“…you can’t major in making stuff, so it was art by default.”
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Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?
- You and I know from the radio and the radio never lies
- Just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love
- Moats and boats and waterfalls, alley ways and payphone calls
- I’m an American aquarium drinker / I said a ghost is born
- I don’t know where I’m going, but I know where I’m coming from.
- Just like a paperback novel, the kind the drugstores sell
- In twenty-seven years, a drank fifty thousand beers
- But don’t you remember that you once said that you liked happy endings?
- If I don’t die or worse, I’m gonna need a nap.
- On a thousand islands in the sea I see a thousand people just like me
- Wednesday morning, we sleep over and we’re late again
- They’re tearing up streets again, They’re building a new hotel-
- One thing about me is you probably never noticed me before
- Sugar dumpling muffin baby, this world is going crazy…
- I saw her dancing, dancing in some old smokey place.
Category Archives: Summer of 2009
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Summer of 2009
Tagged Beards, border-crossing, Canada, Canadian, crush, Live Music, Music, Ottawa, Stuck in my head lyrics, Summer of 2009, television
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Some things are better than others
Things that cheer me up… on-line. To be continued, I’m sure.
Too cool for school…
Goddamn it Mr. Coupland – does everything you touch turn to primary-coloured-gold? The giant Downy bottle… the white miniature replica CN Tower… Mousetrap as sculpture, for chrissakes? Even your pizza box looks intentionally brilliant. I’m almost as excited about your … Continue reading
Posted in books, Novels, Pop culture, Summer of 2009
Tagged Art, books, border-crossing, Can-lit, Canada, Canadian, Chairs, Crushes, Design, Editing, Novels, Pop culture, Summer of 2009
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Dark &/and/’n’ Stormy Summer Foreboding
“We might have to go with an ampersand,” she said. via Shaken and Stirred – The Dark ‘n’ Stormy from Bermuda Comes With Directions – NYTimes.com. Just got some slides back from Parsons, KS and a handful of them were … Continue reading
Posted in Rochester, Summer of 2009
Tagged Rochester, Summer of 2009, There will be snacks
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