Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Friday, May 20, 2011

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Cassettes...





Check this out: "An Ultimate Audiotape Guide"

makes me yearn for my stacks and stacks of old tapes I left back in Australia

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Calgary...

First single....waiting for the album.

Friday, May 6, 2011

The Necks for a Friday...



Jazz trio, The Necks, are superb. Here's their eighth album, Aether, in its entirety, which is one hour-long track. Put it on in the background as you read the paper, make dinner, or just nap in a sun-beam.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

"Even urban Latvians live off the land..."

A wonderful insight into Latvian cuisine and food culture:

"Riga Revisited: A Latvian homecoming reveals how a family's culinary traditions endure."

Hilarious analogies...

"56 worst/best analogies of high school students"

These are hilarious. Some favourites:

  • "From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30."

  • "She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up."

  • "Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever."

  • "He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at asolar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it."

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Symmetry...



Gorgeous...



It reminds me of the photography from the brilliant blog (and recently published book) '52 Suburbs'.