if i don't get my socks on right

(dirty Keds, camera malfunctions, Paris 2008)

I was listening to Regina Spektor tonight and re-realized how amazing she is. I would really like to meet her one day. I saw her live last year in Toronto, and she had a great stage presence; the way she spoke, what she spoke about, how she sang. It was clear that there is so much of her personality in her songs. I was listening to "carbon monoxide" last night, and was trying to figure out the lyrics, so I looked them up.

(all-you-can-eat at Sushi Island, blurry photo, 2008)

"Carbon Monoxide"

Carbon monoxide
Soon I'll go to sleep
If I don't got my socks on right
They slide right off off my feet
As I walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk....


(Ted Leo and the Pharmacists concert 2007)

Carbon monoxide
As I take you home
The first time I get my socks on right
But I don't have a gas mask on
As I walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a....
Walk you home
Yeah
I'm so cool, I'm so cool, I'm so cool

Come on daddy [x8]


(Sleeping vagabond.... not sure why I took a photo. Toronto 2008)

Carbon monoxide
Soon we'll go to sleep
No one will notice we're gone
Cause we don't have a job to keep
They'll just say that we're being lazy
Sex crazy, sex cra-zazy
They'll just say we're living our whole life in bed
And we'll be in bed but we'll be oh so very much
Dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a....
Yeah
But we're so cool, we're so cool, we're so cool
Dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a....
Dead
But we're still cool, we're still cool, we're still cool


(walking in a back parking lot near Kensington Market, Toronto 2008)

Come on, come on, come on daddy
Come on daddy, come on daddy....
Come on, come on, come on, come on

Carbon monoxide [x2]

(one of the first days of Spring 2007. A park in Toronto by Union
Station.....the name of the park escapes me.)

Only Regina Spektor could sing "come on daddy" 50 times and "dead-a" and "walk-a" in a song and still make it sound beautiful.

These photos are all really bad, I know. But I am running out of space on my hardrive and have been doing some major deleting of photos. Before removing them completely by emptying the recycle bin I double checked to be certain I wasn't deleting any good photos. Anway, these are the photos I rescued. They are not very good, but for some reason I deemed them worthy of staying on my computer.

(Lucy from the first filming of
"the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe".
1970 something I suppose.)