Neat.
Here’s one for Coral… she digs the Streets AND Bloc Party.
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Whoa, Tyson twittered up this story outta Vegas. I thought Vancityrockgirl would get a kick out of it.
Wow, my Mom just informed me that my brother Matt is in Vegas right now! Cool. I’d love to be in Vegas during a desert snow storm.
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My blog has been picked up by some aggregator called AlphaInventions. The beast has generated lots of hits today so if you found the blog from there… thank you for checking it out.
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I need to get ready for work now. I have an epic day in front of me… and another tomorrow… but then the weekend, and I am looking forward to it.
Go with yourself.
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My goodness, it is getting late on a Wednesday night and there are still a couple projects that I’d like to get done before bed. But I felt that a Christmas playlist was the most important. I want to get a hand dandy audio streamer thingy for my website so I can post the actually songs… I think that would be so much more useful than a “list” of songs AND I’d get to play radio DJ.
My computer is still a piece of shit, so bare with me please. My Christmas playlist is heavy on the Sufjan Stevens because I have a whack of Sufjan Christmas songs and because I generally love him. No, there is no Bob and Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas…. hmmm was that a double negatibe. Yes, there is no Bob and Doug.
Here we go.
Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time
01) Sufjan Stevens – “Hey Guy! Its Christmas Time”
02) Dave Matthews & Time Reynolds – “Christmas Song”
03) Pilot Speed – “Fairytale of New York”
04) The Walkmen – “In The New Year”
05) Zee Avi – “No Christmas For Me”
06) Pedro the Lion – “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
07) Sufjan Stevens – “Jingle Bells”
08) Louis Armstrong – “Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Mulato Beat Remix)”
09) Lenka – “All My Bells Are Ringing”
10) John Lennon – “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”
11) Jack Johnson – “Rudolph The Rednose Reindeer”
12) Tom Petty – “Christmas All Over”
13) Sara Bareilles – “Winter Song”
14) Sufjan Stevens – “Sister Winter”
15) Sufjan Stevens – “Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance”
16) Jimi Hendrix – “Little Drummer Boy”
17) Sufjan Stevens – “Jupiter Winter”
18) Chuck Berry – “Run Rudolph Run”
19) Fleet Foxes – “White Winter Hymnal”
20) Rogue Wave – “Christmas”
21) Death Cab For Cutie – “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
22) The Pogues – “Fairytale of New York”
23) Smashing Pumpkins – “Christmastime”
24) Meiko – “Maybe Next Year (Xmas Song)”
25) Sufjan Stevens – “Did I make You Cry on Christmas?”
26) Sufjan Stevens – “Get Behind Me, Santa!”
27) Sufjan Stevens – “Star of Wonder”
Sufjan came out with this box set of Christmas music a couple winters ago. I love it. So there is lots of his songs on this list.
I thought a Pilot Speed cover would be pretty neat. Not a bad track at all… and Cancon for you radio programmers!
The Walkmen track isn’t a “Christmas” song per say, it is a New Year’s track and fits with the holiday theme of things.
Zee Avi sounds like Zooey Deschanel (or however you spell it). I wanted one of her songs from the “Elf” soundtrack but no dice.
Pedro the Lion reminds me of a band from Vancouver called In Medias Res… I kinda think that In Medias Res were Pedro fans, so that would make sense. Post Alternative? That is what the kids call it.
Louis Armstrong is getting all remixed and it sounds pretty bloody groovy. I actually think this was the song that Zooey sang in Elf? maybe?
bah, my computer makes typing not so much fun and I am getting sleepy. So no more stories, just trust that this list would make for a pretty festive Christmas morning and sound at least kinda contemporary. A few classic thrown in that I like, but you could easily throw in your own personal favourite tired and true classics. I might also want to include the New Years song that Death Cab does. I like that song and just thought of it right now… that would fit alright.
Merry Christmas.
