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STATS.

Friday, August 20th, 2010

I’m in the process of moving/downsizing my colos­sal iTunes library so that it’ll all fit on my mac. No more plug­ging in the exter­nal. Alfred pointed out that run­ning that beast all day was prob­a­bly a bad idea con­sid­er­ing that I’m tech­ni­cally sup­posed to use it as a backup and not my reg­u­lar hard­drive. So, for safety’s sake I’m doing the trans­fer. Point of all this is that I have been forced to go through all this shit sit­ting on the harddrive.

I think in this day and age we all col­lect a tremen­dous amount of “e-waste” (And no, I don’t mean old cell­phones and the like– but we prob­a­bly col­lect all this shit any­ways). I won­der if its really a bur­den? Or just part of our soci­ety nowa­days. Some­thing that hap­pens and no one really thinks about it. iPods get big­ger every year right?  I’m not a pack-rat, I mean its all orga­nized after all. But does that make it any bet­ter? Not sure.  Its still just a col­lec­tion of stuff that I rarely look at. Its fun to go through from time to time and I sup­pose that in real­ity its not going to take up more space in the study if I add more or less to the hard­drive right?

“Your mouth should be work­ing for me, for free.” — The Maid Needs a Maid by Emily Haines

Art by: Guerra de la Paz

Down­loads:

  1. MY KZ YR BF (Clock Opera Remix) – Every­thing Everything
  2. The Maid Needs A Maid – Emily Haines
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Return to Form?

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

BACK. So… Nick has been intensely hold­ing down the fort at UNKITSCH and the sum­mer has been kinda slow for the rest of us but I assure you that it has not gone by as one unpro­duc­tive blur of beer infused with sunshine..(maybe a lit­tle). Nay, I’ve been open­ing my eyes to the won­ders of Europe and meet­ing fan­tas­tic peo­ple all along the way. A colour­ful expe­ri­ence whether I was roam­ing through vol­canic Ice­land or stum­bling down La Ram­blas in Barcelona dur­ing the wee hours of the morning.

While it is a shocker to go from 100km/h trav­el­ing and then sud­denly find your­self back at home, I’m tak­ing it in stride. I have a plan to con­tinue some of the best things I learned while back­pack­ing, like meet­ing new peo­ple. The world is filled with peo­ple you just haven’t spo­ken to yet. So my advice today is to look at that per­son sit­ting beside you on the sub­way.. what are they doing? read­ing a paper? skip.. star­ing into the abyss? gogogo smile and give them your best line. Is there a pickup guide for friends? Because “Baby are you an angel, I think I just died and went to heaven”– doesn’t really work in nor­mal situations ; )

In other news… I’m now liv­ing in Hong Kong full time. I’ll be switch­ing my music cov­er­age up… prob­a­bly be a bit more can­topop thrown in there haha

Pho­tos by Neil Krug

“You can’t always get what you want
And if you try some­time you find
You get what you need”

LVOEOLVOEVLOVE

Down­loads:

  1. The Sub­urbs – The Arcade Fire
  2. Tell Me (Clock Opera Remix) – Au Revoir Simone
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Been A While..

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Inter­net spam­mers you’re dearly missed. Won­der­ful as the key­word loaded com­ments are or the heart­felt mes­sages directed from a cer­tain infa­mous vam­pire named Robert Pat­tin­son, our new fil­ter is put to good use as I no longer have to go through them individually.

Been kinda busy, well, not really. I have excuses or diver­sions– craigslist any­one?? I made some­where around $500 shelling my wares on there so I won’t have to pay to send them back to Hong Kong. Ohh that reminds me, I’ll be mov­ing back there in August so now I’ll be the res­i­dent Asian blog­ger. Maybe some hot new can­topop tracks will find there way to unkitsch.

