So, the weekend was good, Valentine's day was excellent, internal Serato is useful good times, art submitted to Art Fusion 4, tons of work to do, my beautiful girlfriend is the best muse/inspiration/girl to think about/the most adorable when she first wakes up and can't find me. Life is pretty good all things considered.
I'm praying for my amazing aunt Kim who really isn't feeling well...if only inner beauty determined physical health. She'd be set for centuries to come. I also miss my poor old dog, Riley. That dog was way too awesome. Hope she's somewhere better.
Sasquatch announced their lineup. Holy fuckin shit.
Massive Attack, My Morning Jacket, Pavement, Patrick Watson, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, the National, LCD Soundsystem, Band of Horses, Ween, Tegan and Sara, Broken Social Scene, Passion Pit, Public Enemy, She & Him, the New Pornographers, the Hold Steady, the xx, Dirty Projectors, No Age, Drive-By Truckers, Kid Cudi, the Mountain Goats, Quasi, Camera Obscura, Midlake, Caribou, Girls, WHY?, Japandroids, Wale, YACHT, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Very Best, Neon Indian, tUnE-YarDs, Local Natives, the Tallest Man on Earth, Fool's Gold, A-Trak, and a whole mess of others.
FUCK yeaaah!
Finally, check this commersh out if you haven't yet. This is pretty much a who's who of things I like.
Until next time.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Veeday
Hope everyone's Feb 14th is going smoothly. Mine is! Anyways, just added some new links for you to check out. Everyone on their is worth checking, so don't sleep!
See ya tomorrow! Peace!
See ya tomorrow! Peace!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Weekend Biz
Let me just start by saying that the new Spoon album "Transference" is a must. In the same way that sunglasses is a must. It's grittier sounding than their previous several albums, on purpose, which is kind of awesome because the band sounds better than ever together. In my opinion the highlights are the couple of tracks where they drop the vocals part way through, pick up the tempo, and rock instrumentals for a couple minutes. The album is the soundtrack for everything.
Hey designer types, here's a link to all the sweet visual tools you can use online. Def worth checking out.
Amazing Tools For Sharing Visual Inspiration.
And finally, as a little happy Friday from me, the always mindblowing Cinematic Orchestra is about to release their contribution to the Late Night Tales series. This next minute and a half will probably get you excited. It worked for me.
Peace y'all, see ya on Monday or Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Sorry
So I've been gone a while. But now I am vowing to update this biatch as frequently as I can. I won't be making the posts as long, but I'll be doing them more often. I will continue to point out the goodness, and direct you to things you should be checking out.
Don't forget to check out my art
and follow me on twitter.
For now, if you wanna see some ridiculous use of line and colour, peep this video. Come on now.
And don't forget to check Scott out at this:
Don't forget to check out my art
and follow me on twitter.
For now, if you wanna see some ridiculous use of line and colour, peep this video. Come on now.
And don't forget to check Scott out at this:
Monday, November 23, 2009
Since We Last Spoke
Okay, so a short while ago, your friend (if you're lucky) and mine requested that I document each show I attend, in an effort to keep track of exactly what the hell we do with all of our time, money and brain cells. So, let's go back and see if we can do a quick rundown of what we've been through since last time I got down on one of these.
This particular chapter takes us back to November concert week, so here we go:
Malajube and Young Galaxy - November 3, 2009 - Call The Office - London: We almost forgot about this one, Scott calls while we're watching Year One (it had it's moments), asks what he and Phil can do on this night...and it occurs to me, super rad French Canadian indie masters Malajube are in town. We made the venture to meet them. So Team Concert be: Me, Laura, Scotty, and Phil. We chilled in the back, missed 95% of Young Galaxy, and loved the shit out of Malajube. Check em out.
Most Serene Republic - November 4, 2009 - London Music Hall Lounge - London: This one came together nicely...after a surprise awesome hilarious visit to amateur night at Yuk Yuks, we met up with some awesome ladies and made our way to this beauty of a show. Although not the most remarkable of the week, it was nice to finally see this super melodic, now-Toronto superband. Phages being the obvious (but still surprising) highlight of the evening.
