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January 2nd, 2007
10:10 pm
Another tradition that seems to be developing is that we both fall ill the day before flying to Italy...
What I'm saying here is -- see you in two weeks!
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December 30th, 2006
05:10 pm - Yet Another Quick Update
Keeping the tradition alive...
Current Location: Meaux, France
Current State of Consciousness: Tired but happy
Current Reading: Zwarwald: Elementartierchen by Leo Leowald *
Current DVD: Le Noël d'Hercule Poirot
Current Most Frustrating Computer Problem: My MIDI master keyboard fell on the floor a while ago, becoming useless.
Current Number on the Repeat Tab of Our Telephone: Tokyo Disney Sea Reservations Hotline.
* A daily comic strip collection that my parents brought me from Germany for Christmas, not knowing that it was in fact made by my former illustration prof. Those singing dolls were right all along!
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December 21st, 2006
12:22 am - "Watch out! Look around!"
Ah, the good old Coca-Cola Christmas trucks... Anybody in Central and North-Western Europe (sic, we'll be getting to that) who owns or knows somebody who owns a television set could sing along to the chant of "Holidays are coming, holidays are coming..." ringing in the season.
But try to find something out about the origins of this tune, and you'll unfailingly come across webpage upon webpage about late pop starlet Melanie Thornton and "her" song which was "picked" as jingle for the Coca-Cola holiday spots. It's one of those myths and half-truths that spread so easily on the WWW, and are so hard to exterminate once they got around.
Well, since most sites content themselves with that explanation, it's hard to find out a whole lot more. But not impossible, as you will see... That's right kids! Welcome to a special Uncle Jimmy Hill edition of my livejournal!
( Why for should we care?! )
Happy Holidays!
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November 3rd, 2006
10:36 am - The Three Travels of David G and T
Why, since last night my connection has been working like a charm! Or almost, anyway.
So this is just the moment to bring you the photo essays of not one, not two, but of three trips we effectuated over the past months, all in one post! Exciting does not even begin to describe the emotion, does it?
( Thus, observe... )
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November 2nd, 2006
11:36 pm - So yeah...
Remember how I said I'd report all sorts of things? Well, so do I. If only my connection wasn't working one time out of ten these days, I'd have posted that and more over the past month.
And speaking of which, where the heck did October go? Time flies when you're frickin' busy. And practically interweb-less.
So yeah, hopefully I'll get to resolve this problem and post a couple of things soon enough. At present, who knows how much longer before the line gets cut off agai--
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October 1st, 2006
01:19 pm - Notre voyage s'achève... Le temps suspend son vol.... Dépechez-vous de rejoindre votre future!
I'm sick at home, listening to Le Visionarium recordings and realizing once again how much I miss that show... It must have been more than a year and a half since I've last listened to these. Amazing how I understand the entire French dialogue all of a sudden. It's much wittier than the translations would make you think (not to mention the horrendous US version).
I'd actually have a lot to report from the last weeks; I've been making trips to Britanny, the Netherlands and Germany, but I'll probably wait till I'll feel a little better.
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August 9th, 2006
05:16 pm
When I'm at work, in full Western regalia, menacingly twirling my gun before people who dare to depass the yellow safety line, I will generally have a certain bouncy Western theme on my mind. Then, as soon as I get back home and have computer and midi keyboard in reach, I won't remember a note of it... until the next time I'm at work. This has been going on for weeks now. It's kind of maddening, really.
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July 25th, 2006
July 24th, 2006
July 4th, 2006
04:55 pm
So, I'll be off to the South of Italy tonight... Or rather, off to Roissy tonight, and to the South of Italy in the early morning. I expect to be off the screens (even moreso than usually) for the coming two weeks.
And just now, we seem to have caught a cold. Crazy as that is, with the kind of weather we're having... Oh well.
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