I wouldn't actually want to be friends with or converse with in real life.

I just watched Food, Inc. (I started watching it like two weeks ago and finally watched the rest tonight, that's how into watching movies I am) and it was good, although it did have a bit of that kind of propagandistic glib thing going on that Michael Moore loves so much. They could have covered fewer topics and included more facts backing up their argument, but I guess if you're trying to get your message to a wide audience, you want to make it as simple and accessible as you can. Parts of it made me cry, like when they were arresting illegal immigrants and the parts with animals in factory farms.

The best TV show I've been watching lately is still Community. The Hallowe'en episode had me and Adam in hysterics (BATMAN, Senor Chang's pickup line advice, Shirley going apeshit on the hot professor, Pierce and his pills), kind of like when I used to watch the Simpsons and I'd have to stop laughing to catch the next hilarious line. We totally rewound and re-watched a couple scenes.

They were going on and on about the Olympic torch today on the CBC (it is only November, I can't imagine what the fuck it will be like in February). There was even an engineer from Bombardier who designed the torch who talked about all his inspiration for the design, and how it comes from snowdrifts, etc. Have you seen it? IT LOOKS LIKE A MASSIVE REEFER. And Vancouver continues to uphold its reputation as a giant stoner city.

I found out there's a new train that goes down to Portland and they have round-trip tickets from Vancouver for $70! I think Adam and I are going to go down there for the weekend Hanukkah starts, and meet up with his mom, and his cousin who lives there. It costs five dollars to bring a bike on the train with you (although, yes, it will be December). It's about 10 to 15 times more expensive to take your bike on a plane. It's always nice to get out of town. When you don't have access to a car and you don't travel for work, getting to leave the city is very rare.

I'm not that excited about Halloween this year, for whatever reason. I didn't have any brilliant costume ideas, so I'm wearing one of my Burning Man outfits. We're going to a party up in Squamish (camping overnight) and I anticipate that it is going to be fucking cold and rainy (although the party itself at least is indoors), so I'm glad we're getting a ride in a friend's RV. The rains have begun, fellow Temperate Rainforest dwellers. Say goodbye to the sun for the next six months.

So, True Blood is a pretty porny show. It's got some good characters, and some funny characters, and some ridiculousness. (And lots of great things about the South, as far as my experience with it -- which amounts to having friends from the South and reading and hearing about the South -- goes.) And it has a whole lot of sexy sexy sex! If it were up to me, I would have watched all of Season 1 by now, but Adam likes to ration them out. We just finished episode 6. Lots of eating and food themes in that one. Also, I love Tara and Lafayette forever and ever. And also I have no idea why Sookie had to wear that ridiculous outfit for the "culmination" at the end of the episode -- she could've worn something else white and not have it be that silly maternity-ghost thing. The scene itself was okay (I mean, still hot, but), but it could have been a whole lot better. That part in episode 2 where Bill says "I can smell the sunlight on your skin", and gets a fang-boner and has to stop kissing her -- that's the hottest part in the whole series so far.

Yes, vampires turn my proverbial crank for some reason. Apparently Vampire Diaries is really great, too. I haven't seen it yet and I have absolutely no idea what it's about, but if there are vampires and sex and it isn't Twilight, I'll probably dig it. I think my sexual tastes veer toward pretty stereotypically female a lot of the time: smell, sound and touch (sensuousness), and being focused on (Bill is always staring at Sookie, totally in awe), rather than visual stimulation or power dynamics. Well, everyone's got their things that do it for them, I suppose.

Youtube randomness: Let's do the fork in the garbage disposal! Ding-ding-ding-di-ding-ding-di-ding-ding KIKI QUIT IT YOU'RE YESSING TOO HARD

I read Freakonomics this week, which was interesting, very Malcolm Gladwell-esque but with that economist asshole undertone (I may be biased against economists, but they're often assholes), lots of tidbits to take away from it. Now I'm reading We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson (who you may remember from such high school required readings as "The Lottery"). It is weird, creepy, and pretty awesome. I feel like I could finish it and read it again -- there's lots going on under the surface, and lots of mysterious foreshadowing too.