Unkitsch Line

Enough of that– on to more impor­tant mat­ters. Sum­mer tunes! Finally here in all is won­drous ridicu­lously hot glory (Toronto got smacked with a seri­ous heat­wave last week). Quasi-psychedelic Space Rock is the order of the day. I’m talk­ing about Star­fucker or Pyra­middd depend­ing on whether you’re in Europe. I love their sound, just kinda fits with that child­like feel­ing that I asso­ciate with sum­mer. They hail from Port­land Ore­gon and their sound is rather unique to me. Seems exper­i­men­tal on the one hand but never veers too far from being some­thing rhyt­mic and easy going. Def­i­nitely the best find for me in A WHILE. Sim­ply put I fuck­ing love it.

Down­loads:

  1. Star­fucker – Ger­man Love
  2. Star­fucker – Raw­nald Gre­gory Erick­son the Second
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Iceland 2010

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Goðafoss by Anna.Andres ( Have a great weekend)

My eurotrip starts with Ice­land June 14th. Been dream­ing about this for a long long­time. Some­thing about Ice­land has just had me trans­fixed for ages.. some­thing about the his­tory, vikings and all that, com­bined with this pro­gres­sive for­ward tiny lit­tle nation which only got inde­pen­dence after WWII. Hav­ing been really hard hit recently by the finan­cial cri­sis of 2008, I’m not going as a hawk look­ing for a deal, but it doesn’t hurt that this once expen­sive place to visit has come down a notch. I’ll be spend­ing most of my time in Reyk­javík. Made myself a lit­tle ice­landic playlist of some favourites as well as new found groups. I didn’t know until two days about that the Sigur Ros singer had a solo album out. (Jonsi). Its pretty awesome.

video– NSFW.

Sigur Rós — Gob­bledi­gook from Sigur Rós on Vimeo.

So if any­one is out there eurotrip­ping as well– send a note my way through the com­ments. I’ll be couch­surf­ing to save some cash through Den­mark, Swe­den, Fin­land, Ger­many, Aus­tria, Switzer­land, France, Bel­gium, and maybe Spain. Kind of a genius way to meet new peo­ple. Travel safe!
*photo credit: AnnaGoðafoss: the water­fall of the gods.

Down­loads:

  1. BjörkAll is full of love
  2. Sigur RósHop­pipolla
  3. JónsiGo do
  4. MúmGreen grass of tunnel
  5. Jóhann Jóhanns­sonFordlân­dia (aer­ial view)
  6. Ólafur Arnalds0040
  7. Jónsi & Alex Hap­pi­ness
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Dancing with “The Stars”

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

rita

Fred Astaire and Rita Hay­worth were the real deal.

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Moments

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

jeremy snell

I’m a big fan of pho­tog­ra­phy. While my own skills in the field are on the very ama­teur side, I do have a big appre­ci­a­tion for those who take the time to hone their craft. I stum­bled upon Jeremy Snell’s flickr account this morn­ing and it kind of blew me away. His web­site is fan­tas­tic as well. I would char­ac­ter­ize his work as dreamy. Check it out! Have a won­der­ful day “y’all”.

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On Friends

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

looking west.....explored by Pat Miccolis

Epi­cu­rus on Friends: we don’t exist unless there is some­one who can see us exist­ing, what we say has no mean­ing until some­one can under­stand, while to be sur­rounded by friends is con­stantly to have our iden­tity con­firmed; their knowl­edge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness.

The new Marina & The Dia­monds remix is really mel­low in com­par­i­son to the Pen­guin Prison remix that I had on repeat a cou­ple months ago (Link). Seems this song has taken on a whole new light for me. Also, qual­ity Holy Ghost! as always  <–a devoted fan right here. Go to their Myspace page and check out the vibe inter­view where they lay out all the gear they use. Pretty old­school synths and live drum kits, very dif­fer­ent from a lot of com­puter tech wiz­ard DJs out there. Hope­fully we’ll get an LP from Sir­iusmo some­time in 2010, I love his song “High Together”– check it here.

