Monday, December 13, 2010

[1] Nada Surf - Let Go.

Released 2002 Barsuk Records

[2] Harvey Danger - King James Version

Released 2000 London Sire

[3] Matthew Good - Avalanche

Released 2003 Universal Music Canada

[4] Matthew Good - Vancouver

Released 2009 Universal Music Canada

[5] The Stills - Oceans Will Rise

Released 2008 Arts&Crafts

[6] The Dismemberment Plan - Change

Released 2001 Desoto Records

[7] The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead

Released 2008 Sub Pop Records

[8] The Killers - Day and Age

Released 2008 Universal Music

[9] Maritime - We The Vehicles

Released 2006 on Flameshovel Records

Saturday, December 11, 2010

My Top Ten Favorite Albums of the Last Decade,2000-2009, #45-#10

I am going to post in the near future about my favorite albums of 2010, and figured I should give some background to my musical tastes. If you have any suggestions for albums from this year let me know so I can give it a listen if I haven't already. As I was making this list I realized there are ton of albums I really like that I had to even keep out of my preliminary sort through, just because I knew they wouldn't end up making it to my top ten of the decade. I ended up with 41 albums, that I needed to narrow down to just ten. Well instead of narrowing it down completely I am going to only write descriptions for the top then and give you my top 45 of the aughts.


Clicking a link takes you to the artists last.fm page. You can listen to some full songs, clips, and watch videos as well. Add me as a friend, ChadyzGroove
45. Interpol - Antics
44. Matthew Good - Hospital Music
43. The Dears - No Cities Left(Canadian Version)
42. Limblifter - I/O
41. Weezer - Weezer(Green)
40. Harvey Danger - Dead Sea Scrolls
     Available for free at HarveyDanger.com
39. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antartica
38. The Long Winters- The Worst You Can Do Is Harm
37. Saves the Day - Under the Boards
36. Maritime - Hersey and the Hotel Choir
35. Hot Hot Heat - Makeup the Breakdown
34. Motion City Soundtrack - I am the Movie
33. Sparta - Wiretap Scars
32. Limblifter - Bellaclava
31. Electric Six - Senor Smoke
30. Matthew Good - White Light Rock and Roll Review
29. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
28. Thunderbirds are Now! - Justamustache
27. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
26. Troubled Hubble - Making Bed in a Burning House
25. Temper Trap - Conditions
24. Starlight Mints - Change Remains
23. Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
22. Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
21. The Might Mighty BossTones - Pay Attention
20. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
19. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
18. Panic at the Disco - Pretty Odd
17. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
16. Ryan Dahle - Irrational Anthems
15. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
14. The Presidents of the United States of America- These are Good Times People
13. Guster - Ganging up on the Sun
12. Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
11. Bounds Stems - The Family Afloat
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This is one of my favorite bands, and I found out about them because Harvey Danger broke up. When this occurred Sean Nelson, lead singer of Harvey Danger, began singing back-up and playing keyboards for this band. While both bands have distinctly different sounds, they are both two of my favorite bands. This album was released in 2006, and I must of listened to it everyday for about 7 months straight. The whole album is great from beginning to end. 
Favorite Songs Include: Fire Island,AK / Honest / Seven

Number Nine is coming tomorrow. Maybe I will think of more to write about it.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Dynamints

I am sure most of you have had tic-tacs. I do not buy them anymore namely because I buy them and eat the whole container in about 3.64 seconds. The orange ones lower that average considerably, I think I down them in about 0.978 seconds. I do the same thing with Mentos and Jones Soda Carbonated Candy. Well courtesy of the internet I found out about these awesome things called Dynamints.



Wow SIX SECONDS, I can't wait that long I would have the whole packaged devoured by then. I am inventing a time machine there is so much stuff that I want to try from the past. I will speak about them in a future post. I am hungry now, I am going to go devour 8 boxes of different flavoured tic-tacs. By the way I am spelling flavoured like a Canadian, because I am ready for some hockey.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Vrrrrooom.

One Thing I have loved since being able to drive is cars. They move you places faster than walking. My fascination with cars has never been about speed though, it's always about design. And ugly design at that, well at least my first dream car was. The Pontiac Aztek. One of the reasons I liked this car was I got to help design it. Pontiac sent out CD-Roms where you got to design the Aztek, it was all pretty much finalized at this point, but it was a fun little thing anyways. I think the biggest thing it ended up doing was picking the final colors, which like the car itself, had some uglies.

Now if you don't recall what an Aztek looks like let me refresh your memory.
As you can see this thing is not very nice looking, but for some reason I wanted one bad, and still do for that matter. I think it's ugly duckling syndrome or something, I just feel bad for it, and want to take care of it. 

The real bad thing about this beast, is that it could have been a much better styled vehicle if they would of stuck with the concept styling as seen below.
That is a seriously good looking SUV, especially for something designed in the late 1990's. Actually I want to morph through my computer monitor, and hotwire this thing and drive it back to the future. I will also be bring the sea-doo.

