Before I left Seattle last week, my Rob surprised me with an early graduation gift and got me a pair of the new Nixon Master Blaster headphones. Thanks, Rob! I've had my eye on them since Nixon released them last December. I love their retro styling with the shiny metal frame against [...] Read More…
"The Alberta Advantage" is a phrase the Alberta government made up to describe the benefits of living in Canada's most prosperous province. You know, it has something to do with the 179 billion barrels of oil locked up in the tar sands. There are the more glamourous parts, too: big prairie skies and [...] Read More…
Thanks to Ryan, my brother Nicholas and I scored some tickets to see Hawksley Workman at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto a few weeks ago. I had only listened to his new album, Between the Beautifuls, a few times before his show and I was kinda ho-hum about it. I'm not crazy [...] Read More…
It's not so far from the truth. This song is so ridiculous and awesome: "music is my boyfriend ... music is my beach house ... music is my king-sized bed." It's almost as if the band (CSS, from Brazil) wrote it as a commission for the great new iPod Touch commercial, but they're [...] Read More…
I dropped my iPod a few weeks ago It's not the first time, but sadly, this time I broke it a little bit. The poor thing had a good, long 2.5 years and it has served me well on many travels across the globe. The display would light up when [...] Read More…
I bought some new music from Zunior a few days ago (thanks to my brother for the recommendation). You can buy DRM-free MP3s and even FLAC-encoded indie Canadian music from them for cheap cheap cheap. Nicholas told me to pick up Jill Barber's debut album from them. It's a lovely album for [...] Read More…
I'm going. You're jealous, right? I haven't been blogging much because I'm working on a longer thing about Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal party renewal. Good vibes to my little bro on his date with Corporate Canada tomorrow. Read More…
Every now and then I go through a phase of insomnia. I haven't been able to determine the cause. It's not coffee -- I'm actually doing a pretty good job at kicking that addiction. I don't know. I could sure use a tranquilizer right now though. Insomnia sure can be boring, so [...] Read More…
(no idea who those people are) The music was great. There was hail and cow crap too. A couple of friends and I went out to George, WA last weekend for Sasquatch. The concert was seriously cool. I saw so many bands I've been wanting to see forever. In order of [...] Read More…