This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
This ‘Afternoon Beers’ mix was originally put together back in 2016 — but, as long as you make sure the beer you drink with it is also not from 2016, I think you’ll find things still taste good to the ears all these years later (also, I’m working on website/project changes and repurposing old content to play around with things is kind of my thing).
“A classic piece of electronic music, still sounds fresh and haunting after all these years.”
“I think everyone should learn to care for something, a plant, a pet, or another human being.. something to help you look outside yourself and get perspective on your placement in life.”
“Her tone, her cadence, the way she articulates the sound of the words is captivating. I think of Violeta Parra (!!!), Vashti Bunyan, Aldous Harding, Joni Mitchell when listening to her.”
The 2020 quarantine had me doing a lot of 80s/90s video gaming (a hobby that has continued “post”-pandemic) — so here’s my personally subjective list of top Turbo Grafx-16 / PC Engine games that are still fun/worth spending time playing all these years later (in case anyone else is looking to get into a similar nostalgic distraction).
A mix of a bunch of great music coming out ‘South of America’ (and for playlist purposes this includes Mexico and all the countries in Central America, South America and the Caribbean). So pack some loose, breathable fabrics and go grab the headphones.
Canada gets a lot of stick for our overt niceness, being obsessed with hockey and a bunch of other ‘simple folk’ stereotypes—but people often forget that in between the maple syrup free-basing we do to distract from our colonial past/present, we also make a lot of really good music. This playlist highlights some of it, from coast to unceded coast.
“What a happy surprise to have new music from Daniel Bachman to start the year! Joyful tunes.”
Metaphorically going ‘Gone Fishin’ ironically turned into literally going Gone Paintin’ at a location that’d be perfect for actually going fishing. Ain’t that just the way :)
In order to free up some extra time & headspace to try and figure out what kind of changes I need to make to multiple websites/ideas, I’m putting a few more recurring blog tasks on pause. Or, as Joe Pesci (presumably) said to Danny Glover in the 1997 film Gone Fishin’: “It’s time to go gone fishin’!”
“Earth Trip brings us another round of country-fried cosmos layered in brooding bass, dreamy slide and twangy jam. Every bit as compelling as Summerlong was last summer.”
“If you have to drive any further than a few KMs (or miles for y’all south of the border, eh), you're gonna want to have a good mix for a little dashboard drumming and open window karaoke running man.”
