The countdown clock is finally winding down. We’re just hours away from the announcement of this year’s Polaris Music Prize Shortlist. The 40 albums below will soon cut down to ten.
Art Bergmann, The ApostateJustin Bieber, Purpose- Black Mountain, IV
Jean-Michel Blais, Il- Basia Bulat, Good Advice
Daniel Caesar, Pilgrim’s ParadiseTanika Charles, Soul RunDCity and Colour, If I Should Go Before YouCœur de pirate, RosesDead Obies, GesamtkunstwerkDestroyer, Poison SeasonDilly Dally, SoreDrake, ViewsEssaie pas, Demain est une autre nuitFred Fortin, UltramarrFoxtrott, A Taller Us- Grimes, Art Angels
Half Moon Run, Sun Leads Me OnVeda Hille, Love WavesJazz Cartier, Hotel Paranoia- Carly Rae Jepsen, E•MO•TION
Junior Boys, Big Black Coat- Kaytranada, 99.9%
- Jessy Lanza, Oh No
Majid Jordan, Majid JordanMichelle McAdorey, Into Her FutureNap Eyes, Thought Rock Fish ScaleSafia Nolin, LimoilouOperators, Blue WavePeaches, Rub- PUP, The Dream Is Over
Daniel Romano, Mosey- Andy Shauf, The Party
The Strumbellas, HopeSuuns, Hold/Still- U.S. Girls, Half Free
Un Blonde, Good Will Come to YouThe Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness- White Lung, Paradise
Donovan Woods, Hard Settle, Ain’t Troubled
The livestream now over at what do you think of this list?
Polaris 2016 Facts
- This is perhaps the most “mainstream” long list ever produced by Polaris, featuring the likes of Justin Beiber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Drake and The Weeknd
- Just one album on this year’s long list is a self-titled release; that of Majid Jordan
- This year’s nominees aren’t big on punctuation. Just five albums feature anything beyond the alphanumeric in their titles. Donovan Woods was the most diverse in his punctuating, using both a comma and an apostrophe in Hard Settle, Ain’t Troubled. Bullet points and apostrophes appear most often with two each (Carly Rae Jepsen’s E•MO•TION, Donovan Woods’ nomination and Daniel Caesar’s Pilgrim’s Paradise)
- Dead Obies take the prize for this year’s tongue twister. Hoping they make the Shortlist just so we can hear the announcer and all the radio hosts stumble over Gesamtkunstwerk
- You’re not too badly off this year if you didn’t pay attention in French class. Essaie pas and Coeur de Pirate are the only glaringly obvious francophone artists on the list (correct me if there are more,) and Coeur is significantly bilingual on Roses
- This post is the most tagged ever (81!) in OurBasement’s short history
Relisten to DarBarSpecial’s Polaris Long List Playlist!
Oh, hello!
Good morning Russ
Hello everyone. Both of everyone.
hi everybody
Everyone enjoying the Useless Polaris Trivia?
Q: how many chocolate almond horns do you have to eat before you’re addicted?
A: 1-2
Nice work on the post Nick. Love the trivia, especially the punctuation one!
So Polaris is supposed to be “artistic merit” regardless of popularity, right? It never works out that way though, so having the likes of Bieber and Drake on there is not a good sign.
Nick, 6:50 definitely yes, that’s about exactly the amount of information i need to know about Polaris, thanks
(not kidding)
Hello
Happy birthday DarBar
Thanks for the playlist DarBar. And happy birthday. (Do you have an R3 birthday calendar, Garf?)
Wesley, I don’t think so. The system used up to now, at the very end — the jury of is it five people? getting together and thrashing it out in person, from ten finalists — has yielded enough unexpected (and sometimes disliked) wins to allay that fear. I think the Biebers etc. are there mostly as some sort of clickbait, i.e. as a sign of inclusivety, of not assuming that popularity means no artistic merit.
I was just going to enthuse about the punctuation trivia, but Wes beat me to it.
@Wes 7:13am,
The closest thing we have to that is the Elfster list for our Secret Santa that keeps track of birthdays but in this case Facebook told me.
I think Facebook tells everybody when it’s your birthday whether you want it to or not. Yes, Happy Birthday, DarBar!
