Kraken is a brand that makes black rum. Their whole branding strategy revolves around the experience of dangerous, mystical beast and perhaps pirates?. Eitherway, it is pretty amazing stuff, when you order their rum, you can may get it in this sweet little crate. In the crate you will find the rum with it’s fantastic illustrative kraken for it’s label, as well as a scroll that explains it’s story and background. It’s obvious the designer had done a great deal of research and exploration, planned out how to execute this brand and bring it into the whole packaging, which really speaks about what the brand is all about. This is a great example of branding in it’s finest. The company also launched 3 well made videos to help promote their product and their pretty awesome, and here they are…
Most Sundays I wake up usually around mid day — afternoon. Some Sundays I wake up and feel like listening to pop all day: while showering, pooing, doing the dishes, staring into space, etc. Some Sundays I like to drink coffee and listen to Mozart on spotify. Some (select) Sundays I don’t even wake up at all. It’s like a void in my life where nothing happens in anticipation of everything that must happen the following day.
This Sunday, while some go to worship at church, I feel like doing my worshipping at the church of Electronica. Today’s sermon will be carried out by Thieves Like Us, a Swedish-American trio who combine dark electronic beats with nonchalant shoegaze vocals. When you leave this place you will find in you a newfound faith in Electronica.
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Two Door Cinema Club are fantastic. I loved “Something Good Can Work” but that pales in comparison to the excitement I have for some of the new tunes that are leaking off their debut LP titled: Tourist History. They just have that pop-rock awesome feel that I love. Its got more depth and more layers and just sounds fantastic. I would echo the sentiments expressed on AsianManDan that this record is polished. Way to go dudes. With such a great collection of songs they will undoubtedly have a fantastic summer touring schedule lined up. Hopefully everyone can catch them. Their songs lend to that fun sunshine atmosphere for sure. Look out 2010– Two Door Cinema Club are ready to kick some ass/ sign me up.
I love New Order. Who doesn’t? It’s like some kind of mortal sin to not love them. Here are a few covers I’ve amassed, I hope you’ll enjoy that familiar prickly hair-raising feeling when the intro to Temptation starts…
There’s quite a mix down there, Iron & Wine makes Love Vigilantes their own by basically singing the song the way he sings all his other songs. Meanwhile, a cover of the same song done by The String Quartet is a serene instrumental. Jukebox the Ghost’s interpretation of Temptation is super POP. The only band that’s stayed true to the shoegaze vibe is Sennen with their Bizarre Love Triangle cover. Obviously none of them can top the originals, but it’s kind of nice to hear different takes of the same golden tunes.
I had two awesome meals in a row this weekend. TWO. Which brought me to discuss with my superhero friend: ccy, the difference between eating for the sake of eating, because you need sustenance to survive, and the actual joy of eating. The two meals were definitely of the later. Peter Pan on Queen and Peter had an awesome Winterlicious menu with braised lamb shank and polenta, a new favourite of mine. While the brunch menu at Lola’s Commisary was simple and classic with an Eggs Benedict and Cheesecake stuffed french toast. My world is all out of sorts, the food was delicious and so cheap. I wish there were more places like that close to my home. Winter is not exactly the prime time for exploring the culinary delights around the city. You must first have a plan — take a cab (this was the easiest and most cost effective, especially going in pairs or groups), then you must have a reservation (if you are doing the winterlicious business).
The whole other point of this was… I eat the usual shit that university students eat, fuck I hate going to subway, what the fuck else am I supposed to eat late on a saturday afternoon when I don’t feel like trekking over to get groceries? I was so pissed though because while a sub costs $11, the amazing eggs benedict I had was only $11. So the problem is– WHY?? I would rather have one Lola’s Commisary in every neighbourhood than 10 Subway sandwich places. ffs.
Here is a song my good friend Edouard, from Paris, passed on to me that was played at the Mr.Scruff concert at Wrongbar a couple weeks back.
This incredible video is created by Bonsajo. I think I’ve watched it 30 times, and it still does not get old. The video syncs perfectly with the music, with the help of great graphic explorations such as the utilizations of simple shapes and form. Takuya Hosogane was able to create this mind blowing brain candy.
On further note, the pass two weeks had gotten a lot more exciting. Finally there are some great tracks that I can get excited about. One of these are ‘Get Stellar, another great emerging Australian group. Check out their new EP titled “The Moment“ if you can!
I thought these stockings are pretty fucking awesome, great graphics and they just add something extra visually pleasing to leg watching. If I’m a girl I’d get this, no doubt. These stockings are by les queues de sardines (Sardine’s tail in French). They got a bunch of other cool leggings on the site, which you can check out here.
From Brooklyn, New York, Clare and the reasons is an indie band that I recently discovered. Her light hearted baby voice, is simply delighted and easy to listen to. Pluto from the album “The Movie”, is one of my favorite track feels like it belongs in a 1948 movie, but yet it speaks about a modern topic, the dis classification of Pluto as a planet. She will be coming here in Toronto on the 27th, playing with Nouvelle Vague.
My taste in music is not something you’d call discriminatory. I’m not one to say that I’m too good for mainstream, indie, dance, rock, pop, funk, rnb, hip hop, new, old — whatever. I don’t tend to listen to bands because of what they’re socially associated to, although when they happen to be things I agree with it just makes me like them even more. I just like things that sound good to me. It’s really as simple as that. Right now I’m feeling the 70s-80s post-punk girl vibes, because I find it easy to focus and do work with. So it’s got to be Patti Smith, Nico, Judy Nylon, Siouxsie, and Blondie for you today.
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