She describes how, armed with times-three magnification spectacles, a magnifying glass and a nit comb, she scraped "black specks" from her hair and face on to sticky labels and took them to a dermatologist.
We open on a snowcapped mountaintop, our heroes but specks against the majesty of mother nature.
But right now she's working on her debut album as Cold Specks with producer Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey, Anna Calvi), creating what she calls "doom soul".
These are just some of the reviews written by Guardian children's books site members about books by Sir Terry Pratchett: Cupcake Kate on Dragons at Crumbling Castle The worlds he creates are crazy, like on specks of dust and in carpets.
Not much is known about Cold Specks other than that she's actually Al Spx, a 23-year-old who hails from Etobicoke in Canada and now lives in London.
Jennifer Joyce, jenniferjoyce.co.uk You can't go wrong with a toasted cheese sandwich, but you can make it even better with a few fiery specks of green chilli.
Globally, there are dozens more island disputes, most of them involving specks no one would care about were it not for the oil or the fish.
Fears that the squabble over the rocky, uninhabited, goat-infested specks might escalate, and even drag in America through its mutual security treaty with Japan, now look overblown.
It is of no avail to open freely our ports for articles of small and trifling consumption, to open our trade to small and comparatively unimportant specks on the ocean;—if we will really extend our trade, we must be willing to take freely and regularly articles of extensive consumption from countries of wide and rich territory, having great wants.
When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
