Fibre Vomit

This song belongs on the still-in-progress album Quartered. If you remember, you are on a quest to submit your wife’s permanent residency papers through a surprisingly intricate immigration complex. This jaunty piece is near the beginning of the journey where you still haven’t grasped the insanity that Canadian government officials are willing to put you through—all for a few quarters more.

In real life, applying for permanent residency for your wife is not nearly this exciting, though it is long and expensive.

When you take a picture of a piece of paper from the perspective of a dust mite, in the words of Ms. Tessa—Master in Art Conservation, it looks like fibre vomit.

Special thanks to Master Tessa for the picture.

Cepelinai NES

久しぶりです。
I’ve been working on a thing or two or three, and in the process a fourth was born. Accidents can happen.

This song is Cepelinai but with newly downloaded instruments that sound like a Nintendo Entertainment System. To be extra NES I only play a max of four sounds simultaneously and I sped it up for good measure. Hi ho!

Enjoy.

I Blame it on the Sun

This is a song I wrote back in the winter of 2009, but one that I haven’t yet shared outside my family circle. At the time I wrote this, my bride-to-be lived in Tokyo and I in Toronto. With her work and my school schedule as well as with the Earth’s spin cycle it was often difficult to meet each other on Skype, especially as my end of semester approached.

One evening/morning we were talking, but it was quite late/early and I had to go to bed (approximately 12:00 JST). She looked a little down and I asked her what was wrong. She shook her head and said, “I blame it on the sun.”

Without further adieu, on the eve of our six-month anniversary:

The following is a picture of Ami and I trying to get the attention of seagulls with mouldy bread, in hopes of starting a feeding frenzy. We were not successful.

Self-Motivator

Not being like this guy can be tough, but it can happen to the best of us. I made this to prevent myself from becoming him. Click it to view it at 100% size. It reads left to right, top to bottom:

The good news is that today is quite warm and sunny. I’ll be off to High Park to view the cherry blossoms.

Also, the prize for the 100th comment is still available, though since no body tried to win the prize on the first go I will likely downgrade the prize into a mild congratulations.