So I've been coming to this same coffee shop pretty regularily since I got here. I like it, it's made out of an old house so it has lots of different rooms and funny corners. It's smoky, but I don't mind that. I missed the smoke when I was in Boston. (I've also realized that pretty much everywhere smells like smoke here.) They play good music. Right now it's Andrew Bird, who I really haven't listened to enough. My current listening alternates between long streams of Mountain Goats and long streams of Sufjan.
I'm enjoying Columbia so far. I mean, it is kind of small compared to Boston, and even compared to Omaha, and I do spend almost all of my time on or near the campus. I like that the Publixes here are brick, although it still doesn't make up for not having Trader Joe's. Damn I miss that place. When I went to see Colin Meloy last January he was tuning his guitar and he looked around at the crowd and said, "why don't you all turn to the person next to you and tell them . . . your favorite item from Trader Joe's." I would judge people entirely by their favorite item at Trader Joe's, if I wasn't so busy judging them entirely by desktop background picture, homepage, and favorite 69 Love Songs song. My favorite Trader Joe's item is the Maple and Pecan cereal. The other day I went out to suburbia and went to Starbucks and World Market and Target. I like suburbia sometimes, its like junkfood and bad movies--sometimes it's just fun. Speaking of movies, check out the trailer for Driving Lessons with Rupert Grint. I'm also excited about The Last King of Scotland, but I think it's because it reminds me a little of Hotel Rwanda. Conflict in Africa and all. And of course there's Marie Antoinette. Chris Guest also has a new movie coming out in November, For Your Consideration, which is not a mockumentary. Whatever shall we do??
I've been working on translating Old English all day, my brain is a little tired.
Posted by linnea at September 9, 2006 8:42 PMWait, isn't it at least sort of a mockumentary? How could it not be a mockumentary? Does that mean it won't have any interviews? That would take out about half of the laugh factor.
Posted by: heiders at September 9, 2006 8:55 PMSomething which just came out that Andrew and I like a lot is Bob Dylan's new album, "Modern Times." You might like it Linnea. The Male Parent, (i.e. DAD)
Posted by: sperlonga at September 9, 2006 9:36 PMHi Linnea ... I just found your blog after my mum told me she thought you had one. My mum being Mairead Morrison of Thurso, Caithness, Scotland and me being Catherine Pearson formally of Edinburgh and a flat which you once stayed in!
Oh - I have just been told lunch is ready so I better go but I have enjoyed what I have read here so far and look forward to reading more assuming you have no objections! C xxx
yay! Catherine, I'm glad you found my blog. Better you than crazy internet stalkers.
Posted by: linnea at September 10, 2006 5:05 PM