Spinning through the town, soon or later the fever ends & I wind up feeling down

Part Two - A sprinkling of cover songs - not quite the ‘meat’ of this playlist - on a lovely Fleetwood Mac ciabatta

1 - Dreams (Fleetwood Mac, live at World Cafe) - Whiskeytown
2 - California Waiting - Kings of Leon
3 - Falling at Your Feet - Daniel Lanois
4 - Waves of Rye - Department of Eagles
5 - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Whitney Houston, Live @ ACL) - David Byrne
6 - It Ends The Way It Started - Sad Dracula (RyAd)
7 - How Does It Feel - Zeus
8 - Alison/Living A Little, Laughing A Little/Tracks Of My Tears/Tears Of A Clown/No More Tearstained Makeup/Clowntime Is Over (Live w/ Steve Nieve) - Elvis Costello
9 - Oh No - Dr. Dog
10 - Any Sense Of Time - The Inbreds
11 - What Makes You Think You’re the One - Fleetwood Mac

For the little girls with the carousel eyes, and the brick-a-brak finding housewives, losing their minds

Holed Up Hotel Playlist - Part One - A Cover Song Sandwich (poofy top bun…mmm…forbidden wheat/yeast…)

1 - Everything Hits at Once (Live at the Parish in 04, ATX) - Spoon
2 - Dis-moi au revoir encore - Eleni Mandell
3 - Window Blues (Live @ SXSW - Mohawk?) - Lykke Li
4 - I’ve Been Out Walking (Jackson Browne, Live in Fort Worth) - St Vincent
5 - Water Runs Dry (Boyz II Men Cover, Live @ Googie’s Lounge) - Jens Lekman
6 - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) - The Cure
7 - Calling And Not Calling My Ex - Okkervil River
8 - Story Of An Artist (Daniel Johnston, Live @ KEXP) - M. Ward
9 - Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Paul Simon) - Julie Doiron
10 - Where Is My Mind? (Pixies) - Emmy The Great
11 - Sing a Song for Them - Jenny Lewis

bright lights, tv screens, feels like looking in a magazine

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…