For Old Abe: incredible the data processing used in F1:
“Here, data is king. McLaren’s super computers run 300,000 race simulations per second, matching data taken from the car in real time against predictive models to optimize the strategy.”
” “A Grand Prix car is an intelligent vehicle with phenomenal processing power,” explained Dennis, describing the task of managing and formatting the data as, “complex beyond comprehension.” There are up to 300 sensors fitted to an F1 car, and data is often processed by a specific part of it — braking force, tire pressure, vibration, and G forces are all monitored and processed by each individual wheel hub, for example.”
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/inside-mclaren-f1-racing-mission-control-room/
loozr, not a nice name, but yesterday, I was referring to FaceRat. Because it’ll rat you out.
Neither CBC Music player nor Spotify are interested in working for me this morning. If it’s something wonky with my browser, at least it’s not affecting the KEXP player.
Although… are they doing an all-Cure show or something?
OK, this song isn’t by The Cure, it’s by the Shout Out Louds, who I’ve never heard of, but they kind of sound like they might be Cure fans.
What are they The Cure-ing?
I guess they’re curing the scourge of not enough Cure songs being played on the radio, although I didn’t think that was a problem.
@Nick I see your Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist quote. I clap.
Shout Out Louds are amaaaazing! One of my all time non Canadian favourites. They are from Sweden.
Also, it’s not that they are massive The Cure fans. Adam Olenius’ voice is scarily similar to Robert Smith’s
Anyway, go Pup! Go Basia Bulat! Go Coeur de Pirate! Go Andy Shauf!
@Reg
Yay! You get me!
Hello All!
@BFO – Thanks for the link up there. Look interesting. I’ll have a look later.
And yes, KEXP is very Cure-y today. Was starting to wonder if someone died a la the all Prince show the did following his death.
It’s 11 o’clock! The stream should start momentarily!
OurBasement scooped CBC Music about Broken Social Scene! We’re more on top of the news than they are!
Livestream on now! https://www.facebook.com/CBCMusic/?fref=ts
Black Mountain, Basia Bulat, Grimes, Carly Rae Jepsen, Kaytranada, Jessy Lanza, PUP, Andy Shauf, U.S. Girls, White Lung
BLACK MOUNTAIN! WOOOOO! 🙂
Happy Birthday DARBAR!!
3 out of 4 picks!!!! This is exciting!
(I never thought Coeur de Pirate would be the pick that didn’t make it but oh well)
Polaris Prize announcement day! Sweet!
Remember how Radio 3 host Alana Stuart used to pronounce “Polaris”? Pole-ARE-isss.
God she was so hot. Such a babe.
I wonder what ever became of her?
Also, does that mean Tom Power is hosting?
I think Tom will be doing some of the live-from-the-floor stuff like Vish used to do. Fred Penner will be hosting the actual event.
Nick, 8:03, good work that…the basement is great!
Carly Rae Jepsen as in “Call Me Maybe”? (er, right?) She’s Canadian? I had no idea.
Fred Penner’s hosting Polaris? Sorry for my unpopular opinion, but I just don’t get this Fred Penner hipster resurgence.
loweeda
I think it’s the same force as what’s driving Pokemon Go.
Old Abe, 7:58, i like what KEXP is doing today, recognizing the (much overlooked) influence of a seminal band, and i must say that’s an area where R3 failed to some extent; always bring new music but it did little to recognize it’s own musical history and past influences that built the CanCon genre, sure they nodded to that history occasionally, but they never played the older music.
(…I mean the fact that she was on the long list should have been a clue, but clearly I wasn’t paying attention).
Fred Penner hosted last years gala
Zammy: It’s YOUR generation! You nostalgia-seeking milennials! Everything old is new again!
(she said with affection :))
Garry
Am I a year behind?
I thought he was hosting this year… I’m going to have to look into this.
loweeda
That’s why we love you, after all.
Right, that’s right. Fred Penner hosting it was one of the reasons I didn’t watch the gala last year. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with Fred Penner–but to me he’s just a guy from Winnipeg, you know? I don’t have any leftover childhood affection for him.
So we’re all listening to KEXP now? I missed the memo.
