January 2012
26 posts
Nice Try
Nice try Newt Gingrich; but your “let’s colonise the moon!” rhetoric is not going to win over the nerd vote. I know I’m Canadian, and therefore my opinion means nothing, but we will never, ever trust you. You’ve got a supervillain stench that won’t wash off no matter how hard you scrub.
Miranda July Called Before Congress To Explain... →
“Please, Ms. July, we’re just trying to understand!” an exasperated Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said at one point during the hearing when July dumped out a large shoe box full of buttons of various sizes and colors onto the Senate floor and began sorting them.
“The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case...”
– Warren Ellis
Really applies to most adaptations. (especially of Alan Moore’s)
1 tag
Ten Favourite Albums of the Year
1. Dirty Beaches: Badlands
2. James Blake: James Blake
3. Rural Alberta Advantage: Departing
4. The Roots: Undun
5. Tom Waits: Bad as Me
6. Mogwai: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
7. Das Racist: Relax
8. Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams
9. Wye Oak: Civilian
10. M83: Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
11. EMA: Past Lives of Martyred...
December 2011
20 posts
Watch
WatchMerry Everything folks.
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WatchTalking Heads a CBGB in 1975
Overtime shift finds my two co workers and I in our little section of office amongst the appeal files. On a whim we decide to put up a box-load of shabby Christmas decorations. I scramble into a vacant office, boot up a computer, crank up the volume on the tiny speakers and find a playlist of Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas tunes on Youtube.
Soon there’s tacky blue tinsel...
November 2011
10 posts