Had a good dinner and walk with Graydon last night. I realized he's my bitching-about-politics friend. He always gets where I'm coming from, with things I've been stewing over for weeks or months that I can't articulate to people very well. We have really good conversations.

I got panniers for my bike. Adam ordered them for me from the store. They're awesome! Takes a bit of getting used to, but it's so nice having nothing on my back when I ride, and they carry a whole lot. And they're totally waterproof!

Has anyone been watching Community? Because Adam and I have, and it's hilarious. Something 30-Rock-ish about it -- the pacing, and the ensemble cast, and the male and female leads who are a bit like Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin's characters at times -- but it's different from that, too. Funnier characters, I think. Watch it.

There's too much good TV out there these days to possibly keep up with it all. We did try to watch Fringe recently, and it was pretty terrible. The pseudo-science was unbearable, and the dialogue was bad as well. We've watched a few episodes of the Demetri Martin show, which was funny but also seems like it'll run out of steam pretty quickly (there are already too many filler bits).

I finally, finally set up wireless internet for my computer. My computer is ancient but I can't afford a new one. Maybe I will upgrade it just part by part. Anyway I HAVE INTERNET ON MY OWN COMPUTER AGAIN. It has been two months, so I am very excited at this prospect.

That's all, really. Mostly I've just been plowing through The Dispossessed. I have a pile of books to read after this one, too.

I'm re-reading The Dispossessed and it is fucking awesome. I don't often re-read books anymore.

I went to the computer store and bought a wireless card so I can have wireless internet on my computer. My brother is coming over tomorrow (during the pig-roast) to help me install it. At the store, there was a Chinese-speaking couple talking to a Chinese-speaking salesperson. The wife was saying, "that's too expensive ("gui")!" But the salesman thought she said "too fast" ("kuai") because the words sound very similar. And the wife said, "Oh no, too fast would be okay!" and then the salesman made some joke about selling her a slow computer. I was so excited that I could understand not only their conversation, but the little play on words that was going on. I tried to explain it to my salesguy (who also spoke Chinese), but he seemed unimpressed. Ah well. When it's your native language I suppose it's a lot less thrilling.

I went to a coffee shop with Adam today while he was on his break called Elysian Fields that was so retardedly hipster and elitist that I couldn't help making fun of it while we were still in the shop. Instead of having "mild" and "dark" coffee, they had "classic", "nuanced", and "exceptional" blends, the exceptional one being a $3.25 cup of drip coffee. I said to the guy behind the counter that I wasn't feeling particularly nuanced or exceptional and that I was happy to just be classic today. And then I kept making comments about how disgusted I was with the place (ultra-minimalist decor, and every single customer was a hipster -- there were even fancy-ass fixed-gear bikes all locked up out front). When we left Adam said I hate capitalism too much and it causes too much stress in my life. "On the contrary," I said. "It makes me happy to know that there are so many possibilities for the world to be better." Also I generally keep away from places like that and Whole Foods (which I am boycotting) because it makes me happier.

I don't drink coffee very often anymore, which is probably causing the verbosity of this post, by the way.

I've been watching Glee, and I'm on the fence about whether it's brilliant or not. As other people have also noticed, it's ripped off wholesale a bunch of ideas originating from the movie Election. Sometimes the blackness, the heavy-handed tongue-in-cheekiness of it (which gets in the way of being able to sympathize with any of the characters) gets to be too much and too over the top. And I like the musical numbers, but they're not the greatest thing ever. I'm reserving judgment; haven't given up on it yet.

Mad Men and Dollhouse are both at about 80% awesome right now.

Zuul is currently using my arm as a pillow. So cute! Must type in non-disruptive fashion.

Margaret Atwood was awesome. She had people performing the hymns from the novel and doing dramatic readings. She only had about 10 minutes of Q&A, though. I wish it had been more of that. She's so famous, though. This was stop 13 of 20 on her tour. She must get tired of answering questions.

I am pretty tired now. Still getting over my cold.

Here's a conversation I had with my boss the other day. She forgets that I'm a veggie on a nearly daily basis, but this was a new record.

