July 17, 2011

"Sometimes I feel like I'm slightly retarded in the mouth"--Weeds

    The Coro Verdi performed the summer mass at the Church of the Holy Redeemer. (John George drove me there.)

    Brian, a fellow Coro Verdi member, told me how he'd had an operation where they stopped his heart for a few minutes. (Some electrical dysfunction in his heart was causing his body to retain too much water.) He had an out-of-body experience where he saw his hometown Montreal, his late father and his late dog!

    In the afternoon I napped till dinner time.

    Dinner was corn on the cob.

    Slept with the windows open. [Nowadays I do that every summer.]

July 16, 2011

    Dreamed of the front yard of our old home in Sackville, N.B., being covered with a layer of ice thick enough to skate on.

    Went to the new Projection Booth cinema in the East End and saw some cartoons. (The place was so empty that they didn't charge admission!) I saw some Ub Iwerks fairy tale cartoons; some Famous Studios cartoons with characters like Little Audrey and Herman the mouse; and the CTV cartoons of The Nightingale and The Velveteen Rabbit; but no Warner Brothers.  Their upcoming documentaries look interesting.

    Afterward I walked east to the Little India street festival.

    Dinner was spaghetti.

    I've dreamed more than once of going to a new cinema, and today I actually did it!

July 15, 2011

"Just because you've been a slutty, irresponsible slutty slut..."--Weeds

    Went to an Asperger's Meetup.  We met at the Tim Horton's east of the Bloor-Yonge station.

    Baked rye bread.

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was stir-fry.

    Saw the DVD The Golden Age of British Comedy, with sketches from the 1940s through the 1960s.

    I read about the new Projection Booth cinema and on their webpage found a link to the Silent Toronto blog, a fascinating read about Toronto's deceased cinema palaces.

July 13, 2011

    Dreamed of a British ad promoting disaster response by government, narrated with a Welsh accent; water flowing out of a manhole.

    Dinner was beef stroganoff.

    Went to a Coro Verdi rehearsal for Sunday's mass.

July 12, 2011

    Dreamed of uncovering a large penis unconnected to anything.

    Visited Dr. Ang. (My CT scan turned out negative.)

    I had such a long wait for the doctor that I was late for dinner, which was chicken curry.

July 11, 2011

"I make dresses for women who really wear them!"--Valentino

    Dreamed of being about to get on a cruise ship in Moncton, where we'd suffer amnesia and be given new identities; playing a Farmville-like computer game where one area turned out to produce poisonous food.

    Dinner was Swiss Chalet takeout rotisserie.

    Went to a screening of the fashion documentary Valentino:  The Last Emperor at Studio 561 near Bathurst station, as part of an Art Meetup. (Jeanne Beker, of the fashion show FTV, appeared briefly.)

    Afterward I went to Book City and bought some books that were priced to clear. (We might resell them at a profit...)

July 10, 2011

    Dreamed of an actual line in the children's book The Travels of Babar: "Real war is not a joke."

    Neisau's right:  that Hotshot game is addictive!

    John and Kathrine came over for dinner, which was pizza. (I burnt my mouth again!)

    Went to Nepeta's games event at the Fox and Fiddle near St. Clair station.  I played The Amazeing Labyrinth, Settlers of Catan (which I won!) and the Monopoly-based card game Deal, which I didn't quite figure out.

    I was a long time getting home because the Salsa on St. Clair street festival had queered up the St. Clair Avenue transport.