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 