Album of the Week (Halloween Edition)

Solo Andata, Ritual
Séance music, anyone? Probably not the best thing to listen to after seeing Paranormal Activity 2, which wasn't as good as the first but still plenty creepy. Of course I'm such a wuss that I can only listen to this record at work in broad daylight. Lame.

Below, the indelible Patrick Watson & his mercurial band performing live and in the NPR studio, and the trailer to the excellent but sadly very little seen (and NOT on DVD in the US!) French Canadian movie he wrote the music for, "It's Not Me, I Swear!" I suggest checking them both out immédiatement.

Good Omens

In the midst of contacting department chairs and meeting with counselors as I start a new chapter in my life, I recently got this fortune at the Chinese restaurant I like to frequent in SF...

Happy Family

'lil Melina Colette, born August 16, 2010.

Puffer fish at the Union Station aquarium that swam right up against the glass to me and sat at the bottom of the tank to contemplate me as I snapped these pics. Kinda freaked me out after a while since it barely moved, its eyes kept focused on me as if to say "let's see how you like being stared at!"