Peruse on through

For those who love Dinosaur Comics, The Beguiling in Toronto has the t-shirts, comic book, and even those wonderful greeting cards that I mentioned before. Plus a whole bunch of other crazy cool books and art and books about art.

VBM is back in business.

Head on over and check it out.

Upbeat (on repeat)

Tired of my minute car mixtape collection, I made myself a new one. It's split in two halves and fits onto a 90 minute tape...you can download both parts.

Tracklist for "Upbeat: Mixtape February 2007":

Tous Ces Mots - Nadiya
Dashboard - Modest Mouse
You and Me - The Delays
Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix) - The Killers
Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
The Prayer - Bloc Party
The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism - The New Pornographers
They Took A Vote and Said No - Sunset Rubdown
All My Friends - LCD Soundystem
The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat) - The Flaming Lips
Sofa Song - The Kooks
Hounds of Love - The Futureheads
Whoo! Alright - Yeah... Uh Huh - The Rapture
Saw It On Your Keyboard - Hellogoodbye
The Sinking Game - Marit Larsen
Combat Baby - Metric
Jump - Madonna
Gravity Rides Everything - Modest Mouse
LDN - Lily Allen
Fire Eye'd Boy - Broken Social Scene
Sexyback - Justin Timberlake

Enjoy.

Chaaaaaaaaaarlie...We're on a briiiiiiiiiidge, Chaaaaaaaarlie!

This...oh man. I just laugh.

From Blown Speakers

How appropriate.


With freezing winds blowing across Toronto's Nathan Phillip's Square, the New Pornographers let it rip and gave an amazing show. I've been wanting to see them live for at least a year, never been able to make it until Saturday. Any musical mess-ups can be forgiven because of the cold, which was extreme.

We all got "funky" after a word slip, were entertained by piano-playing in mittens, and danced and rocked our frozen toes off. I have never been so pumped at a concert.


Would I go again? In a second.

Is this awesome (Y/N)?

Dinosaur comics greeting cards.

I vote "Y".


(This one's my favourite).

"Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices."

Children of Men just completely blew me out of the water. I had high expectations from what others have said, but holy sh*t. It was so in your face, so tangible...I mean, you see all these "triumph of the human spirit" films...but wow. I need words.

It makes you stop and think. You do the best you can, with what you've got, and the best you can do is good enough. People just try to survive on what they've got.

I think the scene (one of the scenes) that got me most in this film was when *SPOILER* Theo and Kee are coming out of the building, with everyone watching them and the baby...the intense silence, awe, respect. And then boom, back to business, while they struggle on. No one's stopping them, but no one's paving the way, either.

Style? Effective and appropriate.

And the ending? Perfect.

Go see it, if you haven't already.