Rambling, now with footnotes

[felis_ultharus]

Last week was much visiting of friends - I saw melting_penguin for the first time since October. em_fish and I took in a marvellous exhibit on Tiffany at the Fine Arts Museum - turns out he did stained glass windows and was painter, in addition to lamp-maker, and the exhibit is well worth the trip. Then on Friday we had dinner with our friend Steve from Rochester, in the Village.

(I love the Village. Where else are you going to find ads for a performance by dancer Margie Gillis on a men's bathroom stall?)

'Tis been a long work-week. The weekends I work seem longer because neither the computers nor the radios at work seem capable of picking up the CBC. Instead, I've been listening to far more Owen Pallett than is strictly healthy - i.e., any at all.

Pallett is strange, strange, strange, and strange. He is pretentious, postmodern, and frequently incomprehensible.

However, I find it impossible to hate someone who'd write a love-song for Link from Zelda - a love justified by the fact that Link is the only friend he has who doesn't do cocaine* - and a ballad recounting difficulties of geeks trying to date to date "normals."

Besides, Pallett's song about Toronto condo-king Brad J. Lamb** is very funny, and tells us all we could ever want to know about Lamb - including that Lamb once dated a Drow Elf***.

I found an interview with Lamb in which he refuted most of the song's slanders - his supposed impotence, for example, and his wife's passive-aggression. But he never addressed the burning Drow Elf question. I felt this was the song's most important point, and I suspect that large swathes of Toronto can best be explained by the intervention of evil elves in the construction industry. Exhibit A.

*How does he know Link doesn't do cocaine? I feel strongly that some of Link's behaviours can only be explained by cocaine.
** Yes, this a real person.
*** Yes, the song really does claim this

Comments

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Pallett may be strange and incomprehensible, but he puts on one hell of a live performance.

I'd say it's odd that I've been listening to a lot of his music too, but I was just at a live of his performance in Toronto on Thursday with talktooloose. Funny coincidence.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it won't be too odd a coincidence in the near future.

And I saw one of his live performances on YouTube. I'd like to go to one sometime.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Ah, was it the video of him at the Hillside Festival in Guelph, when it was raining?

The festival staff were trying to get him off the stage because of the rain and the lightning, but he is adamant that he needs to at least finish the song, ha ha ha. He's such a performer... and he enjoys every minute of it.

I wish I could channel that kind of joy every time I am doing my job.

[rougemacabre.livejournal.com]

So, I'm all done with school and am wondering if you're still interested in doing a Forgotten Realms campaign? :)

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Very interested. But there are details I need.

We've got montrealais and em_fish and you. I'd be willing to have one or two more, but I thought you should do the inviting, since I did for the first two.

Plus, before I can create an adventure, I really need to know about the characters of each player. I mean, we could have a creation session, and I could do that this weekend or next, but I really need to know that first before I do anything.

[rougemacabre.livejournal.com]

No problem. Why don't we do a creation session not this weekend but the following either on the 24th or 25th, depending on what's most convenient with you.

Please go ahead and invite away, if you have a couple more in mind. :)

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late reply. That actually sounds quite good. I'll mention it to Matt and Emma.

[rougemacabre.livejournal.com]

Ok, no problem. I hadn't heard back from you and now only the 25th is open for me. But I'm free all day on the 25th so any time is good.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Heya. Just spoke to Matt and he says it's great. Any time in the afternoon would be good.

I still have to talk to Emma, though.

[rougemacabre.livejournal.com]

ok, sounds good. Maybe 4ish?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Matt's good for then. I've asked Emma, so we'll see.

[rougemacabre.livejournal.com]

So are we on for tomorrow?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Yep. Emma says yes! Four tomorrow afternoon, if that's still good with you?

[rougemacabre.livejournal.com]

Yep, yep. :D 4 it is!

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Matt wanted to invite his friend Etienne. Is that okay?

(You're host, so I thought I'd ask.)

[rougemacabre.livejournal.com]

Yep, he's more than welcome!

I just want to make a note here though - this time we're going to be in my bureau since Sammy is finishing up his thesis.

[melting-penguin.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed seeing you so much and the little guy had a blast with the ultra-entertaining human playground provided! :) Please let me know if we can manage another tea-hour soon...

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Maybe next week? This week's a little hectic.

(Sorry for the late reply. I've been very busy this week.)

[melting-penguin.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it!!! Would next Wednesday work for you?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

That'd work for me! What time's good for you?

[melting-penguin.livejournal.com]

10:00?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

That works for me!

[melting-penguin.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to cancel for today. Matt's really sick, and I don't think having company here would be fair to him :/

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I preferred Lamb's Lex Luthor look to his mutant-sheep-of-the-apocalypse look.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Mutant-sheep-of-the-apocalypse works for me.