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I need to post another music blog soon. For now, though:

"Boston - The Dresden Dolls": A song that has possibly the most honest perspective on being in love with someone.

This is the studio recording:

Time to share more music. All covers this time:

"Metal" - Nine Inch Nails (Gary Numan cover)


"Love Reign O'er Me" - Pearl Jam (The Who)
I'm sure just about everyone's heard this cover, and I should hope that all of you have listened to Quadrophenia at least once in your lives.


"Stand By Me" - John Lennon (Ben King)
Another well-known tune and well-known...
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Music. Love it, share it.

In 2000, Our Lady Peace did a good live cover of Imagine and I've been listening to it a lot lately:


Muse is an amazing band. Apart from Matt Bellamy's remarkable voice, they have a great level of technical skill. In Your World examplifies this with cross-genre duplication. Bach-like classical piano pushed to the edge with grinding guitar riffs.


Amanda...
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I'm pretty sure that I have a cold. In August. I vote for enabling the death penalty against this weather.

So technically my birthday was finished 3 and a half hours ago, but damn, I wasn't this drunk and stoned then. I'm not sure where I'm going with this or why I'm hitting the keys so hard, but well, we've all been there. Happy times everyone!

So I'm about to go to war with my bank. Seriously, if anyone wants to bring pitchforks to downtown Saskatoon tomorrow, and if there's enough people, we can hit your banks too and knock the fuckers' teeth out.

I have a student line of credit from years ago (basically a loan), which I've made monthly automatic payments on. That was fine. But I'm going back...
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Part I: My New Spirit Animal

This time of year, there are pelicans living around the area I was at camping this past week. They're social birds, and tend to be in flocks. There was a flock of nine that I saw on one of my first days at the lake, and a couple other groups of six, but every day there was a solitary...
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I write poems about flowers - some of them are pretty dorky - and I'm okay with that. This one's almost in iambic octameter, but not quite. It has 8 syllables per line, but the meter is a bit off in the third verse. I care more about saying what I want to say and getting that across anyway.

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But he that dares not...
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First blog in two months. Good. I only speak when I have something real to say.

I've been following Dr Samantha Nutt's twitter. She's the founder of War Child Canada and her work is amazing. I respect her. She toughed it out in Darfur and is far braver than I am.

I've been listening to a lot of Dresden Dolls lately too. Amanda Fucking Palmer...
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I went and saw the Watchmen last night. Then on the walk home I saw, taped to a light post, this note:

Julie,
Your father called and loves you.
Says he'll call again.

That depressed me a lot. Brought out my masochistic side a little too. I got very drunk with some friends. Too drunk to stand. Ended up with an almost-broken nose and bloodstained...
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Want to know who was the greatest whore of the 20th Century?

Mrs. Pacman. For 25 cents, she'd eat balls until it killed her.

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Now that I've got that out of the way, I can tell you what I've been doing at 3AM. Thinking about numbers. It started with a birthday counter that led to my status: I was too lazy to do the...
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New Depeche Mode!!!


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