fleet foxes
kings of convenience
the dodos
feist
the weakerthans
architecture in helsinki
broken social scene
husky rescue
iron and wine
the crayon fields

The Weakerthans:Benediction
This song is performed by The Weakerthans.

So you don’t get to be a saint
Martyrs never last this long
Guess I'll never be the one
To defeat desire in song
Here's a marker
Here's my naked skin
Our 'exhibit A'
Put a small x where I lost my way

All the actors broke their legs
And it’s too late to postpone
The producer’s getting high
And the audience went home
Smile and take your awkward bow
Turn and stumble off the stage
Let the rain be your applause
Every encore soothe your rage
Squint with one eye
Hum a show-tune
wait for your right to say
oh that’s where you must have lost your way

Megaphones in helicopters squeal “hey are you okay?"
Searchlights circle, where we lost our way

[All our accidents were purposeful and felt
Stripped of providence or any way to tell
But our intentions were intangible and sweet
Sick with simple math and shy discoveries
Piled up against our impending defeat.]

Hey, care to up this? You voted for the Weakerthans before and I'd love for it to escape my PQ

http://www.videosift.com/video/John-K-Samson-playing-Utilities

Hey, care to up this? You voted for the Weakerthans before and I'd love for it to escape my PQ

http://www.videosift.com/video/John-K-Samson-playing-Utilities

Roswell, really? Insert UFO joke!


>> ^rougy:
>> ^calvados:
Where are you now -- France, wasn't it?
Ha ha ha!
I'm flattered you would think that. No, I'm stuck in Roswell, New Mexico at the moment and things are pretty bad. It's a very conservative place with a bigoted mind-set. There are no jobs to be had, either.
I'll give Montreal some thought.

>> ^calvados:
Where are you now -- France, wasn't it?

Ha ha ha!

I'm flattered you would think that. No, I'm stuck in Roswell, New Mexico at the moment and things are pretty bad. It's a very conservative place with a bigoted mind-set. There are no jobs to be had, either.

I'll give Montreal some thought.

>> ^rougy:
I'm thinking hard about moving to Canada. Winnipeg is off the list now.
Looking at Calgary or Vancouver.


Montreal is truly the shit, if you ask me -- although I guess it depends on what you want. Van and Calgary are both very expensive (and Cal has a housing shortage) although Cal and the rest of Alberta are covered in money from the oil sands operations in the north. Both have good weather -- Van hardly ever sees snow. Calgary is an hour or two from the Rocky Mountains and some of the best alpine skiing in North America.

Where are you now -- France, wasn't it?

>> ^schmawy:
Do you know who the "golden business boy" line is referring to, Calvados? Mayor or the like I'd assume.
Great as always.


Your great taste in music never ceases to amaze, my schmaws And indeed I do know, as would any Winnipeggian:

The Golden Boy, a magnificently gilded 5.25M (17.2-foot) figure, is probably Manitoba's best known symbol. Embodying the spirit of enterprise and eternal youth, he is poised atop the dome of the [Manitoba Legislature] building. He faces the north, with its mineral resources, fish, forest, furs, hydroelectric power and seaport, where his province's future lies. -- http://www.gov.mb.ca/legtour/golden.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Boy_(Manitoba)

By the way, another WT song -- a poignant one -- that heavily references the Peg and which you ought to like is "Night Windows". So far there's no good vid for it, but here is the audio and the lyrics, do tell me how you dig:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a-NQ8QZhfM
http://lyricwiki.org/The_Weakerthans:Night_Windows

Hey, thanks for your vote, maybe you'd care to upvote this related video too?

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Weakerthans-One-Great-City

Hey, thanks for your vote, maybe you'd care to upvote this related video too?

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Weakerthans-One-Great-City-in-typology

The Weakerthans:One Great City!
From LyricWiki
This song is performed by The Weakerthans.

Late afternoon, another day is nearly done.
A darker gray is breaking through a lighter one.
A thousand sharpened elbows in the underground.
That hollow hurried sound
of feet on polished floor,
and in the Dollar Store
the clerk is closing up,
and counting Loonies, trying not to say,
"I hate Winnipeg."

The driver checks the mirror, seven minutes late.
The crowded riders' restlessness enunciates
that the Guess Who suck, the Jets were lousy anyway.
The same route every day.
And in the turning lane,
someone's stalled again.
He's talking to himself,
and hears the price of gas repeat his phrase:
"I hate Winnipeg."

And up above us all,
leaning into sky,
our Golden Business Boy
will watch the North End die,
and sing "I love this town,"
then let his arcing wrecking ball proclaim,
"I hate Winnipeg."

The Weakerthans:Diagnosis
From LyricWiki
This song is performed by The Weakerthans.

I have a headache. I have a sore back. I have a letter I can't send. I have desire, it falters and falls down, it calls you up drunk at three or four a.m. to wonder when...wonderful. All the cheap tricks I tried too hard not to pull. Pulled along or pulled apart. The diagnosis of a foreign frame of heart. I have a story that I'd like to tell you, it's littered with settings and second takes. I have a feeling that hums with the street lights and hides under ice in always frozen lakes. My mistake to make you cringe. Another greeting like a broken creaky hinge to oil and push or pry apart. The diagnosis of a foreign frame of heart. Found a cure for being sure, and, sure as anything, I'll smile for my reckoning.

Hip hip hooray for the guy I can always count on to upvote my Weakerthans videos! You're a scholar and a gentleman, schmawy

And great job on the extry extry, KP

Ah schmawy, I can always count on you for the Weakerthans!

http://www.videosift.com/video/John-K-Samson-of-the-Weakerthans-sings-Gifts

Hmmmmm?