Jesse Futerman – Light Of Day – Album Download
Everybody needs some of this. Seriously. Jesse aka Supertoaster really is the future, man. Get ON IT!
Post below swiped directly from “Yes, Yes, Y’all!”
“Welcome to Friday everyone. We made it another week and I believe we probably all deserve a little something to help us relax and unwind. Luckily I have just the thing. Light Of Day by Jesse Futerman. I’m labeling it a podcast but don’t get it twisted this thing is an ALBUM. You might remember his music from the last podcast we dropped from Ben (A.K.A. Jack High) a few days back.
Hailing from Toronto Jesse Futerman is only 17 years old. His music would suggest otherwise as its patience and calmness stinks of a person twice his age. We should keep an eye on him for sure. He’s going to be dangerous.
We have been working for about a year to bring this album to you and we hope you enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed the process of getting everything just right.”
http://www.yesyesyall.org/Light_Of_Day.zip
Celebrity Rehab – Canada
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This is pretty sad. Canada is hurting for a Canadian version of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
(Sidenote: I’ve recently discovered that Dr. Drew’s last name is Pinsky. Imagine they called the show ‘Paging Dr. Pinsky’ instead. His remedies would have included bagels, lox and a schmear of cream cheese with bubbie and a slice of grief)
Mew @ VFest, Toronto – Aug 30, 2009
Watching Mew hit the stage at Vfest, my first thoughts were “how could such a small, unassuming band be capable of such tremendous power?”
Then it hit me, it’s 2:30 pm, there is nary a stage setting and a sparse crowd of 100 odd concert-goers dotted the pit with a handful more seated elsewhere in the gray-clouded ampitheater. A bit tragic for a band capable of so much, who have been touring with el Patron, Trent Reznor, for a good part of 2009.
Taking the best elements of dreampop bands such as Air, Sigur Ross, and Spiritualized, Mew blends catchy pop hooks with moving, emphatic melodies that could be labeled as transcendental even. The chords hit my soul and I was soon gazing down upon the stage from my minds eye, 30 feet above the ground, doing my damndest to imagine the angelic chorus of child-like angels that were playing the supporting vocals. Lead singer’s Jonas Bjerre’s high pitched vocals lead the way for other bands like Passion Pit, while other vocal filters recall the robotic mystery of the most cutting edge Ladytron productions.
As the band strummed a final power chord, the stage was quickly overwhelmed by a horde of black clad demons/roadies, signaling the end of this short, yet phenomenal, set.
Website: www.mewsite.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/mew
Know Your Mushrooms DVD Set
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Lollapalooza 2009 Newscast Updater Widget
WTF is Okra?
So some of you may know that I’ve been taking part in a nutrition study where I am getting free produce and whole grains shipped to my door thanks to U of T, St. Michaels Hospital and FoodShare.
One of the crazy veggies that comes in the box every other week is a stubby little vegetable called okra. I’d never actually cooked my own okra, but having lived in Taiwan a few years ago, we were introduced thanks to Japan’s largest fast food chain, Yoshinoya.
Anyway, I came across this incredibly awkward amateur cooking video from South Carolina and thought it was worth sharing. It’s probably not the healthiest way to get okra into your diet.
Flying Lotus @ Red Bull Music Academy – Lecture Series
I was fortunate enough to attend this intimate Q&A with dubstep/bass music/glitch-hop-what-have-you producer Flying Lotus, at the Toronto Red Bull office. In case you are wondering the interviewer was his opening tour dj, My Man Henri.
Below is most of the recording. It’s about 80 minutes in length, divided in to three parts. What its missing is mainly the plug for the Red Bull Academy, which is a two week long retreat sponsored by, you guessed it, Red Bull, where artists get to cultivate their musical talent amongst other worthy, up and coming artists, at no expense to the artist. Sounds dope? Apply yourself. Be warned, the application is a good 50 pages long and is as arduous and wacky as a Scientology intake form, but with way better benefits…trust me! So go apply now! You have until July 27th.
BANNED VIDEO, MUST SEE!
WARNING! PERVERT ALERT!
If you see this man in the streets of Toronto, or anywhere in the world even, avoid him at all costs, especially if you are female!
Especially don’t go see his one man show, Illegal Import, at The Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Ave, at 10:30 on Friday July 24, 2009, which has been rated as “Outrageously, Achingly funny” **** BBC.CO.UK for ungodly reasons. A deal with the illumnati reptile demons running the station, perhaps?
UPDATE: Mr. Lasarev has recently been sited nestling his tresses in whatever bare skin he can get his hands on, be it male, female, bovine or canine.
Christmas in July! Well, sort of…
A late congrats to Jason Eisener for winning the Short Film segments of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival and Fantasia last year with this entry which has finally been released online. Jason might be more known for his Hobo With A Shotgun spoof-preview which was featured in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez ‘s Grindhouse. This recent short flick,Treevenge, gives a whole new meaning to Christmas in July.
WARNING: Definitely not for family or office viewing, due to strong language, graphic nature, sexuality and spilling of ‘human sap.’ ;)
Prognosticating Syntax
Space Odyssey: 2010 Poster Art
Random wiki findings…..
Ok, so maybe I’m taking my love of words to a totally nerdy levoe, but seriously, doesn’t this shit just blow your minds? (Taken from, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010)
Among experts and the general public, there is a debate as to how specific years of the 21st century should be pronounced in English. Although the majority of English-speakers say “two thousand X” for years of the current decade, in theory this could mean any year up to 2999.
One article suggests that since former years such as 1809 and 1909 were commonly pronounced as “eighteen oh-nine” and “nineteen oh-nine”, the year 2009 should naturally be pronounced as “twenty oh-nine”, and that majority usage of “two thousand (and) X” is a result of influences from the Y2K hype, as well as the way “2001” was pronounced in the influential 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. [1]
A January 2000 Australian Broadcasting Corporation poll found 40% of people favoured calling the 2010s the “twenty tens”, 60% said “two thousand and tens”. [2]
In addition, the Vancouver Olympics, taking place in 2010, are being officially referred to by Vancouver 2010 as “the twenty-ten Olympics”. [3] The London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 has restricted the commercial use of the terms “Two Thousand and Twelve” and “Twenty Twelve”, to protect the London 2012 Olympics.[4] Chicago 2016, which operates the official Chicago bid for the 2016 games, refers to the “twenty-sixteen games”.
According to a recent press release[when?], David Crystal, author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, has predicted that the change of pronunciation to “twenty X” will occur in 2011, as “twenty eleven”, explaining that the way people pronounce years depends on rhythm, rather than logic. Crystal claims that the rhythm or “flow” of “two thousand (and) ten”, beats that of “twenty ten”, but the flow of “twenty eleven” beats “two thousand (and) eleven”.[5] Alternatively, Ian Brookes, editor-in-chief of Chambers Dictionary, suggests the change will occur in 2013 (as 2012 is often referred to as “two thousand and twelve”).
