Posts for Tuesday, 30 June 2009

I thought what better choice than the Booker’s Booker to get me out of the reading rut I’ve been stuck in lately (…and by “lately” I mean “for yonks”), leaving a trail of unfinished books in my wake. I’m only a mere 50 pages in, but so far so (very very) good. It looks like Rushdie’s the answer to my prayers… Ironic, considering the guy’s got a fatwa on him.

I thought what better choice than the Booker’s Booker to get me out of the reading rut I’ve been stuck in lately (…and by “lately” I mean “for yonks”), leaving a trail of unfinished books in my wake.

I’m only a mere 50 pages in, but so far so (very very) good. It looks like Rushdie’s the answer to my prayers… Ironic, considering the guy’s got a fatwa on him.

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And just when I thought that I was seriously over the whole business travel routine, I got to my hotel room and got introduced to the wet room. Love at first sight. It reminded me why I liked staying in hotels so much: the walk-in shower with that gigantic shower head coming out of the ceiling. That thing can shoot water down your head with such power that it peels the skin off your skull. Sooo good. Granted, it might be trivial, but that shower makes me real happy. The 24h room service too. (The surroundings are not bad either.)

And just when I thought that I was seriously over the whole business travel routine, I got to my hotel room and got introduced to the wet room. Love at first sight. It reminded me why I liked staying in hotels so much: the walk-in shower with that gigantic shower head coming out of the ceiling. That thing can shoot water down your head with such power that it peels the skin off your skull. Sooo good.

Granted, it might be trivial, but that shower makes me real happy. The 24h room service too. (The surroundings are not bad either.)

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Regina Spektor - Eet

“It’s more about the sound than the food intake,” she says in reference to the phonetic spelling of her song “Eet.” The spelling hearkens back to Spektor’s childhood: She was born in Moscow and came to the U.S. at the age of 9. She had to learn English, and she initially knew words only by their sound. — NPR blah blah with Spektor

Far is full of goodies and Regina is full of little vocal idiosyncrasies that I fancy. Like her sounding out cymbals at the end of “Eet”, exhaling ooos (while being punched in the stomach?) on “Folding Chair”, or going Kate Bushy on some of her Hooked Into Hooked Into Machine’s.

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