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petroniaI AM CHANGING MY ANSWERS FOR THE ACCOUNTING ASSIGNMENT.
Indestructable good mood today though (to make up for yesterday). Wore this knit tunic maternal unit excavated from Her Youth as "they seem fashionable these days", over leggings - it's made of tiny red-blue-black-yellow stripes and looks like a throw rug. VINTAGE 80'S. Also it is surprisingly cosy. I'll try to put up a photo, it ought to give knitters on the flist a good laugh.
Went to class, got my paper topic approved (economics of digital music distribution ahaha), wandered in the McGill Ghetto for a bit as it was a beautiful nippy autumn day, ended up at Lola Rosa Café where I read two Harvard Business School cases and had a coffee and some sort of Inuit crowberry tisane and a slice of their seasonal homemade pumpkin pie with vanilla ice cream. BEST PIE EVER GUYS, RUN DON'T WALK. It was like some sort of stereotype though, they played Arcade Fire and Feist and the next table was occupied by a student knitting circle. XD;
Beirut - Postcards from Italy: put this on the playlist for the title, ahaha, but it grew on me and hit some critical tipping point last night - I must've listened to it twenty times today. Haven't really gotten past it to the rest of the album. XD; Like the "La Ritournelle" of 2006? Unless "La Ritournelle" was the "La Ritournelle" of 2006, I don't remember. I really had to pay close attention to "La Ritournelle" to figure out what everyone else was hearing anyway (I tend to feel electronica does that kind of thing more effectively).
"Postcards from Italy" has a real Moment, though, halfway through and built on. I read this interview with Zach Condon in which he basically said he didn't listen to lyrics and resented the necessity of having them in his songs, which is great as it frees me from having to pay any attention to what he's singing (cf: Rufus Wainwright as stringed instrument). XD I don't know if it's supposed to be "she will marry me outside / with the willow trees" or "she will bury me outside"; the way the song works, there's barely a semantic difference.
In a nice segue from the above, I've been digging Le Blogothèque's Take Away Shows. The appeal is a bit like that DVD of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cis's about going on a Steadycam date with each of the individual members of NEWS, only for the indie set. XD Gorgeous saturated-colour digital video, regrettable outbreaks of "artistic" camerawork, more akchul singing. Also the blog crew in question is based in Paris, which is an automatic +15 to any filming-in-the-streets endeavour.
Having made the JE link, I'm somehow unsurprised to find that they shot about twenty of the things for Beirut. XDD The best part is not even the lovingly lingering lens, it is the COMMENTARY.
(Reproducing the French as the English translation doesn't capture the POESY of the original)
It is all like that. DYING OF LOL. SEND HELP. ...It's a French thing, I think, for some reason it's very hard to zing or tl;dr in French so even bloggers get away with murder.
The Arcade Fire one is the best, though (and probably one of the best live concert clips of all time).
Indestructable good mood today though (to make up for yesterday). Wore this knit tunic maternal unit excavated from Her Youth as "they seem fashionable these days", over leggings - it's made of tiny red-blue-black-yellow stripes and looks like a throw rug. VINTAGE 80'S. Also it is surprisingly cosy. I'll try to put up a photo, it ought to give knitters on the flist a good laugh.
Went to class, got my paper topic approved (economics of digital music distribution ahaha), wandered in the McGill Ghetto for a bit as it was a beautiful nippy autumn day, ended up at Lola Rosa Café where I read two Harvard Business School cases and had a coffee and some sort of Inuit crowberry tisane and a slice of their seasonal homemade pumpkin pie with vanilla ice cream. BEST PIE EVER GUYS, RUN DON'T WALK. It was like some sort of stereotype though, they played Arcade Fire and Feist and the next table was occupied by a student knitting circle. XD;
Beirut - Postcards from Italy: put this on the playlist for the title, ahaha, but it grew on me and hit some critical tipping point last night - I must've listened to it twenty times today. Haven't really gotten past it to the rest of the album. XD; Like the "La Ritournelle" of 2006? Unless "La Ritournelle" was the "La Ritournelle" of 2006, I don't remember. I really had to pay close attention to "La Ritournelle" to figure out what everyone else was hearing anyway (I tend to feel electronica does that kind of thing more effectively).
