ULTE1 was telling me that he is going to see John Prine in Victoria... and that this would be one of the very few concerts he's been to that is not general admission. I told him that it has been the reverse for me, having only been to handful of concerts that were general admission... one of those was Les Trois Accords at the Metropolis in Montreal... and since he hadn't heard of Les Trois Accords, I reached for a laptop that was close by to introduce him to them. Windows starts up... and voilà! the wall paper was a picture of the surf taken at North Chesterman on September 30th, 2006... ULTE1 was in it! I always knew that he was in my wallpaper picture on that laptop... but it had been there for so long that I had forgotten all about it. I don't know whether he recognised himself in it... my guess is he didn't... he's maybe only 30 pixels wide and facing away from the camera... still, that hair is pretty easy to recognise. He didn't say anything about it though... which doesn't tell me anything about whether he saw it or not. We don't exactly have the sort of relationship where I would have his image as wallpaper... so it might have been a little bit weird...
But that's pretty cool though... three years later, I'm showing him youtube videos of dmitri hvorostovsky on a thursday evening. Tempus fugit.
Oh... and five minutes after my saying that I don't know John Prine (except for from a few weeks ago when a friend mentioned him and I said I'd never heard of him)... he sees an entire directory of John Prine music in my media player library... it's Timothy's music library... and it's been on my computer for a year. How does one explain that?
Digital pack-ratting. Never updating stuff on old computers...
I experienced a little brain squish when I realized how long these things have been on there...
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