Posts tagged july

Bow and Arrow / A Memory’s Lament - Reuben and the Dark

I saw these guys last summer at the Calgary Folk Fest and they’ve been sitting on my “music to find” list ever since. I think it’s time to go find their music…

I did quite a bit of traveling last summer. You may have missed it. I’m terrible at documenting my travels.

One evening in July those travels took me to Amsterdam with Lidewij, Sanne, and James*. Most of this trip was a blur, so I am grateful Sanne captured some footage to bring me back to this moment. I do remember being very excited by this big gathering of people dancing in the street. I think there was a dancing dog at the centre of it? We stopped and watched for a while, but something about being around Lidewij just makes you want to drop everything and dance**. So we did.

There is nothing quite like just letting go and dancing on the street in a foreign city with friends you only get to hug once a year.

* My Leakycon 2011 roomies.

** I swear it’s her superpower.

Anything At All - Andrew Rose Gregory & The Color Red Band

This is the same guy behind “Double Rainbow”. So much respect.

Dialogue for 2

Vi Hart has been spot on lately. (See also: They Became What They Beheld: Medium, Message, Youtubery)

Canal Stories

Dan Rezler’s videos continue to amaze me.

Wounded Healer (Deer Tick sample) - Watsky

Mmmm… can Watsky and Deer Tick please collaborate for realz?

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Love this band.

Love this band.

I really need to rewatch this show.

nakael:

I miss this show.

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cbcradio3:

Dan Mangan covers the Neutral Milk Hotel song - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 

- Pete 

I have a very distinct memory of my grandma insisting on us eating by this statue when I was a child. theblanketfort: Share a burger, enjoy some public art. (Taken with instagram)

I have a very distinct memory of my grandma insisting on us eating by this statue when I was a child.

theblanketfort:

Share a burger, enjoy some public art. (Taken with instagram)

rowlfwannabe:

Happy 4th everyone - I came into some new audio software this year, and I learn things by doing so I made this mashup called “Gettin Murph’d” ft. Watch the Throne, Radiohead, Zeppelin and Sigur Ros. It is free to listen to and download, so enjoy and share it with your friends :)

Here is the original link.

http://http://soundcloud.com/rowlfwannabe/gettin-murphd

lexcanroar:

Bad Feeling #46: 

that awful in-between; at the end of a holiday before real life begins, when someThing is over but the next Thing hasn’t yet begun, when the past is a comfort and the future is unknown. being unsure. wasting time not being as happy as you could or should or would be, and how much worse the Bad Feeling gets when you realise how little time you really have. 

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Lesliefoundhergrail: Online Friendships.

Leslie has done an excellent job of putting my thoughts into words.

foundhergrail:

It was a lot harder to leave VidCon this time around than last time. I hadn’t felt this much boo-hooeyness since my first gathering in 2009. That could have been because we were stewing in goodbyes for hours. Either way, it was really difficult. 

Three years ago, I said in a long lost blog that my friends from YouTube are helping me learn so much about myself and the world around me. Because I’m exposed to different types of people with different lives, I’m more well-rounded as a person.

Online friendships take work, because you are given a challenge from the start. You must talk in your free time in abundance since there is no coincidence of just running into your friends in the same location. That challenge also makes you wade out the bullshit- you’re not going to waste your time on the Internet with people you don’t want to talk to. We are a lot more tolerant to those we see all the time at work, school, whatever. If you’re friends with someone online, that’s because you urged for that to happened, not from just being in a same location. Neither of these types of friendships are any better or worse than the other, but I think there’s something interesting about a set of relationships that required so much fighting against odds. 

I also said three years ago that when I’m leaving these people behind, I’m leaving a bit of myself. I never understood why that was an actual thing until last night, when VidCon was over and I was at the beach surrounding a bonfire with 9 other amazing people. I wasn’t leaving just any random parts of me, I was leaving the best parts behind. 

Have you ever realized a particular moment in life when you were being the best version of yourself? Most evolved version of yourself? Yeah I have, and I want to be that person every single day for all kinds of people for the rest of my life. 

What’s so upsetting is that I don’t really know how to do that yet. And I really need Phil and Eric and Ev and Peter and Amanda and everyone else to show me what to do, even though they don’t know they’re doing it. They can’t always do that on my 15” laptop. 

That sounds completely selfish of me to burden my friends with that yearning, but they really just have to be themselves. It’s crazy and amazing. 

I don’t know, man.