Procrastination Dance Party

Concert Season, Tdot

Saturday, September 24th, 2011 - Band, Concert

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 [...]

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Bad cinema can be good in limited doses

Thursday, August 25th, 2011 - Film

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 [...]

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Neurotic Mix CD Making

Sunday, July 24th, 2011 - Junk Drawer, Mixtape, PDP

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 [...]

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Riding into the sunset is a good way to end things

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 - Film

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. [...]

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Album of the Fall?!

Monday, October 11th, 2010 - Band, PDP

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. [...]

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A pale shadow of concert season’s former greatness

Saturday, September 11th, 2010 - Band, Concert

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 [...]

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Impressions of ‘The Road’

Thursday, August 12th, 2010 - Film

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 [...]

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Viva la iPod!

Monday, May 10th, 2010 - Junk Drawer, MP3

[Source: Online MBA for MashableMashable.com]

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I don’t remember my youth as being ‘folky’.

Monday, July 20th, 2009 - Concert, Junk Drawer

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 [...]

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Bad hipster, bad.

Sunday, July 12th, 2009 - Junk Drawer

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 [...]

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