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The Layover: Montréal I ♥ MTL

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:32:53 -0500

The Layover: Montréal

I ♥ MTL

Tyler, the Creator. Sure, Yonkers is a pretty solid song. I even...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:08:08 -0500

Tyler, the Creator. Sure, Yonkers is a pretty solid song. I even listen to it from time to time (shhh!), but as a whole the guy is bad. The hype around him is definitely something I don’t understand.

The damn fox tail. When did this become stylish? You look ridiculous. Unclip that shit from your belt loop.

“Swag.” The. Most. Annoying. Word. In. The. World.

Beyonce. No one likes her. Stop lying to yourselves.

Foster the People. I don’t think I’d dislike them as much as I do now if I didn’t have to listen to their shitty songs at work all day long, but I do. And now I get shivers down my spine every time a song of theirs starts.

Bring it on, 2012!

1. Grimes - Crystal Ball, 2. Craft Spells - After the Moment, 3....

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:28:10 -0500

1. Grimes - Crystal Ball, 2. Craft Spells - After the Moment, 3. Grimes - Vanessa, 4. Destroyer - Savage Night at the Opera, 5. Youth Lagoon - Cannons, 6. SASKATCHEWAN - Dreamboat, 7. Moonface - Loose Heart = Loose Plan, 8. When Saints Go Machine - Pinned, 9. Handsome Furs - Damage, 10. Mister Heavenly - Bronx Sniper

1. Destroyer - Kaputt, 2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver, 3. Chad...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:48:15 -0500

1. Destroyer - Kaputt, 2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver, 3. Chad Valley - Equatorial Ultravox, 4. Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped, 5. Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!, 6. Little Scream - The Golden Record, 7. Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You, 8. M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, 9. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Wolfroy Goes To Town, 10. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation

+HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Active Child - You Are All I See, Battles - Glass Drop, Beirut - The Rip Tide, Braids - Native Speaker, Craft Spells - Idle Labor, Feist - Metals, Sea Oleena - Sleeplessness

After what seems likes ages, I finally received the Neutral Milk...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:48:13 -0500

After what seems likes ages, I finally received the Neutral Milk Hotel boxset! The thing is grand and is worth every penny.

I guess you can call the above pictures an unboxing? Either way, I hope they make you regret the choice of not purchasing it when you had the chance.

Having my music available everywhere I go seems very appealing....

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:45:00 -0500

Having my music available everywhere I go seems very appealing. Thanks to the ~cl0uddd!

Update: This shit sucks. I mean, I love having access to my whole iTunes Library, but it definitely needs more work before I go back to using it. My playlists are unorganised, which is making it really hard to find whatever it is I’m looking for. Oh, and Music.app is sooooo, soooooo sloooooow!

Rain.

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:33:00 -0500

I hate it. It is by far the most miserable condition. I think I might even prefer walking through a blizzard than walk a few hundred yards in wet weather. Even with an umbrella.

PS—I normally always have an extra pair of socks in my bag in case of days like today, but I was slow on laundry this week so I had to use it. Now I’m stuck with sponge-like-socks for the next few hours until they dry…

PPS—Don’t wear beat up shoes on beautiful days likes today.

[I wrote this post earlier this morning, but I mistakingly saved it as a draft instead of posting it. I am now home and wearing warm, dry socks.]

Palace Music - The Mountain Low

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:22:00 -0500

Palace Music - The Mountain Low

BadEddie asks: Did you ever get round to F*cking a Mountain?Wolfroy replies: yes! and nothing...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:20:25 -0500

BadEddie asks: Did you ever get round to F*cking a Mountain?
Wolfroy replies: yes! and nothing compares to the beauty and immensity of it. but a vagina is softer, warmer, and better!

I love Will Oldham.

putthison: Why the ‘Native’ Fashion Trend Is Pissing Off Real...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:10:13 -0500

putthison:

Why the ‘Native’ Fashion Trend Is Pissing Off Real Native Americans

Don’t miss this fascinating piece at Collector’s Weekly on the deeply conflicted (and largely hostile) feelings that the trendiness of American Indian-inspired designs have engendered in the Native American community. Of course, the issue is much broader - it’s part of a “tribal” trend that doesn’t even bother distinguishing between non-European people.

Read this now, or do like I did and add it to Instapaper.

Photo

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:48:58 -0500

I’ve been reading a lot of tweets about the Little Printer...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:19:26 -0500

I’ve been reading a lot of tweets about the Little Printer lately, so I finally decided to check it out. And now I want one. So bad.

Billy Joel - The River of Dreams I slept longer than six hours...

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:25:00 -0500

Billy Joel - The River of Dreams

I slept longer than six hours for the first time in nearly two months, and it felt damn good. When I did eventually wake up fourteen hours later, I had The River of Dreams stuck in my head. Why? Je ne sais pas.