Boys Noize - November 5, 2009 - London Music Hall - London: I was unceratin about this one from the beginning; cash was already getting short, the scene at these shows is always alienating and pretentious, and I was in the zone painting a piece for the source of my recent inspiration. Long story short, I finished the piece (cause she inspires like crazy), and met Scotty to make our way to what we were about to discover was a UWO scenester fashion show with a phenomenal DJ. The crowd seemed more interested in rocking scarves and power ranger shoes than absorbing the super energetic, mindblowing performance put on by Germany's electro/techno front runner Alex Ridha aka Boys Noize. But we didn't go for them, we went for him, and it was well fuckin worth it.
Dan Auerbach - November 7, 2009 - Phoenix Concert Theatre - Toronto: Woods bros and Mitchell bros joined forces for the long anticipated Toronto performance by the front man of the legendary Black Keys. After several pitchers and an evil doobie I found myself on the receiving end of a disgusting headache slightly hindering my ability to rock out sufficiently. Auerbach was great, obviously, this being my 4th time seeing him, he never ceases to amaze. Unfortunately we left a little early, part way through 'When The Night Comes' and missing 'Whispered Words', but we sure did catch everything else we wanted. All in all, good times yo.
Fiery Furnaces and Cryptacize - November 8, 2009 - Call The Office - London: Show of the week. Hands down. Being introduced to Cryptacize was the surprise none of us were expecting, the California foursome was nothing short of engaging from start to finish. As for Fiery Furnaces, I had seen them at Pemberton Festival 2 years ago, and this kicked the living shit out of that. Playing 20+ tracks, going from breaks to folk ditties to metal to punk to chillout indie shit and back, sometimes in a four minute span. Duplexes of the dead was possibly the best song I saw live all week, and realistically I probably saw almost 200. This was not a show to miss. Can't wait to check them out again.
Pigeon John - November 9, 2009 - London Music Hall Lounge - London: This is my night to DJ, but thankfully Scotty is a hookup king who covers for me so I can check out one of my favorite MCs for his triumphant return to London. Meeting many friends there, I traveled with Meghan and Will, and we were super impressed by PJ's high energy, hilarious, hard to follow, solo set. I swear if you don't like or have never heard of this guy, just watch him do Hello Everybody live. You'll be a fan for life. Unfortunately we didn't stay for Josh Martinez (who was apparently amazing), but that's okay, cause I got to see my favorite girl instead. And that's better than pretty much everything.
We were due for a bit of a break after checking out 7 great shows in 8 short days, so I took a few days, painted a shitload, made some new friends, did some homework, pretended I had a job, and you know, partied way too much.
Apostle of Hustle - November 17 - London Music Club - London: Okay, I'm being biased when I say this may have topped them all. As I've said in the past, it's all about the company, then the entertainment. But this night had 100% of both. Myself and a semi-skeptical (note: skeptical, not cynical) Laura made our way through the cold way too early, to chill in the unparalleled chilled out atmosphere of LMC, enjoyed too much great conversation and acceptable house wine. No doubt, there wasn't anything to turn this night sour. After the surprise excellence of opening performer Fraser, everyone was mellowed out and anticipating where Apostle of Hustle would take it next. Minus their bass player, AOH took the stage and within seconds had everyone in the room wondering if they should be laughing their asses off or gasping in amazement at both the hilarious stage antics and undeniable talent and creativity between guitarist/lead singer Andrew Whiteman and drummer Dean Stone. Running through a wide spectrum of tunes from the entire catalog, we both had an awesome time, and are better friends for it. This girl makes me awesome, and if you don't believe me, check out what I've been up to lately.
Art Fusion - November 21 - Il Tenore - London: After 2.5 weeks of painting my ass off, thanks to my new inspiration (if it's getting old and you think I should stop, too bad, I ain't gonna), the night finally arrived. I harassed Mahy until he gave me a top spot, and I'm glad I did. Everyone's art looked fantastic, the music was on point, and the company was perfect. I thank everyone who came to support, it really means the world. I wish that everyone could know how it feels to have the person who inspires you like crazy be that proud of you. I'm not really sure if it gets a lot better than that.
