Sunday, February 28, 2010

S02 E08: Dreaming in Technicolor

It makes sense, on a grey winter's day, to add a little colour to one's life, no? This week, join us ask we daydream about Betty White, The Man in Black and, musically, everything in between.



PLAYLIST

UB40 - Red, Red Wine
Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
Incubus - A Certain Shade of Green (Acoustic)
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Counting Crows - Colourblind

LINKS
Some insightful comments on "The Lighthouse" (Lost)
Levar Burton's Twitter Page

Sunday, February 21, 2010

S02 E07: A New Chapter


Why are you reading this? Reading's for squares, for nerds! Why read when you can listen to this week's episode? I bet Miley Cyrus doesn't read...



PLAYLIST

The Magic Numbers - Mornings Eleven
Amy Millan - Skinny Boy

The Kooks - Ooh La
Death Cab For Cutie - Title and Registration

José González - Hints

DJ Shadow - Six Days (Remix)

Sunday, February 14, 2010

S02 E06: The L Word

This week, albeit inadvertently, we discuss love. We all love the Olympics, right? And heritage buildings? What about Jim, from The Office? Pedestrians, of course? Hmm, maybe not everyone... cue the music.

















PLAYLIST

Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less & Less
Ben Folds Five - Song For The Dumped

Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do?
Goldfrapp - Happiness

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spread Your Love

Mike Doughty - I Hear The Bells

LINKS
It's okay to be grumpy about the Olympics
Why no one likes Jim anymore
Brantford's heritage buildings

Sunday, February 7, 2010

S02 E05: Getting Wiser

Greetings!
Normally, here you'd find some sort of introductory paragraph outlining the content of this week's episode, usually in an overly perspicacious fashion and coming across as a sorry attempt to sound "hip". That's all well and good, but today is Tyler's birthday, so instead, here is a picture of him at age 5:




























Rock on, man-child, rock on.


PLAYLIST

The Dirty Projectors - Knotty Pine
Spoon - I Saw The Light

Arcade Fire - Lenin
Feist and Ben Gibbard - Train Song

Miley Cyrus - Party In The USA

The National - So Far Around The Bend

Elbow - One Day Like This


LINKS

Charlie Brooker - How to Report the News
Stewart Brand's TV version of "How Buildings Learn"