Is Polaris still supposed to be judged on the entire album?
loweeda, I agree; it’s all very nice to go all childhoody, but this Penner thing’s overstayed its welcome by years. It’s now a cliché.
Just a guy from Winnipeg? I’m gonna tell Fred you said that, loweeda! Maybe it’s to prove Polaris isn’t about popularity? Or is he actually more popular now or something?
shufle, the first sentence in the wiki on it: “The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label.”
Neil Young is also “just a guy from Winnipeg”.
Sooo are you happy with the shortlist?
I can’t help but feel Andy Shauf will win this.
Wes: it’s true, though! As a fact, that sentence about Fred cannot be denied. Like many other guys, he is from Winnipeg 🙂
And he seems to be popular all over again. He plays campus pub tours and festivals and everything. I don’t get it, but it’s yet another way that I am An Old, I guess.
In that quotation, it should read “given for”, not “given to”. Picky, but true.
But more importantly: PUP’s on the shortlist! yay PUP! and Grimes!
Those are my top 2. The Andy Shauf album is good, too, and I’m gonna listen to it again right now.
If Andy Shauf doesn’t win the P, I will eat my R3 toque.
Wes 8:29, yes, KEXP is a popular choice around here, and bonus…. they play a fair amount of CanCon
I’m also hoping someone from either two of my favourite Saskatchewan bands will introduce Andy at the Gala >.>
I tried to make that so cryptic it’s probably terribly written.
Good grammar catch there Benoit. The award is given to the artist, not the album!
Welp, my next 3.5 hours of listening is spoken for as it’s playlist testing time.
Yes, you guys gave me 3 and a half hours worth of songs for the Summer playlist. It’s pretty great, you guys. Pretty great.
@@@@@@@@@@ snails rule!
WHY DO THEY HAVE TO APPEAR WHEN I’M SAYING SOMETHING EMBARRASSING ABOUT THEM?!
Hi, LV. Please don’t go.
Andy Shauf seems to justify the best odds. But…
Burton Cummings is just a guy from the Peg as well.
snails do rule.
Today in Our Basement comments: Just Guys from Winnipeg!
John K. Samson
reginula, you are a conjurer. You just haven’t realised it yet.
I’ve listened to 6 of these 10, definitely some good stuff there.
Also, hello old friends!
OLD MAN CANADA JANES IS BACK!!!
@lee https://twitter.com/alannastuart
pup is the only album I have heard through. Will listen to the list soon. I know little about Bieber but he is wining more acclaim on his newest album.. Is it not artistic enough because it is too generic/not enough of his own input/he’s rich?
@donna I wanted to say name that but I didn’t want to sound like I was calling you up (is that the word I’m looking for?) for saying “Just a guy from Winnipeg”
Hi there. I just make sure to stop in every morning to read the daily topic and see what’s going on. Leaving has more to do with work than awkwardness.
I actually barely process when you mention LV and focus my energy getting stoked when people chat about PUP, etc.
ioweeda is also here!
reginula: It’s OK, I called myself up instead 🙂
Burt’s buddy Randy Bachman is also Just A Guy From Winnipeg.
Boris Johnson says Brexit vote does not mean leaving Europe ‘in any sense’
“Just A Guy From Winnipeg” sounds like it should/could be a Kids In The Hall sketch.
Yay! Welcome back to the fold, CJ!
You’ve been away for a long, long time.
PUP THO
It could be a Kids in the Hall sketch! And I think we’ve already named enough Guys from Winnipeg for each one of the Kids to be one. Someone’s people should call someone else’s people and make this happen.
re, “calling you out?” — i.e. criticising.
Thanks Nick! Nice to see some familiar names around here!
I’ve listed to all by 12 of the long list albums, hoping to get through the rest over the next week or two. Some good stuff, only a few albums that I’m not a fan of.
Oops: *REG*, calling you out, etc.
I just read that Kevin MacDonald of Kids In The Hall is starting a variety show podcast!
i thought the apricot fucktrumpet was going to pick a running mate today/this morning? no matter…. i’m sure whatever it is, his choice will be purely awful
A variety show podcast–interesting.
also interesting: Kevin McDonald is also…wait for it…A GUY FROM WINNIPEG!