Here's what's coming up:
Nov 24- Wooden Sky and Jenn Grant
Nov 25- Matt Good and Mother Mother
Nov 27- DJ Klever
Nov 28- Champion and His G Strings
Dec 2- Friendly Fires and The Xx
Dec 3- Zero 7
Here's the tunes I've been diggin like crazy!
Cryptacize-Mythomania
Zero 7-Yeah Ghost!
Until next time friends...I love ya.
This particular chapter takes us back to November concert week, so here we go:
Malajube and Young Galaxy - November 3, 2009 - Call The Office - London: We almost forgot about this one, Scott calls while we're watching Year One (it had it's moments), asks what he and Phil can do on this night...and it occurs to me, super rad French Canadian indie masters Malajube are in town. We made the venture to meet them. So Team Concert be: Me, Laura, Scotty, and Phil. We chilled in the back, missed 95% of Young Galaxy, and loved the shit out of Malajube. Check em out.
Most Serene Republic - November 4, 2009 - London Music Hall Lounge - London: This one came together nicely...after a surprise awesome hilarious visit to amateur night at Yuk Yuks, we met up with some awesome ladies and made our way to this beauty of a show. Although not the most remarkable of the week, it was nice to finally see this super melodic, now-Toronto superband. Phages being the obvious (but still surprising) highlight of the evening.
Boys Noize - November 5, 2009 - London Music Hall - London: I was unceratin about this one from the beginning; cash was already getting short, the scene at these shows is always alienating and pretentious, and I was in the zone painting a piece for the source of my recent inspiration. Long story short, I finished the piece (cause she inspires like crazy), and met Scotty to make our way to what we were about to discover was a UWO scenester fashion show with a phenomenal DJ. The crowd seemed more interested in rocking scarves and power ranger shoes than absorbing the super energetic, mindblowing performance put on by Germany's electro/techno front runner Alex Ridha aka Boys Noize. But we didn't go for them, we went for him, and it was well fuckin worth it.
Dan Auerbach - November 7, 2009 - Phoenix Concert Theatre - Toronto: Woods bros and Mitchell bros joined forces for the long anticipated Toronto performance by the front man of the legendary Black Keys. After several pitchers and an evil doobie I found myself on the receiving end of a disgusting headache slightly hindering my ability to rock out sufficiently. Auerbach was great, obviously, this being my 4th time seeing him, he never ceases to amaze. Unfortunately we left a little early, part way through 'When The Night Comes' and missing 'Whispered Words', but we sure did catch everything else we wanted. All in all, good times yo.
Fiery Furnaces and Cryptacize - November 8, 2009 - Call The Office - London: Show of the week. Hands down. Being introduced to Cryptacize was the surprise none of us were expecting, the California foursome was nothing short of engaging from start to finish. As for Fiery Furnaces, I had seen them at Pemberton Festival 2 years ago, and this kicked the living shit out of that. Playing 20+ tracks, going from breaks to folk ditties to metal to punk to chillout indie shit and back, sometimes in a four minute span. Duplexes of the dead was possibly the best song I saw live all week, and realistically I probably saw almost 200. This was not a show to miss. Can't wait to check them out again.
Pigeon John - November 9, 2009 - London Music Hall Lounge - London: This is my night to DJ, but thankfully Scotty is a hookup king who covers for me so I can check out one of my favorite MCs for his triumphant return to London. Meeting many friends there, I traveled with Meghan and Will, and we were super impressed by PJ's high energy, hilarious, hard to follow, solo set. I swear if you don't like or have never heard of this guy, just watch him do Hello Everybody live. You'll be a fan for life. Unfortunately we didn't stay for Josh Martinez (who was apparently amazing), but that's okay, cause I got to see my favorite girl instead. And that's better than pretty much everything.
We were due for a bit of a break after checking out 7 great shows in 8 short days, so I took a few days, painted a shitload, made some new friends, did some homework, pretended I had a job, and you know, partied way too much.
