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Song lyrics o' the day - Sneaky Sound System

I love it when I have you in my arms

I love it when you're holding me you make me feel so me

 

Girls dancing in underpants and fur stoles? Check. High kicks? Check. A track made for summer dancing? Absolutely.

I notice Sneaky Sound System is getting into the user generated content game on their myspace page. My people love crowdsourcing.

 

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Song lyrics o' the day - Vashti Bunyan

It’s so many miles and so long since I’ve met you
Don’t even know what I’ll find when I get to you
But suddenly now, I know where I belong
It’s many hundred miles and it won’t be long

 

Such a beautiful tune. The original by Vashti Bunyan is lovely, but Feist AND Bon Iver? Almost too much cool for one song.


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Song lyrics o' the day - The Books

Sometimes

I feel

The lemon of pink

 

Colin introduced me to The Books after we were listening to Jib Kidder out at Salt Spring Island. Check both out if you are into experimental and how different sounds can work together to make something magical :)

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Top 5 played tracks in my iTunes

5. Theme from Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Paul Cantelon

4. To Build a Home - Cinematic Orchestra

3. Good Disease - Aim

2. Wow - Kylie Minogue *giggle*

1. re: stacks - Bon Iver

 

I thought they'd be all super depressing, but Kylie made it in! No real surprise really...

This feels like a cheating Top 5 list, because I didn't really think about it, I just opened iTunes. It is kind of cool to see though. I kind of want to go to coffee shops with wifi and snoop on other people's most played list :)

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Song lyrics o' the day - Bruce Springsteen (Chromatics cover)

Tell me now baby is he good to you
Does he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
Im on fire

Yeah, I'm kind of in love with the Chromatics cover of this track. A scorcher song to begin with (oh come on, you can admit that thinking about The Boss singing this is pretty hot), slow it down a bit and it practically aches of desire. 

 

Thanks to J-Ho for introducing it to me. Check out his sweet mixes (I imagine there should be one for June up soon..?)!

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Song lyrics o' the day - Robyn/Yelle

Les filles sont jolies
C'est évident
Et moi je le suis
Juste de temps en temps

 

Robyn wrote a song, Yelle made it better.

Qui est cette fille dont tu rêves tant ?
Qui est cette fille dont tu es l'amant ?

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Song lyrics o' the day - Air Supply

and I know the night is fading

and I know the time's gonna fly

and I'm never gonna tell you everything I gotta tell you

but I know I've got to give it a try

 

We all love making love out of nothing at all.

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Song lyrics o' the day - Giacomo Puccini

O mio babbino caro
Mi piace, รจ bello, bello

If you don't like Opera, you should probably start. My fave version of this song is actually instrumental only, but posting song lyrics for piano is totally a gig for The Mime, not me. Check it out anyway as I think this album is a national treasure... Sarah Harmer, Songs for Clem, O, my beloved father

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nextMEDIA wrap up

Dear Team,

I'm skipping my wrap up on Amsterdam, mostly because there wasn't much to report on WiMax post-Singapore. Conference went well, the sessions I attended ended up being really interesting, and the city of Amsterdam is perfection in the Spring. Ria, Ryan and I walked. A lot. Straight from there out to nextMEDIA - a conference with great content, people and location. Although I missed having Jasmine there with me this year, I still did some learning.


One of my favorite quotes ever was Jack Nicholson, talking about how he chooses roles. He said, "I like to play people who haven't existed yet, a future something." This is what I was hoping to see at nextMEDIA, a future something (don't even bother, I've already registered that domain). I felt there was more time devoted to discuss issues and not very much time discuss what comes next (yes, I often use quotes in scenarios that have nothing to do with the original comment). 

What surprised me is that often talk went on about how to get people to consume the content they've already created and not very much talk about how people WANT to consume content. "I made this thing, how do I get people to care?" seems more difficult to me than "what do people care about and how will I build it?" I am fully aware that this is easier said than done, but you have to say it before you can do it.

Having said that, the highlight for me was Janet Kestin from Ogilvy Toronto. She spoke for an hour, I believe without notes and was intelligent, insightful and empassioned. Janet went through the Dove Brand and some campaigns she had worked on, then switched focus to some campaign she thought were brilliant. I too thought "The Great Schlep" was genius, but could not have eloquently broken down the details on why for you. Janet could...and did. 

I listen to people like her and I add to the list of thesis topics I'd like to write about if I were independantly wealthy and could drop everything, research and write something brilliant all in the span of a month, every time I heard something interesting. The sociology and psychology behind marketing, crowdsourcing, communities and advertising is something I could sit around thinking and talking about for days. What motivates people to buy, engage, participate and contribute is beyond interesting to me, it actually wakes me up at night (along with everything else...). 

I felt less-than-genius for not knowing about some of the mobile stuff going on, but when I looked at the schedule, I really only saw something about monetizing your content over mobile. While the two top words at WiMax and Mobile Marketing events are convergence and ubiquitous, I heard neither term once at nextMEDIA. 

I would love to throw a weekend conference of all the smartest, coolest, biggest thinkers in Canada just sitting around talking about what the future looks like. How can we take the platforms, infrastructure, gadgets and tools coming out and blow people's minds with what we can do with them? I'll need to come up with something better than the current working title, which is, "Collaborating Awesomeness for the Future with Smart People"

Working on it.
Huggles,
Blue
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Song lyrics o' the day - The Flaming Lips

She's gotta be strong to fight them

So she's taking lots of vitamins


I don't understand why they are pink. Or why they are evil. Shouldn't evil robots NOT be pink? I don't know. If anyone is ever partying with the band, can they please ask?

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