(seriously, he moved there a few years ago now)
Garfield: in fact, the British Isles are fairly well anchored in place. Hardy har har.
But really, I don’t think things will end up all-or-nothing; both the rest of Europe and GB need harmonised regulations, so…
Speaking of Canadian comedians, has anyone watched the new Martin Short show on Global? Pretty good, the little I’ve seen so far.
@Benoit Yup, that! Ok!
Maya & Marty: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5543284/
Guys, I think we’ve hit a record. 138 page views in the last hour and nearly 100 comments before noon local.
You’re the greatest!
I think Tom Power is actually hosting the gala… https://twitter.com/polarisprize/status/753606808246317056
Loweeda, maybe you could make an AGFW post sometime..no pressure@@@@@
Heyyy!
ANOTHER amazing post! Wooo! How do you find the time @Nick what with hightailing it all over the place to see awesome free shows etc…Did you manage to catch a sighting of the band after I left?!
hotpatch: I’m done with that. I only post about snails now @@@@@@
Loweeda, somehow i don’t think it’s entirely out of your system
Hey Rosetta! were so so good. I want to musically marry Tim. The whole band in fact. A french horn AND cello AND violin, trumpet etc…tight as a drum.
Happy sigh.
I heard part of the Cure fest on KEXP as I drove home. I switched to cbc1 when Joy DIvision came on….sorry if you love JD but I’ve had enough of them for a lifetime!
loweeda, @8:53
WHHHHAAAAT!?!?!??!???
What is happening in Winnipeg? And here I thought it was all mosquitos and colder than Mars.
Reg 9:03
I like this a lot more than Fred Penner.
Tom Power is a very funny man.
(I don’t know who Amanda is. I couldn’t even really hear her announcing the Shortlist. Her mic wasn’t working.)
@LV – The BLUE one or the RED one?
Re the Drumpf and his putative Veep: “Trump later tweeted: “I will be making the announcement of my Vice Presidential pick on Friday at 11am in Manhattan. Details to follow.” ” From http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/13/politics/donald-trump-vice-presidential-candidate-us-election/index.html
According to Wikipedia’s list of people from Winnipeg, Danny Finkleman is A GUY FROM WINNIPEG! He used to host “Finkleman’s 45’s” which was my favourite CBC show until he retired back in the mid 2000’s.
I’m on a real Winnipeg kick right now!
Maloo
No HR! sightings or signings. 🙁
But I’m just two records away from completing my collection.
Speaking of, anybody have a copy of the Plan Your Escape LP (white cover, not brown) or A Cup of Kindness and Red Songs EPs they’d be willing to part with?
lee: Proof re Kevin McDonald. Winnipeg is more than it appeaaaars!
(I don’t live there, btw, but it’s the nearest Big City).
Also: @@@@@@@@@@@
@russ Blue
I think my pick for the Polaris Prize is either Andy Shauf or White Lung. Normally I don’t like punk music too much but I listened to the White Lung album a few times when the CBC Music app was streaming it, and I liked it. It reminded me of Hole, the 90’s band.
The Polaris buzz and the conversation here have kept me away from Pokemon this morning.
Good job?
Great job, Reginula!
Music > Pokemon
LB, russ, you could be talking about Matrix pills…
you mean that pokeman stuff hasn’t gone away yet?
Um, “LV” and russ, durn.
Good morning everyone!
My favourite from the shortlist that I’ve listed to so far is definitely Basia Bulat (love her!) but also really enjoyed PUP and Black Mountain. Couldn’t get into Andy Shauf for whatever reason.
PUP and Black Mountain are quite different than Andy Shauf so it’s understandable that if you enjoy them you wouldn’t like the other so much!
Wait…. the Bieb on on the Polaris list?
Black Mountain / Mothers of the Sun…. aaaaahhh… that’s better….
I think it’s possible to like music that is “different” than other music. I like both PUP and Andy Shauf. And even–omigod–Mozart!
jg On the long list, the biebs was.
I like Bach, Black Mountain, Mozart, The Avalanches, Kid Koala, The Barr Brothers…
(…) Karkwa (Cormier), Radio Radio, Lisa Leblanc, Beck, Ben Folds, Matt Haimovitz…
Hey all! I’ve listened to 6/10 of the shortlist but I think it looks decent. I agree with people thinking Andy Shauf’s the favourite but I think Black Mountain will draw some solid votes.
