If Looks Could Kill

Someone, please kill me now!


Woaa! this shit is almost pornographic and is gayer than fucking bicycle shorts. Meet Harry Potter.

Read the full story and extra pics here

We Dance Alone

“We are all atheists about most of the
gods that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.” – Richard Dawkins

My current book, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It was recommended by my friend and fellow blogger Dave, just in time cause i'm going away for the weekend, technology deprived, and with Dawkins, my faithful companion.

Music for Chickens

Tuesday... I love tuesdays the day of DVD's and CD's releases,
the day I empty my bank account.
Here's some new CDs that I'll definitely get.

Clinic: Visitations
Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity
Herbert: 100 Lbs (reissue with bonus disc)
Julie Doiron: Woke Myself Up
Menomena: Friend And Foe
Mum: Peel Sessions
Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
The Shins: Wincing The Night Away

Bill Sullivan’s turn style

Brilliant!
Photographer Bill Sullivan captures people clicking through the NYC Subway turnstiles. And not one person is smilling

Ringing in my ear

I know, I should be more present, but my 9 to 5 turned into 8 to 9 lately, and my weekends are, well... I have none. My day consists of "trying" to ignore the superficial chit-chat of my co-workers while trying to maintain a certain degree of sanity. And maybe you're thinking I blog too much about music, the reason's simple, it's the only thing that keeps me sane at work. The CBC radio 3 Podcasts and my amazing itune Library are my salvation.
Also, I saw this amazing movie on sunday, Children of Men. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón and adapted from the novel by PD James, has simply the most extraordinary look of any movie around. It’s twenty years from now, twenty years after the last baby was born and on the day when the youngest person on the planet is murdered, science is powerless, governments are in shambles, and society has dissolved into complete anarchy. The suddenly infertile human race will die out in the next sixty or seventy years. The British government does what it does best and add hysteria and blame in its people. They do it through trapping, caging and dehumanizing immigrants from other, destroyed countries, claiming they are the problem. I'm not going to spoil all the movie here, Go see it for yourself, there's nothing more to be said except that Children of Men is another great achievement from Cuarón. Go see it!

Clever

A magnifying glass mounted above a very small diamond makes the wee gem appear huge when viewed from above. Nice! who needs a big rock when you can set things on fire everywhere you go with your magnifying glass? Nothing says I love you more than a garbage can caught on fire.
Trompe l’oeil from Edouard Larmaraud’s creations.

Menomena

Barsuk Records' latest discovery, experimental indie rock trio Menomena will be releasing their forthcoming album "friend and foe" on January 23rd. Pitchfork named friend and foe "Best New Music", scoring an 8.5 and gave it the title of the "first great indie rock record of the new year."

Full Album Stream

"Wet And Rusting" MP3


And if you like their sound don't miss your chance to see them live in mtl.
03.25.07 - Montreal, QC (Main Hall, w/ Field Music & Land Of Talk)

While we're at it, here's some upcoming shows.
01.25 Sloan, Hexes & Ohs, Percy Farm @ La Sala Rossa
01.29 Camera Obscura @ La Sala Rossa
03.10 Jason Bajada @ la sala rossa
03.12 Of Montreal @ La tulippe
03.22 Pawa Up First @ la sala rossa
03.30 Snow Patrol @ La tulippe

Doomsday Clock

On January 17, 2007.
The Doomsday clock, an arbitrary measure of the degree of nuclear threat, have been set to 5 minutes before midnight, It went down (or up) 2 digits.
So, the Doomsday Clock creeps forward a Nuclear Armageddon. We have no choice but to rely on Heroes on Monday night to save us. And people say I watch too much TV.. Pffff ;)

Bedtime Stories

I came across a neat little band from Seattle who will be launching their debut record album called Quixoticism on January 23rd. You can stream it in its entirety at Sonic Boom.
But for now I give you The Upper Ten/The Lower Five by Ghost Stories

Take Me Back

“You head to the Himalayas in search of the mythical abominable snowman. But when your climbing partner Carlos goes missing, your search takes a very different turn.” For a limited time, Choose Your Own Adventure is offering a free download of The Abominable Snowman for your iPod. *Cough,IamageekIadmitCough*, but when I was a kid I loved CYOA books. I always used my finger as a bookmark so I could go back and try again if I made the wrong decision and was killed by a Zombie or something, ok i'm a cheater I admit, but I'm sure you all did the same thing! Let's see if I can't cheat with the Ipod version *insert evil grin here*.

Who Am I Kidding?

Arctic Monkeys was one of the most significant showcases at last year's SXSW. It totally lauched the band into the WW-Indie-rock scene. Now, remember the name Winterkids they'll play at this year SXSW and I predict the same Artic-Monkey-Furor surrounding them. The notorious UK hype-machine says that they are the next big thing, so enjoy it now before liking them subjects you to the ridicule of hipsters everywhere.

