The Great Escape
It’s Thursday, and quite a nice one at that. I made many, many grade nines do the chicken dance today, what could be better? A chance to embarrass kids who are already extremely insecure, count me in. Today was our grade nine gamerama, which I think is a stupid invention. Like I said, grade nines are already about as insecure as they come, they don’t need further embarassment, yet I found myself standing by my station making them do the chicken dance. Todays subject though, is quite past the insecure stage, and his music is pretty darn amazing.
In English class we’ve been watching the movie One Week. Anyone heard of it? It’s a fantastic indie Canadian film that follows this guy on an adventure after he’s been diagnosed with stage four cancer. Not only is it a great movie, but it also has a fantastic soundtrack. It’s mainly indie Canadian music, and some of my very favourite artists are featured. Joel Plaskett, Wintersleep, Emm Gryner, and the Great Lake Swimmers to name a few. But also a new discovery for me. Patrick Watson. The second I heard it I knew it was love. So the minute I got home I looked up the soundtrack and found the song. To my even greater surpise, the video is really awesome too! It’s pretty cute as well. Of all his songs I’m a real fan of The Great Escape, and Big Bird In A Small Cage, but there all pretty fantastic. Below is the video for The Great Escape, I’m really loving it lately. Enjoy.
I’m a real fan of the animation style used in videos like this, and the combination of it with his voice is really something else. It’s a really sweet idea too. I think it may actually be one of my favourite videos. It really reminds me The Low Anthems Charlie Darwin video, and that’s a good thing. I’ve had this song on repeat over and over since I got home. For now though goodnight until next time, and if I don’t talk to you again, have a fantastic thanksgiving.
P.S. Go out and watch One Week, it’s really worth it.
Random Dan
It’s Monday, boohoo! But I’m not going to dwell on the negative and just move right onto the positive. And what is that you may ask? Maybe the fact that it’s RANDOM PLAYLIST MONDAY!! Hip-hip-hurray! Without further ado, here it is, on this lovely freezing cold day.
- Piano Song – Meiko (I really like her if you’re into that cheery indie girl stuff)
- Peace Train – Cat Stevens
- Steady On – Shawn Colvin (this is quite the gloomy, folky playlist)
- Two – The Antlers
- Train in the Distance – Paul Simon
- Coat Hook – Fionn Regan
- Fantasy Man – Swell Season (a perfect song for the weather today)
- Heavy Soup – Cornershop (also perfect)
- Joy to the World – Arthur & Friends (getting into that Christmas mood)
- Road Regrets – Dan Mangan
So that was a pretty awesome Random Playlist, although there isn’t really anything new on it, it was pretty old-school. So I am going to resort back to Dan Mangan. Now I know I’m always talking about him, but there is a video of his I’ve been wanting to show for a while, plus you can’t really get tired of Dan Mangan. Road Regrets is by far one of my favourite Dan Mangan songs, actually it’s one of my favourite songs over-all, and the video really lives up to the greatness of the song. So, without any more delay, here is the video for Road Regrets.
It’s a really clever video, and extremely cute too. It could also be one of those short animated videos at the beginning of some movies. What I don’t understand is why isn’t music like this more popular? Why isn’t the Indie industry the main industry? It is so interesting and so in-depth and in my opinion knocks the socks off of the main-stream industry but for some reason never seems to be completely accepted. Well, for all those people for completely missing out because you don’t get to see gems like the fantasic Mr. Mangan. I think that is all of my music rant for the day, so until next time, have a great night and talk to you soon!
Once In A Lifetime
Okay, so it’s Thursday and shockingly enough I’m already done my homework. To celebrate that, I’m going to watch a Glee marathon. For all of you who do not watch Glee, what’s your problem? There are absolutely no reasons in the world why you haven’t been watching it, except you don’t like it, which once again poses the question, what’s your problem. But enough of my Glee rant. Let’s get down to the real nitty-gritty (my history teacher said this today, I thought it was a pretty awesome saying), the topic for the today. Todays post is in response to a comment. Someone asked if there was a Talking Heads, Once In A Lifetime video because that was one of the songs from the latest Random Playlist Monday. Well I guess I didn’t think there would be so I didn’t look it up. But guess what, there is a video for Once In A Lifetime and it really is something else. If you thought David Byrne was a weird guy, well lets just say this will certainly clear up all your questions.