I’m quite happy to see Suuns on the long list… but eliminated in the short list… baahh!
Hi guys! Just got out of an awkward meeting.
AND my bike is alive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN6-zH_9PIk
I remember The Avalanches…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS3AZ12xf6s
The Avalanches have a new album! I’m hoping it’s all going to be available via Canada Spotify tomorrow.
(I love Frontier Psychiatrist. Thanks for posting, Russ)
loweeda
Even-omigod-Mozart is my all-time favourite band name
SWITTERS IS HERE!!!!!!
(Can’t say “back.” This isn’t R3 to be back to.)
zammy: Even–omigod–Mozart does EDM covers of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
They have been around for a LONG time!
Yort played this yesterday and I was all like
I REMEMBER THIS SONG!!!
Hi everybody!
So is the Polaris finally another version of the Juno?
@funhug… nice ride man! Fun summer rollin’ ahead! Let us know when you get it out on the road and open it up….
Even-omigod-Mozart are touring; That Douchebag Solieri are opening.
Mozart jokes ftw!
And Iceman’s here! What a time to be alive 😉
Great to see you again @Iceman!
BENOIIIIT
PUP “secret” show at House or Targ
TONIIIIIGHT: https://twitter.com/theholygasp/status/753622206924677120
Hey friendlios! Loweeda, youdabes.
I just wanna see the Mozart v. Salieri Cage match. Come on WWE make that shit happen!
I’m listening to the White Lung album right now and it’s pretty great. Still sticking to my PUP/Grimes ballot, though.
(related, what’s the name for a trifecta with only two things? A duofecta? A bifecta?)
I’m old enough to have seen on t.v. the original Wayne and Shuster skit Frontier Psychiatrist. In the Sixties.
Here’s a link to Amazon France, which has leaked samples of all the tracks on the new Avalanches long-playing record (hah!)
https://www.amazon.fr/Wildflower-Explicit-Avalanches/dp/B01GIBSU6A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465350325&sr=8-1&keywords=the+avalanches+wildflower
I think Mozart was kind of a wimp, tbh. I bet Salieri could take him.
“Trifecta” is apparently picking the first 3 in horse racing; picking the winner and the second place was, is called a “perfecta”. Doesn’t work in this case, does it?
Ah, I have it, loweeda: it’s called “trifecta in progress”, on-in Fark.
@Donna Dynamic duo?
(I just googled flights to NYC for Hamilton in late Dec and found one with one stop for 598 USD. I think it’s very cheap for the dates. I had to tell you)
I always see Salieri as being played by Nicholas Cage, but who would play Motzart?
But BENOOOOIT. PUUUUP.
My high school math teacher taught us horse-race betting* as a way to learn about odds, etc. I used to know all those terms and what they meant. Trifecta, Exactor, Quinella, etc etc
* best practice for a high school teacher? Teaching kids about gambling? I dunno
wow, reginula, snap up that flight asap!
I’m glad you told me. Please tell me all the Hamilton things, always.
Also, I must admit it took me sometime to get into Andy’s album. I just needed to be in the right mood.
You’ve got to dangle the carrot to get the donkey to follow Loweeda. Did cartoons teach us nothing?!
There probably should be a comma in that sentence, but either way I’m happy with it.
Just heard a song on KEXP that I thought sounded cool. Went to see who it was… The Avalanches.
@Donna I don’t have a credit card and there are like three pesos on my bank account (PAYCHECK PLEASE COME NOW. And that would only be like half or a third of the price (._. )). I was hoping the friend (<.< ) I'm going with would pay for both with her card now but she just said "Oh, that's an interesting price"
Whyyyyy
Thanks! I love telling you all the Hamilton things as much as I love hearing them from you!
Hello all and thanks!
It’s the birthday girl. Hurrah!!!
Maybe “that’s an interesting price” is the first step towards her deciding to pay that price, reginula (PS. I wish I was the friend going with you, but you already know that)
Iceman: that must be the reason why I have no donkeys following me. No carrots to dangle! (Hi-o in a weird way)
Hi Darbs! Happy birthday / shortlisted Black Mountain!
reg, I just saw your PUP and your PUUUUP notices! THANKS. You know, I was planning to go there for The Holy Gasp and The Sulks, all the more reason now. I’ll have to see about going earlyish, to be sure to get in (although with Bluesfest being on…) Thx again!
