RYAN EDWARD MILLER

August 31st, 2010

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"You Do You" (Studio Remix) (3:45)

Bear In Heaven

Beast Rest Forth Mouth (re-release) (2010)

Last week, Bear in Heaven quietly re-released Beast Rest Forth Mouth with some added tracks. “You Do You,” my personal favourite, gets a remix.

August 31st, 2010

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Gatineau Park, Que. October 2009. Shot at Champlain Lookout. This is what you’re looking at.

August 31st, 2010

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"Holiday Road" (2:10)

Lindsey Buckingham

National Lampoon's Vacation (Soundtrack) (1983)

Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham had a solo hit with “Holiday Road.” I wonder how this would have sounded as a Mac song.

August 31st, 2010

Apparently:

In the wake of Glenn Beck’s rally, The National Post has taken a look at religious conservatism’s slippery slope.
Wikileaks is going underground. Literally.
Scientists have discovered a new site of astonishing fossils in Kootenay National Park; it’s all right there near Stanley Glacier.
Here are some four-color gateway drugs.
“He was basically in a deep freeze for the last 21 years.”
In November 2006, Ian McEwan was accused of plagiarizing details from Lucilla Andrews’ memoir in his 2002 Booker Prize-nominated novel Atonement; then, Thomas Pynchon came to his defence.
U.S. Republicans have opened a 10-point lead over Democrats in a recent poll.
A BCIT student’s game has been snapped up by Microsoft for Xbox release.
Vancouver’s housing bubble may burst.
Hipster dinosaurs! (Best thing ever.)
Former first daughter Barbara Bush was in a Terry Richardson photoshoot. (Um, is that wise?)
This is the amazing life of Bozo the Clown.
Italy’s mushroom season has taken a deadly turn.
Backlash: Michael Cera is a “listless man-boy who exhibits the dramatic range of an insole.”
Drunk baboons are a menace.
Another search for John Franklin’s lost 1845 Arctic expedition has failed to turn up anything.
October brings us The Age of Adz; November might bring us a taco.

August 31st, 2010

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury.

August 30th, 2010

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Monday.

August 30th, 2010

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Monday. Unpacking/shelving books.

August 30th, 2010

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Monday.

August 30th, 2010

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Monday.

August 29th, 2010

Apparently:

Salmon!
These are BC’s best neglected writers.
U.S. Republicans are poised to regain control of the House and the Senate in November, but not because they’re popular; it’s the economy, stupid.
Conrad Black has the Apocalypse on the brain - the American Apocalypse.
The Chicago Sun Times has reviewed Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom; so has the Miami Herald; Freedom is all the rage.
Author Kit Berry did it backwards: she built a fanbase through social networking, and then got a book deal.
“I’m agnostic about technology. But I want a robotic penguin.”
Ontario is cracking down on OxyContin abuse.
Next year’s season of Doctor Who will be split in two.
ChartAttack has talked to Buck 65 about “Zombie Delight.”
Springsteen is set to drop a lot of material related to his 1978 album Darkness On The Edge Of Town; go see a clip of the young Boss right here.
50 Cent has some pretty entertaining tweets.
The Guardian has profiled 4AD on the indie record label’s 30th anniversary.

August 29th, 2010

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe.

August 29th, 2010

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Sunday.

August 29th, 2010

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"Belong" (2:55)

Washed Out

High Times (2009)

“Belong” is on Side A of the limited edition High Times cassette that Washed Out (a.k.a. Ernest Greene) put out a year ago. (I wish I had a copy of it.)

August 28th, 2010

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Saturday.

August 28th, 2010

Apparently:

The plot thickens: RCMP probe alleged terror plot to bomb the Parliament buildings.
Surprise: another foot has washed up on a beach in Washington state; the ninth foot found in the Georgia Strait area since August 2007.
Fidel Castro says Osama bin Laden is on the CIA payroll.
If you think Alberta’s economy floats atop a sea of oil and gas, think again.
Here are 12 non-book literary oddities on eBay.
The New York Times has profiled Mark Twain and his time in New York City.
Don’t underestimate her.
Citigroup may be cooking the books.
James Cameron has spoken to Wired about Avatar’s upcoming re-release(es).
An Antarctic cold snap has killed millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon.
B-side: company offers to press your ashes into an LP when you die.

RYAN EDWARD MILLER

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