Driving has made me consider the world in a different way, and that not having driven for the first third of my life has allowed me unreserved psycho-spatial perception. My surroundings as a driver, now, are definite and rigid: thoughts must be controlled and while thinking and driving could be considered as multitasking, the differ [...]
Lists are fun to read when you’ve been reading your smart magazines all day. Here are three lists-like pieces I read recently that were entertaining:
Five Gadgets That Will Make You a Superhero on Wired.com. ‘Nuff said.
The Hater’s Guide to Summer Fun on The Onion’s AV Club. The Hater is generally good for lists. I [...]
Here are the two magazines we currently have subscriptions to:
STUPID: Vice magazine. Duh. Since I wrote for them for free years ago, they started sending me this free subscription, which never stopped. I don’t mind really, because I just read it while gawking and gasping and thinking: “This isn’t funny anymore.” I think of it [...]
In response to my blog post Playing the Record for People, CBC Radio 3 got in touch with me to talk about our approach to music listening. You can listen to the interview here, and comment, if you like, about the sad state of today’s deluded music industry.
Also, in the media, Mange ta ville [...]
I just couldn’t stand it anymore: I needed to see it from the inside. The average Facebook user seems to be reluctantly addicted. It is something like: “Yes, I’m on Facebook. I check it thirty times a day and I hate it but I keep coming back.”
In an emergency situation, they say the first [...]
On another tack, I read this bit of news today: Music ‘can enhance wine taste.’ Apparently now music, too, can be paired with certain wines. Such as Hendrix with Cabernet Sauvignon, Tina Turner with a Chardonnay and Otis Redding with Merlot. Who’d a thunk it?
I wonder what The Dears would be paired with? I guess [...]
Usually after I post a particularly “down” blog entry, I get concerned emails from friends and family. It’s nice, knowing there are 1) people out there that care about me; and 2) people out there that actually read this blog. Thank yous all around.
After a moderately gloomy and relatively cynical music-industry-vs.-art conversation with Amanda [...]
I went on a little adventure today. Flying solo, I went over to the Complexe environnemental de Saint-Michel for their annual distribution of free compost. I accidentally stumbled upon this when I was in an annoyed rage about a neighbour who is constantly dumping old furniture and garbage behind our garage in the alley. So [...]
Today I feel defeated by everything, that my world is too hopeless to blog about. Is it? Probably a little bit: the weather like my mood, overcast and blurry. But there should be something to write about, shouldn’t there? Shouldn’t I be excited about the future? Well, to be honest I am excited about it: [...]
I started an experiment today. I call it a “message board in blog form,” and I have no idea if it will work. I swapped out our old forum (which gets a handful of relevant posts as well and some undesirable spammy ones) with, well, basically a blog. We’ve been noticing that: (a) users had [...]
