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Vacation Dispatch #4
The final leg of my vacation (unless you count next week's brief AEW postscript as part of the same one, though I probably shouldn't, since that one will be much less about relaxing and much more about GOGOGO) is here, and I'm feeling pretty good about it. Two weeks is really the perfect length for this sort of thing, I think; one week is just a normal week off work and would definitely leave me wanting more, but any longer and I think I'd really start wanting to get back and stop enjoying myself as much. I'm camped out in Old Montreal for the duration, seeing nix tomorrow which is VERY exciting, and just chilling until then! I've got a load of laundry going, which I will need because as much as I'm loving the light jacket weather, it does mean that whenever I have to walk more than ten minutes anywhere, I end up sweating like a fucking rapist, and I've already had to do that to hit up a Shoppers Drug Mart (Pharmaprix is actually a much better name, isn't it?) to buy painkillers as my period just couldn't wait a couple more days! At least that means it'll be done by the time I go back to work in lESS THAN A WEEK, UGH.
Few more albums from yesterday:
Wikipedia Sez: Savane is the final solo album by Malian musician Ali Farka Touré. It is the third and final part of the Hôtel Mandé Sessions, featuring Touré and Toumani Diabaté, recorded by World Circuit head Nick Gold. The album was released posthumously by World Circuit on 17 July 2006, more than four months after Touré's death.
Prior Familiarity: C'mon now.
What I Did While Listening: Hurriedly got ready, finished packing up, ate the last of the apples, double checked a hotel thing since I was getting weird 'card declined' notifications. Travel nerves are forever!
Verdict: World music can be so hit-or-miss with me, a lot of it just sounds too samey to sustain a whole album for me, but this is a real hit. I remain a blues whore, regardless of its country of origin.
Favourite Song: The title track! Great build and vibe. Gambari Didi was real fun and different, though.
Wikipedia Sez: Rust Never Sleeps is an album with both studio and live tracks by Canadian American singer-songwriter Neil Young and American band Crazy Horse. It was released on June 22, 1979, by Reprise Records. Most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio, while others originated in the studio. Young used the phrase "rust never sleeps" as a concept for his tour with Crazy Horse to avoid artistic complacency and try more progressive, theatrical approaches to performing live.
Prior Familiarity: Pretty high.
What I Did While Listening: Train music! God, I love train travel. I think it's a lot like what air travel used to be before the terrorists won, just slower? Watching the countryside just roll along, sometimes feeling like you're floating above it all. I really want to do it more, it's just so damn expensive, at least in Canada. Anyway, this album took me from Oshawa to Cobourg, or thereabouts.
Verdict: Good shit. Ol' Neil's definitely over-represented in this list, but this is a pretty worthy inclusion.
Favourite Song: My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue); pure uncut Canadiana.
Wikipedia Sez: The Undertones is the 1979 debut album by the Undertones. The album was recorded at Eden Studios in Acton, West London in January 1979 and was released on 13 May that year. The original release included just one single release: "Jimmy Jimmy" and an album version of "Here Comes the Summer", which was never released as a single.
Prior Familiarity: None!
What I Did While Listening: More train music! Something a little more upbeat to keep me going through all the farmland, I guess (though, honestly, I love rolling through all that, too; all the crops are so different from the shit I'm so used to from drives to Edmonton, there's corn and soybeans and even the occasional fruit orchard here as opposed to boring old wheat and mustard back home).
Verdict: Pretty fun! Not much stood out to me all that much, but lots of good jangly guitars and a lot of nice perpetual forward momentum, if that makes sense?
Favourite Song: Teenage Kicks
Wikipedia Sez: In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was self-released on 10 October 2007 as a pay-what-you-want download, followed by a physical release internationally through XL Recordings and in North America through TBD Records. It was Radiohead's first release after their recording contract with EMI ended with their album Hail to the Thief (2003).
Prior Familiarity: High. To put it mildly.
What I Did While Listening: One last train album! Night had fallen, and my butt was very sore.
