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enemy mine | swan lake
my friend emailed me the new swan lake album today and what i've heard so far is pretty fantastic. swan lake is comprised of pretty much my favourite musicians in canada - carey mercer from frog eyes, dan bejar from destroyer and the new pornographers, and spencer krug from sunset rubdown and wolf parade. bam!
here are three songs for you to download off the album:
spanish gold, 2044 | a hand at dusk | spider
(if you are very hungry, email me and i'll send you more! xx)
five songs.
since my ipod was wiped clean a few months ago, i've gotten into the habit of stealing entire collections of music off of the hard drives of various people i know in an effort to catch back up. the best part about doing this is that you end up with so many guilty pleasure awesome songs that you'd completely forgotten about until JUST THAT MOMENT.
after a quick browse through my ipod, here are some of my favourites for you to download!:
eminem: like toy soldiers.
murder inc, benzino and a paul simon sample. it doesn't really get better than this, right? i love how eminem is a serious musician. i love when he wears his little wire frame glasses with his white t-shirts and his ridiculous grey sweat pants. it's true, he is a total stud.
ryan adams: wonderwall (oasis cover).
this song is soooooo earnest. you really get the sense that ryan adams MEANS IT. he means every word of this song. today really is the day where they're gonna throw it all back to you. you get the feeling that he probably lays in bed when he's bummed out, listening to his version of this song over and over again. is he still dating parker posey? i love ryan adams.
journey: don't stop believin.
probably the best song ever written.
amerie : take control.
i have no qualms with liking amerie. i actually LOVE amerie. especially this song. and especially the fact that she's half korean. whaaaaaa? 'take control' is pretty much the perfect r&b pop song. it has everything you could ever want - it's all dancey and has some good messaging, plus it's sexy and amerie has mad booty.
andrew w.k: she is beautiful.
remember how awesome this video was? a couple of years ago i watched an interview he did with nardwuar the human serviette, and he had a little scab on his forehead that he picked at until it bled. he picked at it because nardwuar asked him to, not because it was itchy. SERIOUSLY! this is like my favourite love song ever.
go go gadget.
an insane marathon of a weekend, i'm looking forward to a week of being good humans and going to bed early.
rap up.
a buzzing friday at the agency + waiting for my last meeting to start. this weekend is gonna be soooo awesome, because LOMANG and wordy are back in town, because of bananas at shelter, because of the dingbats brasil exhibit tomorrow at the foundry, because of the daedalum films screening of up from the underground (hardqueen documentary), because of ....... whew. there is so much stuff going on this weekend, it's ridiculous. where you gonna go, what you gonna do?
the photo above is from beijing -- the only vanity plate i've ever seen in china. you can also see adrian strutting off to the side. he's hardcore.
FUN!
creep outs not make outs.
found this little guy in my sink the other night, i properly freaked out, screamed like a little girl and left the house running. this morning, i woke up and saw him again (i hope it was the same guy), except this time he was dead, still in the sink laying on his back, creepy little legs sticking straight out.
where there is one there is a million, right? time to bust out the raid, summer has hit shanghai.
beijing bubbbbles.
massive weekend in beijing for the strawberry festival. also got to go to hot pot & also the 3rd anniversary of one of my favourite bars in the world. d22 awesomeness. carsick cars awesomeness. overindulgence and unbelievably ridiculous happenings. i don't think we went to bed before the sun came up once. there was alot of strung out insane behavior. it was so fun!!
i uploaded a ton of photos from the weekend to flickr, so check out my strawberry festival flickr set. i'm gonna need a couple days to recuperate. my body will never be the same. chase the dream, not the paper!! xx.
ps. i forgot to mention, i fake dj'd at c's bar on thursday night for their indie night party, it was so fun! someone needs to teach me how to mix properly. now that kidplastik is in town, i think that someone is going to have to be him. internets forever yo.
change the world.
it's been a while since i last updated, mostly because shit's been crazy. yesterday was founders day at the agency, and it meant setting 120 wieden'ers loose on the streets of shanghai for a hectic day of nuttiness. highlights included watching an esteemed colleague get his dick area waxed, copious amounts of alcohol, ktv, dance lessons, chinese wedding portraits, peep shows, fortune telling, the uigur jimi hendrix, about a zillion prizes, alot of smoke, about 30 cab rides, and running around like crazy.
i think it went well. i just ordered 1,400rmb worth of mcdonalds to the office. do you know how awesome it is to tell someone "i want to order 50 big macs"?
rainy dayyyyz.
finally friday! this has officially been the longest week in the history of weeks. plus it's raining. this is a photo of my cat, meow tse-fun. she is a classy bitch, drinking that toilet water like a champ.
today adrian and i are booking our flights to beijing so we can go to the strawberry music festival during may long weekend. we are stoked. we are more than stoked! deerhoof and xiu xiu are headlining, which is pretty awesome for china.
also very excited to see carsick cars on friday night & hot pot on saturday. haven't seen my friends at D-22 in ages either. we're gonna land in beijing, roll into the park, spend the entire weekend in a ridiculous state, and then fly back for work on monday morning. holla.
she eats!
sunday night, lots of reason to get tooogether. jan lo + dj wordy got into town over the weekend, and it was anita's last night in shanghai. she celebrated by spending four hours cooking the most amazing meal ever. afterwards there was icecream. now it's monday and i have a stomachache and ohh, so many meetings!
