Going through another phase of wanting new things to listen to and downloading more now that I can't afford to replace the cartridge on my record player just yet.

Monday Akron/Family played here at Christ Church Cathedral, as part of New Harbours. To be honest I haven't really listened to them that much, and am kind of a dummy when it comes to ( Read more... )

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Sunday night was the first practice of the new year of the choir I am a part of with a group of friends, most of which who are very talented musicians in their own right. It was such a blast and I am really excited about the music we are doing.  So far, we are working on two songs, Eternal Day 383 and Gymnopedies 1. We are also working on figuring ( Read more... )

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I turned 29 Monday and hung out with friends Sunday night to take part in a open jam for Art's Birthday and celebrate my friend Scott's birthday, who was born just the day before mine.. Although the jam portion of the night got off to a slow start, with just Irene, the gallery's program director, me, and two of the gallery members getting things ( Read more... )

After talking to my prof last week, I am applying to Mcgill as well as York, because he felt that their program is way more suited to my research interests and is more communications-geared. The prospects of moving to Montreal are pretty exciting. I don't want to get my hopes up, because I may not get into either, considering I only have one ( Read more... )

Despite feeling like I squandered a way time/youth/everything during 2010, I can be thankful for a few great moments, such as seeing some great shows (swans, pavement, ariel pink, warpaint, and many, many friends) and going on a fantastic road trip with my two favourite ladies spending a magical night camping with them in the Adirondacks drunk/ ( Read more... )

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I read this pretty decent article about indie culture published in the last issue of Broken Pencil, which got me thinking about what draws and defines my own tastes.

One of the comments in the article refers to how everything lately looks like it came out of some shitty 1970s photo album. What  I am surprised that the article failed to really ( Read more... )

The world of artistic criticism can be a harsh mistress at times, but I have been completely grateful for the opportunity to work and be part of the New Harbours exhibition, which is soon the be nothing but a fleeting memory. It was nice to celebrate the culmination of a lot of hard work and a lot of memorable performances.There was so much ( Read more... )