Cheesecake, Vibrams, Movies

– My mom made a lemon cheesecake the other day, and she brought over a few pieces for me. I don’t really have anything else to say about that, except that it’s good. As good as it looks.
– Yesterday, I bought a pair of Vibram Five Finger Sprints. Weird shoes, right? I’d been hearing about these, along with barefoot running, for a while now, and I basically thought it was all a bunch of nonsense. But I’ve been having pain in my joints (especially my hips) when I run lately, and it wouldn’t hurt to train myself to land more on my forefoot than my heel. At the moment, I’m only walking in the Vibrams, but they’re pretty cool. Perhaps I’ll review them more in depth once I’ve played around with them some more.
– Chris and I have been listening to the Dan in Real Life soundtrack on repeat (well, he gave it to me because there’s a cover of an Elvis Costello song, and I’ve been playing the album over and over in my car), and a couple of nights ago, we rented the movie itself, even though we’d both seen it before. I remember liking it the first time, but I was really impressed the second. A lot of the acting is quite nuanced, and, well, the soundtrack is great.
– I was finally able to see/hear the Minnesota Orchestra perform Beethoven’s 7th Symphony tonight. I can’t talk extensively about classical music, but the 7th is my favorite of Beethoven’s symphonies and just generally one of my favorite things to listen to. It was a great performance — definitely better than the LSO recording I have in my car. The only downside is that when I do listen to it in the car, I turn it way up, so hearing it live — even from the fifth row — was actually less of a full-immersion listening experience. Definitely worth it, though.