Monthly Archives: January 2008

Monthly Archives: January 2008

Why Hockey Players Don’t Act

Posted on by Ricky in Everything, Sports | 2 Comments

Tokyo Police Club, Jan 26, Nathan Phillips

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Toronto – Every year, the city of Toronto hosts this thing called ‘Winter City’ where people gather around Nathan Phillips Square and do stuff to celebrate winter, and city. What this means is every weekend for a few weekends, theres a free outdoor concert. On the weekend of January 26, the free concert was GTA’s own, Tokyo Police Club. Arguably the most hyped Canadian band at the moment, TPC seems marked for the big ticket and will be releasing a …

 
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United States of Whatever

Posted on by Andrea in Everything | 6 Comments

I came across this little site today…and even if you’re not American…it’s pretty interesting. It’s a quiz that asks you about your top issues in the U.S. Presidential election. Then it pairs you up with candidate who shares your values. It’s not exactly scientific, but it’s kind of cool and it only takes a few minutes. http://glassbooth.org/ Oh yeah…and I’m 86% like Mike Gravel. The Democratic candidate from Alaska, who’s a YouTube sensation for videos like this:

Bands without Vowels: MGMT

Posted on by Ricky in Albums | 2 Comments

Toronto – What is it these days about the anti-love for vowels? First MSTRKRFT, now this. Folks..these things are important. Without vowels, we are nothing but terrorists. Let me introduce you to MGMT (you can call them The Management). Hailing from Brooklyn, the band has nicely positioned itself as ‘hot fiya’ for 2008. Rolling Stone and Spin have both hyped them as a band to watch for this year, and Pitchfork Media gave them a 6.8, which I think is …

 
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