{"id":10862,"date":"2013-11-02T23:52:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T03:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2013-11-02T23:52:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T03:52:30","slug":"space-oddities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10862","title":{"rendered":"Space oddities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/10618854875\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3822\/10618854875_6f1d44d1a2_c.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night, I met an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t actually <i>meet<\/i> him, but I attended a talk by Canadian astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cmdr_Hadfield\">Chris Hadfield<\/a>, who you may know from videos like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo\">this one<\/a>, from the International Space Station. He&#8217;s been called &#8220;perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever to leave Earth,&#8221; for his YouTube videos and his tweeting from space, and he&#8217;s just as funny and interesting in person. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight all I really did was watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032976\">Rebecca<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>I also finally watched the first episode of the new season of <i>The Walking Dead<\/i>. I&#8217;m cautiously optimistic, if a bit unsettled and disgusted.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, there&#8217;s not a whole lot to report. Somehow, while I wasn&#8217;t looking, it turned into November. Already? Well, I guess then it&#8217;s time to post my music mix from October.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;Haunted&#8221; by Kelly Hogan<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Museum of Flight&#8221; by Damien Jurado<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Simple Song&#8221; by the Shins<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Weight&#8221; by Aretha Franklin<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Are You Out There&#8221; by Dar Williams<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hand Clapping Song&#8221; by the Meters<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rewrite&#8221; by Paul Simon<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Days That We Die&#8221; by Loudon Wainwright III<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Kiss the Sky&#8221; by Shawn Lee&#8217;s Ping Pong Orchestra (feat. 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Suzanne Vega)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience&#8221; by Natalie Merchant<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Half an Acre&#8221; by Hem<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Greem Valley&#8221; by Puscifer<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Retrograde&#8221; by James Blake<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rebel Girl&#8221; by Bikini Kill<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;C&#8217;mon Billy&#8221; by PJ Harvey<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Little Bird&#8221; by the Weepies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Mostly for my own records. I like keeping records of these things for some reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I met an astronaut. Well, I didn&#8217;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. 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