September 2009
46 posts
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alexnicole:
Wake Up (Arcade Fire...
“You’re not getting rid of the glue guitar, are you?!”
– Dan, on Norman (I’d never get rid of Norman!)
Apparently, the old Burger King at Robson and Granville left behind a few garbage bins full of grease labelled “Burger King grease.”
Also, I think that if you work at a store that used to be a Burger King, and you tell a customer about garbage bins full of grease in the back room, and they ask to see them, you should let them.
A rare star-strucked moment
Guess why I didn’t go talk to Jim Brynes today:
He’s one of my favourite musicians and it would be momentous to meet someone whose songs I constantly listen to and play
He was in Highlander
(Hint: there can be only one)
Little Shop of Horrors - “Dentist!”
Proving how out of touch most Straight readers... →
blownspeakers:
Best of Vancouver: On-line Source For Free Music 1. LimeWire 2. The Pirate Bay 3. iTunes
LimeWire? SRSLY?
I’m currently looking at UBC Creative Writing dept’s shared iTunes library titled “LimeWire Tunes.” So that’s something. Personally, I didn’t even know that LimeWire was still around.
On lit. degrees
Me: So what did you think of [Breakfast of Champions]?
Evgenia: It was alright; really profound, but it wasn't very "literary"
Me: Haha, wait until you graduate and you're a real person again
Evgenia: What?
Me: It's taken me three years to actually enjoy books because they're good books again
Watchsillygwailo:
translinked:
John Biehler’s two-minute video of the Canada Line from downtown Vancouver to the airport. Music by Justice.
I like the Canada Line a lot—mostly because I’ve never gotten lost on it. Every single time I take the Millenium/Expo Line I end up somewhere I don’t want to be. Just this weekend, heading out to the mystical land of Burnaby for Natalie’s...
topherchris:
Lease (The Musical) — Everyone Has...
“Yes, Canadian literature is subsidized. So are tourism, mining, forestry,...”
– Steven Galloway: Proud of CanLit (via 90% of the people I follow on Twitter)
Galloway’s giving a talk for our 50th Anniversary Gala at UBC on September 30th that’s open (and free!) to the public. I don’t know what he’s planning to discuss, but I can’t imagine that it...
“Lastly and likely even more controversially, the licensing agencies are going...”
– GREED: Music Industry Wants Royalties on 30-Second Previews and TV Downloads
What a great idea! Since iTunes started offering those previews, I don’t know a single person who even bothers to download songs anymore—everyone just listens to the samples on loop.
Awesome news = finding out that UBC has a Department of Magic
Disappointing news = finding out that Magic stands for “Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre”
“Do you know how many broken homes that shoe that I threw had entered because of...”
– Mutadhar al-Zaidi, the infamous “shoe thrower” who threw his footwear at then-President George W. Bush in Baghdad in late 2008, in a speech he gave after being released from prison on Monday, September 14, 2009. (via thismagazine)
Truffle oil
A couple of days ago I bought myself a small bottle of black truffle infused olive oil to celebrate a recent “huge life event.”
Things I’ve made with it so far:
Grilled cheese sandwich
Rosemary spaghetti
Marinated tempeh “steaks”
Pan-fried rosemary potatoes
Vegetable stir-fry
Burrito
Things that taste absurdly delicious with truffle oil:
Grilled cheese...
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“What’s next is love.Yes. Love love love love love.”
– Playrwright and poet d’bi young, speaking to the TEDxTO conference on September 10, 2009, on the theme of “What’s next?” (via thismagazine)
Working at a University is...
…feeling more and more like Matthew McConaughey every September.
WatchEels - “That Look You Give That Guy”
Eels are probably the only band I like as much now as I did when I was 15. Frontman Mark Oliver Everett is the only rock star who’s written a book I liked beyond novelty. And now he’s gone ahead and made a video that features Padma Lakshmi running in slow motion. Sheesh. (via)
WatchHOSTAGE: A Love Story with Zachary Quinto
Weird
Something I do at my day job, when I need a break from the literary/artsy stuff, is code up little functions for tracking, data entry, displaying information, etc. on our website. When work is creative, predictable math is relaxing.
Since April, I’ve been putting “zeitgeists” everywhere that tell me who’s reading what at what time. Then I added in referral stats, and most...
Generation A
The latest Douglas Coupland novel, Generation A, is a pretty good read.
A vanity web search of my name and his turns up, somewhat pathetically, a not-insignificant number of results that feature me polemically deriding and applauding his work. The short version is that I loathed his novels and never wanted to read him again. I got a job at a Vancouver lit journal and devoured as many of his works...
“How do I mail the registration to you? Do I write your address in the centre of...”
– Question asked by a 3-Day Novel Contest entrant
“To be honest with you, I am a lot more concerned by God’s verdict...”
– Prime Minister Stephen Harper (via)
He said it “with a laugh,” but everything kind of makes sense now, doesn’t it?