Amazing Technicolour Doomsday



This was what the sky looked like last week after a day of gustiness and thunderstorms. The whole sky was a deep yellow...very scary. But hey presto! A rainbow! You can juuuuuust see a second arc to the right.

Was alone all weekend because Bento and Wnd went home. Just me and my music, mostly new indie songs from music blogs, which are the best thing since sliced cheese (cheese always beats bread). I recently had to write (read: BS) an essay for my computing ethics class about why MP3s can help the music industry; music blogs were part of my main argument. It's free, it's (mostly) legal, it's wonderful. It's indie-riffic. Here are some:

• Cerulean's Love of Music: weekly "Five Songs I'm Loving This Week" posts & a tendency towards happy/rainy-day music, often featuring music by Euroopean bands. Recently admitted to (gasp!) liking rap. The red background makes this blog a little hard to read without retinal incineration, but really excellent music.


• Pitchfork Media: online music magazine featuring "paid promotions" i.e. free mp3s as paid for and hosted by the band/band's label. The descriptions of the songs tend to be overly-enthusiastic ("Brand New Corndog is a Seattle-based punk-emo-indie-jazz quartet with Big Dreams and a Big Sound! Their 2005 release, 'Buy Me Ketchup, Bitch', is sure to rock the house, make your ears sweat and cure that nasty zit on the inside of your nose. It slices. It dices. It makes Julienne fries.") but there are many great indie gems to be found here.


• Work For It: the writer of this blog has some mysterious connection with Kingston; the songs used to be hosted at the Clark Hall Pub site. But anyway, a lot of rock and amazing remixes and collaborations hosted here. Also, songs with very long titles. Who doesn't want to be Robbie Alomar Jr.?


• Said the Gramophone: probably my favourite. I haven't heard a song from this blog that I didn't like. To get a sense of the type of music posted here, 'it would probably make a lot of sense to just say "THIS"'.