Why I love my iPod

SOOO quick break from the bookstore and I've decided that the sun is slanted just right and the iced cap beside me is just the right temparture for a brief blog update and some pictures... convocation is behind us and in all of that shuffle and shutterbugging it's hard not to pull one of those retrospective-nostalgia-trip-down-the-lane kind of moments... the other day I was tripping along to work with my iPod obediently shuffling through songs and couldn't help but wonder about all the music that has passed through this brain over the last four years... I think it's time to compile a Soundtrack Of My Undergrad, which won't all be easy listening but will definitely all be time-warp-inducing. And I wondered to myself... if I could pick a song... a single musical moment to encapsulate all of the last four years as much as musically and emotionally possible, one that isn't exclusively a gut-churner or dance-party-inducer... and one that, if my computer crashes and I am left with only one song file from the last four years, would be the best choice... I think it would have to beeeeeeeee.... Fishing the Sky by the Appleseed Cast. AND GUESS WHAT... just as I thought that... believe or not... my iPod, on complete random shuffle through 3000 songs, started playing that very song! Seriously!!! I've been listening to that song - and AC's Forever Longing the Golden Sunsets, the namesake of my old livejournal - since just about the beginning of this whole long adventure, and it hasn't gotten even the tiniest bit old... it has been with me in the cars that I love... with the people that I love... in the houses that I love... it gives me this I-can-do-anything sort of feeling, and while it fondly conjures up the faces of certain lovely people who have shared that song with me, it always, without fail, like one of those etching pads where you scribble and scribble with your pencil until a picture miraculously shows through, brings to mind my dearest darling Jen and the CHRW on-air booth where she first gave me the Appleseed Cast's Mare Vitalis CD and told me to take it home... damn, what a good song. what a good memory bank. what a cliche... a great one. Fishing the Sky was playing in my head when this moment happened:



And I think it will be playing in my head (and earbuds) when I take the Montreal metro on the first day of my first class in my first year at Concordia..... nothing else will give me the guts.

sitting in Lucy's right now and Arcade Fire just came on... I will enjoy this musical awesomeness as intensely as possibly before I head back to the Theory of a Dead Nickelfault that is on loop at the store... shudder

I'm running late for work now so time to boot... here are some pictures from grad, just dropped in here because I haven't got time for captions!

This weekend: going to feel proud in/of Toronto! Hooray!