Monday, March 13, 2006
The perpetually non-updated blog
Physical State:lurchy
Mental State:tepid
Music: Efterklang - Tripper
Fashion sense: grey t-shirt, jeans
Word of the day
circumlocution
1. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Evasion in speech or writing.
3. A roundabout expression.
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Yeah so where you been, man? The common question these days that seems to be on some friend's lips. Well my college is now on strike so for the past 4 days (and today) I have been living a bit of a quiet life. I hope that the school gets this strike resolved soon because I am B-O-R-E-D.
I've been listening to this album above by Efterklang from Copenhagen, Denmark. I think I could best describe them as a cross between Múm, Kim Hiorthoy, Bell Orchestre and maybe FourTet or something like that. The stuff is very moody and glitchy (lots of sped up drum programming and glitches mixed with sad cellos). Totally cinematic. I like it.
School has been pretty tough, lots of work to do on a regular basis and I should be practicing my announcing more often. I am often concerned about how I am going to make money these days as my income has pretty much disappeared since starting this course. The only experience I have to get part-time jobs is retail. I am considering things like IKEA for a part time job and maybe a bookstore too. I really would love to get a night job working as a board op for a radio station pushing the commercials and just generally seeing how a station runs, it would also help me out come Sept. for the internship I have to do. I am considering doing my two month internship outside of Toronto. I figure if I'm going to only be away for two months maybe it would be good to choose somewhere different. But then again if I interned in Toronto then maybe that would turn into a job right after. Hard to say.
Last week I had the great privilege to interview one of my all-time heroes Brent Bambury who's show Brave New Waves I pretty much grew up on. I am doing a powerpoint presentation on the show and also interviewed Patti Schmidt in Montreal which was equally as much fun. I hope I can do the show justice with my presentation (and I hope we are back at school by the time I need to present it).
I am off to watch this dvd I was supposed to return yesterday, a french film called Innocence (which I missed by a day when I was in London). I will tender my review soon.
Oh and if you wanted to hook up with me via myspace.com (which all the cool kids are doing these days) go over to myspace.com/radiosteven
Later!
