Top-to-toe denim takes off really – The Globe and Mail. Really?
Confused? See here or here. Actually, skip the second link. Something tells me this wannabe LATFH for Canadians is just making fun of the Denim Dans of the world.
Title credit: Flight of the Conchords, Rock the Party
Thrush Hermit Announce Reunion Tour!
Now, if only I had some music-fan friends within a 50mile radius of me. Won’t be my first solo concert, and definitely won’t be my last.
Title credit: Thrush Hermit, From the back of the film
Insanely great. Germaine Koh is one of those artists that just keeps churning out amazing things.
I saw Self-portrait at the Ottawa Art Gallery in 2003/4 (?) and almost cried. Self portraits rarely have that effect on me, but the idea of all self-portraits layered onto one panel. Effing perfect. Sightings is funny and weird and makes my archive+collecting+travelling urges make a little more sense. Pledge (and other currency projects) is so simple and so smart, it frustrates the bejeezus out of me.
Yay for mid-career artists!
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.
Title credit: K’naan – Wavin’ Flag
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 new book as I am about the Mad Men season 3 premiere.
Bad title, great article on the perils of discount diving.
I’m gonna reread it every time I have that sale urge.To quote a good friend who recently had a lawnmower, microwave, vacuum AND a tuner bite it, I “curse planned obsolescence and respond with a refusal to buy new, shoddily made products.”
Title credit: Modest Mouse, Trailer Trash
from Mita on Flickr
3,541 entries were submitted: many contained common elements:
- 2,136 contained maple leaves,
- 408 contained Union Jacks,
- 389 contained beavers, and
- 359 contained Fleurs-de-lys.
I love that beavers trumped Fleurs-de-lys. Oh Canada.
Why is it that I can’t get ANYthing done the day before I leave for home? It ust be the kid-on-Christmas-eve effect. See you tomorrow Canada!
Title credit: Neil Young, One of These Days
Oh Roberto Alomar. You are not nearly as cute after spitting on an ump.
I miss Canada… I’m getting misty watching fruit punch commercials.
Home in two weeks!!
Oh, and Kirby, this:
is what your t-shirt makes me think of. I remember how disappointed I was when I realized it was a religious show and that was *why* Global put the “opinions expressed are not necessarily…” disclaimer. (I had just learned to read…)
“But if I lived somewhere else, I’d probably think it was boring as shit.”
{Seth on his Canadiana collection}
Seth – Canada’s Comic-Book Hero – video
Title Credit: Danny Schmidt, Neil Young
stuff maker, pen taker, art breaker, math faker 