Kimmio and I went off on a bit of a tangent about suburbia, urban sprawl and big box stores.  Check out the Alberta Civil Elections thread if you're interested.

What are your thoughts on urban sprawl?

What type of shopping areas do you like?  Malls, strip malls, box stores, a walking shopping strip (not sure what these are usually referred to)?

Does your area have new developments?  What type of design do the tend to follow?  I find there aren't too many malls being built anymore.

I spent some time this week building a wishlist on Puretracks, basically an exercise in "what do I need to buy to build my dream MP3 collection". I ended up (so far) with the following artists. I guess it's kind of my "favorite pop/rock music" list.

Yes (not everything, but a lot)

Jon & Vangelis (the two they have)

Vangelis

Leonard Cohen

The Moody Blues (mostly the sixties-eighties stuff, I wasn't crazy about their albums from the nineties and noughts)

I went grad dress shopping with my daughter today and we got her grad. dress. My first choice would have been the long white one with small black print but her first choice was cocktail length and black with lace peekaboos. Very cute