Blu Ray Days

I'll try to keep this brief.  I did a fair bit of zig-zagging over downtown yesterday, but it paid off in the end.

I started off with a slightly compressed visit to the gym.  I actually carried the Brandtner painting with me, along with a print I picked up last summer (I think) at TOAF.  So I went to the framers and talked through the options.  The pieces should be ready in two weeks.  I believe this is the same day as Primary Trust at Crow's, so maybe I'll grab the pieces and then head over to the show.  (I think they may well be closed after the show.)  I then went over to the mall and went to the gym.  I actually want to talk to Walmart about returning a nearly new pair of jeans (where the zipper broke) but of course, in a fit of efficiency, I had recycled the receipt.  Sigh.

I then biked straight over to Factory Theatre to see a presentation of Babousa, which is a new work being developed by Obsidian.  I'll probably have a few more things to say about that later.  Then I backtracked to 401 Richmond and talked to John and saw a few other things at the galleries.

Then I biked up to BMV on Bloor.  I couldn't believe it.  A Blu Ray of Howl's Moving Castle turned back up, so I picked that up.  It probably isn't the fanciest version out there, but it is mine now.  I held off on getting a fancy Blu Ray of The Blues Brothers, though I may get that this afternoon (since I am seeing a concert at Trinity-St. Pauls -- and in fact I moved my Tafelmusik ticket to be able to make this concert).  

I then went in to Robarts.  I dropped off everything except Kirby Wright's Before the City, which I still hadn't finished.  I was very surprised that today I was able to download Rishi Dastidar's Neptune's Projects.  I also picked up two thin volumes by Tamar Yoseloff.

I biked over to BMV near Yonge-Dundas.  They still had the North by Northwest Blu Ray, which I picked up.  (This is probably my favourite Hitchcock film, and I've managed to see it on the big screen twice!)  I also gave in and got Castle in the Sky.  I think I will probably try to get Spirited Away, but I think that will be it as far as Studio Ghibli purchases.  (I should see if I can borrow The Boy and the Heron from the library, now that all the hype has died down.)  And to think I hadn't seen any of them at all two or three years ago!  I also got Woolf's The Years, which is a bit shorter than I imagined.  Next door at Value Village, I picked up The Complete Stories of Lydia Davis and Woolf's Night and Day (even though I definitely felt this one was overpriced, given its condition).

I went down to work and did a bit of scanning, then biked back up to Queen and ate at Ginger.  Then I biked up to Bloor and saw the Tafelmusik concert.  Today will be a bit simpler.  I wanted to go up to the Danforth, but I think it's already too late for that, and I'll do that another day.  Maybe on Monday (if I don't have any late afternoon meetings) or Wed.

Today, I would like to swing by the Gagne Contemporary Leslieville annex, go swimming and then head downtown for an afternoon concert.  Then I am off to Aluna for a rehearsal of the Fringe show.  As I probably will mostly just be in the way, I will see about getting some work done.