Apostle of Hustle - November 17 - London Music Club - London: Okay, I'm being biased when I say this may have topped them all. As I've said in the past, it's all about the company, then the entertainment. But this night had 100% of both. Myself and a semi-skeptical (note: skeptical, not cynical) Laura made our way through the cold way too early, to chill in the unparalleled chilled out atmosphere of LMC, enjoyed too much great conversation and acceptable house wine. No doubt, there wasn't anything to turn this night sour. After the surprise excellence of opening performer Fraser, everyone was mellowed out and anticipating where Apostle of Hustle would take it next. Minus their bass player, AOH took the stage and within seconds had everyone in the room wondering if they should be laughing their asses off or gasping in amazement at both the hilarious stage antics and undeniable talent and creativity between guitarist/lead singer Andrew Whiteman and drummer Dean Stone. Running through a wide spectrum of tunes from the entire catalog, we both had an awesome time, and are better friends for it. This girl makes me awesome, and if you don't believe me, check out what I've been up to lately.
Art Fusion - November 21 - Il Tenore - London: After 2.5 weeks of painting my ass off, thanks to my new inspiration (if it's getting old and you think I should stop, too bad, I ain't gonna), the night finally arrived. I harassed Mahy until he gave me a top spot, and I'm glad I did. Everyone's art looked fantastic, the music was on point, and the company was perfect. I thank everyone who came to support, it really means the world. I wish that everyone could know how it feels to have the person who inspires you like crazy be that proud of you. I'm not really sure if it gets a lot better than that.
Here's what's coming up:
Nov 24- Wooden Sky and Jenn Grant
Nov 25- Matt Good and Mother Mother
Nov 27- DJ Klever
Nov 28- Champion and His G Strings
Dec 2- Friendly Fires and The Xx
Dec 3- Zero 7
Here's the tunes I've been diggin like crazy!
Cryptacize-Mythomania
Zero 7-Yeah Ghost!
Until next time friends...I love ya.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
I Answer Questions With Questions, Fight Fire With Fire
When I'm Expressin' Expressions, Take You Higher and Higher, Goin' Deeper and Deeper, To Read the Fine Print, Didn't Like The Definition So We Redefined It...
If anyone were to ever be jealous of me for anything, the only thing it could possibly boil down to are the fucking amazing people I find myself surrounded by. The past couple weeks have been turbulent, to say the least, and the amount of support and love and appreciation has been nothing short of legendary.
Whatever I did right to deserve this, I have no idea. But I love y'all, you'll never know how much. You have no idea how great you all are, and if you're reading this, chances are I'm talking about you.
After the past weekend of partying way too much and having way too much fun I found myself in a subsequent booze fueled depression. It has been happening more than I would like, but at least I know what's causing it. I set out for some quality conversation with some of my nearest and dearest, and found myself back on the right track. I'm not gonna name names...actually yes, I will: Munroe, Kate, Riley, Scotty, Kim, Rhoslyn, Rob and Tommy B. You are amazing, wonderful people and I thank you sincerely for being such great friends.
I was intending on reviewing the shows I went to this week, before the long term effects of Call The Office's draft "beer", shots of Jameson, bad red wine, quarts of Heineken, too many Steamwhistles, and of course doobies erase the memories forever. But I thought I should first attempt to document my gratitude toward these incredible human beings who have turned me back into myself again. You're the best friends anyone could ever ask for. Picks of the litter.
Anyways, Thursday, Oct. 22 - Hidden Cameras - Call The Office...This show was grossly undersold, and with a gang of two (myself and awesome lady Meghan), team concert was incredibly underrepresented. Either way, we missed the opener, we drank a couple of pitchers, we sat in a booth at the back the whole time and talked through a good portion of it, but it was fucking solid times. If I had to guess I would say they played almost half of Awoo! which was sick, and all of their new songs sounded excellent. But, as the next two will also point out, the fun had was more about the company than the party. And that's how it should be.
Friday, Oct. 23 - The Stills and Metric - Centennial Hall...Due to the shitty weather, we brought Rock Band pre drinks out. Of course, after taking the summer off we were all pretty rusty, but myself and the Woods's still managed to rock out Sunday Morning way more times than necessary. After being joined by the homegirl Rio and her lil cuz, we made our way to the show. Missing 99% of the Stills (except for Being Here and Snow In California), we were treated to a sweaty mess of a drunken dance party. Woods's were stuck on the balcony until half way through Metric, when I circumvented security and brought team concert together. And that's when it got retarded. Our obnoxious team definitely stood out as having way more fun than most groups, but hey, sometimes ya gotta do that windmill dance move shit.
