The future is prisons and math.

Thursday night in Trois Rivieres, Quebec. The cold is the kind that makes your nostrils freeze up, that gnaws on your toes the minute you step outside. I am huddled in a hotel room in a not-so-comfortable bed piled with pillows and blankets, a computer with a wireless connection, and a view out onto the street. I don't mind doing work at 8:30 p.m. like this too much. It's better than in an office, I suppose. Either way, I mostly end up searching for random videos on You Tube:

Rock Bottom Riser - Smog, with Joanna Newsom on piano

Death of a Salesman - Low

Stove - Erics Trip (I had never seen this!!!)

Jonathan Richman being awesome

Mirah singing "Pollen" with the help of the audience