I bought a new hat today. As you can see. Washington Nationals. I used to love baseball as a kid, but for years now, I haven’t really followed it. Growing up I loved the Expos and Cardinals and Mariners. And if the Mariners are winning, I’ll pay a bit more attention.
I wanted to get a Cardinals hat, but the hat store is chronically out of my size… so today I went, “meh, I’ll get the new Expos’ team hat.” So Nationals it is. I looked up their stats on Wikipedia and they are terrible. Like really dysfunctional. Maybe this year will be their year?
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I heard a really amazing song today on the TV show Hart of Dixie (don’t judge me, Coral watches it… sometimes I watch with her). At the end of today’s episode they played a song from Montreal’s Barr Brothers. For some reason the song resonated with me and I had to look it up after the show. The song is called “Beggar in the Morning” from their self-titled debut record. A very perfect folky indie rock song.
The Barr Brothers – “Beggar in the Morning”
So pretty. I like the long intro the best…
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Went to see Steph Macpherson on Saturday night. Great show… Steph has just been signed by Cordova Bay Records and the party Saturday night was very jovial. I saw my man Jason Cook drumming for Steph and it got me thinking about Jason’s old band Black Tie Social. BTS were active in Victoria years and years ago. I can’t really remember exactly but it was early-mid-ish 2000s. Jason with Katie and Aidan Knight and…. hmmmm Chris? They wrote and performed this great song call “Silver Screens” that I still fire up to this day. I really love this song.
Black Tie Social – “Silver Screens”
Download MP3 >> 01 Silver Screens
I find the song very soothing and almost hypnotic. I can always remember being at Lucky Bar, drunk, but a real happy drunk, and they played this song and it sounded so good. I felt really good that night and hearing this song still makes me feel good.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 
It’s just so good… Two things – one, I remember The Brothers’ band “The Slip” when I was living in Boston. They were influential and great. two – If you like Th Barr bros, check out the now defunct Eastmountainsouth. They are quite pop in comparison, but good none the less.
I’ll need to see if I can find a Slip song to listen to. Thanks for the message and finding my blog Steve.
Jordan has been really into the Barr Brothers album. I’m enjoying it too but it’s really inconsistent, every song sounds like a different band! CW shows are the best for finding new music, ha ha. They were playing Black Keys on last week’s Gossip Girl.
those darn CW shows and their awesome music.
I was an Expos fan, but have zero interest in the Washington’s! Their W looks too much like Walgreen’s W too!
Even though I don’t wear ballcaps often, I like throwback ones.