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jayeless replied to your post: My most-played songs in 2012 LOST KITTEN...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:07:00 +1100

jayeless replied to your post: My most-played songs in 2012

LOST KITTEN <3333

so true.

My most-played songs in 2012

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:40:17 +1100

Metric – Lost Kitten (245)
Childish Gambino – Heartbeat (116)
Childish Gambino – Bonfire (91)
Childish Gambino – Lights Turned On (88)
Childish Gambino – Sunrise (76)
Metric – The Twist (71)
Stars – I Died So I Could Haunt You (71)
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know (69)
The Shins – Australia (68)
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – That’s What’s Up (61)
The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (60)
Death Cab for Cutie – Someday You Will Be Loved (60)
Metric – Gimme Sympathy (60)
Stars – We Don’t Want Your Body (60)
Metric - The Void (58)

My most-played artists in 2012

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:40:15 +1100

Metric (1,252)
Childish Gambino (976)
Sufjan Stevens (861)
Stars (796)
Death Cab for Cutie (633)
Modest Mouse (569)
Lemon Demon (560)
The Shins (536)
The Mars Volta (527)
Animal Collective (434)
Grizzly Bear (395)
Travis (358)
Jason Collett (349)
Sigur Rós (300)
The Flaming Lips (285)

pandapirates: Reimagined Miyazaki Films Cool. (And I’ve...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:34:39 +1100

pandapirates:

Reimagined Miyazaki Films

Cool. (And I’ve seen all these movies!)

cordelia <3

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:14:00 +1000

cordelia <3

The Decemberists to appear in The Simpsons!

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:29:00 +1000

The Decemberists to appear in The Simpsons!

Epic Sax Game

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:00:41 +1000

Epic Sax Game

Said or did. It’s hard to forget/let go of things...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:46:03 +1000

Said or did.

It’s hard to forget/let go of things sometimes ok ._.

danharmon: Holy crap this is really really really cool.

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:00:42 +1000

danharmon:

Holy crap this is really really really cool.

Jayeless: SO I SAW METRIC LAST NIGHT

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:56:47 +1000

Jayeless: SO I SAW METRIC LAST NIGHT:

jayeless:

I feel I have to write a post about how it all was but finding words to describe it is so hard. So, I shall try.

Sooo my friend and I were in the front row, albeit far to the side. Pretty good place to be. It did mean getting pushed around a lot, but that’s the price you pay, right? ;) The opening band (Gold Fields) weren’t bad, except their vocals were really quiet. Also, everyone was really impatient for Metric!!

They finally came on about 9.50 or so… and it must be said: Emily Haines’ legs.

I feel kind of bad that my lasting impression of “Artificial Nocturne” was mostly “damn, those are some fine legs.” BUT IT’S TRUE, I CAN’T DENY IT. They are entrancing. Oh man.

The good news is, I pulled myself together for the rest of the concert :P The setlist was the same as in Sydney, and speaking of which, the woman behind me was telling the story of how she’d seen Metric the previous night in Sydney, then had flown down to Melbourne for the specific purpose of seeing them again. That is dedication! Sounds kinda expensive though.

For me, the highlight of the concert was “Empty”, which was all extended and awesome. “Dead Disco” was also extended (obviously) so that was one of my friend’s highlights, but for me it was a bit of a let-down because it wasn’t as extended and awesome as the 15-minute version from Live at Metropolis. I know, I know, I set the bar unreasonably high.

I also liked the more singalongy songs. Belting out “Gold Guns Girls” may have damaged my voicebox, but it was totally worth it. The last song was an acoustic version of “Gimme Sympathy”, with the whole crowd singing along, and Emily quipped that we should all really be around a campfire. And if I may add to that, her quipping was really excellent - “You all get to sleep in your own beds tonight! I’m jealous. I’d love to sleep in your beds.” Queue impassioned screaming.

In summary… great, great concert. And I love Emily Haines even more than I already did, which I didn’t even know was possible <333

(although to be fair, Jimmy Shaw is smoking too. I’d never really noticed this before last night but NOW I HAVE, OK. alright. Now I’m out.)

Just to add some things…

Those legs put me in a daze. Anyone who has fallen under the spell of Emily Haines’s legs will understand.

Anyway, the opening act was intriguing when it started (I liked the percussion and would listen to that first song again), but overall was “meh”, on account of us hardly being able to hear the vocals.

But back to Metric… The best bits were Dead Disco*/Stadium Love (ooohweeeoohhhweeeooooh, yep that’s how that bit goes), Lost Kitten, Help I’m Alive, Empty, Monster Hospital, and acoustic Gimme Sympathy, which was the final song of the encore. It was all over so fast! I think Help I’m Alive was the crowd favourite? Maybe…Also I feel like there wasn’t enough love for Lost Kitten. Then again it’s pretty new.