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Last year, just before Coral became pregnant, I took some cello lessons. I’d love to go back to that. Life is too short.
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I love this quote: “You may not always start the year as a leader, but you can certainly finish it that way.” – Rohit Bhargava
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The boys from Lonely Island are putting out a record. That is good news… but the interview on Pitchfork is WAY funny. Like its so Kablamo.
Pitchfork’s Interview with Lonely Island
Like, seriously, really funny.
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and since I’m trolling Pitchfork, here is there Reader’s Poll Top 25 Records
01. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
02. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes / Sun Giant EP
03. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
04. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
05. Deerhunter: Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
06. Portishead: Third
07. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
08. Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
09. M83: Saturdays=Youth
10. No Age: Nouns
11. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
12. Sigur Rós: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
13. The Walkmen: You & Me
14. Dodos: Visiter
15. Wolf Parade: At Mount Zoomer
16. WHY?: Alopecia
17. The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
18. Nine Inch Nails: The Slip
19. Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
20. Okkervil River: The Stand Ins
21. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
22. Beach House: Devotion
23. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles
24. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
25. Beck: Modern Guilt
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and coming soon to the Morning After will be my Christmas Playlist (tomorrow I hope) AND The Zone’s Top 91 of 2008 (the weekend I hope)!
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I wake up and make a bottle for Madelyn. Turn on the fire to chase the chill out of the room. Put the TV to A Morning. Lay a bottle in Madelyn grabby hands.
And I am laughing so hard. As I begin typing Madelyn is farting like an old man. ewwwww.
One of her favourite things to do when she is all by herself, is to jibber jabber… pause…. laugh… continue jibber jabber… pause… laugh… and she continues to do this till Coral and I can’t contain ourselves and burst out laughing. Coral wants to try and film it. We figure she is mimicking the ebb and flow of a conversation in our house.
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I was writing last night about some recent downloads and one that I did not get to was a cool from a band called Fear of Music. You’ll know this Manchester group is you have a TV and have seen the Sirius commercial about discover music. Such a great spot.
The first time I saw this commercial it gave me tingles. Then it was for Sirius and I went all wet noodle. The song is amazing… so at least Sirius gave me that. Oh and they sent me a sticker once.
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I just finished a book that David Eleanor lent me from autor Hubert Selby Jr. called “Last Exit to Brooklyn.”
Wow… a pretty extreme book. Maybe click the link above to get an idea of what its about. It has a bizarre style of presentation. Selby’s writing is almost physical and takes awhile to get used. But give it time, because once you enter Selby’s world, you learn things.
Selby also worte “Requiem for a Dream.” When I first saw that movie back in 2000, it changed my world view. Selby says his most disturbing book is one called “The Room.” Now that I know his idea of disturbing vastly different then mine, I am going to have to find and read that book.
Go with yourself.
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When I am not jamming out the Zone @ 91-3 I do enjoy me some CBC Radio One. Today they had these guys from a website called Strike TV on the program. Strike TV is place for writers in Hollywood to tryout some ideas on the internet. One of my favourites was a show called “House Poor” starring the chick that plays “Kelly” on The Office. Too funny.
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I wanted to share some recent downloads with you.
A band I am quickly turning into a bit of a fan of, is a group based out of Montreal called Contrived. Members of Wintersleep and Holy Fuck. Wintersleep is great and we play them lots on the Zone, but Holy Fuck?!? Yeah, the track “Lovely Allen” is a killer song. These two dreamy Canadian popsters teaming up can only spell good.
Check out the airy jangle on the track “Keepsake.”
and if you don’t know Holy Fuck… here is my fave song.
yeah, that’s good.
Another record I wanted to check out was a band called Ashes Divide. By my understanding, this is a one of from the dude that brought us A Perfect Circle. At first I wasn’t completely sold on this disc… but I find, as i work away I constantly go, “hmmm what is that?” and look on my computer to find that it is an Ashes Divide song.
