Vikings & Beekeepers

Artist: The Strokes (more…)

One time, when I was eight, while playing a softball game on a very busy summer day at Sylvan Lake (near Red Deer, Alberta) my uncle decided it would be a funny idea to pants me while I led-off on first base. Since, we were at a lake, I was wearing my swimming trunks, and since I was wearing my swimming trunks, I was not wearing any underwear. Needless to say, there I was, buck ass naked from the waist down, still in my crouch, hoping to steal second. Hundreds of people staring. I quickly hiked up my trunks, turned around to my uncle in shock and burst into tears. Desperate to hide myself from anyone’s vision, I ran to the nearest place that would conceal me, my uncle’s arms (talk about a guilt trip).

I get the feeling that Travis Morrison can relate. (more…)

So this is what I’m going to do. I’m going to review an album that I have never heard before, by an artist I have never heard before, whose style of music is completely unknown to me…and I’m going to do it in real time. That is, I’m going to listen to the album for the first time ever and briefly describe what it is I’m hearing as I am hearing it. Pretty novel, huh? Let’s do this: (more…)