I bought a hat the other day. Actually I bought two. I went to the hat shop to get a vintage White Sox hat, but they didn’t have my size. So logically, it made sense to buy two different hats. The A’s as seen above and a Cardinals.
Ever since Moneyball, I’ve been jiving on the A’s. Also Coquitlam’s little league colours used to be A’s. Or it was back in the day when I was a little leaguer.
Cardinals is a hat I’ve had on my list for some time. Alyx got me a gift card at Christmas and I knew straight away I wanted a Cards hat. But they were always out so I settled on the Nationals. Sunday they had Cardinals hats in my size and a buy one, get one half price so i went… OK. Still need that White Sox cap, and an Orioles maybe.
Listen to me, jawing on about baseball hats. Hey, I just really like baseball hats. As a kid I always rocked a baseball hat. I wore them out! I remember having Expos, Cardinals, Dodgers… maybe a Mariners hat in the mix. Lately, they bring me joy. “Stuff’ is not a good way to bring joy, I know this, but these hats do for now.
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Divine Fits… new music from Spoon’s Britt Daniels with Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs) and some other guy…Sam Brown! (New Bomb Turks).
Groovy stuff. Sounds like a weirdo Spoon record. And that is good to my ear.
And hey… they call this band “Canadian Content.” ORLY? The radio programmer in my just had a semi.
Divine Fits – “My Love Is Real”
I can really get into this. I love Spoon, Handsome Furs AND Wolf Parade. Dan Boeckner grew up in Lake Cowichan!
and yeah, Sam is from Ohio or something, good for him.
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Something kinda chillwave-ish… new Wild Nothings. Very pretty and easy listeningy. I’ll be adding this to the set list at Veneto. I do need to work on playing guitar. I’ve let that fall by the wayside. I am pretty sure if I ever make guitar music it will be fuzzy. But sometimes I listen to chillwave and think… awww, I like it so much I should try to learn to make that! Maaaaaannnn, I just got no skills at creating music, no matter how much I say I am going to try.
Wild Nothings – “Paradise”
Download MP3 >> wildnothing_-_paradise
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Coral follows the baby Followill Jared on twitter. Coral and her sister are fans of Kings of Leon (who am I kidding, I am too d’awwwww). Coral noticed that Jared was always getting up to hijinks with some dude in a band called MONA. They are friends. Neat. Fast forward to Thursday and Jon Williams is reading NME. Sees that Jared has created a solo project with…. the dude from MONA.
The song sounds good. but I never thought of the lyrics till I read that NME article. Now I am conflicted….the song has some tragic lyrics that give you the heebeejeebees coming from spoiled brat NYC rockstars. But I guess if you live in a world where women hand out BJs… and you subscribe to the mantra, write what you know… then I guess we got to forgive the guys.
Smoke and Jackal – “No Tell”
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I think if I learn how to use the maschine…my first cover song will be “No Tell.” But it will be really sad coming from me.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 