People have been asking me if I’m excited about moving back to Vancouver and starting a new job. I don’t think I’m excited so much as I’m happy, because I’m going home. There are those who don’t get why I’d want to move back, since it’s so big and crowded there and the people are [...]
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Music Recommendations: slow covers
I’ve been listening to quiet, subdued music this week. I collect songs I can play to calm myself down, to relax, to shush my worrying mind. I’d be curious if a real life music therapist could do a better job, but they probably don’t go around recommending indie rock to their clients. Here’s a song [...]
Wuthering, wuthering, wuthering heights
I’ve never actually read Wuthering Heights. I think I tried to back in high school but found the characters a bit too melodramatic. Also Catherine seemed like a real bitch, at least in the movies, which I never saw the point of. From what I gather, the story has these two kids who grow up [...]
Same song, awesomer video
So OK GO put out a second video for their single “This Too Shall Pass”, this time of a Rube Goldberg machine running for the duration of the song, synced with the music, and filmed in one take: (I blogged about their first video to the song two weeks ago). Between this sort of stuff [...]
I keep thinking music videos are a dying art
But then OK Go releases a new album and another fun choreographed video, this time with marching band: OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. If you can recall, these guys got internet famous in 2006 with music videos of them dancing in a backyard, and again on treadmills. Their [...]
Beat the night
I pulled an all-nighter last night, for work. It’s pretty rare for me these days, since as I get older, the more it really fucking sucks to recover from it. I think it’s been years since I stopped working when it got light outside. Disregarding eating, going to the bathroom, and commuting, I was working [...]
Concert-going in Kelowna
Living in a new town much different than and far away from my friends, and working for a company that is a complete 180 from what I’m used to, is continuing to be difficult. Now that it’s not summer anymore, the near-constant sun isn’t enough to keep up my spirits; and I’ve come to realize [...]
