Boris Yeltsin died today.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin!

Desert island, 10 albums, no order:

Elliott Smith - From A Basement On A Hill
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Cuff the Duke - Cuff the Duke
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown
Radiohead - Kid A
EELS - Electro-Shock Blues
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

Extraordinary by Joel Plaskett Emergency is a very good song.

Not only is it super good in a million ways (intro, everything else, etc),
he has a super good simile:
"The crowd gets caught, like a needle in a groove"

And there's that 'post office' part.

I really like it.

So as much as I super hate surveys, I've had this idea in my head and really like the sound of it.

It took a long time, but is kind of neat to know.

So what I'm doing here is I'm taking my top 50 and dividing the number of tracks listened to by the number of tracks by them I have on my compy. I'll end up with a magical number, representing the amount of plays per track, showing me the most "efficient" bands. Maybe it means I like those bands most, or maybe it means I really like…

My Bose Quietcomfort 2 headphones broke down yesterday.
The only other headphones I have are the free ones you get on Air Canada.
I guess I'm pretty unhappy.

What is cool though, is DJ Shadow's live album In Tune and On Time. I haven't really gotten into too much else, but the only comparison that I can make between it and his studio stuff is that Blood on the Motorway sounds a whole lot better live.

I've also gotten into Elefant in the past two weeks. The track Make Up is super good, and the rest of Sunlight Makes…

Yo so it's pretty much my one year Last.fm birthday. I'd write a lot about bands and stuff but I can't really. I'll mention my top five though (not based on charts), in case you wanna know

1Elliott Smith
2/3EELS/The Arcade Fire
4/5Wilco/Buck 65

Those are all pretty good eh

Here are some numbers:

14417 tracks/12 months
=1201 tracks/month
14417 tracks/51 weeks
=277 tracks/week
14417 tracks/365 days
=39 tracks/day

Cool.

In unrelated news, my good friend DomenicROSATI signed up today. He is pretty intense.

Same deal as V Fest in Toronto, but a little more promising for school children like me as it is BEFORE school starts. Montréal's also significantly closer than Toronto.

Saturday, September 2 2006
* Sonic Youth
* Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
* K-Os
* Malajube
* Dinosaur Jr.
* Metric
* Stills
* The Magic Numbers
* World Party
* Amon Tobin
* Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
* Joseph Arthur
* James Chance
* Bush Tetras
* We Are Wolves
* Duchess Says
* Crystal Clyffs
* Think About Life
* The Hushpuppies
*
* +MORE

Sunday,…

Alright, so it's just been confirmed that this Virgin Festival thing will be coming to Canada in September.

A surprisingly small number of bands are coming (20ish I think), but they make up for quantity with quality:
The Flaming Lips
The Raconteurs
The Eagles of Death Metal
2 Many DJ's
Alexisonfire
Massive Attack
Sam Roberts
Thrice
The Dears
Gnarls Barkley
K'naan

and more!

A whole bunch of details can be found here: http://www.virginfestival.ca/index.html

The dates: September 9-10th 2006 (the second weekend of September, first one once school stars for all us young'ens)
It's on that island by downtown Toronto, but…

Youth is super good. If I was Jewish, I'd be hella proud of it

I bet you thought this would be a survey

Anyway so I will talk about new albums I have gotten.

a) Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck EP
It's actually different than what last.fm lists there. It's got seven tracks, including Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck, an alternate version of Crimes, an alternate version of Peackck Skeleton with Crooked Feathers, a live version of Car Wreck, and some other songs I have not heard before.
Generally it's pretty cool. The Blood Brothers obviously didn't mean it to be a big commercial success, they're just doing random stuff. The Crimes…