Things are slowly rumbling back to life. I’ve been working so things got real Monday morning at 4:30AM when my alarm went off… but in an amazing twist of fate my WHOLE family came to visit Victoria yesterday. I got to have Christmas again Monday afternoon and dinner at my brother CJ’s place. All-in-all, things exceeded expectations [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Posted in life or something like it on December 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Long walk, snow covered dock
Posted in neat-O gang, tagged National Geographic on December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
OK… two more wall papers for two more computers that I had to customize today. Both with a wintery vibe as we get no snow in British Columbia for Christmas. First up… Snowy Alberta. Coral saw my post the other day where I talked about Kermode Bears and Greenland and and she was like… “of [...]
Kermode Bears and Greenland
Posted in The Zone @ 91-3 on December 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Neat. We got our own unique passwords on the computers at work (goooooooo 2011!) so that means I can personalize my desktop as its not as much of a shared work space as before. My favourite spot to track a desktop image would be from National Geographic. I poked around for awhile and couldn’t quickly [...]
Let me occupy your mind
Posted in music, tagged downloads, Gotye, Hearts a Mess, MP3, remix, Somebody That I Used to Know on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Gotye is quickly becoming one of the biggest things on the radio in Western Canada right now. The Melbourninian one has a bit of history. I got an email from my man Michael in Edmonton imploring me to check out the Supermayer Super Mess remix of an early 2008 single… “Hearts a Mess.” Gotya – [...]
Follow These Rules
Posted in life or something like it, tagged rock climbing on December 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
You ever get that feeling that you’re doing life wrong? I get that all the time. I read this great article the other day about how Facebook is making us unhappy. Basically forcing us to confront jealousy everyday we log in and see our friends in awesome places, bragging about awesome jobs, awesome kids and [...]
you’re getting bludgeoned by the policy
Posted in music, tagged Seasick, Silversun Pickups, Swoon on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This close to Christmas… it just ain’t right to by yourself things. But come on, new Silversun Pickups single is just a $3 digital download. I’ve tipped more money for brutal service. For Black Friday Record Store Day the Silversun Pickups packaged up a few b-sides from the Swoon sessions. These songs would become the [...]
Trent Reznor and Karen O cover “Immigrant Song”
Posted in music, tagged Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Immigrant Song, Karen O, Led Zepplin, Trent Reznor on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wonderfully savage. Trent Reznor and Karen O cover Led Zepplin’s “Immigrant Song” for the American, Girl With a Dragon Tattoo movie. Trent Reznor & Karen O – “Immigrant Song”
Hockey! with Jeremy >> Bussey (interview with Tom Martin)
Posted in Dave Babych, tagged AHL, Hartford Whalers, Hockey, Minnesota North Stars, NHL, Tom Martin, Victoria Cougars, Victoria Royals, WHL, Winnipeg Jets on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I had a chance to sit down and talk with former WHL Victoria Cougar Tom Martin. Tom is best remembered as “that guy that got traded for a used bus” in 1983. He ended up being drafted by the Winnipeg Jets and enjoying 7 seasons of professional hockey between the AHL and NHL. He played [...]
Check out Eight and a Half
Posted in music, tagged Eight and a Half, Remixes, Scissors, Small Black, TOKiMONSTA on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The ghosts of bands past have to come together for a new project. Justin Peroff of Broken Social Scene is using the indefinite hiatus to team with a couple bros from The Stills… who sadly are also now defunct. Which is too bad because I have always enjoyed The Stills. The band is called Eight [...]
have your friends collect your records and you changed your number
Posted in music, tagged Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know on December 8, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Checked out Melbournian indie star Gotye finally today. Wow. His song “Somebody I Used to Know” is a little quirky and insanely catchy. This song is DEMANDING my attention right now. I remember a couple weeks back James Sutton over at the Peak in Vancouver posted the music video. He said something about it being [...]
