Pre-Christmas Shopping

Once again, we were semi-successful in pushing back our waking hours. We’re still waking up obscenely late, but at least now when we do, the stores are still open. As a result, the Wife decided it was time to make a trip down to the mall (in this case, Eaton Centre) to beat out the crowds that will be doing some seasonal shopping. On the subway, she decided to kill some time by whipping out her sketchpad and drawing people around her. We happened to be in a car with a Toronto Transit Commission attendant, a big, friendly, smiling black guy, and as soon as he saw what she was up to, he demanded the he be the subject of her portraiture, which she was more than happy to oblige. It’s little, random things like that remind me of how much more lively Canada is than Singapore ever was.

In addition to her picking a few more clothes appropriate for the winter, I finally managed to buy a new recharger for my cell phone (it’s been dead for the last week, as a result of one of the cats chewing right through the cord), a birthday present for the Best Friend, and a meet up with someone from Singapore. The Wife did the meet specifically because this guy had just been back to Singapore and she had requested he make a run to one the local art supply stores to buy a whole bunch of pencil lead that, for some bizarre reason, is not sold here.

Aside from that the only other thing of concern to me today was a random look through the Rock Band forums and the surprising discovery that on a thread talking about least favorite songs in Rock Band, Courtney Love’s Celebrity Skin is #1 with a bullet. I have no idea why the music fans seem to dislike Courtney personally, since this seems to be their main beef with her, not her song, but her song seems to suffer as a result of its association with her, and many are quite unhappy with its inclusion. There was even one poster that went so far as to say, and I quote:

“Boo for people who killed Kurt Cobain.”

I obviously haven’t been following this much outside of the initial, “Oh, Kurt Cobain killed himself” shock, so maybe there’s a chunk to this story that I’m missing. All I know for sure is that I actually like the song, and it’s one of the ones I’m actually looking forward to playing the hell out of. I have no intimate knowledge of the aftermath of Kurt Cobain’s death and Courtney Love, I only know that it’s a catchy song, it’s a lot of fun, and whether its guitar or drums, it’s gonna’ be a hell of a song to play the crap out of.