Music Minute

I die for Patti Smith.
You know whats coming, and yet you still can't wait to hear her sing it. The woman's a genius.
Bow down you mere mortals to the melodious sounds of P.Smith.

Hectic Week

Last night officially wrapped up one of the more nutso weeks in my recent history. Work + Volunteering @ the Cinemania Film festival and trying to have a social life (Mumford and Sons concert + Friends + being interviewed for the Concordian) had left me tired and with and extremely sore back (which is actually getting me worried because it wont go away) so today is a chill day


Cinemania Montreal

Cinemania was awesome! Alot of early mornings (followed by late nights at the resto and then more early mornings) were kind of a killer, but they allowed me to really connect with the event organizers who were all super awesome ladies. I also allowed me to see a bunch of free films ( La Reine des Pommes (2/5), Bazar (3/5) Tout ce qui Brille (3/5) Sommeil Blanc (2/5), L'Enfance du Mal (3/5), Dumas (3/5), Illegal (4/5) and Potiche (4/5)) all in french with English subtitles. Having never volunteered at a film festival before I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed my experience. I'm told not all festivals are as well presented and I totally believe it. i am therefore excited to volunteer again and total wary of it at the same time.




Next on the docket was the Mumford concert. As usual they were amazingly breath taking.
Super big props as well to their opening acts this time around, King Charles and Cadillac Sky.

Caddilac was alot of fun but I cant seem to find them online, and King Charles was actually kind of amazing



He played the entire set by himself with just a guitar, except for the opening song which he did accapella and it actually stopped my heart and made me do a double take while in line for coat check.

But unfortunate by the time Mumford came on the same problem arose as last time: the crowd SUCKED! I don't know what is wrong with people these days but they lack any kind of concert etiquette. Drunks yelling, girls squealing, people interrupting the band. it was so frakin' annoying.

Also the show lasted 3 and a half hours! Which was awesome yet very exhausting.

So good week, glad it's over, back to applying for jobs.

Music

After 3 years of being in these guys, I so glad to hear that they are finally on the up! I was lucky enough to experience their "Gentlemen on the Road" tour, and I have to say that they are both gentlemen and extremely amazing live. Lucky for me I already have tickets to their next show in MTL, hope this time the crowd is better (not jokes we got sussshed at the last show, the crowd was balls) and a better opening band (coma inducing music to kill your children to) cause they bring enough awesomeness that it should follow them around as well.


Full EW interview under the cut!


Check out the vids! unlike my other brit obession Florence they make great ones! Woman makes great musicbut her vids (excluding comic love) are horrible

No One's Gonna Love You

Fresh of his sucess with "Fuck You" Cee Lo Green brings us a hauntingly beautiful cover of Band of Horses "No ones gonan love you". Love it.

Throwback!

Who shot this and on what?! no seriously!

I rediscovered this video the other day when SM and I did a late 90's early 00's video night.



I used to love EVE6 (Fun fact the band was named after a character on X-files, no wonder I loved them so much) and this vid reminds me why. If I ever do a vid it's totally gonna rip this one off. The vintage toys the dynamic camera movement's the lighting and xtreme close ups, the cut off bodies and faces, just all totally work for me. I wonder if he actually wore the camera on a harness (how would it turn like that) or what, but I love it. I'm a sucker for the self reflexiveness of it all. This is one of those instances where the video makes me like the song more then I did when I first heard it.

+ bonus points cause the lead singers a redder

Can You Handle It?

B movie Heaven!

SHARKTOPUS!



One day I'll get the SyFy network... one day!

Adventure Weekend/Sunday

Another successful adventure Sunday this weekend with Tara and Gaël! Gaël had the brilliant idea of hitting up the beach and therefore we ventured out to park Jean Drapeau, spiked punch, sunscreen and chips in hand. Gaël built sandcastles, I read and Tara tanned (using the most bizarre tanning lotion I have ever seen, basically it induces an allergic reaction and apparently that's supposed to help you tan...)

The castle was mostly successful as was the tanning. The highlight of the day came when a couple of FULLY dressed tourists tried to go for a swim on the one part of the beach your not supposed to use and proceeded to basically have sex in the water. They were then kick out of the water by a lifeguard with washboard abs, so they headed to the picnic tables to strip off theirs clothes and finish there.




This weekend also marked the beginning of the Jazz Festival here in MTL. So Grace Tara and I headed out to the Festivities to watch opening act Brian Setzer and his orchestra light up the night. I was unfortunately too late to catch hometown favorites the Hellbound Hepcats play but I told that both of their shows were a riot. As expected the place was PACKED but we did manage to get within 100 feet of the stage and were able to better see the screens and tell that there were in fact people on stage. later that night Duke and Tristan met us for beer and we spent the rest of the night watching the show from there n their handy dandy TV screen.




So all in all it was a fun and cheap weekend! Which is good cause this week is moving week and it promises to be hell!

Current Soundtrack to My Life

So Laura Marling, I not the biggest fan of her music, but for some reason her whole vibe is really inspiring right now. Andrea got me into her an I'm totally hooked on this song! It also combines two of my favorite things, the guys from Mumford + stop motion.

(heart)

FINALLY!

Cosmic Love

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/45268820.html#cutid1

I'm glad she's finally making this video, lets just hope it doesn't suck as bad as the rest of them

Hope he does "Lorna Zauberberg" next

Doubly Doubly

Not my favorite song of the new album, I much prefer Lorna Zauberberg, (I Want To) Burn You (Down) and Fireflies. Still I worship the man and everything he does.

New musical Obession

This woman is utterly magical to see live

My name to you is just another word

You Desired My Attention, But Denied My Affections...

http://www.myspace.com/mumfordandsons

Sometimes I think in song

Lighthouse By The Hush Sound

Take what you need while there's time
The city will be earth in a short while
If I'm not mistaken it's been in flames
You and I will escape to the seaside

There is a storm in the distance
The wind breathing warning of its imminence
There is a lighthouse five hundred yards down
You and I will be safe there

There is a girl who haunts that lighthouse
She saved me, I was swimming
So young I almost drowned
Under the water she sang a story
Of losing her lover
She calls a warning

Love, you are foolish, you're tired
Your sleeplessness makes you a liar
The city is burning
The ocean is turning
Our only chance is the lighthouse

Her lover was a sailor
She went and she waited there
The door locked from the outside
Lover never arrived so she sings there
Soft as a siren luring the ships off their course, how alarming

We went in, we climbed up and looked out
The door locked from the outside
Three ghosts in a lighthouse

Your Black and White Needs a Little Bit of Red