Every time you guys type HAMILTON I think:
Kirk?
Lewis?
The Hammer?
Alexander is our only Hamilton.
Black Mountain for my birthday. Wooooohooooo!!
Also I have been saying over and over how great a year Andy Shauf is going to have and now he is short listed! Awesome!
So like the cbc music page doesn’t even load a player today?! 🙁
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
HIS NAME IS ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
There should be some Syrup Trap / Onion article about Hamilton, ON changing the origin of its name to Alexander Hamilton to draw tourists or whatever.
Band name: The Dangling Carrots
@Benoit Awesome!! It’s going to be packed and rowdy and sweaty and amazing. Hope you can get in! It’ll be fantastic!
I might actually have to buy a Spotify premium account…
@Darbs Andy Shauf is going to win this. I JUST KNOW
Hamilton: Or This is That…
Grant has to make his pick… What did he say last year? I remember the Tanya Tagaq year being the only one he got right.
A Hamilton/Hamilton switch would be perfect for a This is That episode! Oh, I hope they do it now. good call, Iceman!
Or sorry, good call Benoit.
Bad call, Loweeda.
Eh!
I’m not a big Tom Green fan, but I really like this.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-thursday-july-14-2016-1.3678571/tom-green-taunts-trump-with-do-the-donald-rap-1.3678586
You guys, I bought my ticket for the Salmon Roots and Blues festival yesterday! My wife is volunteering this time and my mom is coming down from Edmonton with my brothers kids (3) on the train (VIA).
Excited to see:
-Shred Kelly
-Whitehorse
-Great Lake Swimmers
-Digging Roots
-Delhi 2 Dublin
and many of the other performers!
http://www.rootsandblues.ca/category/2016-performers/
The Andy Shauf single that is regularly played on Radio 2 is quite good. I enjoy it.
I’m quite lost with the Hamilton comments. No idea what, who or where that is.
Wait, yes, I know precisely where Hamilton is. But I have a feeling that’s not what you’re talking about.
@Funhug looks amazing!
I’ve just contacted This Is That with the following:
“In the spirit of your Banff, Montana (or whatev.), Alberta, proposed name change to attract tourists: changing the name of Hamilton, ON, to Alexander Hamilton, to take advantage of the musical’s popularity and draw Americans across the border.
Suggested initially by reginula, redirected towards you by me, on our little successor to the CBC R3 blog: https://ourbasementblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/polaris-shortlist-announced-today-at-11-am-edt/#comment-2515“
I got to do a mask for tomorrow’s blog image. I love doing masks. Can I get a job where all I do is make masks all day?
that does sound great, funhug. Have a time!
lee, we’re talking about this Hamilton. Reginula and I are both obsessed with it.
lee, reginula is a huge fan of Hamilton, the musical. And The Hammer, well, is a bit of an indie music town.
I would arm wrestle Reginula for Hamilton huge fan rights, if I were that type of person.
I might have to change my opinion about Tom Green. He has apparently evolved from someone engaged in jackass stunts to advance his career to someone who really has something to bring to the discussion.
Nick, maybe Anonymous is hiring? Although making that one mask all the time…
loweeda, 11:25 I have no doubt that you *are* that type of person.
Benoit, that’s interesting, since we’ve never met.
I have seen the original cast of Hamilton, though JUST SAYING
I see… well, personally, I can’t stand musicals. Add it to the list along with pokeman I guess.
Hamilton the Musical is about Hamilton the Steel City, right? Right?
lee, no, it’s about George Hamilton, the supertanned old Hollywood actor.
Reg?
True, loweeda, but: I’ve been reading what you write since 2008 (?), and have seen pictures of, including action pictures with the usual gang of idiots*, at this or that musicky thing.
* (c) Mad Magazine, who dearly referred to its staff that way.
edit: “seen pictures of you”
I LOVED Mad Magazine and am proud to be part of the usual gang of idiots.
