THE dBs This was the last band I had stayed to see and I hadn’t been able to find any of their records until the day of as they were selling their first two albums re-released together as one at the show. I don’t know very much about the dBs but Mike Bennett did help [...]
It’s become a yearly tradition to go to the Hideout Block Party as it always goes to a good cause (Tuesday’s Child and Play) and features some great bands. It’s where we first heard Andrew Bird, for example. KEVIN O’DONNELL: I was expecting a bit more from this band as I have admired Kevin O’Donnell’s [...]
I think perhaps it must have been a particularly special thing to see Sufjan Stevens actually play live the songs from Illinois while he was actually in Illinois, Chicago no less. I’ve never seen a line so long before doors even opened. It stretched all the way down Clark and wrapped around the corner of [...]
I saved the best for last. I really did. The TTC is more roomy than most subway trains I have been on (certainly more so than Chicago’s el system) and it actually runs frequently and on time (imagine that!) I took these pictures over the course of two rides from Scarborough Shopping Centre to the [...]
It’s no wonder I have to work out. But oh it’s so worth it. Chocolatey Ode: Aero you know how to make a woman feel good. I’ve had dreams about you Coffee Crisp and I woke up very satisfied. Smarties, you’re much more intelligent than any M & M. Aero Caramel you really know your [...]
I really wanted to put all of the Toronto pics together. That was my original intention. But then Katrina destroyed New Orleans and I commented and then I realized I hadn’t blogged about films I thought people might like to see or books I thought people might want to read. Worse yet, I was forgetting [...]
(a couple of days ago) 1. I had a dream two first cousins of mine were getting married to eachother. My mother was in the bathtub with my cat Spooky who was back floating. I left the house I was in and walked down my moonlit street of Magnolia. It was warm but the tree [...]
Three films: The Brothers Grimm, Broken Flowers, and 2046 BROTHERS GRIMM: 7/10 Let me tell you something about American children. They don’t really like fairy tales. Oh yes, they love the idea of them and they will gleefully crowd around a reader as long as they feel safe enough in knowing that there’s always a [...]
Seeing Feist was overall a real treat. It was a bit offputting to see so many Tower get-your-record-autographed-after-the-show-if you-buy-it-here-now signs at Schubas no less but other than that, it felt right. Overall, she comes off much different than I had expected her to. She really has a very ham personality and was very encouraging of [...]
THREE TITLES: The Partly Cloudy Patriot, The Coma, and A Girl Named Zippy THE PARTLY CLOUDY PATRIOT by Sarah Vowell Oh I love Sarah. I really do. It started around the winter holidays when I saw her being interviewed in a TMBG doc. called Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) with Ira Glass (I’m a [...]