as i’m sitting here watching silent hill speed runs, i have to wonder what roger ebert could have possibly been thinking when he began his one man crusade against the notion of video games as art. the post was made almost 4 months ago and after 4000+ comments, who knows how many blog responses, and [...]
i must’ve seen harry potter and the half blood prince four or five times in our hotel in italy. i don’t know why, but between the world cup and harry potter there was just nothing on tv. each time it was on i managed to catch the scene where dumbledore has to drink the Unhappiness [...]
the opening notes of hunted by a freak just hit me, like that moment of recognition when you’re standing in the audience and the familiarity of a song washes over you and you can’t stop smiling. mogwai have a gift with melody that is, at the same time, not melody. vocals that are barely discernible [...]
this album has been sitting in my amazon shopping cart for like, 6 years now. just one of those things. you scrape together enough quarters to buy a shiny new music-disk, and you see that $16.99 price tag and it’s like, ohh man, 16.99 huh…maybe next time buddy.
from what i understand, blockhead takes a sort [...]
pretty much anybody who asks me what my favourite album of all time is has to sit through me rambling on about this album and how one day, when hip-hop is a legitimate field of study, it’ll be required reading. so yeah, i sort of like this album. of course, i realize that it is [...]
so i’m posting this…i don’t even know why i’m posting this, it’s sort of the songwriting equivalent of drunk dialing. this is the demo i produced for my final project in my songwriting course. the title of this post is from an episode of the Penny Arcade podcast, a quote that was running through my [...]
i was at grooves the other day, flipping through the rock section when i came across this album. i noticed it sort of out the corner of my eye. sometime around when i was 14-15 i’d made a huge wishlist on amazon.ca of cd’s i wanted to get, and this was one of them. basically [...]
i first heard the 8 mile soundtrack when i was 12 years old. this was back when i was just becoming aware of music, a time i think of as the Great Awakening. my parents would not buy or be party to any purchase of music that they considered “rude”. as a result, my cousin [...]
disclaimer: i dont know if any of this is actually true, these are just words i thought of
if sarcasm is saying what you don’t mean, then irony might be defined as not saying what you do mean.
dramatic irony is often defined as a situation in fiction wherein the audience has knowledge that a character(s) does [...]
in the grand tradition of taking Things That Occurred and listing them, i have decided to take a look at the music that was important to me in 2009.
Norah Jones – Young Blood
i saw norah jones play this song live on the colbert report and it was pretty immediate. it’s almost like norah jones + [...]
