saved my life

brother-chris introduced me to this popingest tune a while back, and i for sure loved it. danced danced danced. and then i forgot for a bit. and then it was on last night's girls! and oh man! i love it! here's to a way less moody, way more dancey week!



happy monday, dance pantses!

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saved my life

mondays have been melancholic lately for no real reason (and not even because they're 'mondays' i don't think) so here is some good heart-y music with the ticking of clocks and glittering of faces.



happy sad monday.

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saved my life

hooooowwwww have i not posted this yet?



i am sickly-obsessed with this album. can't stop. every time i think i'm done and i've overplayed it, it loops back around and i MUST HEAR IT AGAIN! braaassssssssss fo' life.

happy monday y'all!

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saved my life

this song gives me (as roommatesarah would say) a sadz. but. a good sadz. a warm fuzzy feelings on a monday sadz.



happy monday, back to lifers.

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saved my life

merry merry, everyone. all the folks are home and oh how wonderful it is.



happy monday. happy christmas. happy life.

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saved my life

christmastime! i am feeling all of the feelings all of the time. EXPLODE EXPLODE EXPLODE!



happy monday. don't forget you get to light two advent candles now!

(oh, and. i'm sure you've all heard by now. but in case you haven't. toronto is the best. ikeamonkey.)

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saved my life

i've been having these extreme feelings lately. (i know, right? me? and feelings?! what even is happening?) they're good feelings, mostly. but. overwhelming. like i can't possibly get all of the goodnesses into my cells in time, and it is all just too much, and oh gosh, how will i ever get all of these insides out into the world, and if i made a million movies could i ever make a scene poignant enough to have just one person watch it and understand these bursting busting feelings?

and also i bought the melancholia soundtrack on itunes, and i've been listening to that a lot. because it feels suitably epic. for these bursting busting feelings that have me staggering and stumbling through my days.




and if you made it through that beautiful-but-very-hard video, you get to watch this video. which is different. but also very very very good.



WHY IS THIS THE MOST FUNNY THING?! it is. i don't know what wizardry they're using to make it SO FUNNY but they are pulling it off. oh man. the sofa bears.

happy monday. happy december. happy bursting busting insides.

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saved my life

hooooooooray! rob ford got the boot! hooooray and joyful noises!

hahahahahahahaha. that's great.

also great is the fact that there are only 22 days till i go hoooome for grimas. (my faux-advent countdown!)

love love love.



great work, noah and also the whale, too.

happy monday, city of gaiety.

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saved my life

hi internets-friends. i missed you.

can you believe that it is mid-november? i can't. christmas is SO SOON! i was looking at concerts online, and saw a show listed for november 1st and took out my daytimer to write it down... and only then remembered that november 1st is over, silly!

there is much to be done before the christmas times. secret present-things. and some working-things. and baking-things and so much more. and for sarah and danny et al. there is a lot of learning and examing to be packed into the next few weeks. it'll be great! let's all not get sick, yeah?! yeah!!

anyways. i'm excited. super excited and pumped. for home. and snow. and baby declan who is barely even a baby anymore! when do we have to start calling him a toddler? can't he just be a baby forever? sigh. i guess we're going to need another hooper-baby soon? huh? guys? anyone??

okay well. in the last few weeks. there has been a pile more live music. there was a bar-concert where a law-friend's girlfriend played viola in a bluegrass-edged rock band. there was the wacky art-music-festival-show (part one of four!!) that introduced me to DIANA (and thus carmen elle and thus army girls...). holy mother of pearl that was fun. like all the best most funny bits of art school rolled up into one with sparkly 6 inch heels on. then there was tafelmusik with a mozart and friends program that reminded me of con hall shows and home and growing up a suzuki-ite. then army girls (as introduced above) in the middle of the week in a bar that was giving out free tacos to celebrate... something.

and there were a million (or three or four?) other parties and events. art shows. wine. dancing. moustaches. hamilton. so much joy and the holiday season hasn't even kicked in! how many times over can i say i love my life like crazy before it starts to sound like gibberish? 2012 is really pulling out all the stops as the year comes to an end. if the world does indeed explode or whatever on december 21st, at least it will have given one hell of a last hurrah. hearts abounding, hearts for days.

enough chatter. here's some army girls for you. this girl kicks butt on stage. reeeeeaaaaally good guitaring, charming as hell vocals and banter, and some solid stage-posing to boot. mad love.



i hope you're all wrapped up in goodtimes and warmth too, internets. happy monday!!