Her: So, being a vegetarian, what kinds of things do you put in your food to give it flavour?
Me: Oh, spices, things like that.
Her: You must be a pretty good cook by now.
Me: I think a lot of women my age are pretty experienced with cooking.
Her: Do you ever buy a cooked chicken from the supermarket and then just add your own flavours and spices to it?
Me: No, I've never done that.
Her: Oh.
Me: You know why?
Her: Why?
Me: Because I'm a vegetarian.

That's right, she forgot about it in four sentences (and yes, she is aware that chicken is not vegetarian). Actually, she's very similar to my dad in that way. Not with the veggie thing, but my dad has these weird mental blocks on certain things where you can tell him the same thing 17 times and he still won't remember. I think it's hilarious.

My roommate is roasting a sow in our backyard for his birthday this weekend. Lots of people will be coming over. V exciting.

Google Reader is causing me to neglect you, LJ. Flist, if you'd like to join me over there and share shit, I'm onlyzuul. Or if you have sites to recommend that I follow, do tell.

Adam and I are caught up on How I Met Your Mother. It's so hilarious. LOVES.

I'm reading Year of the Flood and it's fantastic. Get to see Ms. Atwood speak in two days. Stoked.

I have a rack on my bike now, and am going to order panniers (yay for boyfriend pro-deals! 60% off!). My full fenders are awesome. My bike is awesome all around.

I have a cold. And it is not very busy at work, which I loathe. Hourly wages equals pretending to be busy even when there's nothing to do. Fucking retarded. Wish I was on salary instead. I wouldn't mind working late sometimes if it meant I could go home early when it was dead.

I'm not really that grumpy. But I think Burning Man burned me out on raves for the next little while. I've been antisocial. Lately I've just been wanting to run errands, cook food, read books, and listen to podcasts. In short, prepare/settle in for winter and Get Shit Done. I'm feeling much more on the ant side of things in the ant/grasshopper dichotomy.

Ant activities from yesterday: I went to Value Village for a solid 2 or 3 hours, and ended up buying a pair of pants, two jackets, a sweater, and a button-up shirt. Everything in mostly earthy brown type colours. I also went to Kitchen Corner and bought a rack for drying clothes -- this is in reaction to the series of lectures by Richard Wolfson I was listening to on climate change and energy use. Dryers use a heck of a lot of energy, and on top of that they often wear out your clothes sooner.

Another major ant thing I've been doing is listening to the Long Now podcast, by Andy's recommendation. Just listened to the first one by Brian Eno and it was awesome. I am such a fan of him! His explanation of why he wrote Music for Airports was so excellent.

Finished Dune. It ends in a fucking royal marriage? What the hell! "Oh by the way, love of my life, you're gonna be my concubine (but I love you more, I promise!) but it's for the good of the empire." The book basically outlines how evil and Machiavellian the Empire is (at least in my eyes it does), but does absolutely nothing to destroy it. Paul is just given (is born into!) more power than everyone else, and uses it to gain the throne. Whoop-de-do. Oh and maybe he'll destroy the evil prison planet and try to grow more green things. Good job, King Paul. Way to use your Divine Right to uphold the status quo. Okay this paragraph isn't very articulate but I don't care.

I think if I'd been 29 when I saw Star Wars, I'd have been unimpressed (although at least Star Wars is charming!). The Joseph Campbell type hero's journey stories are much more interesting when you're young and uncritical (and you've read less) and just want a Good Story. But honestly Luke was always, to me, the least interesting character in Star Wars. Much more interesting are Han, Chewy, R2, C3P0, Obi-Wan, Yoda. And all the random aliens. Leia was interesting before she became Luke's sister and then she was boring (Lucas pretty much just sucks at female characters, period).

Books. Bought the new Margaret Atwood (Year of the Flood, sequel-ish to Oryx and Crake). Read the first two chapters; put it down before I plowed through the whole thing. I would like to savour it. Almost done Dune (damned feudalist politics invading an otherwise interesting world!). Purchased System of the World (third of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy). Stopped listening to the Moby-Dick audiobook in favour of listening to more NPR podcasts (this time, Planet Money).

