so costa rica was wicked awesome… some pictures:

http://roughest.net/photos/costarica2006/road%20to%20arenal%20panorama.jpg

http://roughest.net/photos/costarica2006/playa%20ballena%20panorama.jpg

A whole bunch more here

So I just found out I'm going to Costa Rica again on the 4th or the 9th or something. Yeah, I know, reading about this on some random stranger's blog must be just enthralling for you.

Well, I haven't written anything here in weeks, and I felt like I should write something. So here it is. I'll try harder next time.

Edit: for the sake of relevance, I guess I should write something last.fmey…

So I've been listening to some stuff I missed out on back in the 90's. Portishead's Dummy, for example. And Dan the Automator's…

So I went and downloaded a bunch of things from the list that I somehow missed and thought might interest me (yeah yeah pitchfork sucks!!!!, etc. etc.)

Before the Dawn Heals Us
This is really awesome. Kind of like if Air went on an epic journey (and the key word here is epic) to the city in Blade Runner, which apparently happens to be located somewhere in the French countryside (dairy farms, meadows, songbirds, and all)

We Are Monster
So apparently this is now called "microhouse". Why "micro"? This just sounds like good old house to me. It's…

… right outside my house, yesterday, boxing day.

I live on the busiest intersection in Canada, right smack in the middle of the shopping district (Yonge and Dundas, our mini-version of Times Square). I was in my bedroom when I heard 6 or 7 semi-automatic rounds go off. There was no mistaking it–I knew it was gunfire. You can always hear the sound of traffic and thousands of people walking on the sidewalk below, and the silence that followed made it very clear that something horrible had just happened. It was boxing day yesterday, and the sidewalks were especially packed.…

Every few weeks I get really bored of all my music. It all starts to sound kind of meh. And every few weeks I unleash my dirty pirate tentacles onto the internet to see what new fix I can dig up. Usually it starts with some track I hear on a friend's mix, or on the breezeblock, or (rarely) on last.fm recommendations.

So here I am, getting really sick of everything on my computer…. You can tell when this happens because Bach starts to show up on my recently-played list. Bach is my pickled ginger. Chamber music cleans my palate.…

Exams are done, no more school, and I don't know what to do with myself. I miss that droning stress, always there in the back of my head, almost reassurring.

I should start looking for a job. And sort out my tax situation asap.

Last night I smoked some salvia divinorum and freaked the shit out of myself. That is some weeeeird weird shit.

Loops from the bergerie is a pretty good album, even though I didn't like it when I first heard it.

That is all.

I gotta say I am thoroughly enjoying the minor shitstorm going on in my profile right now. Internet drama at its best!

If I weren't brain dead right now from being up and writing essays for 3 days straight, I'd think of something witty to say here. Alas I am all out of witty!

P.S. 50 Cent is the Harry Martinson of our times. Discuss.

so this motherfucker thinks it's cool to steal my avatar. dude that's just fucking gay. i spent a whole 10 minutes of effort downloading that from tribe and slicing it in photoshop to fit for last.fm. i hope the boogiemen hunt you in your sleep for the rest of your miserable life.

p.s. the emo hair makes you look like a homosexual

in other news, i just ate half a jar of nutella. yum!

really bad artists include: Metallica, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Korn, Guns n Roses, Audioslave, Simple Plan

yes, if you followed the…

I spent the whole day posting on TRIBE… fucking brutal. It's not like I had a paper due yesterday and another due tomorrow. *shakes fist at my procrastinating self* Procrastination is such a shitty word by the way. It sounds crusty. I prefer "repressful deferment".

So earlier today I turned off my last.fm plugin to listen to X&Y again. Yes I'm that vain. But half way through I realized I really don't like it, so the turning off of the plugin was justified, sort of. The problem with the Coldplay album (and I may have ranted about this in the…