Author: Big Al

Qualifications Ragged Wood – Fleet Foxes In updating my resumé, I’ve been told that it’s important for me to list whatever valuable skills I might have. While my qualities are many, I thought it would be wise to concentrate on my writing ability. As a qualified English Major and a pop culture nut, I can

A Show, By Any Other Name… Another Postcard – Barenaked Ladies Wow, I hadn’t visited the site in about a week and much to my surprise, there have been no new posts since my last one. There are a couple of explanations. Brian and William have been working hard on Project: Artemis, while I have

Drop In Oh Yeah – The Cliks Man, man, man…looking for a job sucks! I mean, I knew it did, but I wasn’t really trying before so it didn’t matter. I’ve actively been searching for the last few days and it is stunning, just stunning how unqualified I am for 98% of the jobs out

Ballad Of A Thin Man Kissing The Beehive – Wolf Parade Okay, look, I’m just going to get this out of the way right now. I don’t want to offend anyone on this site, but there’s no getting around it. The new Weezer album is kind of…um…a little…how to put this gently…it’s not good. *****

A Secret And French Toast Badonkadonkey – Born Ruffians Here’s a little personal blogging secret. When I’m putting together a post, I occasionally find myself writing with a particular person in mind. There are certain jokes I’ll make or won’t make and phrases that I know will resonate with said reader and it actually makes

Old Favourites All I Want Is You – Barry Louis Polisar Softball season has begun anew! I’m going to excuse William not making a post about this because it was a meaningless pre-season tournament and the results were inconsequential. In other words, we lost two games, tied one and I played like garbage. So like

Say A Prayer For An Eye Infection In A Cave – Tokyo Police Club As I mentioned on the tagboard, I like to have a reason to post rather than just throw up a bunch of links. I mean, even William usually accompanies his links with some unique, albeit disturbing, insight into his life. How

Meet Me In Iqaluit Ready For The Floor – Hot Chip A quick job update: The National Job Fair & Training Expo was in town a few days ago and I decided it would be wise to drop by and see what it was all about. The trip was both discouraging and productive. It always

Adventures In Solitude IV: The End Has No End The End Has No End – The Strokes My parents should be back sometime within the next 48 hours and I guess I should be wrapping things up here. This is the part where I tell you about how much I’ve learned and about the profound

Adventures In Solitude III: Imitation Of Life Imitation Of Life – R.E.M. It’s been almost two weeks since my parents left and I still have no idea what it is like to be living on my own. I mean, yes I have been living by myself in the strictest sense of the term, but I