weekend images.
some images from weekend - an afternoon at 696 weihai, yone x reach exhibition at HWA's gallery way out in gubei, bboy battle at racks, late night dim sum, etc. still feeling a bit ill, oh and it's raining, raining raining. fucking facebook won't let me upload images and i'm feverish and flu'y and feeling absolute shit. the kicker is i've been sleeping way too much on my super soft mattress, now i've got a backache. how much more complaining can i do? came into the office on a sunday for a meeting that was eventually cancelled, still at the office waiting for the rain to subside so i can bike home. damn!
rip dexter.
my sister's bunny friend dexter was euthanized the other day, he was 6.5 years old and really sweet. poor little guy. he's the fuzzy lop-eared rabbit in the photo, the little dwarf rabbit in the back is her other one, mashi. hope he's having fun in bun bun heaven. x
wednesday madness.
i'm going to assume that we are singing madonna in the first photo. very stupidly decided to go out for one cheeky after-work drink last night (after work meaning that i didn't get out of the office until 11). shit escalated and all of a sudden it was 5am and i was crawling into bed after a long night of shuffleboard, bike rides, karaoke and too much food. we even managed to slip into richy, which i think we can agree is the worst club in shanghai.
ps. before walking into the karaoke room, we ran into a classy man and lady fucking in the hallways of party world fuxing park. no, seriously. who does that?!! check adrian's flickr page, i'm sure there will be photos up soon. also, the photos from this entry are from adrian's camera, i can't find my battery charger, so sad.
pink mountaintops - outside love.
a friend of mine sent me the new PINK MOUNTAINTOPS album the other day, and i've been listening like crazy. besides the fact that i really love their music, i have a soft spot for these guys, one of them used to be my roommate (actually, it's been so long now i don't even know what the current line up is, it seems always ever changing) and when the band first came out, i remember writing an 800 word article about them that we turned into a front cover feature. barely a few months after that article issue came out, they were getting mad hype and touring around the world. that's what i miss about vancouver! people you know start bands, and they actually do well. maybe it's something in the water.
(from the jagjaguwar site)
"The ten songs on "Outside Love" are about or influenced by weddings in Montreal, winter, Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, Christmas albums, that one Exile song and that one Echo and the Bunnymen song, the Bermuda Triangle, being depressed in the sunshine, people who haven't made out yet but will in the future, The Everly Brothers, clowns in the ceilings, and bedrooms where skinheads used to live.
generally i'm a fan of buying records and supporting musicians, but living in china isn't very conducive to that. so if you live in china and you're very interested in the album, email me and i will totally make your day. ok? ok.
also - here's a free download from the jagjaguwar site:
download: vampire - pink mountaintops.
some songs.
been feeling pretty hectic lately and so new and old favourite songs are in order. here are five that i really like today for your downloading pleasure. fans of xtc should especially check out the dukes of stratosphear link. also, i've been pretty into the new super furry animals record, 'dark days/light years', which they released on their rough trade site last month. the physical release was yesterday, and it's been getting great reviews. go download it or buy it if you have the chance.
01 brainiac's daughter: (XTC as) the dukes of stratosphear
02 precision auto: les savy fav
03 proud mary: ike & tina turner (ccr cover)
04 river: akron/family
05 inaugural trams: super furry animals (ft. nick mccarthy)
bonus - someone recently sent me a new casiotone for the painfully alone song that i've been listening to alot lately. i knew the voice sounded familiar, it turns out that it's a collaboration between him & nick krgovich, a guy i used to know in vancouver. he's the lead singer of p:ano and generally some kind of mad, musical genius.
06 old panda days: casiotone for the painfully alone (ft. nick krgovich).
(ps! i got the les savy fav song off of this site. you should check it out because there's actually a shitload of music on there. do it.)
monthly mixtape drop.
so it's april now - april fools, april showers, the beginning of spring and the christian season of birth & renewal. the weather is starting to warm up here in shanghai, i've been riding my bike in shorts and a t-shirt, sun shining like crazy and tiny flowers budding up and turning everything into that perfect shade of spring minty green. in the night time, the sun sets just a little later than usual, and dark clouds gather and sprinkle bits of rain on tin roofs that make for a pretty soundtrack to fall asleep to.
april is always the start of something new -- this mixtape isn't actually all that depressing at all, it's just hopeful and sweet and a little bit sad but mostly optimistic, happy, looking forward to the future.
ps. maybe a weekly mixtape drop was too ambitious for my busy ass, so a monthly one will have to do. as always, let me know if you want a copy and we'll make the exchange.
skull crew till we die.
nike was kind enough to give us some asian federation cup tickets last week, and we headed over to hongkou stadium to see the SHANGHAI SHENHUA play the SUWON SAMSUNG BLUEWINGS.
some observations:
hongkou stadium is huge, but also dirty. shanghai crowds think it's ok to boo the rival team incessantly during the entire match. the koreans played dirty but if i had an entire stadium of people booing me i would play dirty too. the riot squad, medics and firefighters were present during the game. people fall down ALOT in football. as in all the time. maybe they were playing with bowling balls. it will be very hard to catch a cab after a busy game.
the bluewings are korean, and they lost!! however, they have the most awesome logo ever + are also called the skull crew. this makes up for the fact that they are shit soccer players.
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