Kevan Gilbert:

I paid two pounds (approximately 0.9 kilograms, for you Canadians) for Radiohead’s intangible new release, the digitally delivered seventh album, called “In Rainbows.” Since the stunt was announced in early October 2007, this album has everybody talking, but for the first time in Radiohead’s career, the conversation has nothing to do with their music.

Today, I stepped on the Skytrain and was immediately surrounded by approximately 327 six-year-olds wearing toques and waving stuffed bunnies in the air. It seemed all the children in Burnaby had been ordered to evacuate the city en masse, and head towards downtown Vancouver. At least, it appeared that way until a Grown Up shouted [...]

Last March, I published a post called “Mixes in the Making,” in which I made a passing-paragraph reference to a song that teen sensation group Hanson performed in concert. It’s a cover of the Radiohead song, Optimistic. That post was mistakenly republished earlier today (to the Xanga version of my blog), and my friend Kristen [...]

Number of days since I last blogged: 29 Number of kilometers I’ve moved since last post: 979 Population of my previous city of residence: 28,927 Population of my new city of residence: 202,799 Square footage of previous residence: Over 2000 Square footage of new residence: 805 Time it used to take me to get to [...]

I have recently detected a surprising resemblance between the president of Iran, and two notable movie stars. The two young Hollywood meat-cakes are commonly known as Jake Gyllenhall (of Donnie Darko, Jarhead and Brokeback Mountain fame), and Ryan Gosling, who was in that one movie about the history teacher on drugs. The president of Iran [...]

The 2007 Calgary Folk Music Festival, a four-day foray into the world’s best music, took place during the last week of July 2007 at Prince’s Island Park, and the resulting noises and sounds made me wonder what on earth I’ve been doing with my ears my whole life. For posterity and for your perusal, I [...]

This Wednesday, my friend Harrison arrives in Calgary on a magical jetplane. On Thursday night, a trio consisting of myself, my wife and Harrison will be attending something called the Calgary Folk Festival. Our weekend passes guarantee us four days of concerts by world-class musicians like Neko Case, Rufus Wainwright, Hawksley Workman, Sarah Slean, and [...]

Greetings, friends, strangers and heads of state: in this post, I present to you the five most interesting things I have discovered recently. Why bother telling you about them? Because I think you’ll be interested in them, that’s why. Please, enjoy and interact. Take your time, and if you’re feeling friendly, leave a comment below. [...]

Isreali design & animation student Gal Shkedi, for his final project, has created this sweet animation of Tom Waits’ song, “Starving in the Belly of a Whale.”

When I first slammed into its old school front page, I didn’t expect “Cargo Law” to be anything more than a cobbled-together, behind-the-times, corporate hack-job of a website, filled with uninteresting, unpleasantly patriotic, law-related content. But after being utterly hypnotized by the incredible photos and stories featured on this site, I am now convinced that [...]

Found on a bulletin board in Airdrie’s Towerlane Mall. I hope she found someone to knit her that awesome-looking…housecoat? This plastic kid’s toy sword was found hanging on a wall in a dollar store. Your englishes are have broken! No, but I could use that fur to knit this sweater I’m working on. These enormous [...]

I’m in Vancouver right now, but I’ve magically instructed my blog to post this pre-written article at this pre-determined time to make it seem as if I am still busily clattering away at my desk. In lieu of posting my own personally fabricated stories, essays, reviews and/or miscellaneous jib-jabbery, I want to urge you to [...]

Here’s what we did over May long weekend: Went camping in the backyard That’s “the backyard” in quotes, of course, because it’s more like a small lawn-bowling pitch. Unfortunately, we only made it until 2:45 am, due to the extremely noisy suburban prairie winds keeping us awake. Made waffles But not JUST waffles…bacon as well. [...]

Saturday night on May 19, 2007 at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary brought 3000 people into the three-floor concert hall to see Feist perform. Raised in Calgary herself, Leslie Feist has more than a passing connection to the city and the venue: at age 6, Feist took the stage to sing for her very first [...]

A review of Feist, live at Calgary’s Jubilee Auditorium (Saturday, May 19, 2007). This is a review of the opening act, Chad VanGaalen. To read the part about Feist, click here! Opening act: Chad VanGaalen I think every opening act I’ve ever seen has somehow convinced me to follow up with the band. It’s through [...]

You may have noticed that this site was “borked,” or down, or inaccessible, or busted, for the bulk of yesterday. I was doing some technical tweaking to try and stop a sickening flood of referral spam, but accidentally knocked out my website. Ugly timing on that one, because I had just announced my First Annual [...]

I love Internet radio. I’ve been listening for over a year, and have fallen in love with the diverse streams of music that are beamed onto my computer and into my ears. I’ve discovered thousands of artists I’ve never heard of before, and explored a few different genres that have changed the way I think [...]

The Internet is like an enormous walk-in dumpster filled with discarded lamps, stale bakery leftovers and damaged umbrellas, newspapers and old bicycles, disgusting leaks from thrown-out pop cans, broken TVs, confidential banking records, free iPods and dented cans of spam. Many people willingly tolerate the wretched stench from the dumpster and the dirty looks they [...]

It’s super easy! All you have to do is start a blog that appeals to an influential, tech-savvy and participatory demographic, get featured regularly on the front pages of Digg and Metafilter and Reddit and BoingBoing, make connections on a personal level with other well-known, microcelebrity bloggers like Jason Kottke and John Chow and that [...]