Sunday, June 28, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Stuff I Need You to Need
#1
A DJ mix.
Probably going to be my "#1 Album of 2009" even though it's a DJ mix and 99% of the music is years and years old.
The DJ is Pilooski, from France, who is famous for making tasteful "edits" of disco and soul hits. Basically, he is a tastemaker more than anything. His edit of Franky Valli and the Four Seasons' "Beggin'" was used in an Adidas (house party campaign) commercial featuring celebrity cameos including Beckham, Missy Eliot and Young Jeezy. Check that out here. He played in Toronto recently, and you know we got deeeeooowwnnnnn to this track.
His other big "hit" is his edit of The Pointer Sisters' "Send Him Back," which you should listen to here. It's hot as hell. (Revealing fact: The Pointer Sisters was my first favourite band. I was 3 years old.)
But now on to the masterpiece, an hour-and-six-minute soulful, eerie, funky, nostalgic mix he did for the amazing WFMU radio show Beats in Space.
This is stuff that makes any situation more significant, and absolutely begs and begs to accompany heartache and/or substance abuse, like the best music.
You can download the mix and check out the playlist HERE
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#2
Rachel Weisz's performance in The Brothers Bloom.
The movie itself isn't amazing by any stretch, but Rachel Weisz in the film perfectly nails the beautiful weirdo that every man is in love with. A character like Kate Winslet's in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" only more approachable, fantastical, and probably better-smelling. She's hilarious, convincing, insane, brilliant. Truly, the movie would be nothing without her, but what she does to it is make it positively enchanting to watch and highly recommendable.
Check out this clip.
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#3
The photographer Hong Sukwoo.
(who took this photo of Ahn So Hee from Wondergirls).
I've mentioned him before on this blog, but he's really killing it lately. What he does I would call art, but he also documents fashion and fashion personalities in Seoul, Korea. The country is really, really new to the international fashion thing, and I find his photos to be absolutely amazing all the time.
Check out his main fashion journalism/street-snaps blog here: yourboyhood.com
And his art photos here: byeboy
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#4
Me.
My Toronto "travel" column is going really well, I think. Check it out.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
GTA Tripping #6, #7, #8, boh!
I've got a weekly travel/attempted-humour column on Toronto-famous blogTO.com.
It's called GTA Tripping and it's about daytrip anti-destinations accessible by public transit in and around the GTA.
#6
GTA Tripping: Leslie Street Spit
#7
GTA Tripping: Matthew's Finds
#8
GTA Tripping: Turning Japanese in High Park
Monday, April 20, 2009
GTA Tripping #5: Peel County Jail (and Hello, Brampton!)
I've got a weekly travel/attempted-humour column on Toronto-famous blogTO.com.
It's called GTA Tripping and it's about daytrip anti-destinations accessible by public transit in and around the GTA.
GTA Tripping: Peel County Jail (and Hello, Brampton!)
Next week: Leslie Street Spit
Sunday, April 12, 2009
GTA Tripping #4: Cemetery in a Parking Lot
I've got a weekly travel/attempted-humour column on Toronto-famous blogTO.com.
It's called GTA Tripping and it's about daytrip anti-destinations accessible by public transit in and around the GTA.
GTA Tripping: Cemetery in a Parking Lot
Next week: Abandoned Hotel
Sunday, April 05, 2009
GTA Tripping #3: Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship
I've got a weekly travel/attempted-humour column on Toronto-famous blogTO.com.
It's called GTA Tripping and it's about daytrip anti-destinations accessible by public transit in and around the GTA.
GTA Tripping: Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship
Next week: Graveyard in a parking lot
