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Thursday, March 17, 2005
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_____________________________ ThingsonMyDesk byGraeme W 1 My 2005 'Time Out' Diary 2 Red permanent marker pen. 3 My watch, black watch, with a black face and a date in a little hole. 4 Hardbound thick WHSmith notebook for the very rare notions that need recording. 5. Glass of red wine. 6 Blister pack of low strength vitamin B 12 pills, bought in Marburg, Germany. 7 Postcard of the street around the corner from 1926. 8 Boring work Risk Map todo list. It sounds vaguely exciting, but believe me, it's not. It is boring. 9. Bic biro - black. 10 Old red coiled-telephone-wire guitar 11/4" jack to jack lead. 11 Large Oxford Russian dictionary. 12 'The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia' by Rebecca Wood. 13 An annoying new media person's business card with an ugly logo on it. 14 A BT bill (unpaid). 15 Two unopened letters, addressed to my ex girlfriend/flatmate. 16 A metal white snowflake, a gift from my brother. 17 A 'Star Wars; action figure - R2d2 - presented to me by my mother in 1979 after I had to give blood to a junior doctor who had trouble finding the vein. 18 Old, old Sony turntable, it wasmy Grandfather's and speaker. 19 Monitor on the speaker. 20 Boots the cat on theturntable. 21 Flatscreen monitor. 22 Small 'Sangre De Toro' commemorative gold plastic bull. 23 Phillips cordless telephone. 24 'Hyperkinako' mini CD 25 A brown button 26 A tax repayment cheque from the IR. 27 Old metal whistle with the inscription, 'ACME THUNDERER MADE IN ENGLAND'
Week Ending March 14, 2005 1. The Shirelles - It's In His Kiss 2. Shrag - Lost Dog 3. Cheap Trick - Surrender 4. Wire - Map Ref. 41N 93W 5. My Bloody Valentine - I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It) 6. The Plastics - Delicious 7. The Soft Boys - There's Nobody Like You 8. Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make It Through The Night 9. Comet Gain - Pinstripe Rebels 10. Talking Heads - Cities 11. Felt - Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow 12. The Band - The Weight 13. The Go-Betweens - Lee Remick 14. The Go-Between - Streets Of Your Town 15. Orange Juice - Rip It Up 16. Tommy James & The Shondells - I Think We're Alone Now 17. TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun 18. The Cars - You Might Think I'm Crazy 19. Neu! - Hero 20. The Microphones - I Felt Your Shape 21. Camera Obscura - Houseboat 22. Morningwood - Everybody Rules 23. My Bloody Valentine - You Never Should 24. Swell Maps - Robot Factory 25. Ronnie Lane - How Come 26. Shrag - Track 9 27. Felt - Trails Of Colour Dissolve 28. David Crosby - Traction In The Rain 29. Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons - Angels Rejoiced 30. Gun Club - Ghost On A Highway 31. The Patels - Heaven's Above! 32. Sparks - The Number One Song In Heaven 33. The Magnetic Fields - I Wish I Had An Evil Twin 34. Beachwood Sparks - Drinkswater 35. LiliPUT - Die Matrosen 36. Donovan - Good Morning Starshine 37. Gram Parsons/The Flying Burrito Brothers - Wheels 38. Stereo Total - Supergirl 39. Orange Juice - Felicity 40. Roky Erickson - If You Have Ghosts 41. Doug Dilliard - Clinch Mountain Backstep 42. The Unicorns - I Was Born (A Unicorn) 43. Kris Kristofferson - The Silver Tongued Devil and I 44. Two Lone Swordsmen - Sick When We Kiss 45. Shrag - Track 3 46. My Bloody Valentine - Touched 47. The Modern Lovers - Astral Plane 48. The Carter Family - I'll Be Home Someday 49. Television Personalities - Where's Bill Grundy Now? 50. The Slits - Typical Girls 51. 13th Floor Elevators - Street Song
Happy When It Rains, The Jesus And Mary Chain Tired Of Waiting For You, The Kinks Cold Blooded Old Times, Smog When You Sleep, My Bloody Valentine Bad Indian, Gun Club Best Intentions, The Tyde Caroline Says, The Soft Boys Please Mr. Postman, The Shirelles Off Duty Trip, The Raincoats Pan American Blues Pt. 2, Papercuts In His Kiss, The Shirelles Such Great Heights, The Postal Service Die Matrosen, Liliput It's Gonna Work Out Fine, Ike & Tina Turner Ocean Beast, Felt She's Like Heroine To Me, Gun Club Dead Wrong, Frausdots The Weight, The Band September Girls, Big Star Nightime, Big Star You And Your Sister, This Mortal Coil Be Stiff, Devo Thirteen, Big Star Tales Of Brave Ulysses, Cream Sweet Pea, Tommy Roe Caroline And I, The Go-Betweens The Extremists, Frausdots The Mystery Trend, Julian Cope Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Roadrunner, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Season Of The Witch, Donovan Cosmic Wheels, Donovan Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Lilys Ambition, Subway Sect Rip It Up, Orange Juice Night Of The Vampire, 13th Floor Elevators Dream Baby, Glenn Campbell All My Little Words, The Magnetic Fields Radio Drill Time, Josef K Rhythm Of Cruelty, Magazine Five O'Clock World, Julian Cope Adrenalin, Throbbing Gristle Sin City, Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris I'm Alright With You, The Pastels A Satisfied Mind, Johnny Cash Roller Coaster, 13th Floor Elevators
Today's List Brought To You By Tobin of Toronto, Ontario
Birds for Nov 12, 2004: Northern Shovler, Great Black-backed Gull, Double Crested Comorrant, Long-tailed Duck, Common Golden Eye, Dark-eyed Junco, Gadwal, Bufflehead, Starlings (aka. junk bird), Downy Wood Pecker, Black-capped Chickadee,
Birds Nov 22, 2004: Red Breasted Merganser, Hooded Merganser, American Black Duck, Mallard, (Great Black Backed Gull picking over a dead carp...wish a had my camera for that one)
Birds Nov 24, 2004: Ring-billed Gull, Rock Dove, Canada Goose
Birds Dec 6th, 2004: American Widgeon (winter plumage almost tricked me)
Birds Dec 15th, 2004: Red-tail Hawk
Feb 3rd, 2005 Five American Robins in High Park
Feb 25th, Great Grey Owl (one big fcuking bird of prey!) Leslie St. Spit. If you want to see one you need to go with in the next couple of days.
Niagara Falls, Ontario, CA* Vancouver, British Columbia, CA Tsawwassen, British Columbia, CA Surrey, British Columbia, CA Niagara Falls, Ontario, CA St. Catharine's, Ontario, CA Toronto, Ontario, CA St. Catharine's, Ontario, CA Bow Lake, Alberta, CA Ottawa, Ontario, CA London, UK Brighton, East Sussex, UK
west highland terrier* yellow labrador retriever black labrador retriever collie something or other mix staffordshire bull terrier staffordshire bull terrier puppy whippet afghan hound border terrier three english cocker spaniels* several mongrels
pay phone bill southern water give russell rent money go to the bank bunny proof lounge get new key off caretaker for bob rounder- fall tickets sign contracts for shelter get last payslip/p45 from network grab that coffee table ref. addresses for joan
eating hay sitting in their food bowl licking your hands sparks yoghurt drops running to running fro snuggling nose twitching experimenting with asymmetrical earstyles chewing on straw chewing on anything throwing plastic cups and running after them sprawling sleeping hopping
