The The Playlist

1. The Temporary Thing - You, Me, and a Bottle of Whiskey

2. The Gaslight Anthem - I Coulda Been a Contender

3. The Thrills - Not For All The Love In The World

4. The Drums - Down By the Water

5. The Ting Tings - Be The One

6. The Switches - Lay Down The Law

7. The Annuals - Fair

8. The Ettes - Crown of Thorns

9. The Black Keys - Ten Cent Pistol

10. The Bravery - The Spectator

11. The Format - On Your Porch

12. The Clicks - Career Suicide

13. The Gentle Waves - Fall From Grace

14. The Cribs - We Were Aborted

15. The Go! Team - T.O.R.N.A.D.O.

16. The Hold Steady - First Night

17. The Naked and the Famous - No Way

18. The Kickdrums - Just a Game

19. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

20. The Knux - Bang Bang

21. The Rapture - Pieces of the People we Love

22. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

23. The Shangri-Las - Remember

24. The Real Tuesday Weld - Last Words

25. The Sounds - Rock and Roll

"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more." - Bill Hoest

70

"Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there"

- Bob Dylan

Happy Birthday big guy...

Sunday

"I can read minds," she said

I said, "OK" & she said, "Do you want to know what you're thinking?"

I said "No thank you.

I don't do stuff like that on weekends." - SP

DoWhatChaCan

"Do what you can with what you have where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

The Bravery – The Spectator

Matt & Kim – Cutdown

The Kickdrums ft. Curtains – I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night

The Midway State – Never Again

Israel Kamakawiwo’ole – Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Mickey Avalon – So Rich So Pretty

Chairlift – Bruises

Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s 115^th Dream

The Gaslight Anthem – We Came to Dance

Javier Navarrete – Long, Long Time Ago

Matt & Kim - Ginders

The Naked and the Famous – No Way

A Real Muggle...

This is what happens when I get a run out of the way at 9 am and spend the rest of the day trying to write web stuff for work... the interwebs are so distracting! haha

DFW

“We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible. But if a piece of fiction can allow us imaginatively to identify with a character’s pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human… is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.
Personally, yeah, I’m a Platonist. I think that God has particular languages, and one of them is music and one of them is mathematics.
But young adults of the nineties - who got to watch all this brave new individualism and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation - today’s subforties have very different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without even once having loved something more than yourself.
You think it makes you a fraud, the tiny fraction anyone else ever sees? Of course you’re a fraud, of course what people see is never you. And of course you know this, and of course you try to manage what part they see if you know it’s only a part.

— David Foster Wallace

Sums

Yeah, that'll sum it up... yikes.

Love Like a Sunset

Favourite song lately to do bike intervals to... or, if you prefer... bintervals...

Also, summer is here in Vancouver... Love love love. Freewheels are kinda fun after so much fixed gearing. Louise and I did a few park laps after work then burned back up the hill to home. Things are pretty calm around 9 pm and it's still SUNNY! Yeah! haha

"Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that." - Chuck Klosterman

VOTE.

I don't care who you vote for just so long as you get out there are give your say. It's not a huge time out of your day and this way you can whine about the elected government guilt-free for the next however much time they get to be in office with a majority/minority/coalition/new thing they make up on the spot.

Also, how embarrassing for Harper if he doesn't get in and the Canadian government's gotta go through a whole process to change their name again? He'll have to put that kitten down to fight off Layton ripping down his pictures in the main hall. That would be a sight... if the NDP get in and Layton's calmly ripping the pictures of Harper's creepy smiling face off the wall when suddenly he's tackled at the waist by a Harper screaming "Never!" It turns into this old man wrestling match, pictures and glass scattering across the floor, while Ignatieff looks in with his British 'tut tut' face. Layton manages to get the upper hand and crashes Harper over the head with his Christmas '10 photo, the ugly sweater split from shoulder to waist over his big melon. Harper starts throwing photos like ninja stars as Layton parcours his way behind a door then retaliates with Harper's snow globe collection (because we all know he has a snow globe collection to go with that freaky-ass picture of his cat).

Let's be honest, probably they'd just have a slap fight...

But ANYWAY,

In the event the mumblings are true and they form a Conservative/Liberal government, it's going to be like that poor kid in kindergarten who has a gawdawful long hyphenated with another gawdawful long name who has to learn to spell it... people will start then just give up halfway.

Not going to lie, I still can't even say Ignatieff's last name let alone spell it right the first time. Can't we just skip right over to Justin Trudeau? That would definitely get the 18-25 voters out again.

I'm curious to see if all this push push push will get more people out voting or if they'll just feel overwhelmed and get apathetic.