Saturday, Oct. 24 - Broadcast and Atlas Sound - Lee's Palace...It's funny, up until now I completely forgot that I ran into Ian Doig Phanuef at this show, I like that guy. Anyways, I almost didn't come to this show, but with my recent requirement for people doing what they say they're gonna do, it was a no brainer (plus I fuckin wanted to). Anyways, I got to the capital city, and quickly linked up with bros Rob and Zack, and then Kate. I was drunk within an hour, and enjoying some high quality vegan chili at the always awesome Victory Cafe. Conversations started out amazing, and turned emotional for everyone involved (except Zack). It got intense, and then it got cool again, that is a great group of people who I would never trade for anything ever. If you ever have a chance to befriend the Greens, just fuckin do it, don't hesitate. Anyways, finally we make our way to Lee's, and right into the Jagers and Jamesons. I drank like Jimmy McNulty, which caught up to me in no time. Long story (semi) short, I missed Broadcast, and I was pretty happy to see Phil. We got stoned and rode the bus home, which is usually a sobering experience. Not this time.
I woke up this morning depressed and braindead. And that's when I was reminded not to be a negative jerk by so many beautiful people. This was a fucking epic few days, and life is good (oh so good), but sometimes it's easy to lose sight of the good stuff, that's why I wrote this. I love y'all, it's you that makes me awesome, and I'll never forget it.
If anyone were to ever be jealous of me for anything, the only thing it could possibly boil down to are the fucking amazing people I find myself surrounded by. The past couple weeks have been turbulent, to say the least, and the amount of support and love and appreciation has been nothing short of legendary.
Whatever I did right to deserve this, I have no idea. But I love y'all, you'll never know how much. You have no idea how great you all are, and if you're reading this, chances are I'm talking about you.
After the past weekend of partying way too much and having way too much fun I found myself in a subsequent booze fueled depression. It has been happening more than I would like, but at least I know what's causing it. I set out for some quality conversation with some of my nearest and dearest, and found myself back on the right track. I'm not gonna name names...actually yes, I will: Munroe, Kate, Riley, Scotty, Kim, Rhoslyn, Rob and Tommy B. You are amazing, wonderful people and I thank you sincerely for being such great friends.
I was intending on reviewing the shows I went to this week, before the long term effects of Call The Office's draft "beer", shots of Jameson, bad red wine, quarts of Heineken, too many Steamwhistles, and of course doobies erase the memories forever. But I thought I should first attempt to document my gratitude toward these incredible human beings who have turned me back into myself again. You're the best friends anyone could ever ask for. Picks of the litter.
Anyways, Thursday, Oct. 22 - Hidden Cameras - Call The Office...This show was grossly undersold, and with a gang of two (myself and awesome lady Meghan), team concert was incredibly underrepresented. Either way, we missed the opener, we drank a couple of pitchers, we sat in a booth at the back the whole time and talked through a good portion of it, but it was fucking solid times. If I had to guess I would say they played almost half of Awoo! which was sick, and all of their new songs sounded excellent. But, as the next two will also point out, the fun had was more about the company than the party. And that's how it should be.
Friday, Oct. 23 - The Stills and Metric - Centennial Hall...Due to the shitty weather, we brought Rock Band pre drinks out. Of course, after taking the summer off we were all pretty rusty, but myself and the Woods's still managed to rock out Sunday Morning way more times than necessary. After being joined by the homegirl Rio and her lil cuz, we made our way to the show. Missing 99% of the Stills (except for Being Here and Snow In California), we were treated to a sweaty mess of a drunken dance party. Woods's were stuck on the balcony until half way through Metric, when I circumvented security and brought team concert together. And that's when it got retarded. Our obnoxious team definitely stood out as having way more fun than most groups, but hey, sometimes ya gotta do that windmill dance move shit.
