Without a Yard

Hate to get all meta on y’allsies again, but need a segueway to relaunch…however painfully brutal this may be…As you can see, I’m WordPressing* not Blogspotting after a training period for some political thing.  Besides that one-month foray into politics&tech, I haven’t uploaded any text outside of Twitter since the unspectacular campaign wrapped in Canuckistan.

No shortage of amazing shows before, after & during the that time period, too.  Refer to Roberto’s YouTube to boo David Byrne‘s Massey Hall show, which was – bar none – the cream of the crop (not to disparage Nick Cave, Chromeo, Spinto Band, Wm Del Ray, Feist, Hot Chip, Radiohead, She+Him, Lykke Li, Emily+Delta, Samantha Martin, & a ton of others I’m too sleep deprived to remember…).  Check out a pixelated posse of miscellaneous concert/life snaps via Facebook & the FlickrFiles to refresh memories I can’t dredge.

Anyway, it was a really, really good autumn – so good, in fact, that there was no time to capture it on the intertubes.  Winter ahoy, then – shifting the focus from Toronto tidbits to publish a series of interviews I’ve been lucky to secure (lucky = having a very progressive & encouraging employer + kind, generous & well-connected friends) around the theme of ‘eAdvocacy.’

I’m beyond psyched (& honoured, flabbergasted, overwhelmed, etc…) that I’m blagging my way across the U-S-of-Eh so soon after the most significant ideological/political paradigm shift in my gen’s lifetime.  Hyperboles aside, I hope to canvass the wide array of technophiles using/creating/modifying the web to create communities, raise awareness & – above all – affect change.

This wouldn’t be withoutayard proper withoutasoundtrack, though, right?

NYC Hotel Gym Playlist – or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Knicks

1 – Back In Your Head (Stop Die Resusitate Remix) – Tegan & Sara

2 – My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix) – Feist

3 – Suspicious Loop Affair (Immuzikation Mashup) – My Morning Jacket/Hercules & Love Affair/US3

4 – Dur dur d`etre un bebe – Jordy

5 – Working Together (Boys Noize Vox Mix) – Gonzales

6 – Fancy Footwork (RAC Mix) – Chromeo

7 – Suenos Dulces (DLake Remix) – Thunderheist

8 – Damn Girl  (Curtis Vodka Remix) – Kid Sister

9 – Working for Vacation – Cibo Matto

10 – Raise Me Up – Hercules & Love Affair

11 – Let’s Call It Off (Girl Talk Remix) – Peter, Bjorn & John

12 – Errrbody Errrbody (Matty C Remix) – Black Box

13 – Hearts On Fire (Midnight Juggernauts Remix) – Cut Copy

14 – Skeleton Boy – Friendly Fires

15 – Teenage Electric Lobotomy (The Illuminoids Mashup)- MGMT/JUSTICE/The Ramones

*still ironing out permissions/template/design wrinkles – keep being awesome & patient…