Here it is for all of you.

400 Free Online Courses from Top Universities | Open Culture

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:03:00 -0500

Film

Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
Philosophy in Film and Other Media - iTunes – YouTube – Irving Singer, MIT
Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre – iTunes – Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan

Just downloaded Philosophy in Film and Other Media, Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre, and iPad and iPhone Application Development

Definitely check out all the other subjects available for free: openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

You know what sucks the most about working in a music store that requires the music to be played at a minimum of 19384382828 decibles?

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:52:13 -0500

The headache afterwards.

On the 11th of October something really rare happend: I won a...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:38:00 -0500

On the 11th of October something really rare happend: I won a contest! My prize is a columbia knit hat for The Woodlands.

A big thanks to Ryan who runs Simple Threads (a great website you should constantly check out, by the way), and of course The Woodlands.

PS—I wont be wearing it like I am in the picture above…

Prekesh is my favourite person.

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:10:14 -0500

Prekesh is my favourite person.

TOPS - Diamond Look

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:48:00 -0500

TOPS - Diamond Look

Raf Katigbak's suggestions for a new Canadian symbol

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:31:14 -0500

Moose
Nothing says Canada more than the moose. These creatures are huge, unwieldy and slow moving; if somehow they could be taught to divert federal money into their own pockets, they’d be a perfect symbol for the Canadian Parliament.

Cougars
While out in the open, they are mostly harmless. When in a tightly enclosed area, these creatures become vicious and relentless, going after prey much younger than themselves. Check out happy hour at Thursday’s bar on Crescent to see what I mean. The feline version is pretty scary, too.

Polar Bear
Sure, this beautiful Arctic creature’s habitat is getting so effed up that it’s starting to raid northern human settlements for their food and garbage. But really, what’s cooler than a polar bear? The answer: a polar bear with sunglasses. Maybe he’s drinking a Coke (possible sponsorship deal?). Just sayin’.

My cat Hercules
Hercules is majestic and friendly, just like this wonderful country of ours. But just as Canadians will only be pushed so far, Hercules will certainly give you what for if you rub his belly the wrong way. Yes, he was born with some affliction that makes his neck crooked, and we have to feed him special pills and rub him with ointments for his goobery eye, but the guy can play fetch and he looks like a croissant when he sleeps. And these are all things that we love about Canada.

Not that a country’s nation symbol means anything to me, but a beaver? C’mon, Canada…

Amy Klein (of Titus Andronicus) writes about what “the problem” with Lana Del Rey...

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:30:05 -0500

Amy Klein (of Titus Andronicus) writes about what “the problem” with Lana Del Rey is:

Lana Del Ray is sitting at home waiting for you to come home so she can fix you dinner and a drink. Lana Del Ray is waiting for you to come home so she can watch you play video games on the couch and ignore her all day until it’s time for bed. Lana Del Ray is waiting for you to come home so you can go to bed and act out all of your wildest fantasies which is exactly what she wants to do—what you want to do, that is. Lana Del Ray is waiting for you because she is your mirror.

So it doesn’t matter if Lana Del Ray is entirely sarcastic when she belts out, “It’s YOU, it’s YOU, it’s all for YOU.” It doesn’t matter that there is an edge to her voice that sounds something like rage and despair. Lana Del Ray has conquered America with plastic surgery, video games, a regression to nostalgia, and an appeal to the sex drive of every male music critic on the planet. It doesn’t matter if she has anything real to sell because Lana Del Ray has made us think about the relationship between selling fantasy and selling lies.

Lana Del Ray is the lie we like to tell ourselves—that America has always been, and will always be, this gorgeous woman who can make all our dreams come true. So it doesn’t matter if she loves you or hates you because she is going to take all of your money and you are going to let her get away with it. That’s the reality of who she is.

We are narcissistic and self-obsessed and so is Lana Del Ray. We are a country in decadent, navel-gazing decline—fading, intoxicated, and longing for the past, but still so beautiful, staring straight into the lens and smiling as we shoot an American tragedy.

Does it really matter that she’s “inauthentic” ? That she’s not “indie enough” ? Here’s an idea: forget everything you read about her, enjoy her music, and get over yourself, yeah?

This article, Why the Indie Music World Hates Lana Del Rey, on Good.is is so ridiculous, it’s ridiculous.

Read the the following paragraph and tell me you didn’t shake your head at least twice.

Of course, the indie world’s dirty little secret—and its greatest fear—is that even while claiming innocence, indie reproduces many of the evils of pop. What happens to Lana Del Rey and all those scapegoated, formerly-known-as-indie artists? Cut off like gangrenous appendages, they turn into phantom limbs and haunt the body of indie forever.

Right?