September 29th, 2006 Rachel
Scissor Sisters - Ta-dah (take that Sam Goody :-P)
Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere
Peaches - F**********r (older, yes…but I saw that episode of the L Word with her on there again and I could not get the darn song out of my head until I had it in my library - the rest of the album does not disappoint)
Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That
Greys Anatomy - Soundtrack 2
Electric Six - mix CD; check out Boy or Girl…I’ll look into the full album shortly
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September 27th, 2006 Rachel
An important person is sick, and a community is feeling it. I could be talking about any number of stories/situations/people/places.
But right now I’m talking about one Mr. Al Jackson.
Mr. Jackson will always be a special person in my life, and in the life of many people who I went to school with in Toronto. He was the first person I met when we considered going to The Country Day School, I was in the same grade as his oldest son (before graduating a year early) and he was also one of the reasons why my then boyfriend (now husband) got through Grade 12 math.
Excellent teacher. Excellent person.
But now he’s not doing very well. Diagnosed with an aggressive form of ALS in 2005, I received word earlier this week that he’s now in a wheelchair and not doing so well. It’s times like these that moving 4000 miles away from home hurts the most.
The CDS community has rallied together. While I hate being so far away, I’m grateful I am a part of a school that values and takes care of it’s community so well. There have been other instances in the past that I remember where the same support and “family” mentality has helped as well.
Which brings me to my real point for mentioning Mr. Jackson (besides trying to work through the lump in my throat when I try to even begin to imagine what his family must be going through).
On September 30th, if you’re in the Newmarket area, there is a Walk For ALS happening which I would encourage you to participate in. Information about the Walk can be found here, and just a snippet of how CDS is feeling right now can be seen on the Friends of Al Jackson Page, here.
There’s also a facebook group that has started to get awareness going - Thanks to Kim for setting it up and I hope many of the CDS alumni are able to make it out. Already reaching nearly double the fund raising goal is a huge accomplishment and makes me proud to be a CDS-er.
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September 27th, 2006 Rachel
The overbooked flight to Chicago - their passangers were offered (and it looks like enough people accepted) $300 vouchers to leave later. SUCKERS!
Also spotted Kevin Nealon headed to Dallas (I think?)…looks like a nice guy.
As you can see…exciting happenings over at LAX.
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September 27th, 2006 Rachel
(NOTE: Since I wrote this post, my fellow MusicIPians and I have gone ahead and…well…for lack of a better word, made it “official”. We’ve also moved ‘er over to our server so we can have more control over important little things like “author tags” - SO, please check out Hear Here at the new URL over here. Thanks!)
I’ve been quite silent over here because I’ve been blogging more over there. Having a “official” or “unofficial” or “slightly official, but we won’t really make it official because official is silly and corporate” blog is new for MusicIP, so right now Hear Here is in the tentitive test the waters phase. In the coming months, that URL might be changing if we decide to take the wordpress.org software and run the blog locally (which will be necessary after I coherce bribe ask and get a yes from other MusicIP employees who have a bit of the blogging bug - like here and here. Why necessary? it would seem you have no choice if you’d like to tag who wrote a post when there’s multiple authors…doh.).
Let me know what you think, and I apologize in advance for what will likely continue to be sporatic activity here at my Debanter-y home…
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September 27th, 2006 Rachel
"We’re currently overbooked on this flight…"
*Yawn*
"…we’re offering a $400 voucher to leave on the 1pm flight and get into Boston at 9pm."
Sold! Thank you American Airlines!
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