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…
