Sons & Daughters
New album from Sons & Daughters, an excellent Scottish indie band. Here’s the first video: And while I’m talking about Sons & Daughters, this is a song from their first full-length that I love:
Month: March 2008
Listening to: Counting Crows, August and Everything After
I want to be Bob Dylan | Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky | When everybody loves you, son | That’s just about as funky as you can be Is there anybody who listened to … [read more]
Free wireless Internet access, the not-so-legal way
It feels like a bit of an old topic. It’s been discussed many times before, and the outcome is pretty much always: be cautious. Don’t steal someone else’s Internet access. Depending on where you live, it could be a criminal … [read more]
South Bend, Indiana
On my way back from Seattle last Saturday, I had another small travel adventure (my adventure on the way there is described here). A blizzard had been announced back in Toronto (it was known by Friday afternoon that we’d get … [read more]
Veganizing Anthony Bourdain
Hezbollah Tofu is a blog trying to organize vegans to “veganize” Anthony Bourdain’s recipes. They’ll publish them as a zine once they have collected enough. Bourdain is quoted from Kitchen Confidential: Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are … [read more]
Listening to: Feeder, Comfort in Sound
This is such a fantastic listen, it’s hard to know where to begin. Feeder are a British rock band that has been around since 1992. Originally from South Wales, they released 2 EPs and 3 albums between 1995 and 2001. … [read more]
Jeff Healey dies at 41
Sad news: Jeff Healey died of cancer on Sunday. Jeff, who was blind, first became famous for playing electric blues guitar, holding it across his lap. He had always been an avid collector of old jazz 78’s, and released two … [read more]
Time to forget my laptop
So here I was, early for my flight, as it turns out, at Toronto Pearson Airport, e-ticket in hand. You know the drill (well, if you’ve left Toronto by plane then you do): Use one of the little electronic kiosks … [read more]