Hello,

Well, this is take two. My first ever blog. Like usual, I am extremely late when subscribing to new technologies, but this is one fantastic idea. I just built a website today. It's located at www.shainhouse.com and it is going to house my portfolio, or whatever I can throw up there in my lack of spare time.

I'm hoping to update this blog atleast once a week and hopefully a few people will read it. Who knows? Regardless, it'll be fun.

Okie... topic one: Have you ever been to a supermarket where every aisle/check-out, if there is more than one, is open? I have never noticed this in my life and I really believe that they are installed to create a sense of convenience within the shopper's innate emotional underling when in fact, said aisles and check-outs are never fully utilized to their recognizable capacity. Here is my take on it; maybe it is a secret, yet incredibly ingenious plan to increase the amount of patience dwelling inside your average lumpen proletariat, or a ploy to get you to buy more goods while you are waiting. Regardless, it is one those lovely daily rituals that would never get fleshed out without semantics. It is about time we actually take a minute and look at the world around us, for what is really is.

Anyway, check out my writing at www.jambase.com and www.relix.com, where I frequently contribute. if you're in Ontario or Canada, check out Exclaim (www.exclaim.ca) or View (www.viewmag.com) and in the UK, Drowned in Sound (www.drownedinsound.com) or Leeds Guide (www.leedsguide.co.uk).

see you soon for take trois.

-Shain

- On a Paul Simon kick... He is simplicity at its finest, despite obvious bastardization of several indigenous African musical conventions. Still, I love him.