The New Year has thus far been a cold mother-*#$%@;&!!er...I'm always amazed anew each year just how bad January can be here in New England--and I usually bitch about it until somewhere around April when it's starts to thaw again. I was reading Tim Cahill's JAGUARS RIPPED MY FLESH the other day though--which helped give me perspective--he lives in a small town near Yellowstone National Park--and it gets so cold there in the winter that trees explode when the sap freezes sometimes...and porcupines are exempt from being killed out of anger because they offer a mobile food source to any hikers that might get stranded in the woods in the winter. Listening to a little of everything music-wise these days--mostly thanks to the continued graces of Bit Torrent--everything from old Steve Vai to indy-label era Evanescence to some of Yoko Kanno's music for .hack//sign. And the quest for the perfect pair of DA Goddess feet continues...albeit it looks like a close tie between onichan and baby-pixie...