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Andrew came back from Europe last night and bought me i-D in London and Numéro in Paris. Too legit to quit.

Lately I've been going into my old old old mix CD's from 8th to 11th grade and picking out gems. The starred** songs are true gems and the non-starred are just songs that I will always love regardless.

Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now*
RJD2 - Ghostwriter*
Spiderbait - Sunshine On My Window
Hole - Celebrity Skin*
Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love Is Blind*
M83 - On A White Lake, Near a Green Mountain*
the B-52's - Roam
Beastie Boys - Body Movin'
Mates of State - Hoarding It For Home
Hot Hot Heat - Talk To Me, Dance With Me*
Moneen - The Passing Of America
Misfits - Hybrid Moments
The Clash - All the Young Punks
The Presidents of the United States of America - Lump*

you can click them and listen to them here or right click and save them. Enjoy, I'm off to ride my bicycle.

sesame snaps and corn flakes

I really like you guys

When you were in elementary school music class did they ever make you play xylophones? If they did do you remember how there were all different sizes, the tiny annoying tinkly ones and then the great big wooden warm-sounding ones? Every kid in my class always fought over the huge wooden ones. We would line up outside of homeroom before the teacher took us to music class and always try to be first to claim them. Before you start thinking this is some analogy for something, it isn't; it's about The Acorn, this incredible Canadian band. My favourite song by them has the warm comforting sound of those great big wooden xylophones.

They recently played at SXSW and they're playing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival this year. Come come come see them in all their glory in the best venue you could ever ask for.

listen to the song:


then download it:
The Acorn - Crooked Legs

then go buy your Folk Fest tickets:
here

transmission

On Sunday night I flew solo over to Cinematheque to see the film Control about the band Joy Division (whom I love). I realized 2 things:

1. That I was not, in fact, flying genuinely solo because I knew more than 10 people there. I'm not kidding, the small theater was completely filled and they had to turn people away (it was the last night of three nights of showings of the movie).

2. That I should have expected it to be as depressing as it ended up being. I knew that Ian Curtis committed suicide but actually seeing a movie about the rise of Joy Division and Curtis's life made it all the more captivating and just dismal. Please please please don't let that discourage you from seeing it or wanting to see it because it was incredibly beautiful. The acting by Sam Riley as Ian Curtis and Samantha Morton as his young wife was phenomenal and refreshingly funny at times. Even if I wasn't a Joy Division fan I would see it. It's shot in black and white and the general look of it is so appropriate. It's not showing anymore in Winnipeg at the moment but seriously, keep your eye out for it.

To get you in the mood, here's one of my favourite Joy Division songs:
Joy Division - Disorder

grandiose

yep yep yep just as I thought, my parents are moving to Vancouver in (I'm pretty sure) June. And I'm staying here until...school in Toronto in the fall? I think. Everything is in the beginning stages but things are slowly and surely changing.
Terrifying Thrilling

here have a song, it reminds me of summertime and pretty sunshine and riding my bicycle to Fringe
Cat Power - Willie

polycarbonate

just a few items of interest (to only me, really)edit: the general interest bullet points are in purple for efficiency

-I cut my bangs and they're pretty nifty, I look really different

-I forgot how much I used to like Belle and Sebastian in, like, grade 10. I think I'll start listening to them again.

-I have tomorrow completely off from both of my jobs and that is AWESOME.

-Jeanine chose sushi for her birthday dinner which obviously makes me happy

-Tonight I bet anyone $5 that I'll dream about different types of lenses and astigmatism and far-sightedness and near-sightedness and holy shit

-I posted the photos from my disposable cameras from the Ugly Sweater Jogging Club, please go love them as much as I do http://www.thejoggingclub.com/stef

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-I'm trying not to be cryptic in this blog but that's so hard to do when you don't want to be directly mean so, to "Clifford": stop trying so hard, trust

-I hope you enjoyed the purple parts of this blog thank you for your time

-One more thing: say you were in the car with somebody you liked but it wasn't a "thing" yet or anything and you were in control of the music to play and you weren't going to play any cheesy shit but just something you'd want them to hear that would accurately represent your taste and also make them think "okay this person is pretty groovy," WHAT WOULD YOU PLAY?
I'm not in this situation at all but I'm curious! I would probably play...
this is so hard and it would completely change with the person I'm sure
King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1 andKing Of Carrot Flowers Part 2 & 3 by Neutral Milk Hotel (they kind of blend together and make one song that's like 5.5 minutes) because it's fucking cool. It would be kind of awkward because one of the lyrics in part 2 & 3 is like "IIIIIIII LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST" and I don't know but it could be weird for the other person, even though it's not christian at all and it's just fucking cool.

I DON'T KNOW, THAT IS ALL I GUESS

gratuity

song:
The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You
from:

makes me feel:
:)

By now everyone has blogged about Juno, chalk me up as the 12000001st person.