Walk km 2327-2332: Thurlow/Robson/Homer/Helmcken/Richards/Davie/Bute/Thurlow
Walk km 2332-2342: Science World to English Bay (and return) with Meetup walking group
Today's Tune: I'm So Young
There are so many ailments that afflict the old but there is one that strikes the young even harder: romance. Here is a prime example of the devastating affects that this malady can inflict on the young.
On the video, for contrast, we have an older fellow with the same affliction.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Day #21,379
Walk km 2321-2326: Broadway/Woodland/4th/McLean/Grant/Odlum/Venables/Raymur/Union/Campbell/Georgia/Keefer/Gore/Pender/Cambie/Georgia/Granville/Burrard
a mailbox
aprox km2323 908 Odlum
Movie #1029: Beast From Haunted Cave (1959, Monte Hellman)
This appears to have been shot at the same time as Roger Corman's "Ski Troop Attack" as the same cast is once again skiing through that same snowy countryside. Not a very good movie but it is better than "Ski Troop Attack" due to a few weird touches by Hellman.
Today's Tune: Quand Le Soleil Dit Bonjour Aux Montagnes
It's Canada Day here so I was looking around for something uniquely Canadian. What could be more Canadian than this: Levis Bouliane & Aurele Lacroix's 1955 Quebec hit which was re-recorded by Manitoba's Lucille Starr in 1964? Sounds pretty authentic but it turns out that the song was actually written by two Englishmen in 1936. Oh well.
And what happens when non-Canadians sing this song? Check out this godawful version by a bunch of new age Euro types.
a mailbox
aprox km2323 908 Odlum
Movie #1029: Beast From Haunted Cave (1959, Monte Hellman)
This appears to have been shot at the same time as Roger Corman's "Ski Troop Attack" as the same cast is once again skiing through that same snowy countryside. Not a very good movie but it is better than "Ski Troop Attack" due to a few weird touches by Hellman.
Today's Tune: Quand Le Soleil Dit Bonjour Aux Montagnes
It's Canada Day here so I was looking around for something uniquely Canadian. What could be more Canadian than this: Levis Bouliane & Aurele Lacroix's 1955 Quebec hit which was re-recorded by Manitoba's Lucille Starr in 1964? Sounds pretty authentic but it turns out that the song was actually written by two Englishmen in 1936. Oh well.
And what happens when non-Canadians sing this song? Check out this godawful version by a bunch of new age Euro types.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Day #21,376
Walk km 2314-2321: Rio/Twain/Industrial/Vegas Plaza/Las Vegas Blvd/Wynn/Desert Inn/Maryland
This walk actually took place on day #21,377 from 3 AM to 4:20 AM but because I hadn't been to bed yet, I'm recording under 21,376.
This walk actually took place on day #21,377 from 3 AM to 4:20 AM but because I hadn't been to bed yet, I'm recording under 21,376.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Day #21,375
With the temperature going to 40 today, it was no time to be outdoors. This is a picture of the upper deck of a double decker bus on Flamingo.
Movie #1024: Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007)
Caught this one on the Showtime channel. The real title of this film should be "I Hate Capitolism". Health care is just an example of what runs better under socialism in Canada, the UK and France. And just in case you missed the point, he takes the abandoned Americans to Cuba for treatment. Jolly good.
Movie #1025: Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004)
Just because a movie depicts a momentous time in history, doesn't make the film momentous. This movie just looked way to clean and sanitary for a movie about genocide.
Movie #1026: I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)
Instead of a biography of Bob Dylan we get a movie that has the feel of a Bob Dylan LP from the 60s. All kinds of references to Bob's life and career are cut and pasted together like the images that Dylan would cut and paste together in a song. Fun to watch but the volume on my laptop is way too low so maybe I'll watch it again when I get home.
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