Food. Was totally depleted of iron on my trip. Caroline (my friend who's in med school) says if it only takes two weeks for that to happen, I'm probably not getting enough iron in the first place. Taking iron supplements again. Also eating really healthy - quinoa concoctions, coleslaw, raw broccoli, yogurt galore.

TV. Mad Men is kind of boring and good at the same time. Project Runway -- ooh, haven't seen the new one yet. Love that show. How I Met Your Mother continues to be fun and funny. Shit, Lost doesn't start till fucking February 2010? What the hell, you guys?

Happy it's the weekend. Will probably ride my bike (so happy to be riding again!) to Value Village tomorrow, and also do other related cheap practical shopping-errands.

Since I moved in with Adam, I haven't had internet on my own computer. I can only blog from home from Adam's laptop (or from work, which I am doing hurriedly right now), and he's as addicted to the internet as I am, so that doesn't happen too often. I need to get a wireless card or something for my computer, because our cable connection (and hence our modem) is downstairs, and I'm upstairs. Perhaps I should look into that this weekend.

It's raining. I've gone from Arrakis to Caladan.

Really, though, Dune's just a space opera. More scientific than Star Wars, but still empires and royalty and politics. And still this Chosen One hero's journey "it is your destiny" shit.

The best part, definitely, is the planet itself. He's thought the world-building through so, so well (even the language the Fremen speak). The Fremen culture that's tied to it is awesome, the fact that water is currency (although you could maybe not beat us over the head with water's preciousness -- we get it), all the descriptions of landscape and wildlife and survival. I like all that anthropological stuff.

Bad parts are: completely wooden characters (Baron: "I am evil! Hee hee hee! Evil am I!" Jessica: "I am a wise nurturing maternal figure!" Paul: "I am the chosen one! Everything good happens to me and all I do is react to it."), boring hero/action plot, the politics. I hope to god Paul totally destroys the Empire system because god am I sick of these Great Men moving history and all the peons suffering and dying at their whims. I mean it's not like I'd keep reading the rest of the series if that happened, but at least it would mean that the book was good and recommendable and worth reading.

So yeah. It's got good parts and bad parts. I don't love it, but I do really like the good parts.

DJs we heard at Burning Man whose names I know:
Most of them are dubstep.

Beats Antique
Mimosa
Bassnectar (twice)
Freq Nasty
Ana Sia (twice)
Tipper (actually only Adam and Trent saw him)

Most of the electronic music at Burning Man is really bad, though. Really really bad. A camp near us played awful awful trance at earsplitting volumes day and night until several people complained (there are designated areas for loud sound camps; we were not near them) and they finally cut it out on like Friday (Adam is convinced that one of the reasons they stopped is that they were Israeli, and when he went to talk to them he said "Shabbat Shalom" which partially won them over; plus it was just after sunset on Friday). Most of the big sound camps played boring house music. Almost all the art cars play really loud music, and most of it is bad techno and trance. We only heard jungle a couple times. I guess the jungle/drum'n'bass scene is pretty dead. Too bad. I got tired of dubstep by the end of the week because it was the only other good thing other than this one camp we found on Tuesday afternoon which was playing some good tech house.

The overwhelming majority of music at Burning Man is electronic, although there's always something analog happening at Center Camp, and a lot of the older people (of which there are many) listen to rock music and stuff like that. Older people tend to hang out more at their own camps and invite people over for drinks, though. All the big electronic camps are mostly people in their 20s and 30s.

We also walked past a geodesic dome in the deep playa, and when we went in, Blade Runner was playing. We watched a good half-hour of it (from the part before Rachel gets tested, to the part where the eyeball design guy gets roughed up by the androids).

Other than music, there is a huge abundance of performers of the hippie-circus variety. Of course fire performance is the biggest: before the burning of the man, every fire performer gets together and does a huge performance together, 360 degrees all the way around the Man. There were hundreds of people performing in that. Hula hoops and poi and staffs and jump ropes, and anything else you could possibly do with fire. In terms of non fire performance, contact improv is a big thing, as is aerial performance, and hula hooping, and of course dancing. We saw a lot of good dancers at the sound camps.