The other Best Part was when Emily Haines came over to our area and our hands touched and it felt gooood. You do not know what being this close to Emily Haines does to a person.

* I’m streaming that 15-minute version right now. But any and all Dead Disco is great regardless of length, pretty much.

\o/ I’m actually up-to-date with Breaking Bad, and...

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:51:33 +1000

\o/

I’m actually up-to-date with Breaking Bad, and it’s pretty rare for me to be up-to-date with a show! I’m even two years behind in Mad Men/True Blood/Dexter, so this is an indication of just how great Breaking Bad is.

ok so I kind of have a new obsession with Felicia Day, but this...

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:15:47 +1000

ok so I kind of have a new obsession with Felicia Day, but this is pretty good regardless. Pretty, pretttyyyyy good.

Photo

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:16:45 +1000

jayeless: archaeopteryx: The fact that people use it as a word...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:51:49 +1000

jayeless:

archaeopteryx:

The fact that people use it as a word makes it a word, though, no? Obviously it’s non-standard and should be avoided, especially in formal contexts, but it’s not uncommon and appears in dictionaries too.

I don’t even think we should feel an obligation to avoid non-standard words in every context. I mean, maybe I just love the complexity and creativity of language and I love me some non-standard words and constructions. But yeah, that people use it as a word makes it a word, and not one that people should be ashamed of using particularly.

In the great words of Kate Burridge, when people ask her if certain things are words: “Well I don’t know, do you use it?”

Oh yes, come to think of it a lot of the words I use online are non-standard or “made up”. I know I avoid them in formal writing, though. I would never use certain constructions in an academic essay, but for speech and informal writing I do a lot of conversion and “-y”ing. Because I can.

(I don’t think I’ll ever use “irregardless”, though.)

The fact that people use it as a word makes it a word, though,...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:27:07 +1000

The fact that people use it as a word makes it a word, though, no? Obviously it’s non-standard and should be avoided, especially in formal contexts, but it’s not uncommon and appears in dictionaries too.

thedailywhat: Nostalgia Overload of the Day: Cartoon Network is...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:37:00 +1100

thedailywhat:

Nostalgia Overload of the Day: Cartoon Network is ripping a page from the Nickelodeon playbook and bringing back a bunch of old shows with a Friday night block of programming featuring such fan favorites as Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, Powerpuff Girls, and others.

Cartoon Planet starts this Friday, March 30th, at 8 PM.

[ontd.]

Step 1: See Brak and Zorak in the video previews

Step 2: *omg click!*

Step 3: “The uploader has not made this video available in your country”

Step 4: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

thedailywhat: First Look of the Day: The first footage from...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:41:57 +1100

thedailywhat:

First Look of the Day: The first footage from SyFy’s Battlestar Galactica prequel, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, shown at WonderCon this past weekend, has made its way online.

Starring Luke Pasqualino as young William Adama, the show is set in the tenth year of the First Cylon War, and follows the high-flying adventures of the Colonial fleet’s newest battlestar, the Galactica.

Blood & Chrome does not yet have an official premiere date, but composer Bear McCreary revealed just last month that scoring of the two-hour pilot had been completed.

[aicn.]

I don’t know how to feel about this. On the one hand, reimagined Battlestar Galactica was one of my favourite shows, but this trailer makes it seem like BSG is just ripping off BSG :/

Also, I’m calling it now — it will get cancelled as with the other prequel series, Caprica. SyFy doesn’t seem to be much about good sci-fi series really.

This post is brought to you by Metrofail (Failro? No...)

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:21:33 +1100

I was watching someone on the train send a text message. He was writing “the trains seem”…, and I thought to myself “I bet the next word he’s going to type is ‘fucked’”. And I was right, he agreed that “the trains seem fucked”. Even the driver was like “the service is worse than usual”. It’s always bad, but today it was worse.

Side topic: how rude is it to read someone’s texts as they’re typing them?

My most-played songs of 2011

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:43:09 +1100

Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius (122)
Architecture in Helsinki – Escapee (93)
Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know (83)
Panda Bear – Tomboy (82)
Arcade Fire – Rococo (78)
Angus & Julia Stone – Big Jet Plane (74)
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (72)
Fleet Foxes – Your Protector (62)
Architecture in Helsinki – Contact High (61)
Stars – Romantic Comedy (60)
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (55)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (50)
Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia (49)
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (48)
The Decemberists – Rox In The Box (44)

My most-played artists of 2011

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:43:05 +1100

Sufjan Stevens (1,318)
Iron & Wine (768)
The Decemberists (741)
Arcade Fire (694)
Stars (675)
Architecture in Helsinki (566)
The Fiery Furnaces (416)
Feist (392)
Angus & Julia Stone (378)
Interpol (363)
Wolf Parade (357)
Fleet Foxes (355)
Bear McCreary (353)
Beirut (322)
Gotye (288)