Check out the video for a song called “The Stone.” Yeah, it ain’t no APC but until Maynard and Billy get off their asses for some new music, this will serve.
Glasvegas is a band starting to gain major traction on The Zone. This Scottish group consists of a couple brothers (at least I think they’re brothers).
Watch the video for Geraldine.
The Midway State is a band out of Toronto that I like, in the same way I secretly like the Fray. Piano pop-rock. I am a sucker for this type of shit.
Ok, I have some more to write, but my computer is such a piece of shit that I want to throw it off a canyon and into a fast moving river full of sediments. So that is all for now. I’ll continue I hope, tomorrow from a work computer.
I do hope to get a new computer, but sadly that will need to be a Spring project as our monies are all tied up till then.
Go with yourself.
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I read a couple news stories today that had me scratching my head. The first is a sad tragedy with an ironic twist.
A Montreal woman that drives for a charity that drives drunken party goers home was killed by a drunk driver! like SWA? indeed.
and then how about this conundrum out of P.E.I.
A Co-Op that prides itself on selling local produce out sources its charitable turkey buy to Manitoba because… the price is better. Whaddya do? They got a better price and could feed more needy families.
A real neat discussion on the comment section of thit story as well. local vs. price… the battle that we all have. The best thing I read is; buying local (sadly) is a privilege. Ain’t that the truth.
Go with yourself
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This playlist is so sugar sweet, diabetics should consult a dietitian before dipping their ears in it.
About a Girl
01) The Academy Is… – “About a Girl”
02) Metro Station – “Seventeen Forever”
03) Cute is What We Aim For – “Newport Living”
04) Ludo – “Love Me Dead”
05) The Almost – “Say It Sooner”
06) Secondhand Serenade – “It’s Not Over”
07) Plain White T’s – “Take Me Away”
08) Sum 41 – “Walking Disaster”
09) Taking Back Sunday – “Liar (It Takes ONe to KNow One)”
10) Thriving Ivory – “Angels On The Moon”
11) Angels & Airwaves – “Secret Crowds”
12) The Offspring – “You’re Gonna Go Far Kid”
13) The Virgins – “Rich Girls”
14) Hawthorne Heights – “Saying Sorry”
15) The Academy Is… – “Every Burden Has a Version”
16) Metro Station – “Control”
17) Gym Class Heroes – “Cookie Jar”
18) Cute Is What We Aim For – “There’s A Class For This”
19) 3OH!3 – “Don’t Trust Me”
20) Alkaline Trio – “Help Me”
21) The Secret Handshake – “Summer of ’98”
22) Jimmy Eat World – “Always Be”
23) Sum 41 – “With Me”
24) +44 – “Baby, Come On”
25) Taking Back Sunday – “You’re So Last Summer”
Here is a playlist for you kids that are still in junior highschool or wish you were. Now I can never lie to you, I have a serious crush on power pop. Last summer, Coral and I had the mighty Sirius satellite subscription and did lots of driving. A channel that we had fired up a ton was Sirius Hits One. The top 40 station. What I liked about Sirius is that they included a very healthy dose of power pop in playlist. Many of the tracks from this playlist are from Sirius Hits One over the summer. The rest you might hear on the Zone. I am not too sure how I’ll keep up on my sugar pop now that I let the Sirius subscription slide. Maybe get a subscription to teen beat?
The Academy Is… is a new band to my playlist at home. They showed up on the Rollingstone Top 50 records of the year as a fine example of power pop so I downloaded the record. So far I dig it. Reminds me of Jimmy Eat World.
Metro Station is a wee bit retarded. But I randomized my set and this came up. Fits like a glove, so it stays.
“If you lie, you don’t deserve to have friends.” A fourteen year old girl couldn’t write better lyrics. Thank you Cute Is What We Aim For.
Ludo is aband we feature n the Zone form time to time. James found these guys and had a hard on for this track. It never made it to regular rotation on the Zone, which is a shame. Pretty fun band and catchy damn song.
