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	<description>Notes from and about Montreal</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pause</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/pause-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
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A finished draft, a cluttered desk, an empty fridge, a sleeping cat, a good idea, a slight hope, a cool breeze, a cold beer, a nearly full moon.
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		<title>More thoughts about buildings and sound</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/more-thoughts-about-buildings-and-sound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
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A while back, I wrote about a condo development that was being built in front of Arit and John&#8217;s living room window.  As it happens, the building was finished several months ago, and its units are now being shown to prospective buyers.

The building is fairly typical of its kind, both in that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing the building</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/hearing-the-building/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
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Sadly, I didn&#8217;t get to actually play the building.  When S. and I arrived at 10 South Street, later than was probably wise, there was already a long line of eager building-players waiting for their turn at the organ.  So, instead of playing the building, I walked around in the building and listened [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Wires</media:title>
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		<title>In the air</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/in-the-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is wretchedly hot and all my windows are open.  A party is winding down in the back alley, and drunk male voices jut out into the night.  If my French was better, I might set out to find it; instead, I pick at the last pages of Chapter Two and silently rue [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Vila</media:title>
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		<title>Desperate measures</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/desperate-measures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/?p=826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It isn&#8217;t writer&#8217;s block per se, but a sense that everything I have to say is tangled up in knots.  I resolve to work on one, and when it doesn&#8217;t immediately loosen I drift to another, feeling for a thread that will give more easily.  I debate the best approach as I make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am home and almost comically hungover.  The day outside is perfect in every respect save for my condition, which has provided me with a convenient excuse to spend it quietly puttering.
\Put&#8221;ter\, v. To act inefficiently and idly.  Indeed.
Were I less befogged than I am, I&#8217;d have something interesting to say about my time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Away</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Smoking on the fire escape in the rain.  The narrow courtyard hums with air conditioning units; S. is sleeping within the arc of a small rotating fan.
Despite the heat and the near-constant rain, it is good to be here.  More than that, it is necessary.
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		<title>Close to the edit</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/close-to-the-edit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
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Up late and editing in sweat-soaked underwear.  It hasn&#8217;t cooled a bit and it&#8217;s almost dawn, which doesn&#8217;t bode well for sleep or tomorrow.
I&#8217;ve been at it for days, hunched over stacks of notes and sticky keys and wondering if any of it makes any sense at all.  Meanwhile, the birds are awake [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Vila</media:title>
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		<title>Observation</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/observation-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While struggling to meet a deadline, I noticed something interesting about myself: the perfectionism that sometimes paralyzes me as a writer is the same perfectionism that makes me an excellent researcher.  It is, it seems, a double-edged sword, and one that I have probably carried since I was a teenager.
Sometimes, when I skipped school, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical architecture</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/musical-architecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 06:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From an article about David Byrne&#8217;s installation project, Playing the Building:
[F]or the next two and a half months, though, the building will simply serve as a gargantuan cast-iron orchestra. Besides being fitted with several motors, which produce the bass sounds by vibrating a set of girders that once supported a stained-glass skylight in the 40-foot-high [...]]]></description>
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