June 2008
We leave tomorrow for our first tour.
It’s an easy trip: Toronto, Hamilton, London. Two Way Monologues at Rancho Relaxo in Toronto on Monday, a house show in Hamilton on Tuesday, and Alex P. Keaton in London on Wednesday.
Come see us!! (if anyone reads this blog and happens to be in those cities…)
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We played a show with Dirty Beaches, Brenden Orange, Unreliable Narrator, Ramona Cordova, and Hi, Lonely Oak on our friends Alex and Andrew’s rooftop for the holiday on Tuesday.
Here are a few videos that Conor took of the show:
Brenden Orange
Dirty Beaches
www.fixture-records.com
Eating issues
I’ve been in a bad habit of waking up and going straight to my computer, working for a few hours, maybe having a coffee or a piece of toast, but not actually eating breakfast. I’ll run out the door to work and grab something crappy on my way there, eat it standing on my feet at the store. Dinner is usually something nice and home-cooked, or something take-out and indulgent (cheap sushi...
Read my review of the Tren Brothers show on Indyish.com. They played with Mary Margaret O’Hara and Bernier/Trottier.
Here’s O’Hara in the eighties/nineties:
Tren Brothers at Sala Rossa:
More videos on my Youtube channel
Julia: What's your career path again?
Dan: Finish my masters, get a phd, become a professor, write a book.
Julia: I think you should do it the other way around.
Jakob Lodwick said goodbye to his blog on Tumblr yesterday:
I am walking away from what might be called The Social Web. This comprises any site where ‘anyone can sign up’ and electronically socialize with one another. The story is the same with most of these sites: a few settlers discover and make themselves at home, enjoying the solitude. Increasingly, less-adventurous people find...
Do business where you've got business
We’re booking a van rental for our tour this weekend. The cheapest place seems to be Enterprise, which is convenient because their office is around the corner from our apartment.
But what’s the deal with companies offering better prices online than in person? Ok, you’ve got deals to encourage booking online. But the point of using the internet for business is to strengthen the...
Write good copy by talking to your parents
I find it tricky to talk about work. You want to describe a project that you’ve been stewing in for weeks, if not years, to people who can range from close peers to the general public. How do you get across the essential bits in terms that make sense to most people? How do you know what will excite the listeners outside your daily sphere?
I realized this past week that it comes down to talking...
Video: Adam and the Amethysts live at Fringe Pop
I took these over the weekend at the outdoor stage of the Fringe Fest. Check out Adam & the Amethysts on myspace. Their brand new album is available here on Pome Records.
I’m really liking long-and-flowy in the face of too much cute sixties structure.
Images from Future Classics.
Taken yesterday of a house set back from the street on St. Laurent near Mont Royal.
“When you were a little girl, I never imagined you growing up to say words like...”
– my mom, at dinner last week
Indyish Site Refresh
What do you think of Indyish’s new look?
My review of Ideal Lovers and Vic Chestnutt with A...
from Indyish
Ideal Lovers opened Saturday’s Suoni Festival show at a packed Sala Rossa. They played funky blues that would be well-suited to an outdoor venue at the Jazz Festival. The standing crowd danced a bit and the band did a good job of warming us up, but I was anxious to see Vic Chestnutt and tired from a swelteringly humid day at work. Ideal Lovers’ sound was full and easy to listen to....
Some videos I took of Mount Eerie at Casa del Popolo last Thursday. It was my first time seeing him. Great show.
I’m on the train back from Toronto. I just looked at the full moon out my window and it’s blinking like my computer screen.
“There are plenty of other websites available; leaving is the first line of...”
– Jakob Nielsen
Looking for some good summer watching? Here’s a few of my picks from the list of “25 worthwhile documentaries about ambitious outsiders” from The Onion’s A.V. Club.
Check out the entire list here.
“What if this were my last post? Would this post be worthy? The object isn’t to...”
– Seth
Jesus I am loving you by Isabel Baker
WatchI need a massage.
It was incredibly windy over the weekend. The above photo actually happened.
Here are two videos I took from my doorstep…
Windy day in Montreal from teggy on Vimeo.
Windy day in Montreal from teggy on Vimeo.
via Fubiz
Videos of Mount Eerie at Suoni
I just got back from Mount Eerie at Casa del Popolo. My review will hopefully be up tomorrow. I took 3 videos that turned out dark, but the sound is nice.
While my videos upload, I’m reading two articles from the June issue of Vanity Fair on the history of the internet and gentrification in artist neighbourhoods:
How the Web Was Won by Keenan May and Peter Newcomb
Last Call, Bohemia by...
“At some point in the starvation chain, of course, people will eat...”
– Dustin
36 step program
Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure:
Is it going to just one person? (If yes, jump to #10)
Since it’s going to a group, have I thought about who is on my list?
Are they blind copied?
Did every person on the list really and truly opt in? Not like sort of, but really ask for it?
So that means that if I didn’t send it to...
SavFaire is really excellent. The first issue (shown) arrived at my work last week. It includes articles about: VillaVillaNola: an mp3 download label, independent fashion design, freelance writing abroad, animating Miracle Fortress’ magnadoodle-drawn musicvideo, Dungeons and Dragons, and more.
The idea is a free zine-style publication with firsthand, experiential writing from Canadian...
I’ve got another Suoni Festival review up on Indyish. This one is of Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista and Oneida. Check it out here.
All the Suoni reviews are here.
“Poetry is the art of hearing yourself say things you didn’t know you knew”
– David Whyte
“The Internet has great amounts of information—most of it repeated and respun...”
– Dan
Today it was out-of-control hot in Montreal. It suddenly started thundering and there was a tropical downpour. I waited inside until it was just sprinkling, then strolled out to get sushi with my red umbrella. Footage coming soon of the parade of Hasidic Jews that passed once I got home…
mariliscardinal:
I know this has been around for a while. Reading Garfield the comic strip hurts me like reading Cathy or For Better Or For Worse. But I love the idea of Garfield minus Garfield. Here are my 4 favourites. I like the depressing existential ones.
I just came up with the best idea ever... →
I read Hakim Bey for a class I took last semester. His thing is Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ) and his essay with that name is standard fare in social justice circles. Here’s an interview he did with Lickety Split Smut Zine that was just put up. Part of the interview was printed in the 5th issue of Lickety Split. But the rest was secret. Until now…
Have a listen here.
Hi Mom!
My friend Sarah Pearson wrote an article about Fixture Records for the lastest issue of The Jewish Magazine with Robert Downey Jr. on the cover. Flip through the issue online here. Thanks, Sarah!
New Gmail Labs feature: Email Addict
When you hit “take a break” your screen goes grey and you become invisible in chat. The text says:
Break time! Take a walk, get some real work done, or have a snack. We’ll be back in 15 minutes.
Unfortunately if you open a new tab or window, the inforced breaktime doesn’t apply to the new screen. My problem is actually compulsive checking, not spending too much time...
My band, Brave Radar is experimenting with selling downloads. As of two weeks ago, you can preview all the tracks on our album, Distracting Strangers, on iTunes (and buy individual tracks if you want. It’s actually cheaper to just order the CD, but roll how you roll). Or listen to the whole album here. I just want people to actually hear the songs.
If you’re looking to get digital...
Earlier this week, we broke into Sarah’s former nextdoor neighbours’ vacant apartment to take advantage of a tacky living room paintjob. Sarah and Lara brought all the bright clothes they had, Sarah did our makeup while feeding us gin, and Marilis showed up to take the photos. But maybe these sorts of things don’t need backstories…