Down loads:

  1. Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost! Remix) – LCD Soundsystem
  2. I Am Not A Robot (Clock Opera Remix) – Marina & The Diamonds
  3. Gum­miband – Siriusmo
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Nukes

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Bubbles by youretheocean

Not much going on in my life right now. Limbo has set in with the only steady thing being music and nukes. Not always in that order. Sunny days ahead ya? Hope sooooo, April show­ers are such a downer. Ohh news, all of us here in Cana­dian side of Unkitsch are off to LCD Soundsys­tem and Holy Ghost! (ahhh dreamy) on my birth­day. I’m a lucky boy huh.

Down­loads:

  1. Latch – Scuba
  2. Angel Echoes – Four Tet
  3. All to All – Bro­ken Social Scene
  4. Bet­ter Things to Do – Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
  5. Say My Name – Holy Ghost!
  6. Devil’s Spoke – Laura Marling
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Adult Playgrounds

Monday, April 12th, 2010

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What about a play­ground for adults? What would be in it? I would not rec­om­mend you to google search “adult play­ground” because for obvi­ous rea­sons you will get a fair amount of “adult” clubs or web­sites… unless thats your thing *wink wink*. Dig deeper, for sci­ence! My “adult play­ground” would be very sim­i­lar to one for chil­dren. It would be one part social and one part physical.

Social
There would be a bar. Sorry, I’m a grown up and enjoy a drink or two (or six) to help me loosen up. Var­i­ous loca­tions for mak­ing pleas­ant con­ver­sa­tion with new-found-best-friends-forever (NFBFF) would be scat­tered all around, because hey– you gotta be able to chat or whats the point? While the focus of this place is as much about “con­nect­ing” and hav­ing fun, the empha­sis on “dis­con­nect­ing” is an impor­tant aspect as well, so that means no cell­phones or inter­net. Live music and wicked Disc Jock­eys are a must spread throughout.
*side­note* while bor­ing peo­ple do exist — we could have a class prior to enter­ing so can improve their con­ver­sa­tion. Think of it as kind of like Toast­mas­ters: Adult Play­ground Edition.

Social

There would be a bar. Sorry, I’m a grown up and enjoy a drink or two (or six) to help me loosen up. Var­i­ous loca­tions for mak­ing pleas­ant con­ver­sa­tion with new-found-best-friends-forever (NFBFF) would be scat­tered all around, because hey– you gotta be able to chat or whats the point? While the focus of this place is as much about “con­nect­ing” and hav­ing fun, the empha­sis on “dis­con­nect­ing” is an impor­tant aspect as well, so that means no cell­phones or inter­net. Live music and wicked Disc Jock­eys are a must spread throughout.

*side­note* while bor­ing peo­ple do exist — we could have a class prior to enter­ing so they can improve their con­ver­sa­tion. Think of it as kind of like Toast­mas­ters: Adult Play­ground Edition.

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Bet­ter think of some­where quick to hide, she is going to open her eyes in 3…2…1..

Phys­i­cal
There would be a giant bed and bouncy cas­tle, key word here being GIANT. There are going to be lots of peo­ple hors­ing (is that the right word?) around.. umm so it has to be mas­sive and durable. There should be swings, mon­key bars, and har­nesses (so peo­ple climb really really high and be safe.. duh). Also in this mag­i­cal place we could have a pool with infi­nite sun­shine as well as the per­fect hot tub. Peo­ple will need places to dry off so I’m guess­ing a nice grassy lawn would be good. One more thing, there are no cars and bikes are sit­u­ated all over the places.

So is a Play­ground for Adults really a resort? I’m read­ing this and it sounds like a resort. But resorts are so lame or expen­sive. Can you really go to a “nice” resort with­out pay­ing a bomb? No, San­dals doesn’t count. You get what you pay for right? I sup­pose. Why not make a resort in the city. I’m not talk­ing a Day Spa… Lets make it hap­pen peo­ple. Resorts down­town for 20–30 some­things to hang­out, drink, relax, sun­shine.. all in one place. That still sounds an awful like a resort. fuck.

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Check out this very hip band, Local Natives, I’m sure you hear about them lots this sum­mer! Seri­ously, they are fuck­ing amazing.

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Sunday, March 14th, 2010

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