Saturday, Oct. 24 - Broadcast and Atlas Sound - Lee's Palace...It's funny, up until now I completely forgot that I ran into Ian Doig Phanuef at this show, I like that guy. Anyways, I almost didn't come to this show, but with my recent requirement for people doing what they say they're gonna do, it was a no brainer (plus I fuckin wanted to). Anyways, I got to the capital city, and quickly linked up with bros Rob and Zack, and then Kate. I was drunk within an hour, and enjoying some high quality vegan chili at the always awesome Victory Cafe. Conversations started out amazing, and turned emotional for everyone involved (except Zack). It got intense, and then it got cool again, that is a great group of people who I would never trade for anything ever. If you ever have a chance to befriend the Greens, just fuckin do it, don't hesitate. Anyways, finally we make our way to Lee's, and right into the Jagers and Jamesons. I drank like Jimmy McNulty, which caught up to me in no time. Long story (semi) short, I missed Broadcast, and I was pretty happy to see Phil. We got stoned and rode the bus home, which is usually a sobering experience. Not this time.
I woke up this morning depressed and braindead. And that's when I was reminded not to be a negative jerk by so many beautiful people. This was a fucking epic few days, and life is good (oh so good), but sometimes it's easy to lose sight of the good stuff, that's why I wrote this. I love y'all, it's you that makes me awesome, and I'll never forget it.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Here are some things I've been enjoying/keeping busy with lately, or whatever...
Jeff Tweedy, techno drops right at the point in a conversation where someone says exactly what you wanna hear, chili, hard work paying off, dancing like an ass, pints of Labatt 50, new friendos, drinking red wine out of an old popcan, 10 mixes in a year, Fiery Furnaces coming to London, cats chasing feather toy things on a stick, the Astronomy remix of that Metronomy track, polaroids, unexpected visits, sad bastard emo rap about feelings, realizing that you're a crazy person and taking the appropriate steps, avoiding silly drama, staying focused, Boston Terriers named Roy, vocoders (or autotune, whatever, robot singing is dope), Wilco twice in three months, people getting what they deserve in a positive manner, realizing that the word swagger is being used on the wrong species (dogs have swagger, not people), Major Lazers, finding shelter, shirts with wolves on them, asking people what they are doing, Zombieland, drinking coffee out of a rocks glass, the hot/crazy rule, people crying while laying eggs while being laughed at by a smug little 8 year old boy, djing in a suit, cut copy remixes, have you met Ted?, the video for Wolves 1&2 by Bon Iver, pop n chips, Katy Perry, Stevie Wonder's birthday song, yolengo, Pomeranians, gettin discounts, writing lists like this one, the rain, the snow, scooters, vacations, fall, lying down in the grass, knowing that there is at least a slight chance that you might be on the right track, Monster energy drinks, dryhumping, oh and finding like, the best barrel.
Jeff Tweedy, techno drops right at the point in a conversation where someone says exactly what you wanna hear, chili, hard work paying off, dancing like an ass, pints of Labatt 50, new friendos, drinking red wine out of an old popcan, 10 mixes in a year, Fiery Furnaces coming to London, cats chasing feather toy things on a stick, the Astronomy remix of that Metronomy track, polaroids, unexpected visits, sad bastard emo rap about feelings, realizing that you're a crazy person and taking the appropriate steps, avoiding silly drama, staying focused, Boston Terriers named Roy, vocoders (or autotune, whatever, robot singing is dope), Wilco twice in three months, people getting what they deserve in a positive manner, realizing that the word swagger is being used on the wrong species (dogs have swagger, not people), Major Lazers, finding shelter, shirts with wolves on them, asking people what they are doing, Zombieland, drinking coffee out of a rocks glass, the hot/crazy rule, people crying while laying eggs while being laughed at by a smug little 8 year old boy, djing in a suit, cut copy remixes, have you met Ted?, the video for Wolves 1&2 by Bon Iver, pop n chips, Katy Perry, Stevie Wonder's birthday song, yolengo, Pomeranians, gettin discounts, writing lists like this one, the rain, the snow, scooters, vacations, fall, lying down in the grass, knowing that there is at least a slight chance that you might be on the right track, Monster energy drinks, dryhumping, oh and finding like, the best barrel.
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