Star, star…
I went all Podcast crazy. I have never really downloaded a Podcast. Jeff downloads The Basketball Jones and we listen to it on the way to work and it kicks ass. But I was visiting the NPR website today in order to download some concerts I used to listen to via their website. When I had my office to myself, and the better computer of the office which was cruelly snatched from me, I was on NPR all day using their flash music player or whatever as I could not install software. I discovered some really great music from there including The Swell Season/Once/Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova/The Frames, Fleet Foxes, and heard some amazing live concerts from these artists as well as Broken Social Scene etc. Anyway, when I was on the site today I smacked my forehead that I could be listening to these all on my ipod. I downloaded a bunch of concerts from NPR, the ones I mentioned as well as Animal Collective, Radiohead and more. I found a few podcasts that seemed interesting including This American Life which people always talk about.
Does anyone have any good podcasts to recommend?
Speaking of The Swell Season, they have some pretty kick ass merchandise. [They are the musicians who star in the film Once.]
They have a DVD too! I so want to see them live. At least you can somewhat emulate the experience with technology. It’s not the same though!
It kills me in their encore in ‘Star, Star’ when they bust into the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the end and he says ‘It’s all yours Charlie!’ *TEARZ* haha.
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
I think I need to go back to working five days a week. I so enjoy this day though. Stupid money.
Seattle/Broken Social Scene seems unlikely. So sad. At least they are Canadian and prolific so chances are I will have another opportunity. I think I am the only person ever not to have seen them. Waaaahhh.
I love the dueling bands in this video.
This photo makes me laugh.
I love him, like I wish I grew up in the 70s and he was my dad in a wholesome way?
Emergence.
IAMSOFUCKINGEXCTEDTOSEEBROKENSOCIALSCENEINAMONTH!!
I hope we can afford to go… Seattle, ack. Sight of our first weekend together ever and beginning of new life. Aww!
AWESOM-O will not make fun of you or tell your secrets to other people and stuff.
I finally did that make yourself into a South Park character thing. I enjoy partaking in trends years later than it is cool.
Me. Super flattering haha.
A nicer one of me.
Jeff! Note he is IN HELLLLL!!!!
PS: DID I EVER TELL YOU BITCHES I HAVE TICKETS TO MOTHERFUCKING BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE IN SEATTLE? I can’t tell you how excited I am. I have wanted to see them live for quite a while!!!
Was it me not worth knowing?
MATTHEW GOOD LIVE ALBUM = OMG AMAZING
Mostly because there are a distinct lack of current musicians that I like, therefore there has never been a show I have witnessed released as a live recording! Not that I was at this exact show, but close enough. For the past ten years or so of my life, a Matt Good concert has been the absolute pinnacle of excitement and emotion in my life, perhaps. To have that captured on a recording is pretty neat. I can imagine listening to this with fond memories in twenty years or so.
Seriously, when it first came on last night, when I was getting ready to do the dishes, I reverted to my fourteen year old fangirl self [without the hysterical crying.] I was jumping around screaming. I am glad Jeff was out walking the dog.
As usual with Matt Good shows, I wish he would play more of my favourite songs and less of my least favourite, but you can’t make everyone happy. A couple concerts ago, I was so choked when I found out he played the Fine Art of Falling Apart at the show the night before I went! Obviously he did not get the memo. The day I hear him play that live, I may evaporate from this earth. It’s my theme song and has been since the day I heard it [for when I am thinking the worst.]
I walk alone and I
I ride alone and I
I rock myself to sleep
Baby, there ain’t enough room in this world
For people like you
And horrors like meI stand alone and I
I fight alone and I
Stay clean by feeling cheap
And baby, there ain’t enough room in this world
For perfections like you
And monsters like meA time of darkness
You will look absurd and you will feel it hurt
And you will go looking to blame somebody
You see I used to think that I’d get over everything
But everything just got
Over meI’m certain of it
I walk alone and I
I ride alone and you know
That’s all right by me
See baby cause
There ain’t enough room in this world
For a great, great many things
Well Matt, I hope you’re wrong about both of us.
It’s official:
I am a dork.
[My name is Hyzenthlay]
I can’t believe how much fun I am having playing! I would probably be enjoying it less and feeling more frustrated if I wasn’t playing with an experienced player sitting beside me…. I can’t wait till I get to train wild animals and stuff! Sweetness. I love how I am so late on trends.
Fleet Foxes is next week! I am relieved. I really just want to stay in tonight. Last night, hanging out with the ex, seeing my cat, being in my old condo, was actually relieving too. It is good to see that life goes on without me… my ex is still a cool guy, my condo still exists, my cat is still fat. Life flows on within you and without you.
Life is a funny thing. Learning to live it is kind of fun sometimes. Except for work… uggghhhhhhhh. Learning to make work a non-soul-sucking aspect of my life is a very important lesson for me to learn one of these days.
Catch the kill train all the way to Annoyingville.
If I hear ‘Somewhere Down the Crazy River’ one more time, after today, I will go on a murderous rampage.
Might be cancelling trip to Portland for Sigor Ros. I am scared to miss the opportunity but we are pretty in debt right now and I almost want my first trip to Portland to be one where we have a little more time. The upside is I have allowed myself to take a legitimate vacation day tomorrow since I will not be booking the time off in October.
Fleet Foxes tomorrow night! I am going out THREE TIMES this week. It may or may not be the end of the world.
First time seeing ex-boyfriend tonight since breakup. Going out to dinner. It is weird to be nervous to see someone who I spent every day being comfortable with for four years. “And you’ll be just a man once I used to know.” One of the most depressing song lyrics on earth, I feel. Maybe after this the heartburn I have had for 24 hours straight will go away!
Next week we find out who the GREATEST AMERICAN DOG is. Screw this ‘top model’ bullshit.
mind=blown
Mogwai last night was pretty fucking amazing. I am pretty sure this will go down in history as one of the greatest live shows I have seen. I wasn’t even high, which probably would have made it insanely more overwhelming. Not to mention, the company was amazing. This is going to sound slutty, but I think it might be the first time ever I have been out and not been scoping out the scene, playing the ‘who would I like to go home with?’ game. Not that I actually DID go home with them, but you know the mental games we play. In any case.. it was pretty spectacular the music moving through us, instead of in the past where it would be just moving through me, and this being a lonely state of affairs.
The opening band were called Fuck Buttons. Two guys who use rewired old school electronics to make some pretty astounding noise. I would probably not listen to it at home but I had to appreciate them of course. Especially when asian dude busted out the original game boy and got pretty fucking into whatever he was doing with it. For a bunch of button pressers they were pretty freaking animated. Also I am reverse racist and the fact that they had a cute asian gave them some extra legitimacy to me.
I love pictures like this unapologetically. I do not care if it’s bad photography, I like the weird light effects and whatnot.
They were amazingly beautiful. I hate reviewing music or giving my thoughts because I feel so uneducated, and like you can get a better idea of what they are like by looking up one of the millions of other accounts of them on the internet. It is definitely epic. It penetrates your soul. If your soul is not interested in being penetrated do not attend one of their shows. I am so glad I got a chance to see them while they were in Victoria, even if I still do not quite appreciate how legendary they are. Anyway, so, it was a good show okay? Even though I only had two drinks!
And now, I think it may be almost Warcraft time. Yes, that is correct, after all these years of resistance Amber was finally sucked into WoW.