Dune really does link up pretty well with Burning Man. So much so that we saw two art cars shaped like sandworms (one with a mouth that opened and closed), and there's a theme camp called Arrakis. We also wore camelbacks every time we ventured out, which reminds me of stillsuits.

It's time for breakfast. Many more entries to come.

I'm back from Burning Man. We fly back to Vancouver on Tuesday.

It was an sublime, insane, harsh, extreme, and awesome experience. Unlike anything I've ever seen before. I took about 200 pictures, which I'll upload to my flickr when I get back home. Expect more entries attempting to describe my time there. For now we are trying to rid everything of the ubiquitous playa-dust. I had one of the best showers of my life this afternoon.

We ate like kings, slept at odd hours, met tons of people, saw tons of art and general crazy shit, experienced extreme weather, heard loud music almost 24/7 (oy): we lived it up. I'm ready for some quiet time coming up.

I started reading Dune for the first time, which seems fitting. The book is pretty good, not great. More on that later also.

The Vancouver International Writers' Festival keeps bringing my favourite authors to town! This year it's Margaret Atwood on October 1st. Tickets for that are only $20. David Sedaris is also coming on November 1st, for $40 I think, but I'm more interested in Atwood. She'll be talking about her new book, Year of the Flood, which comes out in early September and continues in the Oryx and Crake setting.

This weekend I did lots of packing, and watched Kung Fu Panda with Kimmy, and saw Ranae, and went briefly to Haley's b-day party. I'm looking forward to my move being over. Right now everything is in boxes and I don't know what is where.

I'm not going to complain about the heat.

I'm about 3/4 of the way through listening to Perdido Street Station. I'm going to mostly copy my comments over from what I said on Librarything:

I wasn't sure at first -- I've been reading a lot of Neal Stephenson and was growing used to his rationality and wasn't sure if I was ready for fantasy, especially because this is supposed to be 'Victorian' somehow but doesn't bother with any sort of historical cohesion (in terms of language, technology, culture, behaviour -- Miéville picks and chooses what he likes), very unlike Stephenson -- but I've been won over. It's not perfect (enough with the exposition about scenery!), but there's so many fun ideas in it that I can't help but enjoy it. The alien races (so cool, all of them!), the moths, the Weaver, the intelligent constructs, the Dream-Shit, the ambassador from Hell... tons of fun.

You could totally play D&D in his world, and I think the setting works best if you try to think of it in those terms. Otherwise there are too many questions about the feasibility, the historical development, the science, behind elements of it. There's even a part later on when the main characters hire some "adventurers" which seem so much to be a group of PCs from D&D that he must be doing it on purpose.

Other faults - and maybe this comes out more when you're listening to an audiobook - he's in love with certain words, like 'desultory', and 'juddered/ing', which he uses to describe everything and it becomes irritating. And I understand he's try to depict the decay and filth of cities, but the disgusting descriptions, literally ad nauseum, are over the top and I grow tired of it. Also, the characters swear nonstop, for seemingly no reason. It makes Isaac seem kind of spazzy, like he's over-reacting to everything.

I gave it four out of five on Librarything. Overall I'd recommend it.

Life continues the same, albeit bikeless. Adam bought me a bike frame from his work, though -- a Marinoni Sportiva, which is a steel touring frame. And he has a bunch of parts picked out for me, mostly Campy (including Campy wheels) except for Shimano 105 long-reach brakes so I can put full fenders on there. I currently have no money to buy components, though. I'll be a bus rider for a while, it seems.

Finished reading Quicksilver and listening to Catch-22. Both were really good. Started reading The Confusion (so far even better than Quicksilver) and listening to Perdido Street Station (can't decide if I like it yet).

Still playing lots of SNES RPGs - Secret of Mana, FFII, and Lufia II. Secret of Mana is good because Adam and I can play it together. Also, the graphics are really fun and adorable. We just left the forest where the Moogle village is. It was so pretty! Final Fantasy II is just plain good. The music(!), and all the secrets and details of all the different settings, all superb. Always lots of characters to go talk to, secret passages, places to go back and visit once you've leveled up, etc. I like Lufia as well because of all the puzzles. Some of them make me want to pull my hair out, but I'm always happy when I work them out. As might be imagined, it's a little confusing switching between the three games. Always takes me a couple minutes to remember the gameplay of whichever one I'm playing.

