Sitting on a subway train and watching all the people lose their senses

This is insanely cool: gabriellaevelina.

Been thinking about words and pictures and grids… because FESTIVAL OF 24 THINGS LAUNCHES TONIGHT!! At midnight. Stay tuned.

Title credit: Galaxie 500, Parking Lot

Go go go, go goatee go

Whiskerino. Fin..

I have a giant crush on this site. ‘Nuff said.

Title credit: Phenomenological Boys, The Anti Beard Song

I hope your heart is good and strong, if you find yourself in my arms

Check out these cool business cards from Geeky Medics. I think they should do a greeting card line  – or tee-shirts! It could be the next You Have Died of Dysentery.

Nerrrrrrrrrrrds!

Title credit: Rural Alberta Advantage, Two Lovers

And if you find a good man, don’t take him home.

Perusing Comically Vintage might be one of my favourite Saturday things to do. Getting sent a funny one, before I get a chance to peruse is also pretty high on the list.

Title credit:  The Gaslight Anthem, The Queen of Lower Chelsea

I’ll write a letter to a hip Toronto magazine

Oh, Toronto. Things like this make my crush on you get bigger and bigger.

Keep on ignoring each other and pretending to dislike this great city, Torontonians. I know you don’t really mean it.

Phil’s got a great PR manager…
Torontoist coverage
Toronto Star coverage
blogTO coverage

and all over twitter.…

Come on Toronto Life & Eye Weekly – get on it while it’s hot!

More links:
Another post on trains from robynmakesstuff

YouTube – Phil dancing on the subway!.
(That’s the No Frills I frequented a lot in the summer – Dufferin Mall…Really?)

aaaaaand: Subway Buttons from Spacing! Maybe they should team up with Phil and make some Phil Dancing + Wellesley buttons… could be hotter than the Pinko buttons.

Title credit: Martin Tielli (Rheostatics), Secret Red Canoe

I killed a guy in Buffalo last night

This… is all pretty amazing.

A rockstar and his old car.

A concept album inspired by an Argentinian racecar driver (PALIDROME!)

A kickass album illustration by a kickass illustrator. (Email me when that tee hits the market!)

AND a kickass video, to boot.

That video makes me miss my former (adopted) upstate NY home.

Thumbs up to…the internet for spreading things like this around with such ease and grace.

And thumbs up to the cool people that made all this awesome stuff!

Move to the city and move back home, and move to another city

This looks like an amazing show. I love the mildly Edward Hopper look, with the contemporary elements. Orange plastic fences, white 1970s sided bungalows, velvet armchairs and shag carpet – I want to go to there.

Opens Thursday at Telephone Booth Gallery in Toronto.
Info: Land Line.

Title credit: Wildlife, Move to the City

So I’m hiding away until until I change…

This is pretty uh, well, awesome – $1000 start-up cash for an awesome idea.
The Awesome Foundation wants to give you $1000 – Public Displays of Affection.

 

 

Title credit: The Next Door Neighbours, Totally Awesome (found on some Canadian compilation CD – they might be defunct – the only Next-Door Neighbors I can find are a female duo from Washington state)

I got your letter from overseas, you said it’s taken a while but you found yourself finally

This is insanely great. I want that music as my walkin’ around soundtrack. And I want that Corn dog to host more videos! Great job, soJin!

ReOriented in Sao Paulo from soJin Chun on Vimeo.

Title credit: Andrew Vincent, Canadian Dream

I played video games in a drunken haze, I was seventeen years young, hurt my knuckles punching the machines, the taste of scotch rich on my tongue

I love New Year’s Day.

My day has included that ^, and this:

and this:

and the main reason to sit through 95 minutes of Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee & Cigarettes.

 

And disc one, season one of Chappelle’s Show. And Ghost Dog. (This one , not this one.)

I should probably go read a book.

Title credit: Mountain Goats, This Year (I could name drop here, but I won’t)