60 Things — #10

(someone else likes maps….)

#10. a) Croquet shows

b) at the German House

Camera Obscura poster from Snore & Guzzle dot com

As the world does turn, And if London burns, I’ll be standing on the beach with my guitar

Old Folks Review Radiohead – Video – Stereogum.

Totally awesome. Radiohead review around the 4 min mark.

Title Credit: Radiohead, Anyone Can Play Guitar

When I get older…

Listening to Sound Opinions yesterday during Magazine Layout Blowout August ‘09 (MLBA’09!) and I was reminded of this song, which I watched on my ma’s TV, performed live on Parliament Hill on Canada Day, with a little patriotic lump in my throat.

K’naan – Wavin’ Flag

Title credit: K’naan – Wavin’ Flag

But I don’t think Hank done ‘em this way

I would like to give monodrone a ubiquitous thumbs up for this post. I’m bummed that eMusic unnecessarily added content that can be found at any of the bigger players on the internet.

I don’t download *classics* from eMusic. Like my favourite books, where library borrows won’t do, I want a hard copy of those. eMusic is for trying out new things, finding bands through similar artists, and is, for me, the online equivalent of the record store listening booth. I also joined (and rejoined and rejoined) for similar reasons monodrone did:

A lot of the reason I was part of eMusic in the first place was as sort of a charity for the artists and indie labels that help to bring great music to me. I have always been willing to give some money for that, even though I am web-savvy and can easily acquire music for free.

45 cents a song from 30 cents (I had the smaller 50 for $14.99 plan) is quite the jump. So, is it back to used CDs and feeling guilty that the artists never see that cash? I have a hard time paying almost 50cents a track, when some tracks were never meant to be a standalone thing (i.e. Ryan Adam’s Heartbreaker track “Ryan Adams Argument With David Rawlings About Morrissey”). And I have an equally hard time not paying for music at all, unless the band offers it up as a promotional spread-the-word tool.

Live shows and buying merch when I can afford to will have to remedy. Speaking of which… I need to find a belt for my Sadies cowboy bling. T-shirts wear out or get permanently borrowed by siblings, but a giant belt buckle is forever.

Title credit: Waylon Jennings, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way

You can’t force a dance party…

History Mixery. Genius. Hope the archives are intact.

Title Credit: Dent May’s infectious and blogged about: You Can’t Force A Dance Party (link above)

The next time you say forever, I will punch you in your face

“Just because you don’t believe it, doesn’t mean I didn’t mean it”

“Don’t let this faded summer pass you by”

“I do my best but I’m made of mistakes”

“and heaven will smell like the airport
but I may never get there to prove it”

“The hours that grind your life to dust”

Oh Neko Case. Keep writing that stuff.

Although “He takes his dinner in the bath” is totally gross.

Title Credit: Neko Case, The Next Time You Say Forever

Half of the time we’re gone, but we don’t know where

Top Ten Songs (Right now) About Going or Being Somewhere Else

Old Crow Medicine Show: Highway Halo

Lodi – Creedence Clearwater Revival

Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road

Sigur Ros – Saeglopur

El Ten Eleven – Every Direction Is North

Tom Waits – Ol’ 55

Wilco – Passenger Side

hmm… three more…
My Morning Jacket – Bermuda Highway

To Live And Die In The Airport Lounge (nah, i just like the title)
The National – So Far Around The Bend

and ten, with the Title credit: Paul Simon, The Only Living Boy in New York

Proof that the heart is a risky fuel to burn

New time waster at 8-tracks.com (thank-god it’s not 20 tracks…):

Title Credit: Songs:Ohia, Being in love

It’s making me blue…

…Pantone 292

Why does this feel like a deja vu post? Have I dreamt about posting something like this? Oh god. Have I dreamt about blogging?

Title Credit: The Magnetic Fields, Reno Dakota

Spring forward, fall back down

Not sure why that list made me laugh — but it did. Which one do Cryptic-Canadians choose? Or Canadian-Universalists? {It’s 2 and I’m just having my first coffee – so …}

Sadies show was pretty great, minus a few punch-facers in the crowd. {That girl who alternated between boyfriend groping and attempts to get everyone to do that obnoxious raise-the-roof thing; that guy who was dancing like a seizure for EVERY song, even the slows; and the girl with the smelly leather purse on her bony shoulder that she kept jabbing me with and pretending nothing–what?—nothing was going on; and lastly– cellphone-picture-taking guy– he must have one hell of a collection of blurry bands on the bug jar stage by now}. Otherwise, good times. I’m getting to old to go see bands on Weekend (read:sad pick-up) nights. Or too lacking in patience.

I DID find out one of the Sadies are from Hastings, ON (My mom’s hometown, right down the hwy from Campbellford), which explains the show in C’ford next Saturday.

“The Weakerthans? Nah, those guys are wimps. You can tell ‘em I said that.”

(overheard at the merch table, Sadies, Bug Jar, Rochester, NY, Feb 21, 2009)

VS

{{fight!}}

Title Credit: The Weakerthans, Left & Leaving