I got a kick out of Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks. Are you planning to carry a fridge with you when you travel Ireland? If so, it's a must-read.

The Tear Garden - Natural Selection
The Clash - Know Your Rights
Steve Earle - Condi, Condi
Radiohead - Myxomatosis
Grant Lee Buffalo - Let Go of My Hand
R.E.M. - Pale Blue Eyes
New Model Army - Marrakesh
Delerium - Love
Vast - Turquoise
The Thermals - An Ear For Baby

Godsmack - Greed
Generation X - Paradise West
Guided By Voices - They and Them
Nirvana - Drain You
Rollins Band - Alien Blueprint
Blue Rodeo - Up On That Cloud
Todd Terje - Oh Joy
Ron Sexsmith - Every Time I Follow
Depeche Mode - The Sweetest Condition
U2 - Magnificent

Purity Ring - Amenamy
J. Mascis and the Fog - Where'd You Go
Sonic Youth - Lights Out
Billy Idol - To Be a Lover
Frank Black - Hang On To Your Ego
Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts
Scott Walker - Cossacks Are
Cevin Key - Greenhouse Gasses
Polvo - A Link In the Chain
Cracker - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out With Me

Falling Joys - Lullaby
Sleater-Kinney - Gimme Love
54-40 - Walk In Line
Cowboy Junkies - Close My Eyes
St. Vincent - Hysterical Strength
The Strokes - When It Started
A.C. Newman - The Troubadour
High-Functioning Flesh - Afterbirth
Nomeansno - Teresa, Give Me That Knife
The Clash - Fingerpoppin'

The AV Club
It's hard to say, it's sad but true, I'm kind of dumb, and so are you.

We are the Same might be my favorite of the post-2000 albums (excluding the new one) though it does stray from the classic Hip sound into more of a country-rock feel on a couple songs. I was hoping to hear Country Day or The Last Recluse live (I think the latter was played during the tour, but don`t know if it was…

So pleased they did "Tired As Fuck" again tonight. They performed it at the first of the two Vancouver shows I attended. I would characterize that performance as being defiant as fuck. You wouldn't know the man had terminal cancer.

Sloan - Friendship
Idlewild - Goodnight
J. Mascis and the Fog - More Light
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Black Glass Actions
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
444 Capsule - Control
Mr. Right & Mr. Wrong - Widget
Travis - Afterglow
ohGr - Psychoreal
Crystal Castles - I Am Made of Chalk

I'm a shlubby cyclist and close enough to 45 years old to use as an example. My typical commuting speed is around 20 km/hr and my peak speed, typically achieved going downhill, is around 40 km/hr. Usain Bolt's time of 9.8 seconds converted to km/hr is 36.7 km/hr. So yes, a shlubby average 45 year old on a bike…

Been shuffling through the Tragically Hip's catalog while travelling, cycling, walking, at work, etc.

Foxygen - San Francisco
Doubting Thomas - Turn a New Leaf
ohGr - Smog 2
Wilco - Should've Been In Love
Skinny Puppy - Ugli
Tool - Useful Idiot
Boris - Hand In Hand
Moby - Spirit
Scaremeister - Dark Skies
Ringo Deathstarr - Kaleidoscope

Ya ya ya…

Dinosaur Jr. - Even You
Billy Idol - Flesh For Fantasy
Touche Amore - Anyone / Anything
The Gaslight Anthem - Blue Dahlia
Wilco - Dark Neon

ça plane pour vous?

Just finished A Confederacy of Dunces, which took more than a month to get through only because I tend to read only when eating breakfast. Generally enjoyable though loaded with exaggerated stereotypes.

The Replacements - Swingin Party
Social Distortion - Pleasure Seeker
Jesus Jones - Move Mountains
Ramones - Commando
The Flaming Lips - Halloween On the Barbary Coast
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - Seasickness pt2
St. Vincent - Severed Crossed Fingers
The Tear Garden - Natural Selection
Bauhaus - King…

Barenaked Ladies - Take It Back
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Gathering Storm
Skinny Puppy - Use Less
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood 3 - Power Out
Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet - Plastics For 500, Bob
Spirit of the West - Water In the Well
Great Big Sea - The Old Black Rum
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - Windflower
Nomeansno - And…

Kurt Vile - Bad Omens
Nickelback - Side of a Bullet
Social Distortion - When Angels Sing
Renholder - Down In the Lab
Ministry - Vex & Siolence
Cut Copy - Unforgettable Season
Burial - Distant Lights
ohGr - Welcome to Collidoskope
Shearwater - Animal Life
Wilco - Too Far Apart

Steve Earle - Warrior
Beak> - The Axe
Beck - Fuckin With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)
Two Hours Traffic - Nighthawks
The Replacements - Bent Out of Shape
The Deep Dark Woods - Nancy
Snow Patrol - Shut Your Eyes
Black Francis - i Sent Away
Hilt - Get Stuck
Barenaked Ladies - Adrift