Last Saturday I made my way out to Kool Haus for my first Toronto concert. I originally bought the tickets while trolling Pollstar because of Bombay Bicycle Club — whom I had put on my PDP7 mix, Paul’s Lonely Hearts Club. (I put on ‘How Are You‘; Lindsay had a different song on her PDP7 mix [...]
Concert Season, Tdot
Bad cinema can be good in limited doses
Took a day off from the apartment search today and decided to take advantage of my current unemployment to see a weekday matinee, one of my most favourite things to do. Alas, being the dog days of summer there wasn’t much to choose from at the local cinema, so I ended up watching the new [...]
Neurotic Mix CD Making
Having made a lot of mix CDs over the past decade — especially for the various PDP exchanges – I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about ways to improve how I make them. My main goal with mixes has always been to make the listening experience better and as effortless as possible. I’ve refined [...]
Riding into the sunset is a good way to end things
Just finished watching Appaloosa, a Western that is written, produced, directed by and starring Ed Harris. Something I didn’t know until I looked it up on IMDb. Serious Ed, I like your work but I haven’t seen that many credits since James and I made The Making of Star Farce for our final film project. [...]
Album of the Fall?!
I was at a Goodbye Summer party the other week and I ended up making conversation about music. We chit chatted about a few bands and what not but it dawned on me — and not for the first time recently — that I’m not listening to as many new artists as I used too. [...]
A pale shadow of concert season’s former greatness
I attended The National‘s Malkin Bowl show on Thursday and it was a pretty good billing. I honestly can’t remember if I’d ever seen the Walkmen before — I think I saw them open or maybe in a festival but maybe I’m just remember wrong?! I’d have to go through my boxes of ticket stubs [...]
Impressions of ‘The Road’
I watched ‘The Road’ a few nights back. It’s John Hillcoat’s film based on a Cormac McCarthy novel. And I have to admit, it left me feeling kind of desolate. Which, I guess, is kind of the point. Set in an always present post-apocalyptic event, humanity is scrambling to survive. Although the specifics of the [...]
Viva la iPod!
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I don’t remember my youth as being ‘folky’.
Went to Jericho beach on Friday night with some friends and ended up catching some of the Vancouver Folk Festival. We weren’t in time to see Iron & Wine but we did manage to hear the final act of the night, Arrested Development. It was a little strange that more than half our group didn’t [...]
Bad hipster, bad.
There’s been a lot of bad press about hipsters lately. The funny thing is the only people that hipsters hate more then anti-hipsters are hipsters. As Carl Wilson notes, But for all its internal conformism it’s still a mode of flamboyant aesthetic display and that still makes a lot of people uncomfortable and resentful in [...]