February 2012
2 posts
listening to "M. Ward - Helicopter" →
someone you might not guess is in my top 5 shows i haven’t seen. M.Ward. killer.
January 2012
6 posts
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Stay Uncomfortable
I was thinking yesterday of how annoying it has become to fall into a stereotype lately - one of those “I need to lose weight by eating better and exercising more” people. It wasn’t hard to look around me and realize how easy my life is. I have everything i need in my home, and appearances can deceive even myself, believing that I am doing great and working hard. But nothing...
listening to "Young the Giant - God Made Man" →
forgive the heavy dose of music snob in this statement, but i can’t remember the last band i really liked by hearing it first on commercial radio.
listening to "Magnet - Where Happiness Lives" →
this was exactly the smoothness i was waiting 2 hours of itunes shuffle for.
listening to "M83 - Moonchild" →
the soundtrack to my melancholy this morning. i’m gonna be a mess by the time “Farewell Goodbye” comes on…
listening to "Matthew Sweet- Sick of Myself" →
i just turned this up to 11.
December 2011
3 posts
listening to "The Black Keys - Lonely Boy (First... →
i asked for this one in CD. something about this i had to have my hands on.
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Inspiration
Being creative requires one particular stimulant - inspiration. I almost prefer the term oxidant as a metaphor, with its bubbly, wild, immediately reactive behaviour. It is what makes us creative.
I have always been creative. I was reminded of this recently as I assisted in my son’s classroom during a clay-modelling hour with an art instructor. Every other table of kids was...
November 2011
2 posts
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idea writing
I have always enjoyed and despised writing. For one, it makes my hand hurt; moreso since I broke my wrist snowboarding some years ago and have since discovered nerve damage, which is aggravated by the simple task of penmanship.
Still, on an emotional and intellectual level, writing has been at times the perfect drug of choice to appease my addiction of formulating ideas. (Argument being the other...
listening to "Midlake - Chasing after deer video" →
i loved this record for one song - not this one; another reason to give albums a chance, and discover more gems.
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
1 post
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Religion: The Misguided Child
I just had a phone call from a stranger. A woman clearly in her late 40’s or early 50’s. She was calling on behalf of a church whose name I already forget - Baptist, or Pentecostal maybe - and she was offering to do Bible studies in my home. Would that be something I would be interested in? No. “Ok, thank you.” Good bye.
Good intentions. Probably an immensely better...
August 2011
1 post
listening to "Amy Seeley - Mile Marker [HQ]" →
my good friend makes such good music.
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
5 posts
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
3 posts
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listening to "Andy Shauf - Crushes" →
one of the first songs i heard by my friend Andy Shauf. i still think its one of his best.
listening to "James Vincent McMorrow - If I Had A... →
i’m seeing this guy tonite. Toronto. 9pm. Great Hall. awesomeness.
February 2011
1 post
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“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.
Talent will not;...”
– President Calvin Coolidge
January 2011
2 posts
listening to "LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge" →
great way to start a morning.
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New Music 2011
Inevitably the wealth of “Best Of” lists each new year provides some new finds in the music collection. This year I turned to a couple of regulars, KEXP Seattle radio and NPR. And I again found my first purchases of the new year to be embarrassing admissions of omission from my own Best Of 2010 list. These are two records that I should have noticed, particularly from Sigur...
December 2010
8 posts
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OKGo R Smrt →
OK Go with a refreshing and intelligent oration on the new music biz in light of the old music biz. More than videos man.
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“life is rarely “all of this” and “none of that”.”
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Best-of 2010, Supplemental
Of course, it was only a matter of hours after posting my Best Music of 2010 list in which I discovered a glaring omission. Tragic! So to accompany requests for the *more-than-10* list, along with the *best songs of 2010* list, I must begin with identifying the glaring omission.
Land of Talk Cloak and Cipher
This record should have easily been in my top ten. It might have been #6 I think. How...
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Best of 2010
Yes, it is a bit safe. But to be honest, it wasn’t a stellar year of lots of great choices. The top 3 blew me away. The rest were just good. My list of best music is about 15 long in iTunes, but for brevity sake I have reduced this posted list to 10. I will perhaps follow up with a post identifying the extras, and perhaps re-order them into best songs, but for now, here are my 10 best...
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listening to "The Long Winters - The Commander... →
Some songs are so… Long Winters.
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My iTunes Shuffle is Cool
My wife recently insisted I buy a Threadless tee that said “I listen to bands that don’t even exist yet”. as a fitting billboard for my general music-snobbery. I am an indie-music snob I guess. It doesn’t help that, when tagged in a Facebook Note challenge to let your itunes shuffle and report honestly the first 15 songs, I was treated to this incredible list. I’m...
November 2010
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Shameless Design website re-design →
I’m happy to announce the re-design of the Shameless Design website. They say a shoemaker’s children have no shoes - which is true of us in the design world. Our own is the last to come. So raise a glass to intentionality. Huzzah.
September 2010
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listening to "Ryan Adams - So Alive" →
listening to "Youth Group - Shadowland" →
my early days listening to KEXP and designing websites. nostalgia in 3:38
August 2010
2 posts
listening to "Julian Plenti - Only If You Run" →
I know Interpol is coming out with a new record, but have you given the singer’s solo record enough of a try? i love this today.
listening to "Faultline. - Where Is My Boy" →
love this song, love random/obscure tracks of the past popping out.
June 2010
3 posts
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Dying Young
It doesn’t matter who it is, dying ‘young’ sucks. Suddenly at 56 from a ruptured blood clot sucks. Thats young. When it is someone who held some anchor in your past, however small, it makes you feel something.
News that Dana Key, guitarist and 1/2 of old school Christian rock band Degarmo & Key, died this way this weekend.
In the mid-80’s I was in a vulnerable...
listening to "O brother where art thou? - I am a... →
Forgot how great this movie & soundtrack was - maybe once a month I hear a song on the Starbucks speakers that I feel good nostalgia for. This is one.
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May 2010
6 posts
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