I was going to make a whole Talking Heads post but than I realized, OMG, Talking Heads is just far too vast a topic for one tiny, insignificant little girl like me. I mean we all know they rock like no other and may have some of the greatest music. I’d say that clears it all up. So let’s get back to the video. Brace yourselves for some weird stuff, that’s all I’ll say.
So his awkward dance at 1:00 is probably my very favourite part although there are so many to pick from. And are those not the longest legs you’ve ever seen, he’s like a spider. I do find it weird that he’s the only band member present. I guess he is just that great. But for now I must go. I’m off to continue my Glee marathon. Have a good rest of your rainy Tuesday, and I’ll talk to you soon.
A Message 2010
Monday, Monday, Monday. A great Tegan and Sara song but not a great day. Luckily after this one I only have one more Wednesday than I’m done school for the year. Of course that involves getting through exams, but I believe in my self…I think? Anways, to make this day just a little better I think we need a random playlist, don’t you? In that case, with no further a do, here’s your Random Playlist Monday!
1. Cowshed – Fionn Regan (one of my favourite Irish musicians and that’s saying a lot!)
2. City Lights – Bent by Elephants (looking forward to this at Hillside)
3. Cannonball – Damien Rice (this is a good quite song, that I’ll have to add to my rainy day playlist)
4. Hard Road – Sam Roberts
5. Hang On St. Christopher – Bullet Boys (this is from a playlist I made for my dad, don’t be to alarmed)
6. Let’s Just Fall In Love Again – Jason Castro (how many times has this song come up on a playlist? To many times to count)
7. Love That Conquers – Swell Season (this is all I’ve been listening to lately.. it’s fantastic)
8. Today’s The Day – Aimee Mann
9. A Message 2010 – Coldplay
10. Just Before the Morning – Matt Morris
As I was making this one I was thinking, wow, considering all the weird stuff on my iPod why does none of it ever come up and than the Hang on St. Christopher came on. But except for that this is one of my favourite playlists. There’s lot’s of good stuff on there to talk about but I’m going to go for Coldplay becuase well it seems like a Coldplay day.
Coldplay seems to me like one of those classic alternative bands. Everybody knows who Coldplay is but yet they still maintain there “alternative” label. They have good music, a little upbeat a little quiet. They’ve written masterpieces like The Scientist and Yellow. They sell out shows and have tons of fans but not the annoying 12 yearold screaming girls, I mean some could say they’ve got it all. I’m not sure I’m one of those but I would say that Coldplay has done pretty well for themselves. I mean they’ve written some pretty great songs and Chris Martins voice is pretty easy to love. Some of my favourite Coldplay other than the ones I mentioned previoulsy are Clocks, A Message, and Speed of Sound. I particulairly love the A Message version from the Hope For Haiti Now telethon which as I’ve said before was fantastic. That’s also the version that came up on shuffle but I think I’m going to show the original because, well just ’cause. So here it is. Enjoy the song, video, playlist and whatever else you feel like enjoying at this time. Hopefully you can enjoy another post tomorrow if I can pry myself away from homework for just a second ’cause that will be hard to do). Keep your fingers crossed and once againe enjoy!
Big Jet Plane
Homework, homework, homework. That’s my night, I have an English seminar on To Kill a Mockingbird plus a brochure and an essay to be working on so, I really don’t have a lot of time to write. I discovered Angus and Julia Stones Big Jet Plane a few days ago and totally fell in love with it. I was planning on writing about it but than I didn’t really know what to say. I really love the song but I’m not crazy about all their stuff. It’s just a really great song that I think everyone needs to check out. Hope you enjoy it, and I’ll talk to you later.
P.S. Sorry about the sucky post. I really don’t have time to write but I hate missing a night.
P.P.S. I have no idea what the song has to do with the video but the song rocks.
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