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i have a few decade digests to roll out. first up is concerts. this is late decade heavy because not as many bands went through scotland as they do in vancouver, and also i can afford to go to a lot more of them now!

best

THUNDERHEIST @ montreal 2009 – they were so jacked on stage and the girl was amazing. do not miss the opportunity !!!

Ra Ra Riot @ vancouver 2009 – magical

guillemots @ glasgow 2006 – these guy’s first album was so incredible and we saw them in a dingy basement club in glasgow. second album was awful. though fyfe is doing some solo stuff that sounds ok

goldie @ aberdeen 2000 – this was amaaaazing. serg and i drove up from edinburgh for one night and he put on the most crazy explosive show!

tv on the radio @ vancouver 2009 – as if theyre not cool enough, we got this on a summers eve outdoors in stanley park

the foals @ vancouver 2008 – i loved it. vancouver folk didnt quite get them tho! british math rock.

the xx @ vancouver 2009 – the best band of 2009 did not disappoint on their first canadian outing

panic! at the disco @ vancouver 2007 – this was an unreal burlesque show with circus performers. amazing show including a great cover of eleanor rigby

friendly fires @ vancouver 2009 – total characters

frightened rabbit @ san francisco 2009 – cant not have a scottish band in this list. they were great.

the worst

metric 2008 – sucked
death cab for cutie 2008 – boring
thievery corporation 2009 – shouldve stayed in the 90s
coldplay 2008 – well i knew i wouldnt like this one
dirty projectors 2009 – i dont get it
the national 2007 – just a bad night

the absolute worst of this millennium has to be given to guitar legend Jeff Beck (Ottawa 2008) who is a hundred years old and still wearing crazy glam rock glitter spandex from the 70s with a crosss-breed haircut of Brian May and Rod Stewart. Just like sports stars, you gotta retire with grace. Jeff missed that theory. we left after forty minutes of utter drivel and stumbled on an amazing samba band who were a lot more fun!

2012 is going to be the year the world ends. i’m not so convinced the world ends, but maybe humanity could. philosophers and ‘crazy’ people alike have long linked 2012 with the end of it for us. volcanic eruptions; typhoons; earthquakes! it sounds such a glorious end! what if its not like that;we humans love to romanticise everything. maybe we all die of a plague, like the piggy one, so severe we cant find a fix.humans are resilient and fended off many a natural enemy or epidemic.

This piggy bank is a mould of a real pig by Harry Allen. he died (the pig) of an illness and his body was donated to art. i think art is just as important as life because life would be awful without art. i’d like to donate my body to art when im done.

check these mexicalts out who also believe in art as much as life. if we cant express ourself and show creativity in the time of a disaster then we’ll never succeed in overcoming them.

what would picasso have painted and drawn if the spanish civil war wasnt on? why dont artists use the ‘wars’ in the middle east as stimulus? what would you paint your mask like? could you paint a war? do people still paint? i guess it doesnt pay. Or do people just like to cut up photos and merge them together using the popular desktop application adobe photoshop?

i think humans are pretty cool. we’ll make it happen, even if we cant paint anymore

moustache’s are pretty cool too. not everybody pulls them off. sometimes at haloween a real hottie dresses up in say, a sexy pirate outfit, but then draws a moustache on her face, and maybe some stubble too. some guys go crazy for it still. i think its sinister. this lady’s hair is also sinister – its hard to trust someone that covers their eyes with their hair.

what do you think of sinister people, hiding behind mugs with a fake moustache; and covering their eyes with a fringe/bang?
what about the president of the united states of america? could he pull a moustache off? maybe he should grow a moustache and the townhall people would like him better.

design boom

you can buy these at http://www.verydesignersblock.com/ but there site seems to be down

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YES
Current mood:YES
Category: Religion and Philosophy

my sister was distracting me at work today. it was ok tho cos it was fun – it was simple fun – i just kept typing YES.

YES YES YES
YES YES YES YES YES YES
YES

everytime i typed it, lix and i were gettign happier and happier! until i was bursting out laughing in the office, and she said she was too!!

im going to try and incorporate this fun into everyday use of language. i will endeavour to answer all questions with a positive, even if it requires a negative response!

it should be easy… here’s an example to get round bad things -

hey, how are you?
great!
can you talk just now?
YES
cool, are you in stirling just now?
i am in glasgow at the office.
you having fun?
i am programming!

hahaha – im laughing while i type this avoiding all those bad words!!

try it!! say hello to me on messenger and we’ll play the YES game!! haha

Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:25 PM 4 Comments

2. Once the idea made a LOT of sense, The yes game became life! next step was a vow to keep saying yes!

3. The middle was doing it! yessing/websites/personal branding/more yesses!

you never move half way across the world;
you never meet amazing people;
you never see the world;
you never have a good career;
you never succeed in life without saying YES!!!

4. The result was happiness!!!

the tags used by the band on their video are YACHT Psychic City DFA See Mystery Lights Claire Evans Jona Bechtolt Rich Jensen Judah Switzer triangle triangles Christianity Mormonism Scientology Catholicism Islam Freemasonry Druid Eleusinian ritual mystery

maybe its that love is stronger than religion. it is our strongest belief. i dont know. feeling a little less intelligent for not getting the art. epic pash at the end !

yes: any film with an animated bird is cool in my books

yes: its not a love story. she’s a bitch. he’s a softy.

yes: the morning after dance scene. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/16/movies/20090716-500days-feature.html (doesnt really do it justice on the web)

yes: the cast were great. to be honest, i didnt like the main characters, but the acting was great

yes: zo0e deschanel. even though she’s still playing the same edgy dry role as every other flick she’s been in. and of course, she sings – i think she has it in every film contract that she must sing!

yes: LA. its not often LA gets looked at from a heritage builfing perspective, and theres loads of cool looking stuff

yes: the soundtrack. loads of indy fun! AND Hall and Oates (see the dance!)

yes: the pain you feel for the guy cos its so obviously doomed from the start!

nuff said. Cheers Limmy.