Unusual gang of idiots
MAD Magazine* was really good, if you were into that kind of juvenile humour, such as I was and still can be. It was vastly superior to Cracked, which I didn’t like. And I learned years later just how few people ran MM, along with, or working for, William Gaines.
* Stoopid toothy face of Alfred E. Neuman: “What, Me Worry?”
Perfect!
http://www.madmagazine.com/
@Donna I guess I am someone who’d arm wrestle for fan rights, but not with you! To me, it’s like “I have this cooooool friend who discovered it sooner than everyone and even saw the original cast. Lin-Manuel even laughed at her jokes once”.
(That’s probably why I love telling you Hamilton things. Let me be as cool as youuu)
I love our usual gang of idiots. <3
Hamilton = Alexander Hamilton, American founding father
Without a father. Got a lot farther by working a lot harder by being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter. By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a Trading charter.
Sorry.
sounds like that could’ve been the story of Biggie Smalls, only his trading charter was Crack Cocaine,
@Lee The whole musical started because the guy who wrote it realized Alexander Hamilton had a very hip-hop life. No kidding.
I made a Polaris Short List playlist with different songs.
https://open.spotify.com/user/darbarspecial/playlist/2NJveDDmZeeI61e9WuulF2
Awesome, Darbs!
reginula: you’re getting a Visa so you can come to the US and see Hamilton, so I think we’re pretty evenly matched in our fandom.
and I’m happy to be included in this particular gang of idiots.
Is it just me or does white lung sound a heck of a lot like Alexisonfire? I don’t think that is a bad thing I just had a bit of a flash back.
you rock darbar!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARBAR! !!
I hope you like your present of Black Mountain making the short list.
Like I made it happen just for you;)
Haha! Thanks for that morgana! I am very pleased they made it to the short list.
In the bags of stuff my sister and I won at a fundraiser, was a gift certificate for a massage and a crystal light healing session (new to me). Today is the day I am using them. Two glorious hours of relaxing! Woot!
I am not sure sitrucj. I do like White Lung and I liked Alexisonfire. I will have to do some comparison listening.
@darbar glad you are going to be spoiling yourself today. Enjoy, and do share about the healing session. it is certainly something i have seen available in my home town but have no experience with. curiosity …
I said earlier that White Lung reminded me of Hole, perhaps they are just one of those bands that is always reminding you of someone else.
Hello from Whistler B.C !!!
Hi tiffy! Enjoying BC?
Hey wait, Peaches is not on the Short List! That surprises me.
Fun hug – yes! Yes I am!
Hello Tiffy!
Where’s Garf been hiding?
Sorry for killing the blog 🙁
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Thanks, reg.
SHIT.
@shufle, hello
How can people, even brainwashed, think that you get to heaven by being hateful and killing ordinary people… Or that you even accomplish *anything* except getting your organisation hated more than ever, including by people who share your “faith” — with apostrophes only because it’s the killer’s faith.
very sad and senseless
On a lighter note (I sure could use one), a 91-year-old woman takes an artist’s instructions literally and gets into trouble for filling in the blanks.
http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2016/07/14/22651647.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
Aaaaaand the answer to 3:34 is that humans are psychologically VERY malleable, and can be twisted into pretzels.
Cf. Steely Dan’s 1974 l.p. Pretzel Logic. Of which the title track can be heard here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaw0oDqDFlY&list=RDXaw0oDqDFlY#t=35
Off to see if I can get an early ticket to PUP, Holy Gasp etc. at Targ. Insurance.
Fun. (Still getting prepared to go out. Bike) Hearing *Haitian Divorce* (S. Dan) for the first time! Youtube sequencing…
I just heard about the Bastille Day killings on KEXP. KEXPs whole day is devoted to French artists, but more important now. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/world/europe/nice-france-truck-bastille-day.html
@BFO – I LOVE Steely Dan!! Haitian Divorce is a great tune! Well,most of their songs are great 🙂
Agree on the Steely. Same goes for the Fagen albums.
Shitload of posts today. Contrats!
Woohoo! I did get into the now-to-be-headlined-by-PUP show, prev. advert. as feat. The Holy Gasp and The Sulks. Back there for the show at 10 (it’s an 8 minute drive away).
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