August 2010 Playlist

It’s a two-discer kind of a month!! DISC 1 “I Made A Lover’s Prayer / Gillian Welch 5:03 “Casey Jones / Grate­ful Dead 4:25 “Lecuona Cuban Boys — Rumba Azul 3:17 “28 Butts / Lit­tle Jackie 3:10 “Addicted to Love / Robert Palmer 4:06 “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine / Bon­nie Raitt and Jack­son Browne 4:44 “Being Alive / Raúl …

I’m Back!!! Steely Dan Summer

Sorry that break took a lit­tle longer than planned. I wasn’t par­tic­u­larly moti­vated to get near my com­puter after it came back from the shop for it’s facelift last weekend…this would of course sur­prise any­one who knows me, as I usu­ally have it with me for 18 hours a day, but I guess I needed …

Hiatus — Computer In The Shop!

Today’s pic­ture is cour­tesy of a google image search for “cli­part com­puter broken”…I THOUGHT I would find a use­ful and ridicu­lously cheesy illus­tra­tion of a com­puter mon­i­tor with ban­dages and a ther­mome­ter stick­ing out of its mouth or some­thing, but this film adver­tise­ment seemed so much less approps. Hi guys, just a quick shout out …

The Demise Of Paste Magazine, print version

I don’t know what com­pelled me to surf onto pastemagazine.com at 5:04pm on Sep­tem­ber 1st, but that deci­sion to browse soon had me in tears: at 5pm that day, Joshua Jack­son, editor-in-chief of the cul­ture mag for over 8 years, announced the sus­pen­sion of Paste’s printed ver­sion. Though it seems the online branch of Paste …

For Love and Your Mother’s Sake by The United Steel Workers Of Montreal

SONG OF THE DAY “For Love & Your Mother’s Sake” by The United Steel Work­ers Of Mon­treal (Three On The Tree, Weew­erk Records, 2009). LINKS MySpace Page CBC Radio 3 United Steel Work­ers Of Mon­treal page Offi­cial Web­site Toronto-based indie label Weew­erk Records INTERESTING FACTS (a la Wikipedia) — United Steel Work­ers of Mon­treal (or USWM) are a …

Bluebirds, Flowers and Other Things — Brent Randall and His Pinecones

SONG OF THE DAY “Blue­birds, Flow­ers & Other Things” by Brent Ran­dall & His Pinecones (We Were Strangers in Padding­ton Green, 2008). LINKS NOW Mag­a­zine Review, Toronto, Jan­u­ary 7–14, 2009 | VOL 28 NO 19 Obscure Sound Blog, Feb­ru­ary 24th, 2009 My blog entry from Feb­ru­ary 6th, 2010 about “Strange Love (Don’t Be Lazy)”,  another track on this …

Once You Got Me Going — Debby Blackwell

SONG OF THE DAY “Once You Got Me Going” by Debby Black­well (The Blank Gen­er­a­tion — Blank Tapes NYC 1971 — 1985, Strut Records, 2010). LINKS Ama­zon link to the album Vil­lage Voice arti­cle on album release, March 9th, 2010 PRESS RELEASE FROM STRUT RECORDS The first ever album ret­ro­spec­tive of one of New York’s most revered of …

If You Asked Me — Meaghan Smith

SONG OF THE DAY “If You Asked Me” by Meaghan Smith (The Cricket’s Orches­tra, Sire Records, 2009). LINKS iLike.com — Lis­ten to the full song: Here ya go! Meaghan Smith’s offi­cial web­site All Things Con­sid­ered arti­cle, March 14th, 2010 INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) — Meaghan Smith is a Cana­dian singer-songwriter and gui­tarist. — Smith grew up in Lon­don, Ontario to …

Miss You — The Rolling Stones

SONG OF THE DAY “Miss You” by The Rolling Stones (Some Girls, Rolling Stones Records, 1978). Writ­ten by Mick Jag­ger and Keith Richards. Pro­duced by The Glim­mer Twins. INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) — Although gui­tarist Keith Richards is cred­ited for co-writing, Jag­ger is gen­er­ally regarded as the prin­ci­pal com­poser. “Miss You” was writ­ten by singer Mick …