Author: Big Al

Great Music From 2008 Three Seconds Of Dead Air – The Twilight Sad This year’s awards brought to you by my favourite new band of 2007. With February approaching and having finally wrapped up my graduate studies applications, I figure now is as a good a time as any to finally post my 2nd Annual

Still G.R.E. Feel The Love – Cut Copy I took the Graduate Requisite Examination last week. It’s not required, but I’ve been told that it can help those attempting to get into graduate school. I suppose now would be a good time to mention that I’m working on getting into graduate school for journalism. I’ve

Great Expectations Park Song – The Dodos I always tell people that I don’t care if they forget my birthday, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not affected when someone unexpectedly remembers it. I received an e-mail from Adriana (my old Food Basics partner in crime) wishing me a belated b-day on the 5th. Now,

Of Lucky Condoms The Pilgriming Vine – Basia Bulat It appears that I’ve lost my lucky condom. My theory is that it fell out of my pocket while I was reaching in to grab something else and really, it’s surprising that this didn’t happen before. I’ve had this condom for about three or four years

Bright-Eyed Athena And The Ass-Crack Of Dawn Colony Of Birchmen – Mastodon A selection of links, to tide you over this weekend. With EliteXC going under and the future of American Gladiators in doubt, it looks like it’s going to be slim pickings when it comes to your Gina Carano viewing options in the near

“You’re Beautiful. I Want To Know Everything About You.” Fluorescent Adolescent – Arctic Monkeys Were I the type to traverse the “blogosphere” (or whatever hip term is being used today to describe the collective consciousness of today’s brave, new internet authors) or even just read today’s paper, I’m sure I could find a lot of

Are You Looking For Gino? A Milli – Lil Wayne True story: I am awoken by a call at around 11:30 today from a woman who I don’t know. She asks for a “Gino”. If I’m not mistaken, this is not the first time that this woman has called me as that name sounds vaguely

Skills To Pay The Bills The Gambler – Kenny Rogers Anyone who is friends with Caesar will tell you that he’s not a hard guy to get along with. Keep the bullshit to a minimum, mind your business, listen to the occasional poker metaphor and everything should be fine. Now impressing Caesar, that is a

Staccato The Fake Headlines – The New Pornographers It is hell of a thing when you are suddenly forced to realize what a minor figure you are in someone else’s life. Or that the part you play in their show is not the part you want. Gary is a musical genius. You know someone is

First Person Paper Planes – M.I.A. You know, I had this great idea for a post that would give you guys some perspective on what my day to day life is like. It went something like this: *brrring brrring* Uhh… *brrring brrring* Oh, what the fuck is that? Is my cell ringing? Is someone calling