January 2010
23 posts
Peter Gabriel covers Arcade Fire’s My Body...
Summer 2000
Latenight summer. Humidity tops out and the night has a familiar haze to it. The window is open, but the desk fan on high-speed is drowning out cars and other common city sounds. I am at a loss for words — things are just too beautiful and full of hope to capture.
“When you are little you love your house, no matter what. It’s your castle, your...”
– Coming Home – Pictory
Me: Hello?
My Body: Hi. This is a friendly wakeup call.
Me: Sorry, wrong number.
Investors see farms as way to grow Detroit →
Reporting from Detroit - On the city’s east side, where auto workers once assembled cars by the millions, nature is taking back the land.
Cottonwood trees grow through the collapsed roofs of homes stripped clean for scrap metal. Wild grasses carpet the rusty shells of empty factories, now home to pheasants and wild turkeys.
This green veil is proof of how far this city has fallen from...
5 key songs for 2009
Toe-tapping favourites that made 2009 what it was. Some of them are not even from 2009, so BEAT THAT Rolling Stone. In no particular order, of course.
Hey Rosetta!, Red Heart
Neko Case, People Got A Lotta Nerve
MGMT, Electric Feel
The Decemberists, Won’t Want for Love (and honestly, the whole Hazards of Love album in general)
Metric, Help I’m Alive