"Postcards from Italy" has a real Moment, though, halfway through and built on. I read this interview with Zach Condon in which he basically said he didn't listen to lyrics and resented the necessity of having them in his songs, which is great as it frees me from having to pay any attention to what he's singing (cf: Rufus Wainwright as stringed instrument). XD I don't know if it's supposed to be "she will marry me outside / with the willow trees" or "she will bury me outside"; the way the song works, there's barely a semantic difference.
In a nice segue from the above, I've been digging Le Blogothèque's Take Away Shows. The appeal is a bit like that DVD of
cis's about going on a Steadycam date with each of the individual members of NEWS, only for the indie set. XD Gorgeous saturated-colour digital video, regrettable outbreaks of "artistic" camerawork, more akchul singing. Also the blog crew in question is based in Paris, which is an automatic +15 to any filming-in-the-streets endeavour. Having made the JE link, I'm somehow unsurprised to find that they shot about twenty of the things for Beirut. XDD The best part is not even the lovingly lingering lens, it is the COMMENTARY.
(Reproducing the French as the English translation doesn't capture the POESY of the original)
Sur The Penalty, je retrouve ce sentiment trop rare : Zach Condon qui s’avance – en toute humilité, avec quelque chose qui ressemble à du courage même, mais aussi un regard qui nous fuit un peu, un reste de pudeur – sans son armée, sans son étonnant et beau fatras. Comme dépouillé de tout. Je ne suis pas certain qu’il soit plus beau, ou plus touchant pour autant : son éclat est d’une couleur moins flamboyante et plus subtile, comme une ombre d’opaline. Il donne autant à voir, mais il le donne différemment. Sans les cuivres ailées et les trépidantes variations de l’accordéon et du violon, ses envolées ont moins de grandeur, moins d’ampleur : elles nous emmènent moins loin. Mais on voit alors mieux le paysage qui s’offre à nous, à l’image de ce ukulelé, cet instrument qui est un jouet aux moeurs légères mais qui entre ses mains rappelle les larmes de la viole du fado. Et puis vient la fin. Et puis surtout viennent sur la fin tous les autres qui sont une multitude et qui débarquent de tout leur poids, comme on s’invite à un banquet, avec la pesanteur de l’amitié comme pour de vraie, avec la ferveur des fidèles de toujours.
It is all like that. DYING OF LOL. SEND HELP. ...It's a French thing, I think, for some reason it's very hard to zing or tl;dr in French so even bloggers get away with murder.
The Arcade Fire one is the best, though (and probably one of the best live concert clips of all time).
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Date: 2007-10-30 08:47 am (UTC)Also, I totally agree re: Beirut's lyrics. Better unintelligible lyrics than distracting lyrics! (I always thought it was bury, but it really doesn't matter, no. :D) And I think his songs rely on the emotion of the music enough that yeah, definitely, you can fill in the blanks... ps, I liked his second album better than his first. It's sort of poppier, more in the vein of Postcards from Italy. If you don't have it, I can up?
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Date: 2007-10-30 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 10:40 am (UTC)I AM SO GLAD YOU BROWSED THROUGH THOSE. I had a day where it was all I did. Even Ed Droste showing up to do Cliquot was alright, although I was hoping for some Pallett action. God. He can't be doing anything that important up in TO.
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Date: 2007-10-30 07:36 pm (UTC)Final Fantasy is on tour? I think? I'm starting to wish I got into all this stuff a month earlier - I could've gone to the Pop Montreal gigs, now none of these bands will swing back around for a year. (OTOH then I'd be broke and failing school, so... maybe not. XD)
Did you see the different versions on the Take Away Shows site itself? There's more random stuff on their YTube channel too. Actually what got me to make the "Steadycam date" connection was the outtake with Zach Beirut stumbling thru Paris totally plastered and singing Grizzly Bear's "Knife" at the top of his lungs. XD;
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Date: 2007-10-30 09:13 pm (UTC)And really, my favourite Take Away video of all time is the first version of Nantes, where he sings into the tuba at the beginning and flails his skinny, magical arms ("ses bras maigres et magiques" in the original) at everyone.
I suspect he is a drunken little torturted egotist, and I love him for it. Is it bad that I never knew that Knife was that catchy until I saw that video? :/
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Date: 2007-10-31 04:43 am (UTC)Then again my preferred version is the Girl Talk remix, which is actually a mashup with Clipse. XD; I think individual producers keep making the same isolated discovery, namely that hip-hop jams sound awesome if you get a wussy indie dude to sing the diva part.
Take Away Shows is how I first saw Final Fantasy actually, it's not a bad intro. XD
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Date: 2007-10-30 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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