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State Street. I don't remember what the exposure time on this was. Somewhere between 1/4 second and 1/2 second I imagine.


On a side note, Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From A Marriage is an excellent show (it was also a movie, but the television show, which was aired in Sweden in 1973 is the uncut 5 hour long version spaced out in 6 episodes). I only had time to watch the first 2 episodes this weekend, but will surely watch the rest this week.


On another side note, reading is fun. I've been trying to do a book a week for the past few weeks, and I have. This week I was reading Geoffrey Blainey's Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History, but I can only read so much maritime history of Australia before I fall asleep out of sheer boredom on the train to/from work. It's getting better though, but I was only halfway through by Sunday morning, so I didn't think I would finish. And so as not to break a streak, I sat down with Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America and read it, with only 2 breaks: 1 to run and another to pick up salad dressing from the grocery store. It was funny, though it was very condescending toward America. Really though, we all feel that way sometimes, or I do at least. It's probably a good idea to note that Bryson is an expatriate born in Des Moines.


To make a long post even longer, let's list the music that I listened to while I read. Before I started I pulled off all of the instrumental CDs that I own and set them in a pile to listen to. Here was the playlist:

  • The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
  • Bosco & Jorge - Bosco & Jorge
  • Dakota/Dakota - Shoot In The Dark
  • Collections of Colonies of Bees - Customer
  • Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are
  • Ghosts & Vodka - Precious Blood
  • Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
  • Pele - Teaching The History of Teaching Geography
  • Unwed Sailor - Faithful Anchor
  • Cale Parks - Illuminated Manuscript


I really hope you didn't read this all, and I promise I'll never make a post this long again.