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/ JANUARY 2009
+ JANUARY 8TH,
2009
NOW PLAYING:
Slow Runner - Mermaids
As promised, here is the ol' annual list featuring my favourite records of 2008.
I've decided it's not right to put these things into any kind of order, so I just
laid them out as they came to me. What I do know is that these
records made everything good even better in 2008. Not adhering to this
list could potentially rob your life of some much-deserved joy.
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Rob Szabo - Life & Limb
Sheltered In Sound - Field Recordings From The City
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
AA Bondy - American Hearts
Adam Warner - Sawdust & Sour Apples
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain (Live At Canterbury House)
Valery Gore - Avalanche To Wandering Bear
Chad Vangaalen - Soft Airplane
Neil Halstead - Oh, Mighty Engine
The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
The Dodos - Visiter
I didn't see too many movies in 2008, as it's very difficult to get the
desired effect when you watch it in 17 different sittings. Crying
newborns interrupt the ability to do anything for longer than 20 mins at a
time. (My sex life is awesome, BTW) I went to the movies one
time, and it was the see The Dark Knight. I thought it was as
good as a blockbuster movie could be. Like with most blockbusters, I forgot about it 15 minutes
after I saw it. Wall-E was great...a visionary, and (mostly)
dialogue-free commercial risk. When a movie like this squeaks
through the Hollywood stinkpile of mediocrity (especially the animated ones
which could make a bajillion dollars just by having robots fart for 90
mins), it makes me happy and restores some faith in the mainstream...um,
for about 15 minutes.
Much Love & Stuff;
COOP
+ JANUARY 4TH,
2009
NOW PLAYING:
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Happy New Year to you all! All the best to you and yours in 2009!
Our wee lil' Sammy picked up a nasty cold on Dec 30th and was still plugged
up, hackin' and feverish on New Year's Eve so we had to cancel our plans.
This year made me a firm believer in the benefits of an anti-New Year's Eve
Party Stance (ANYEPS).
Don't get me wrong, I love the occasion for reflection and thinking back on
your life as a means to recognize the ups and downs and make the changes
to right your ship or stay the course. However, on a strictly social
scale, there's this insane pressure that your New Year's event has to be
the best night of the year as well. If it's not, you wind up feeling
let down.
This year I was basically in bed at 10pm and as I laid there, I honestly
felt relieved. Partly because we hadn't slept because Sam was up all
night the previous night, but also because when you
remove those huge social expectations, it just sort of feels typically warm and
nice. Although, I must admit...you can't rail on and on about this
to those who haven't bought in. You still feel the social pressure
and even more like a loser when everyone later asks, "So what did you do
on New Year's!?" To which I sheepishly reply, "Oh ya, I totally partied,
dude. I'm still partying, actually. Yeah!"
Well I guess I did sort of party, if you count shaking up a bottle of
$7.00 sparkling wine and popping it off the balcony at 9:30pm. You
don't? Oh, OK...then I didn't really party on too much, Wayne.
Another thing along this line that's been going on in my brain is
the very few - by comparison - things that I'm involved in these days. I'm
getting great joy out of spending a quiet afternoon at home with the
family, planning out a big home-cooked dinner and having a few drinks
while I do it. (Yes, I drink and parent. Relax.) I couldn't be
happier, especially as we get headlong
into the winter months and the inevitable hibernation. I'm dreaming of hearty
stews, soups, roasts, and weather-defying BBQ. It's good living.
It makes me realize how true that old adage is, "anything that's worth
doing is worth doing right." It counts for the little things,
too. Focus on the stuff you do regularly in
your life and ask yourself, "am I making the most of this experience?"
If not, change it...or dump it altogether. Otherwise, what's the point?
So while we're not doing a whole lot more than serious family time at
home, we've been praising the joys of having a decent mattress, some
quality beans and booze, a nice cut of meat in the oven...you'd be
amazed to learn how content you will be to just let everything else slide. And
when I say "slide", I truly mean sliiiiiiiiiiiide.
Much Love & Stuff;
COOP
P.S. - I'll be back shortly with my annual SC's Fave Records of 2008
list!
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