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A preference for Green Apples.

I took receipt this weekend of another batch of 152 x 216 mm Green Apple notebooks—adhesive-bound this time, but its interior pages are the same thickness and the rule-line color the equivalent grey of its spiral-bound sibling more commonly in my possession. I make this request of travellers from Manila, and I answer to each traveller why of all possible things I have taken advantage of their offer and expense to only lug around a few cheap notebooks (and a reasonable quantity of polvoron and pastillas de leche, natch). The answer is never completely resolved to any of those travellers, for who wants to hear after a substantial international trek the rantings of a paper junkie? I doubt there are many who would wish to know the answer in any condition, though I resolve to publish it here simply to make it known, and less likely, perhaps to stir among my readership a great demand for these notebooks from Filipino travellers to come.

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2008 November 11

Some families set their dramas on the stage of a castle, a city apartment, a suburban bungalow. Mine was wed to the four wheels of a 1990 Toyota truck.



Echoes

  • George Harrison - Let It Down (Acoustic)
  • Ben Lee - Gamble Everything for Love
  • M. Ward - Poor Boy, Minor Key
  • Oasis - Don't Go Away
  • The Beatles - With a Little Help From My Friends
  • Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee
  • Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee
  • Kanye West - Robocop
  • 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
  • Pink Martini - Tempo Perdido

Data compiled by Audioscrobbler.


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