Thanks to the beauty of podcasts, I listened to this live concert (iTunes link) of Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard on NPR’s All Songs Considered on the rainy commute into work this morning.
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This made the rounds a while back and was sent to me by my cousin, Rob.
Valley Lodge/Thurs., January 18/10:30pm/Mercury Lounge (217 E. Houston St. at the corner of Avenue A)
Attention People Of New York City:
Hi. How are you? Super, I hope. Anyway, I was just writing to totally remind you about how my incredible rock band Valley Lodge will be rocking like a four-headed motherf&%ker TOMORROW night (Thurs., Jan. 18, dammit) at the Mercury Lounge (right over there on Houston Street, near all the shops) at the rock-sanctioned time of 10:30pm. We shall arrive on horseback, brandishing torches and drinking the blood of priests as the screams of the undead echo in the distance. Actually, now that I think about it, we will probably just rent a mini-van or something. But it shall be an awesome mini-van that will haunt your dreams. Anyway, I really hope you can make it. It is good to rock and one day we will all be dead and we will not be able to rock as much anymore. And then I shall see you in Hades and you will be all like I wish I had done more rocking in life and then I will be all like Well, I totally sent you that e-mail. Then I will ride off on the horse with the blood and the torch and stuff. It is easier to get that stuff in Hades. In fact, you kind of look like an a-hole if you do not have that stuff in Hades. Anyway, we can talk more about all this tomorrow at the rock show.
Godspeed,
Dave Hill
www.valleylodgemusic.com
www.myspace.com/valleylodge
www.davehillonline.com
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Congratulations to Mark Fraser, a good friend and co-worker, on being named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40!!
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Mark at T4G for almost five years. This couldn’t happen to a nicer and more deserving guy.
Way to go, Mark!
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How does he do it?
I met my cousin Rob last Thursday for one of our attempting-to-be-regular breakfast get-togethers and recommend to him a book I’m reading: Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek. Only four days later, there is an article in the Globe and Mail titled, The $2,000 executive assistant. It’s an article about outsourcing admin work, as espoused in the Ferriss book. And Rob is cited as an example, including a big picture of Rob sitting at his desk (in the act of outsourcing some work?).
“It’s a great way to delegate to other people parts of your job that you really don’t enjoy doing,” says Rob Hyndman, a one-man Toronto law firm. “I can simply parcel out individual tasks to individual providers. It makes me faster. It makes me more nimble.”
Last year, Mr. Hyndman paid nearly $2,000 for a “virtual administrative assistant” to schedule his meetings, organize his contacts and do all the other office work that once kept him behind his desk until late. As the personal offshoring business evolves, he’s finding more and more tasks he can farm out to India.
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Four months into 2007, I have a list of music in heavy rotation that I’m enjoying as much as any batch of music in a long time:
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
Dinosaur Jr – Beyond
Kings of Leon – Because of the Times
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
The National – Alligator
The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
Neil Young – Live at Massey Hall 1971
All of the links above are to Amazon.com (US). Unfortunately, of these albums only the Dinosaur Jr and The National are available from eMusic, my preferred source for music.
Happy listening.
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I’m still on my first pass through this album, but it’s fantastic. I’ve always known of Dinosaur Jr. but have never actually listened to them. Great stuff!! Favourite track so far is We’re Not Alone.
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
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This is too funny:
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I met the Smithereens 15 years ago, with the release of their brilliant Especially for You, featuring their somewhat hit, Blood & Roses. After a long hiatus they’re back with a fun album of Beatles covers. This is a collection of familiar pop songs covered by a great band. My only complaint is that it’s a little too note-for-note for my covers tastes. It definitely sounds like the Smithereens but I wish it sounded a little more like the Simthereens. Still … this one is highly recommended.
And it’s available at eMusic.
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Just received an IM from a friend. Goes like this:
this is why i STEAL music!!!
i bought a song on ITUNES to use in my PHOTOSTORY and can’t use it..
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
This is the problem with DRM. Here’s someone who’s not looking to steal music and, in fact, legitimately bought the music. But Apple’s DRM wouldn’t let her use it the way she wanted to. She will now go and BitTorrent it. The RIAA would certainly consider that theft. I would not.
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Pitchfork has a good interview with Tom Waits. Best Line:
Pitchfork: Do you keep a notebook?
Tom Waits: Oh yeah, everybody does! Life is too confusing. Monkey wrenches, pocket knives, dog food, instant coffee, lipstick. You gotta get it organized somehow.
I’m currently enjoying his brilliant new collection, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards. Actually, I’m enjoying the Bawlers third of it while I wait for my eMusic monthly subscription to refresh so that I can download the rest.
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Time has just posted their list of All-TIME 100 Albums. The albums are not ranked. Rather they’re grouped by decade. Like any such list, they get lots right (The Clash – London Calling) and lots wrong (Garth Brooks – Ropin’ the Wind … WTF??).
Worth a quick scan.
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