January 2010
31 posts
Stills from the video I am working on.
Antony and the Johnsons - Knockin’ on...
Look at this beautiful place in Big Sur in the middle of the trees, next to the river, where I am going in June. I think turning thirty will be okay if I’m there, on some cliff or in a tree.
Tindersticks - Travelling Light
I am posting this...
Micah P. Hinson - Running Scared
Micah P. Hinson - Kiss Me Mother, Kiss Me Darling
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Dear Canada, Pick Me: A Request for Naturalization
Citizenship is the easiest of all immigration application procedures in Canada. I think there are only ten sheets of paper in that envelope, which will be posted as soon as I get back to Toronto. There were over 100 in my permanent residence application, which included over a dozen photographs, criminal background checks from three countries...
Going to see Sleater-Kinney at the Metro for the first time in high school is one of the most amazing memories I have and I’ve never had anything close to that since. It was all women and that was insane to me, mostly going to ridiculous industrial shows where women mostly stood against the walls in complicated clothing waiting for their boyfriends to come back. Men didn’t...
Some photographs from today.
Would someone from Orange County/Los Angeles like to be my model this week, first thing in the morning in Corona del Mar? Requirements: you need to be a woman, you need to be okay with wearing your underwear/a bikini on a public beach, you need to be okay with going in the water a little bit (not swimming!). I will give you coffees and cigarettes....
I was the last person in the world to read this because I really didn’t want to like it. But I did. So much. It’s The Basic Eight much more than The Secret History, but it is better than both. (I didn’t like The Basic Eight much at all, although Daniel Handler’s Adverbs is really fantastic and you should read it if you have not) And one of the many reasons it was...
We rented this silly car and drove to the North Shore where the waves were 25 feet high and I only regretted not coming yesterday when they were 50. A man told us last night it had sounded like the ocean was coming up to swallow everything and everything shook. All the beaches were taped off and Shark’s Cove was just a whirlpool and the horseshoe of Waimea was lined with surfing...
Victoria Haven
I wrote this. I wrote this when I was twenty-two years old, right before I got married, right after my partner scraped together $400 to fly to California to live on a boat with me and drive all night to Las Vegas and drink hard drinks in Laguna Beach at ten in the morning and I posted it on Livejournal when I had a very public and alarmingly popular one. That was more than seven years ago...
I started taking landscape photographs when I got my dog. Her name is Louise and she likes to run. She is the reason I found every public park in Southern Ontario and there is a photograph of her in almost every location I go to.
From the island in November.
Pavement - Unfair
The best song about California.
Last year when I was in Hawaii I bought a $17 reusable underwater camera at a grocery store. It is all plastic and it makes crazy, warm colours and I love it. That turtle was off Maui and to get to the spot you have to swim through water with nothing in it, the kind of water that looks just like where sharks attack. I hyperventilated and swam to some rocks that cut me up everywhere and...
Roy Orbison & k.d. lang - Crying
This is the first song from my friend...
Cat Power - Psychic Hearts
When I was 20 years...
Neko Case - Don’t Forget Me
The last picture from last year, my bad idea shoes.
