Still going to hell

My first thought when watching a Manitoba Hydro commercial about the importance of saving the sturgeon and its habitat?

I wonder what it tastes like.

Grammy, Best Compilation Soundtrack

I'm such a sheep; Donell recently did the Soundtrack To Your Life Challenge, that popular meme where you put iTunes on shuffle and each song corresponds to certain questions. Challenge? Challenge? I'll be damned if I'm going to be shown up by an Easterner and I encourage you all to put him in his place.

Anyway.

Opening Credits: Art Brut - "Formed a Band"
Waking up: Sufjan Stevens - "Once in David's Royal City"
First day at school: Kokopelli - "Close Now Thine Eyes"
Falling in love: Paul McCartney - "Here Today"
Breaking up: Pavement - "Raft"
Life's OK: Snow Patrol - "Tiny Little Fractures"
Breakdown: Celestial Season - "Sharks and Razors"
Driving: Sarah Harmer - "The Phoenix"
Flashback: The Vines - "Ain't No Room"
Getting back together: Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues (Live at Folsom Prison)"
Wedding: Interpol - "Narc"
Sex scene: Led Zeppelin - "Kashmir"
Birth of child: The Rolling Stones - "Brown Sugar"
Final battle: The Weakerthans - "(Past Due)"
Death scene: Great Big Sea - "Lukey (Live)"
Funeral song: Ellen Allien & Apparat - "Do Not Break"
Dance sequence: Box Five - "Snow Hymn"
End credits: Silverchair - "Pure Massacre"

Um?

Natalie Portman

After a few weeks without any new purchases, the last two weeks have been filled with new CDs. Some of it has been a last dash to pick up 2006's albums before I make my year end list, but more recently that's becoming new releases. Some of them are ones I've been waiting for months for, like the new albums from Deerhoof and Menomena. Then there's, well... the Shins.

See, I've got something to admit; while Wincing the Night Away, the Shins' latest, was the first new album of the year I bought, I actually haven't listened to it yet. And... I really only bought it because it was cheap. And I had a plan to get an HMV staff member to ask me if I'd found everything I was looking for so I could say no and they'd offer to order the ones I wanted for me. Couldn't I have just gone up and asked them to order something for me? No, because that would be too easy and you seem to have forgotten THAT I'M CRAZY.

I found out about the Shins though the same two avenues as most people did, Scrubs and Garden State. But they didn't change my life, even if "New Slang" is fantastic. I was feeling all warm and fuzzy and, smitten with a single song and armed with a good review, I bought an album. That's really all there is to say, I guess, because that's all there is. It's just there on my shelf and I really don't listen to it that much. It's under a Theory of a Deadman album, just to give you an idea of how long it's been since I looked at it. It's kind of charming, I guess, in a Silly Symphony kind of way. I'll probably listen to it eventually, but I just can't muster up the motivation.

Got any albums I should listen to? I need something to cover this one.

Wherein our hero clarifies

By now you may be wondering where this resolution has gone. See, the thing I didn't mention in the last post was that I am waiting for something. Something very special. Last week I ordered a couple of CDs by Hello Saferide, who has made some of my favourite songs of 2006 and probably one of my favourite albums (Would You Let Me Play This EP Ten Times a Day?). But I can't just call it one of my favourite albums yet, that would be presumptive.

So I wait. And so do you, apparently.

But what's that? I could just make other posts instead? That would make too much sense, but I guess you've got me there.

I'm tired, people; competely worn out and exhausted and I've been that way for a month. I seem to be the only person on the unit who hasn't gotten sick yet, which is a small relief because the last thing I need is to miss a few days of work and an even greater need to sleep constantly. But I'll make due, just try to get to bed earlier. I mean, what else can I do? Oh? Really? Watch Entourage? If you insist.

Be patient, there's more coming after the first season and 4-7 business days.

I haven't told you yet

Happy new year and welcome to 2007. How were your celebrations? Myself, I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, ate dinner and fell asleep on the couch at 10:30. And that was just ducky. I won't bore you with a summary of 2006, that's what the archives are for. Instead, I'll simply share my sole resolution for the new year: to post more. In the next week I plan to share my lists of top albums and singles of 2006 along with a more standard post. Ears open, class.

Finally, I'd like to share a video that sums everything up just perfectly from a lady who is just about the best thing around these days. Happy holidays.

God bless

Last night at 11:45pm MST James Brown passed away.

He will be missed.

Rest in peace.

first single: the dark king (mister snuffles)

eli stern: and some day i will start my tongue-in-cheek death metal band, Apocalypse Fetus

*Allene*: 0_o eek

eli stern: the fun part is that we will actually be singin' about real positive stuff, rainbows and kittens and the like. but nobody will be able to tell, cos we'll be screamin'

*Allene*: just don't include lyrics in the liner notes

eli stern: indeed. or if we do, make the liner notes all 60s psychadelic with flowers and rainbows

*Allene*: people will feel like suckers cause they'll be all hardcore, with albums covered in flowers and smiley faces

eli stern: maybe we'll just make those things in again. or totally hardcore. i mean, fuck yeah!

*Allene*: dang. it's a foolproof plan

eli stern: all of a sudden the metalheads of the world are a lot less scary and a lot nicer smelling

*Allene*: and have a new appreciation for kittens