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saved my life

li li li live music! i am getting outta hand with all the live music.

kimbra was great. she wore a hilariously awesome dress-tutu-thing and danced like a bandit. her drummer's hair did not disappoint. the sound mix was a little less than perfect, with her vocals not being as upfront as i would've liked. we ate skittles and popcorn and the coat check did not even lose danny's coat when it fell off the hanger. a most excellent night out.

i'm running out of kimbra music to post for you! but i don't think i've ever put this one up. a fantastic cover of nina simone. hearts for days.



happy monday. those in the path of sandy, please stay safe.

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saved my life meets ff

ohhey, yeah i know we already had a music video today, but this one is SO GOOD i can't not put it up RIGHT NOW. for realsies, the internets.

"You Don't Own Me" PSA from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo.

hearts in my eyes.

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saved my life

more live music woooo! so excited. for all the live-ness. this past weekend it was the mountain goats. and they put on a totally completely kickass show. for some songs there was a trombone and a trumpet and a saxophone i think? well. i sure did make with the crying cause when the brass section gets all harmonizy, it goes all upons in my heart.



oof. things don't go well in this video. but it is so upbeat!!

and then more stuff next weekend. and soo sooo much to do before then. let's roll people.

happy monday!

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saved my life

whooooooo is so excited they might just implode?!

ME!

because i just got me some tickets to see KIMBRA! LIVE!

fiiiiinally. ooooooof. so. of course. you know what today will be. MORE KIMBRA! MORE MORE!



mad wild love, monday-heads!

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saved my life

when things are good they are very very good. around here. and things have been good lately. oh toronto, oh fall, oh thanksgiving... yup. goodness and greatness and soooo much leftover stuffing.

last thursday i was lucky enough to get to see jens lekman live. oh man. the emo-jokes! so many of them. it was at the theatre where mel and i saw ingrid michaelson play. my very first week in toronto. so much has happened since that concert, including my feeling that toronto is my city. i am home here. how magical and strange is that? how unexpected? so here's some jens for you on this most glorious holiday monday.



happy thanks, my sweet internets.

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kids who also feel inside and stuff

oh my god oh my god oh my god guys.

did you KNOW that when kids are sick they can't do the hiphop no more?!!!???

DID YOU KNOW THIS AND NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT EVEN?!



a brilliant amazing project for cure kids.

go there. buy the song so you can helpa the kids! HOLY CRAP DO IT!
many thanks to janice for making me aware of this, but look, guys, you're gonna need to make more kids for the bowls of teeth. i will work on the traps for robbers.

(and also i think that kid has a better idea of how the banking system functions than i do.)

*** hmmmm... now that i am trrryyyyying to buy it myself, it doesn't look like you can in canada. BOOOO!***

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kathy

{me & kathy in 1990}

no amount of words can explain what music means to me, and what being taught to listen and internalize has done for me far beyond my musical undertakings. i am so grateful for the gift of music that i was given so early in my life. i can't come up with anything to say that doesn't sound trite and cliched.

so. just. thank you. kathy. for your kindness and generosity and patience and joy and for everything. my suzuki ear is truly the greatest gift i have ever been given. so much love and so much thanks and so much sadness. the world lost a truly special woman this week.

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OH MAN!

this can't wait till monday. sorry! TOO AWESOME!

can we please give this kid a peace prize or something? because i truly believe he is the key to world peace. maybe he can just be king of the universe? amazeballs times 18 million.



happy thursday!

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back in time, do it over again

there are too many good things i could say about the time i spent with emma, charlie and crew. so. i'll just oh so quickly run through a few.

- primark

- hipster glasses passes

- chocolate cupcakecookies

- stella ella olla

- (...)

- wall climbing

- singing backup singer style

- fancy whisky fancy gin

- punting

- bunting

- singing while punting

- burgers with haloumi in

- bingo

- stick bugs

- jokes

and so so so much more. how lucky am i? it's cool, it's cool to love your family. as feist once said.

oh, and in case you were wondering. about the hipster glasses passes? don't even worry. here:

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saved my life

we couldn't listen to this song enough on sunday and monday. what a set of days this weekend was... thanks forever, world.

happy life!

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SINGSMASH is a THING YOU WANT!!

WE INTERRUPT YOUR DAILY FASHION NEWS FOR THIS MOST AWESOMEST UPDATE!!!

do you like fun? do you like muuusic? do you like to sing AND smash?!

SING SMASH IS AVAILABLE AT AN APP STORE IN A DEVICE NEAR YOU!!!



this game is SOOOO cool dudes. and i know all the people who made it and it truly blows my mind that they're capable of such magical things. seriously. does anyone know how on earth to MAKE AN APP?! well. charlie does. so. PHEW! awesome. GO GET IT! holy cow holy cow holy cow.

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