Check out the video for their new catchy single, "Tape It."

Soundtrack of my life

Nice little musical experiment found at SP4M.

1. Open your Library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Shuffle mode
3. Press Play
4. For each question write the music that is playing
5. For each new question, press next
6. Don't cheat.

Opening credits: Warrior - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wake Up: Snow Lion (With Readmade FC) - Feist
First day of Shcool: Colors And The Kids - Cat Power
Falling in love: Bleeding Heart - The Go Find
Fight: Feels Like Pain - The Grate (I'm not shitting you)
Break Up: We Dance Alone - Beck
Life: Soul Meets Body - Death Cab for Cutie
Mental Breakdown: Goodnight Goodnight - Hot Hot Heat
In the car: Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
Flashback: Anticipation - Blonde Redhead
Getting back together: Yours And Mine - Calexico
Wedding: The Sound of Settling - Death Cab for Cutie (ok, this Game's really creepy)
Birth: The False Contender - Camera Obscura
Final fight: Obstacle 1 - Interpol
Death: Naked As We Came - Iron & wine
Funerals: The Good Times Are Killing Me - Modest Mouse
Ending Credits: We Built Another World - Wolf Parade

Beeep!

Turning innocuous video clips into naughty scenes with selective bleeping.
I laughed so hard I thought my head was going to explode!

Let your ears do the talking

$16 for a pair of four emotibuds.
At the risk of sounding like a 16 year old teenager drooling over a picture of Tom Welling... that's sooo hot!!

Warning: the stunts in this movie were...

There's probably something seriously wrong with me, but ...

Say Hello to my little friend.
I needed a little change today, I replaced the lip ring with a stud, i'm really happy with the result, the guys at Adrenaline Studio are really ..humm.. charming. Click on the image to see the full photo.

こんにちは

The Japan-only version of the Transformers trailer just hit the web with some additional scenes not included in the US version.

And it's a Wrap.

Clever Idea over at 1000 & 1 PETITS RIENS.
Here's a wrap up of the year 2006. My year in few lines.

January
My dog of 12 years died, it was actually my gift for christmas'05. Merry Xmas to me. Well, she was really sick they had to put her down.. but December 23rd!? I never had a chance to say goodbye.

February
My sister of 4 years younger enters a psychiatric ward. It affected me more than I wanted people to know, I'm not good at showing my emotions. She thought my mother was the Devil and tried to kill her, and saw my father as a penguin, go figure. They kept her 3 weeks and she's now on meds.

March
Happy birthday to me!
To make a long story short, all trought 2004, I went out with a really great guy, we had the same taste in everything, till this day I really think he's my soulmate. Anyway, at the end of 2004 we decided to call it quit and remain friends.. Humm, yeah, you know what kind of "friendship" i'm talking about. We agreed that if either of us found somebody else we would go on our seperate ways. I tried to tell myself that I was OK with that, I really fooled myself on that one didn't I?. This went on for a year. At the end of the month he tells me that we should end our "friendship"..
That brings me to April.

April
I don't really remember much of that month. Except that after being laid off by my "best"friend I went throught a though time. When you spent 2 years with someone, night and day, seeing each other more than you should, it's hard going back to a single life. The hardest part is that I lost a good friend, I miss his friendship more than anything. Oh, do I need to mention that we don't see eachother anymore? we exchange e-mails once in while, saw eachother once or twice I think. I don't even think his new GF knows about me. Anyway, I wish him all the happiness in the world, cause he's a great guy.

May
One month went by, i'm feeling better. Started to talk with this interesting guy that I meet through my blog. Life's making me smile again, and this guy's giving me butterflies. I'm not the kind of girl who falls easily, I know better, maybe I just need to change my mind from the month of April.. I believe in Cindy Lauper, cause really I just want to have fun.

June
The guy invited me to have a coffee at his place. We had a great evening (the coffee was Awfull!!!). Remember "this girl just want to have fun" and we did, but he wants more, or "less" of me, he's looking for someone else, and I totally understand, but the way he told me was a little, for the lack of better words, dickish (that's my new word of the month). Note to self: Never date a guy who drinks black coffee.

July
Started to paint again.
End of July stopped painting. (my new resolution for 2007 is to start again)

August, September, October, November
Having fun with friends: check
Work: Ohh Check
Love life: Boooring, I like it this way, Boring is better than complicated.
Gym: getting by.

December
The end of the year is near, we don't have snow and it's fucking scaring me. The polar bears may become extinct within the century, fuckin global warming. The planet is sick and nobody seems to care. Oh and Xmas, the family who can't get along for more that 1 hour, actually 48minutes and 15 seconds.

All is good in the end, everything happens for a reason, everybody happens for a reason, but let's start over shall we?!