The Cinematic Orchestra

The Cinematic Orchestra got a lot of online love for their song ‘To Build A Home’ because everyone was using the instrumentals from that track in in videos kinda like this one. The whole album that this song was taken from is pretty solid and I really liked how most of the tracks on the album flow into the songs that follow it. I mostly listen to rock and hiphop so sometimes its nice to get out of the musical rut I often find myself within and listen to something a bit more classical 

Cinematic Orchestra just released a new album and I still don’t really know what to think about it, I think I’m going to listen do it again today on my way to work. So far this is my favorite song from the album. 

Remembrance (fires remix)

Another quick post today, I kinda feel like I’d like to write more about morality sometime soon but I’m stuck trying to find a topic that I can really get into, maybe something on religion or euthanasia. We’ll see. I was up at the cottage this past weekend with my friends and I took an arse-load of pictures but apparently beer and photography isn’t really my thing so all the pictures I took look like total garbage.  

I would however like to share this song because I feel like its a really good ‘walking around at night’ kind of song. Hope you like it.

Nothing else new to report on my end. 

Weekend update.

Busy busy busy. 

Went back to Pickering for the weekend to go hang out with a friend, go to a birthday party and then do father’s day on Sunday with the family. It was good seeing my friend from school, sometimes I go several months without really talking to people I consider good friends, I suppose its a bad habit I should break. The birthday party was really fun too (although getting there was a huge pain in the arse, traffic was mad and the AC in the car is broke’d real good-like.)

Father’s day was a lot of fun too, I got to see both of my grandfathers and spend the whole day with my dad. Papa was in a better mood than Grandad apparently, lol. 

I also too this picture on the weekend, I really liked it so I thought I’d share.

Music and Life

Random thoughts for the night.

I think rain and classical music makes me feel pretty creative.

I spend most of my spare time wondering what I’m going to do with my life, I think about school, I think about where I’ll be in a year from now. None of it seems very clear. I often worry that I’ll never be able to decide and life will pass me by without my knowing it.

I think I stress too much about how other people understand the world, I feel like an asshole when I can’t helped but be annoyed when people rationalize life in ways that are vastly different from my own. 

I think I’ve developed a really big fear of women, meeting girls is fucking terrifying to me.   I never used to be like this.

I wonder if other people pay as much attention to what the air smells like as I do. I’m not sure if anything smells better than the air at my cottage on a summer morning. 

I’m really worried about my grandparents, I don’t really like to talk about it though. After my granddad had a stroke I told him that if I could grow up and be anything like him, I’ll have know that I made all the right decisions in life. I’m glad I told him that, you should always say whats on your mind.

People, I think, try too hard to hold on to things in the past. Sometimes its better just to let things go and never revisit them. 

I heard a great line in a podcast last week, “If you want to get to utopia take your first left on sex, your first right on money, and there it is straight ahead.” 

Can't sleep.

Couldn't sleep very well so I thought I'd mess around with my camera, I think I need to invest in a tripod but here are a few shots from tonight that I thought turned out ok. Please excuse the silly self shots, I know its kinda cheesy.

Post Race, More Music.

Please disregard the crazy eyes.

I’m in a weird mood today. I’m not quite sad but I wouldn’t describe my self as happy either, maybe its just the weather getting me down, much of my happiness seems to be contingent on how much sunlight I get. This week was pretty boring too, the highlight was getting my hair cut, (because I was starting to feel like a wookie.) I’m going out tonight though, hopefully it will be a good time. 

The race in Ottawa last weekend was a lot of fun, I wasn’t expecting to do as well as I did but having someone to run with helped me keep pace throughout the whole run. I was fully planning on never running that far ever again until I actually finished the race - that feeling of crossing the finish line was unlike anything I’ve ever felt before and now I’m not sure I could give it up that easily. One thing that I found kind of surprising was how motivating people cheering can be, I’ve never really participated in anything that necessitated cheering before but when when I ran past a crowd of people jumping and cheering it made me want to run ten times faster. Near the end of the race I ran past a couple of puddles of puked up noodles, I’m not sure if the people who puked them up understood the idea of carbo-loading. 

Dan hadn’t had a drink since he decided he wanted to run in the race, so the first thing we did when we got back was crack a beer, I slammed mine, Dan was a bit more conservative. After that we hung out for a bit and went to a bar later on. Not a bad way to finish up the weekend. 

Not a whole lot of new music in my playlist these days but here's a few tracks that I really like. So far no archetypal summer classic for me, yet. 

Valleys - Ordinary Dreams

Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built



The Tallest Man On Earth - King Of Spain



(sorry again for the crappy HTML, youtube keeps changing their style and its hella annoying)