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likes the Internet, and occasionally posts things he thinks are neat here. He also exists online at Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, and other fine Internet establishments.

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Friday, 3 July 2009

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Dan Deacon – “Red F”

I really can’t recommend this album enough. It’s completely awesome, and has rapidly become one of my go-to albums for putting on headphones when I want to concentrate and get some work done.

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Thursday, 2 July 2009

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Wednesday, 1 July 2009

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Discovery – I Want You Back

You can’t improve upon perfection, but I have to respect their effort to make the song their own.

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Joel Plaskett – Through & Through & Through

I’m the Berlin Wall, I’m a communist
You’re a wrecking ball in a summer dress

This song has weaseled it’s way into my brain, and doesn’t intend on going anywhere. The video is also fun.

(via Kate Beaton)

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Monday, 29 June 2009

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The Minor Canon – “Art of the Quickdraw/I’ll Believe in Anything”

I’ve listened to a few of The Minor Canon’s tracks today, and I think their original work bears investigation, but I’m really posting this because of the shift into a Wolf Parade cover (The segue is at 3:40). For much of it, I think the cover is only somewhat more interesting than the swell of amateur covers you can find on YouTube, but I do think the addition of horns is pretty awesome. It makes me think that if Broken Social Scene covered “I’ll Believe In Anything” (yes, these are the sorts of things I fantasize about), it would be so life affirming and beautiful that we would all have no choice but to declare Canada to be The Best Country Ever.

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Jay-Z "Death of Auto-Tune" Video

Good track. Bonus points for a Harvey Keitel cameo.

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Michael Jackson Goes to Heaven Interesting, reasoned discussion of the fact that in the last few days everybody has forgotten that most of us used to, at the minimum, be a bit wary of Michael Jackson’s relationship with children. To be clear, I don’t think he was a pedophile in any serious way, although that’s not to say I think he was entirely innocent either. I think there were too many accusations to discount them entirely, but on the other hand those closest to him who should have known pretty well always maintained he was innocent, and a court did support with that assertion. The more interesting point here is less the truth of his conduct and more the fickle swaying of public opinion. People’s flaws always look less gruesome after they’re dead, but the about-face on public opinion of Michael Jackson is pretty major by any standard.
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Friday, 26 June 2009

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Belle & Sebastian – Billie Jean

This is actually a little less impressive than I might have hoped, at least vocally, but I’m a sucker for covers and Belle & Sebastian. But it’s still good, and today is apparently officially Everybody On The Internet Honor Michael Jackson And Conveniently Forget He Might Have Been A Pedophile Day. So enjoy.

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Definitely the best MJ tribute I’ve seen today.
Definitely the best MJ tribute I’ve seen today.
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Saturday, 20 June 2009

Ze Frank sort-of returns

Although Time as a publication is pretty low in my esteem, I am cautiously excited about this. Cautiously because I think Time might editorialize him and prevent him from being as funny as he can be, but this first video gives me good reason to hope.

And for people who, like me, like Ze Frank but do not like getting every single video Time posts in their RSS feeder, I put together a Yahoo pipe that should just grab Ze Frank’s videos and ditch the rest.

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