Verdict: Not my favourite Radiohead, but one that is very much imprinted deeply on me.
Favourite Song: Reckoner, but I finally diamonded Bodysnatchers in BeatStar while in Stratford, so I'm carrying a bit of extra fondness for that one at the moment.
Okay, time to finish catching up on She-Hulk before switching my laundry over! VACATION!!
Oh also, I ordered pasta in last night and got a sparkling water with it solely because there was a Pichu on the can THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Few more albums from yesterday:
Wikipedia Sez: Savane is the final solo album by Malian musician Ali Farka Touré. It is the third and final part of the Hôtel Mandé Sessions, featuring Touré and Toumani Diabaté, recorded by World Circuit head Nick Gold. The album was released posthumously by World Circuit on 17 July 2006, more than four months after Touré's death.
Prior Familiarity: C'mon now.
What I Did While Listening: Hurriedly got ready, finished packing up, ate the last of the apples, double checked a hotel thing since I was getting weird 'card declined' notifications. Travel nerves are forever!
Verdict: World music can be so hit-or-miss with me, a lot of it just sounds too samey to sustain a whole album for me, but this is a real hit. I remain a blues whore, regardless of its country of origin.
Favourite Song: The title track! Great build and vibe. Gambari Didi was real fun and different, though.
Wikipedia Sez: Rust Never Sleeps is an album with both studio and live tracks by Canadian American singer-songwriter Neil Young and American band Crazy Horse. It was released on June 22, 1979, by Reprise Records. Most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio, while others originated in the studio. Young used the phrase "rust never sleeps" as a concept for his tour with Crazy Horse to avoid artistic complacency and try more progressive, theatrical approaches to performing live.
Prior Familiarity: Pretty high.
What I Did While Listening: Train music! God, I love train travel. I think it's a lot like what air travel used to be before the terrorists won, just slower? Watching the countryside just roll along, sometimes feeling like you're floating above it all. I really want to do it more, it's just so damn expensive, at least in Canada. Anyway, this album took me from Oshawa to Cobourg, or thereabouts.
Verdict: Good shit. Ol' Neil's definitely over-represented in this list, but this is a pretty worthy inclusion.
Favourite Song: My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue); pure uncut Canadiana.
Wikipedia Sez: The Undertones is the 1979 debut album by the Undertones. The album was recorded at Eden Studios in Acton, West London in January 1979 and was released on 13 May that year. The original release included just one single release: "Jimmy Jimmy" and an album version of "Here Comes the Summer", which was never released as a single.
Prior Familiarity: None!
What I Did While Listening: More train music! Something a little more upbeat to keep me going through all the farmland, I guess (though, honestly, I love rolling through all that, too; all the crops are so different from the shit I'm so used to from drives to Edmonton, there's corn and soybeans and even the occasional fruit orchard here as opposed to boring old wheat and mustard back home).
Verdict: Pretty fun! Not much stood out to me all that much, but lots of good jangly guitars and a lot of nice perpetual forward momentum, if that makes sense?
Favourite Song: Teenage Kicks
Wikipedia Sez: In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was self-released on 10 October 2007 as a pay-what-you-want download, followed by a physical release internationally through XL Recordings and in North America through TBD Records. It was Radiohead's first release after their recording contract with EMI ended with their album Hail to the Thief (2003).
Prior Familiarity: High. To put it mildly.
What I Did While Listening: One last train album! Night had fallen, and my butt was very sore.
Verdict: Not my favourite Radiohead, but one that is very much imprinted deeply on me.
Favourite Song: Reckoner, but I finally diamonded Bodysnatchers in BeatStar while in Stratford, so I'm carrying a bit of extra fondness for that one at the moment.
Okay, time to finish catching up on She-Hulk before switching my laundry over! VACATION!!
Oh also, I ordered pasta in last night and got a sparkling water with it solely because there was a Pichu on the can THIS IS IMPORTANT.