Food shopping at this time of year is awesome. Blueberries, corn, cherries, asparagus, mangoes, and tomatoes -- so many yummy things are cheap and plentiful.

Oy, I need tea. My metabolism always wants me to take a nap around this time of day. Must get more work done.

I was on a boat, at any rate. On Friday after beers on Third Beach (for Adam's b-day) with Josh, Mo, Trent and friends, we were riding along the seawall somewhere east of Yaletown when Trent spotted what he was pretty sure was Drew's boat. "Drew!" he called, and Drew called back, "Hello!" So we went and hung out on Drew's boat for a while. People were eating ginormous freshly-trapped crabs, drinking beer, listening to music inside the boat and listening to Drew and his friend play guitar and muted trumpet, respectively, on deck. The view was beautiful and it was just generally a really fantastic fun time.

This weekend I played several more hours of Final Fantasy II (IV for the purists), and read a couple hundred more pages of Quicksilver. In other words, I was fairly sedentary. Quicksilver is pretty awesome so far, although people's (I think specifically trochee?) descriptions of his sex scenes are pretty accurate. They're all mechanical and physiological and overall extremely un-sexy. Sorry Neal, you win at a lot of things, including awkward nerd-sex.

My uncle is on the cover of the Vancouver Sun today, playing trombone.

Anony(nony)mous wrote an amazingly epic HOT six-part Dr. McCoy/Nurse Chapel fic which is so amazingly perfect that it has consumed my brain. I admit that Karl Urban picspams at ontd_startrek may have contributed to my seeking out het fic containing Bones, but honestly I also just kind of stumbled over this one while trawling the kink meme and then spent several hours reading it and falling madly in love with it. The first three parts (one self-contained fic), "Jim Kirk's Limp Dick and Other Obstacles on the Path to Love" are from Chapel's POV, and its sequel, "Jim Kirk Is An Insufferable Idiot and Other Lessons Learned Along the Way," the other three parts, are from Bones's POV. The yin and yang interplay of the two is gorgeous. The author's characterization (read: invention) of Chapel's personality is genius, and Bones and Jim (nu-Trek versions, mind you) are spot-on. READ IT, DAMMIT.

Adam is in Victoria tonight and tomorrow and so I have a date with myself for the night. It's nice to have those once in a while. Tomorrow I have birthday-present shopping to do for a couple people. And then I'm just going to read (maybe at the beach?) alllll day, and it's going to be glorious.

Catch-22 is like a cross between a Marx Brothers movie and M.A.S.H. (the latter of which I assume drew a lot of inspiration from it). Hilarious.

The sky is still a little bit light, tinged greenish. I love that. Time to read Quicksilver till I pass out.

EDIT: OH SWEET MY 1500th ENTRY WAS ABOUT STAR TREK FANFICTION. THAT'S PERFECT ACTUALLY.

I got Catch-22 on audiobook. Some books are just better to listen to -- I've tried reading this book several times, I can tell the audiobook is going to be a breeze. It's from Books on Tape, and the reader sounds like a 1950s radio announcer, which definitely adds to the listening experience. Thumbs up so far.

I need to buy this shirt:

Critical Mass on Friday was a gong show. If you don't have people with smarts leading the group (especially in June when thousands of people turn out), bad shit goes down. We were bottlenecking and then spreading out way too thin. And we took over the Lions Gate Bridge for at least 30 minutes, which only served to enrage motorists in the extreme. There was also way too much unnecessary hostility and confrontation, on both sides. I hate that people try to provoke drivers. It's retarded.

Adam and I left after a couple hours. During the day I did errands and listened to a lot of Life of Pi. I just finished listening to it this morning. The end is really what makes it such a great book. I ended up really liking it. It's powerful stuff. It would be a good one to discuss in an English class.

My favourite song that Skream played last weekend was his remix of the song "In For the Kill" by La Roux. You can listen to it on Youtube here. It's not really dubsteppy at all -- more trip-hop and then with some drum and bass at the end.