Some other dream cars of mine have been 2000s Pontiac Grand Am GT, Pontiac Grand Prix GXP, and a Pontiac G8 GXP. As you can likely see I really like the Pontiacs, and I am sad to have seen them go. Right before Pontiac went extinct, it had released concept for the G8 ST. ST stands for sport truck, and you maybe thinking well, isn't the G8 a badass sedan, and the answer is of course yes, but you need to think even more badass El Camino here.
Yeah, that is awesome, I know. I was really hoping GM would bring it over to Chevrolet, but alas they did not. 

I am currently driving a 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT which is a pretty sweet little hatchback, but you always need a dream car in reserve I say. Since I fell in love with my Vibe, I knew I would likely fall for another hatchback, and GMC brought the coolest hatchback concept ever out this past January, in the GMC Granite.

I really love the styling on this car, it looks pretty futuristic, but in a gaudy way that I love. As I was searching the interwebs today to see if they have green-lighted this for production I come across this...
Oh yeah that's right the most awesome vehicle ever conceived. I have no doubt, if this is made this is my next car. One thing I liked alot about the Aztek was that the hatch could be lifted up and you could put a tent in it...
The back end of the GMC Granite CPU, CPU standing for Compact Pickup, fold out and down for an extra two feet to lay stuff down on. Not only does it have that extra space, but it has taillights built in to make it street legal. 

From here the bottom folds out and you have a good amount of extra space this is awesome engineering and makes this the current car of my dreams.


Saturday, November 27, 2010

Slack, Stunnedddddd... Set the ph ph ph Phasers.


The water is deep and I’ve stone boots. The world spins and with it so many words tumult as to ruin the alphabet. Voice over voice, argument over argument; break to commercial. We survive through the kindness of your donations, the truth floats still, and for you some satisfaction of conscience.
Idealism fashion, put on an old sweater and refuse a smoke – they’re bad for you. Children of sorrowed times, fed well and warmed through, sing songs of their tragic vampire lives. Hemmingway wrote A Farewell To Arms after Peele said it, but that never made it any less true.
I am done for now, as should you be. Run aground, there is little point in arguing seamanship. Best get to collecting coconuts.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

zune vs. last.fm

In the past few months I have ditched my iPod, and went with an 80GB Zune I bought off of Woot!. Everything has been pretty awesome about the Zune, except one thing, and that is last.fm integration. I love last.fm, for those unfamiliar it is a website that keeps track of all the songs you play, and makes recommendations for new artists and songs based on your plays. (It also has an internet radio feature comparable to Pandora, but I think last.fm is better myself.) The Zune has it's social, which similarly keeps track of your song plays and recommends songs as well, I think the recommendations are much better on last.fm, and on top of that the information you have access to is much larger than with Zune. Well, with the zune it is a pain in the butt to get tracks to "scrobble" to last.fm. On the Software end you have to use a program called Zuse, which connects the zune software to the scrobbler on your desktop and sends the music to last.fm, this isn't too bad, but it seems to miss tracks every now and then, and has a tendency to crash from time to time as well. On the hardware end from my Zune itself you have to use a program called Zenses to send your played tracks from the Zune to last.fm, this is a horribly long process that can only take 50 of the played tracks at a time. One thing about all this work around that seems really weird to me is that Microsoft and last.fm are already partners on the Xbox 360, so you would think they would have partnered to bring seamless easy scrobbling to the Zune, but nope it's a big pain in the ass. I am really hoping with the recent release of Windows Phone 7 and the Zune being on there hopefully we will see some better integration. Here's to hoping. If not I will go crush the last.fm and Microsoft HQs with my giant ball.

Add me on last.fm
Add me on Zune

Friday, November 5, 2010

Unoriginal.

I am pretty bland and so is this blog. I could sit here and whine about shit, but why fucking do that. You know what would be awesome right about now... a giant fucking see-through ball that I roll around in and destroy shit. I would be sure to only destroy inanimate objects that would not ruin people's lives. So I would find rich people's cars or something. Although the more I think about it, it sounds more complicated than I wanted this to be. I wish I was a teenager then I would go TP a house or something. More profound stuff coming to this blog in the future, actually that is unlikely.

I have good news for you, Everyone is a robot, except for you.

Random thoughts about my current world:
-St. Louis Blues = The St. Louis Halaks
Because he is the Halak-ness Monster...
TSN.ca Halak Stats
-The Kinect for Xbox is pretty badass, but I think it needs some tweaks or another generation to be perfect. Never the less it is a fun time.
-I could really go for a Surge and Bold BBQ Doritos unfortunately I do not have a time machine to take me back to 2001.
-Speaking of soda I think Vault is being discontinued, which brings an opening for Surge to return.
For those unaware I am a Save Surge Hall of Famer
-For those who were previously unaware you now know I am a huge dork, but I think you likely knew that.

I really want some Imo's Pizza, so I am going to try to eat some now. So Long!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

My Favorite Song of 2010





By K-Os and one of my favorite artists Ryan Dahle

What is your favorite song of this year?

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Hello.

I am making a post. I will write about something here in the future. Any suggestions?