The Almost is a popular one on the Zone. I htink it is the drummer or something form the band Underoath.
We slow it down for the ladies… Secondhand Serenade is a secondhand Dashboard Confessional circa The Places You Have Come to Fear The Most.
Once apon a time on The Zone, there was a song that was simaltaniously jeered and cheered by all the land. That song was an acoustic sappy syrupy ditty from a band Plain White T’s called “Hey There Delilah.” Funny story… the song had been out for about a year I believe, before tipping huge in the summer of 2006? 2007? Shit I don’t remember. But that song first showed up as the final track of 2005’s All That We Needed. I got my hands on the record and jammed it out hard digging the first three songs on the disc including “Take Me Away.” Great pop. At the time I thought “Hey There Delilah” was nice, but not the big story from this band. I was wrong.
Sum 41 is a band that we traditionally play on the Zone, but we didn’t really dive into this track, “Walking Disaster.” One of the stronger tracks from Underclass Heroes… but generally I think the guys in Sum 41 are assholes, so I’d never endorse these guys to anyone.
Taking Back Sunday is one of my favourite bands. I have been jamming these guys out for along time. I have all their records and seen them live. When I think hyperbolic lyrcis of highschool romances gone awry, I think TBS. You’ll hear TBS on the Zone form time-time… but their best music is form Tell All Your Friends.
Thriving Ivory is one of those songs that was all over Sirius Hits One during the summer. This song is really emotionally over the top.
Angels &Airwav are a band.
I was watching the Oiler/Canucks game last night on the CBC, and the Oil take to the ice with the Offspring’s “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid.”
I don’t think the Virgins are actually virgins. They play disco infused pop. Disco.
Hawthorne Heights don’t really much to the audio landscape of the planet… that’s fine. The song “saying Sorry” briefly evokes some Fu Manchu… and you go, “fuck yea…” but before the ‘h’ slips your lips, they bust back into generic power pop. Good try guys.
“Cookie Jar” is arguably to dumbest song I heard on Sirius Hits One this summer… but I could not stop singing it. Then I became addicted. I recommend listening to this song ONLY if you live with someone who truely loves you and accepts your ecentricies because you’ll be humming this song after hearing it. And the lyrics are so dumb that you will experience judgement.
I am such a cookie whore… indeed.
3OH!3 not only have an amazing band name, they rap about Helen Keller. Believe that hype. I downloaded these cats after reading about them in Rollingstone. “Don’t trust a ho, never trust a ho, won’t trust a ho, won’t trust me.” deep man, deep.
oh and this gem makes me smile, “shush girl/ and shut your lips/do the Helen Keller/and talk with your hips.”
if you dropped that line on a first date, there is NO WAY you won’t get laid. Hang on, was that a double negative?
Alkaline Trio is another you’d hear on the Zone. I like these guys and always have… and liekly always will. I am at the point with this band that I download first and ask questions later. If Alkaline has a new one out, I give it a spin based on their wonderous track record. I have a lot of favourites from this band, but the latest works for this playlist which hearkens back to the summer of 2008. Haha, it already sounds dates and it is months old… wow.
The Secret Handshake is a bizarre pop song that had a lot of play on Sirius Hits One. Some dude that must be about my age or a couple years my junior singing about the summer of 1998. Whoa, I am old.
Ha! the dude covered Skee-Lo’s “I Wish” for the Punk Goes Crunk comp disc… I need to hear that.
The final track sums up this playlist beautifully, “You’re So Last Summer.” Most of these tracks were big in the summer (a few older) and many got play during the summer driving season or had their day on the Zone during the summer.
Now this playlist is not for everyone. It is apologetically poptastical… but if you got a cavity in your heart and the only cure is more harmonies soaring over power chords, then you might find something you like.
Go with yourself
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um, yeah, I just downloaded Punk Goes Crunk, and it is pretty special.
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The Morning After 