Last night, I met an astronaut.
Well, I didn’t actually meet him, but I attended a talk by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who you may know from videos like this one, from the International Space Station. He’s been called “perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever to leave Earth,” for his YouTube videos and his tweeting from space, and he’s just as funny and interesting in person.
Tonight all I really did was watch Rebecca, which was pretty much exactly what I thought it was going to be, right up until the third act, when it became nothing like I thought it was going to be. I liked it, but I think it was maybe a little more impressive in 1940.
I also finally watched the first episode of the new season of The Walking Dead. I’m cautiously optimistic, if a bit unsettled and disgusted.
Other than that, there’s not a whole lot to report. Somehow, while I wasn’t looking, it turned into November. Already? Well, I guess then it’s time to post my music mix from October.
- “Haunted” by Kelly Hogan
- “Museum of Flight” by Damien Jurado
- “Simple Song” by the Shins
- “The Weight” by Aretha Franklin
- “Are You Out There” by Dar Williams
- “Hand Clapping Song” by the Meters
- “Rewrite” by Paul Simon
- “Days That We Die” by Loudon Wainwright III
- “Kiss the Sky” by Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra (feat. Nino Moschella)
- “I Always Knew” by the Vaccines
- “Until We Get There” by Lucius
- “Your Ghost” by Kristin Hersh
- “Let’s Roll Just Like We Used To” by Kasabian
- “Adios to California” by John Hiatt
- “Rap God” by Eminem
- “Salvation” by Black Label Motorcycle Club
- “Never the Bride” by Linda Thompson (feat. Teddy Thompson)
- “The Balcony” by the Rumour Said Fire
- “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today” by Nina Simone
- “Goodbye” by Turin Brakes
- “Now I Am an Arsonist” by Jonathan Coulton (feat. Suzanne Vega)
- “Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience” by Natalie Merchant
- “Half an Acre” by Hem
- “Greem Valley” by Puscifer
- “Retrograde” by James Blake
- “Rebel Girl” by Bikini Kill
- “C’mon Billy” by PJ Harvey
- “Little Bird” by the Weepies
Mostly for my own records. I like keeping records of these things for some reason.