Malajube, a band of Frenchness, and also of Awesomeness

Malajube is a band from the French side of Montreal. Not like Mobile, those English panzies.

They have a cool sound and catchy songs, which are in French (but don't let that deter you).

The reason I am posting about them is that I found out they're coming to Edmonton on MArch 29!!! Wooooot! I am definitely going to go see them. Tix are $15, please come with me, it'll be tons of fun! They probably speak english too!

Death Cab for Cutie - Different Names for the Same Thing

I absolutely love this song. I think he's singing about synonyms. And life.

One of those things

That was weird. I just had one of those weird things happen to me, kinda like a deja vu. But not. I was at work today, and for no reason at all (or maybe for every reason) I had a song stuck in my head, and I only knew the one part and it went "Do you realize... that you have... something something... beautiful smile". I had no clue where this song was from, I could only place it vaguely to some commercial I had seen a year or more ago, judging mostly by the fact that I only knew the one chorus of the song. Anyways I got home, and started checking my blog, and my MySpace, went looking for music on MySpace and wound up on The Flaming Lips' page.
And there it was. Do You Realize??. Staring at me, beckoning me to hear in totality what I had been hearing in fragments all day long. I thought, well, that was neat.

Sure enough, this song has been featured on commercials for Mitsubishi and HP. And, another interesting fact that makes me look stupid, is that the song is from the Flaming Lips' album 'Yoshimi Battles the Giant Pink Robots', which I have been listening to for a week or two now. I guess that's why the song was stuck in my head.

Jasper was pretty

Feb 22 2007 Road Trip

Well, Caleb and I drove to Jasper last week. It was lots o' fun, we took lots o' pictures. We left at about 6:30 am, hoping to be out of the city to shoot the sunrise but the sunrise was hidden by silly clouds!! There was plenty of hoar frost to go around though, which makes everything prettier, and hoochier. We got to Jasper around noon and went to Pyramid Lake and Athabasca Falls. We stayed till about 5:30 and headed back home. The drive home was pretty much the worst drive of my life. Caleb and I finished listening to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince audiobook on my iPod, and you all know how that book ends... Then it started getting dark, and after we left Edson, it started snowing. And I mean snowing. I could not see anything, except snow of course. Visibility was greater than or equal to horrible. And Caleb kept yelling at me in Mandarin, and I was like Caleb, you don't even speak Mandarin, you speak Cantonese! Stop yelling at me in Mandarin! And then there was this Ice Dragon, which I thought were extinct, but I guess not, and I had to battle it again and again until I finally vanquished my enemy using a fantastical sword!!!

Well, anyways, we got home. It was good fun. 9 hours of driving, 5 hours of Jasper. It was worth it, if only for this picture.

PS My grandpa is doing better, he's back in his nursing home in Barrhead. Hurray!