It's like Tricks of the Trade knows that you guys are going camping. They've got three fire-starting tricks so far this week.

Oh, and I love the Wi-Fi spray. Brilliant. The key is respraying every hour. The whole idea falls apart if you don't have to buy more.

yeah man, AIR. i remember Premiere Symptoms (jewel case version, not digi or reissue) being in heavy rotation around the same times as i was obsessing over the Beasties bestof (winter grade 12) Their whole french connection thing (them and Daft Punk and Cassius) was a sort of point of reference for me to relate to Fongzy when i first met him. he was trying to get me all up on French House, i tried to get him up on shoegazer - who'da known that the French would have found a realization of just that 7 years later with m83?
(oh yeah.Phoenix, don't forget about Phoenix, some of their softer stuff is pretty much AIR)

Yeah, moon safari is good, but of all the air albums I have so far (moon safari, premiers symptomes, virgin suicides [soundtrack], and walkie talkie) my favourite by far is Walkie Talkie. If anything you need to hear the fuckin brilliant (albeit simple) chord arrangements they use in the first song. I want to cry it's so good.

Actually, I'm shitting all over your inbox right now...

Pete,
I left something in your gmail account and I'll give you a clue as to what it is... it's not poo.

Jere, my other email address is right above this sentance.

Tay, how can you say you've wasted all this time when that Daggers CD will kick ass. I can't wait for that final master now, 'cause those tracks you sent me rock! Thanks for sending them to me.

As for Air, I loved Moon Safari, I would say it was one of my top two albums for Winter 2004/2005.

Speaking of wasting things, this is an awesome waste of money.

Anyone know where I can get a bumper sticker with my own design printed?

More details as requested for the Twin Lakes trip.

Depart Saturday August 13 sometime after I'm done work (5pm), the actual time usually depends on how well I prepared before hand, buying food and packing.
Camp out at the lake itself or at the farm if there's no available spots.
Spend Sunday at the lake and head back for Sunday evening.
It's only an hour and bit drive, and it's a really nice lake for swimming too. If nothing else it's nice just to get out of the city for a day.

Costs: $12 (total for everyone) per night for the campground if we stay at the lake, free if we stay at the farm.
Whatever food/drink you want to bring
Chip in for gas.

So not much.

The difference between me and this guy is that while I have fucking wasted the last 5 and a half years at the UofA since high school... he instead has not. He worked in the same art studio as I did back in high school (he was a year older though) and without question he was a pretty good artist, but I didn't feel like he was doing anything at a level I couldn't attain. However, he now lives in New York and is one of the artistic directors for the op-ed column in the New York Times.


Fuck me.


I've never really known jealousy until today. I am absolutely fucking infuriated with myself. My god, how have I let myself get to this point???


Oh yeah, his girlfriend is from Edmonton too. Check out her shit here.

I'm really behind on my shit with Air, having only really discovered and appreciated their music as of 4 months ago or so, but they're so fucking brilliant. This isn't really an optional thing, in fact it's completely mandatory that you download their beautiful, hauntingly melodic downtempo album Walkie Talkie if you haven't already listened to it.