Had a good day today!
Went for lunch with my wife at the "La Cascade" restaurant of the Fukuoka Grand Nishitetsu Hotel.
After we came back home we cleared a lot of empty boxes from the attic. Wow! I couldn't beleive I kepte that many empty boxes I don't use anymore. Threw a lot of them in the garbage. We now have much more room in the attic.
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My wife and I went back home to Canada for Christmas: back in the snow! I haven't seen it for almost and year and I didn't miss it at all! Christmas always include the same activities: Eating (too much) and seeing friends and familly.
I got (and also bought) a pile of interesting books to read when on the road:
Programming C# also by Jesse Liberty. One thing that disapointed me about these two books is that the first half of Programming C# seems to be exactly the same as Learning C#. I bought both thinking the approach would be a bit more like the one of the books Learning/Programming in Perl. Next time I'll spend more time browsing before buying...
The last samurai by Helen Dewitt. I bought this book because I am a big fan of Akira Kurosawa, a late Japanese film-maker.
The future of ideas by Lawrence Lessig. The question of IP interest me. After seing the gross abuses of the RIAA and the monopoly of Micro$oft, I fell the need to read more about the question of copyright(left)
Robert des noms propres by Amélie Nothomb. Un autre livre par une de mes favorites. Tout ses livres comportent des personnages intéressants et des situations hallicinantes. Ai-je mentionné son immense vocabulaire? J'apprends des nouveaux mots à chaque bouquin.
Alegria: Original soundtrack by Cirque du Soleil. Pretty good but not as the first version they released. This one is the soundtrack to the DVD (which was cheaper than the soundtrack. Go figure)
Greatest Hits by Björk: A very good tour of her carreer. Some songs should have been there but choosing songs for a "Greatest Hits" is quite personal.
Up by Peter Gabriel: Another outstanding effort by Peter. ALL the songs are good. Not a weak one. Very different from So but a bit more personal too.
The best of 1990-2000 by U2: Another greatest hits to catch up on the album I didn't buy because I was a dirt poor grad student and way to busy studying to listen to a lot of albums anyway. This one is good but it has too many remix and different versions from the original recording. Their 80's period was better. Get their original records instead. Better. However for those who didn't have the time to loow them in the 90's it's a good one
out of seasons by Beth Giggons & Rustin Man: This one was THE surprise. I always loved the voice of Beth Gibbons. I've been a fan of Portishead since day one. This album is folksy, light but deep and tense at the same time. One can feel the influence of Paul Web (of Talk Talk) through the ambience he weaved for the album. A STRONGLY RECOMMENDED album. The first song "Mysteries" is worth the price of the album just by itself.
