You must stick up for yourself son
Never mind what anybody else done

The new single from Yeasayer. I like it way more than I thought I would and am now looking forward to the rest of the album. Sweet!

word.

My beautiful green eyed love 
I'm always dreamin of 
My beautiful green eyed love

Yep, in the video, he is clearly not talking about me...but I really, really prefer to listen to it and think that it's about me. K? K. also, check out the Classixx Remix of this track on Hype Machine (friend me, I'm Superblue). Delightful!

*props to klang for sending this my way

Well if I ever see the morning
Just like a lizard in the spring
I’m gonna run out in the meadow
To catch the silence when it sings

I think if I was a dude, I'd want to sound like The Tallest Man on Earth when I sang. 

Bring your hips to me
Oh bring your hips to me

Thao with The Get Down Stay Down making folky tunes you kind of want to dance to.

5. "I've always been interested in what's left out. I've always wanted to understand" Judy, talking about how she chooses to work on projects. Her genuine interest in these things seems to have shaped her career. 

4. "It's the cultural contributions that are missing from art history, it isn't just the visual retelling." Judy, explaining how so much is missing from the curriculum that students learn today.

3. "I see it as a fauilure of the institutions that young women don't respect the feminist movement. They take what they've got for granted, without understanding the context behind it." Judy, explaining how it's great that young women today feel like they can do anything, but her concern for them not knowing where that feeling came from.

2. "Museums need ot allow multiplicity of forms and artistic expression and allow them to be next to each other."Judy, explaining how institutions are hurting themselves by having such a narrow definition of what is acceptable as art.

1. "The media was my method of distribution." This struck me as her most interesting comment of the evening. Art critics didn't like her, but people learned about her work as journalists wrote about her. What is the equivalent of those news outlets now? Is it social media, or is it still traditional media?

bonus quote: "I never cared about money until I turned sixty and got a mortgage." 

- Judy Chicago

Maybe I had said, something that was wrong
Can I make it better, with the lights turned on

Everyone is in love with this album right now, including me! The Xx is The excellent! (ok, that was lame, I know)

We'll get lost in the warm

We'll get lost in the hole

We'll get lost in our arms

The softness we stole was never about the love

This track is on the Dark was the Night album - which is still on heavy rotation in my car. Kevin Drew...he's a Broken Social Scene kid too, non?

5. Eat! Eat! - Always give exactly what you'd expect for a breakfast joint. Moderately lame coffee, great daily specials, mean omelettes.

4. Main Dish - If I lived in Bridgeland, I would never buy groceries.

3. Galaxy/Belmonte - Gets a nod because of their apple pie milkshake. I dream about it. All the time. 

2. Laurier Lounge - The best coffee in town, great atmonsphere, inside or out, possibly the best potatoes.

1. Big Fish - This place can do no wrong.

There's a box full of showergels I've left around the world

In the toilets and bathrooms I've been

Chips of my youth fallen off along the way

I am a big fan of analogies and this one by Malcolm Middleton is no exception.