I still want to share my random thoughts with everyone, so I figured the best way to do this is through Tumblr. I’ve thought about this for a few months already. WP was amazing when I used to write entries upon end. Now, it’s too much for me. Tumblr, I find, is better for microblogging.

However, I’m not leaving WP quite yet. I still have to find a way to export all my old WP content to Tumblr. Hollar at me if you have any solutions.

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Beautiful bodies. Unreal song. Powerful.

If I should die tomorrow
Oh please let there, let there be life
Lord, no need for sorrow,
Let’s just make love until the morning light

I want you to remember me…
Lead on my legacy until the end of time

[NSFW!!]
’Til the End of Time – Timothy Bloom ft. V. Bozeman

[Props to @diamondnprinces for the find]


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Pi Day Song (Lose Yourself in the Digits)

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Not sure where you can go or how you can help? Here are some ways you, as Canadian humanitarians, can help the people of Japan recover from one of the most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis ever recorded in history.

CANADIAN RED CROSS
Donate online at redcross.ca, call 1-800-418-1111, or text ASIA to 30333 to donate $5 from your phone.

SAVE THE CHILDREN
Donate online or text JAPAN or TSUNAMI to 20222 to make a $10 donation from your phone.

THE SALVATION ARMY
Donate online or text QUAKE to 45678 to make a $10 donation from your phone.

CARE Canada
Donate online to care.ca

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
Donate online or text MED to 80888 to make a $10 donation from your phone.

GLOBAL GIVING
Donate online at globalgiving.org, an organization working with International Medical Corps, Save the Children, and other organizations on the ground to provide relief and emergency services to victims of the earthquake and tsunami.

ARK – Animal Refuge Kansai
A non-profit organization to provide relief and resources to the animals made homeless by the earthquake and tsunami. Visit their website for more info and to donate online.

Share this post: blog it, post it to Facebook, Tweet it, email this info out. Lend a hand, provide support. Pray for Japan.

With love and prayer,

Hey Rosetta!
with special guests Gramercy Riffs
The Rio Theatre – Vancouver, BC
March 5th, 2011

Newfoundland’s own Hey Rosetta! returned to Vancouver to play two sold-out shows at the Rio Theatre. Belle (aka my music savvy chemist friend) and I were lucky enough to snag tickets to the second night of the sold-out concerts. I have been a huge and loyal fan of theirs since 2007 and between the two of us, we have seen the indie East Coast band play live five times.

The crowd ambience was a little bit different than I am used to seeing at most “indie” concerts. Instead of the usual annoying, drunken hipster dudes and gals screaming at everything seen and heard, the sell-out crowd mostly consisted of a more mellow, mature bunch (many donning suit jackets and cocktail dresses). I liked it.

Fellow Newfies, Gramercy Riffs, opened the evening. I never heard of them prior to that night so I didn’t know what to expect out of the five-piece band. We all stayed put in our movie theatre seats and listened devotedly to the rockers. Throughout their performance, the paired male and female lead singers belted out catchy tunes. At the end of their set, the band received great reception from the mostly newly-exposed fans.

Before Hey Rosetta! could even fully form out onto the stage, the anticipation of the headliners quickly turned the crowd from being attentive listeners into engaged hollering foot-stompers. The usual six-membered band, bathed under purple and blue lights, was joined by a second female violinist. Their opening number, Welcome, from their brand-new album Seeds brought everyone up to their feet. An appropriate choice to begin the night.

Frontman, Tim Baker, expressed on several occasions his love for being out here on the West Coast, especially Vancouver. The feelings were mutual. Ladies (and some men) in the crowd professed their love for Tim in his crisp blue-grey shirt – many even shouting out marriage proposals. I may or may not have been one of those ladies. But what I can tell you is that for a few seconds, Tim and I had a moment (watch the Red Heart video below from 0:55 to 1:02). I’m pretty sure he was licking his lips because of his lust for me (haha *snorts*). Anyway, I digress.

The three-piece strings arrangement (two violinists and Rakesh on cello) gave the band an even more orchestral sound than usual. It provided just that little extra juice to keep both the band and the crowd involved. As a whole, the vocals combined with guitar, bass, piano, drums, violins, and cello create a colossal sound, oscillating between intense reverberations and soft poetic-like melodies.

Hey Rosetta! stimulated us by going between their newest album Seeds and their critically acclaimed 2008 album Into Your Lungs. Much to our delight, they brought back Mara Pellerin from Gramercy Riffs for a beautiful rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time (see video below). Everyone was having fun singing along to the 1980’s hit. Unfortunately, the band didn’t dip into their EP Plan Your Escape. Throughout the show, Belle and I requested (read: begged and pleaded) that their song Yes! Yes! Yes! be played. After all, it was the song that made us fall in love with them many years ago. Alas, no such luck. Out of the five shows we’ve seen, they only played it once.

Although we have seen the band on numerous occasions before, we keep going back to their shows wanting more. Hey Rosetta! are always keeping their songs fresh by making adjustments where need be. From this show, to the one I saw last year, to years before, the arrangements in their songs have been tweaked to almost perfection. Their live performances don’t sound like a song from the record; they evolve record to record, show to show. This is a good thing. It’s refreshing. It’s not something that I can explain on paper. It’s something that you need to experience for yourself. Once you see them live just once, you’ll want to see them again and again. You can bet when Hey Rosetta! returns to Vancouver once more, expect us to be there again… hoping that they will play Yes! Yes! Yes!

[[ VIDEOS ]]

Red Heart – Hey Rosetta! live at the Rio Theatre (3/05/11)
Filmed by canucklehead07

Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper cover) – Hey Rosetta! ft. Mara Pellerin
live at the Rio Theatre (3/05/11)
Filmed by canucklehead07

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The video also features background commentary by Dame Judi Dench who highlights inequalities between men and women.

Good message, but did 007 really need to be in drag to get the point across? Meh.

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I may be biased, but this is by far the best version of Wiz Khalifa’s Black & Yellow I have seen yet.

 

Black Red Yellow,
That’s my team.
Old school,
Way before the blue and green.

Need I say more? Check out Terell Safadi’s cover below.

 

Black Red Yellow – Terell Safadi

 

[via HeadToTheNet]

 

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Check it out!

Brick by Brick – Arctic Monkeys

What do  you think? Like? Dislike? Comment below.



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Things have been crazy lately, hence the lack in blog updates. Hopefully once my midterms get out of my way and my schedule has simmered down, I can upload more delicious content for your enjoyment. In the meantime, thanks for sticking around.

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♫ Make Light – Passion Pit ♫