I Remember The Exact Moment This Really Hit Me.
The First Day I Came To Tour This School. My Birthday. Two Days After I Had Cried For The First Time In Two Years. What Is Now The Most Painful Experience I’ve Yet Had. When I Was Ready To Lay Down And Give Up.
On A Long Weekend.
I Managed To Live This Song, To The Very Last Line.
Hell, I’m Pretty Damn Sure That I’ve Lived This Album.
It Seems, Every Time I Fall, This Band Is There To Lift Me Up And Dust Me Off.
I’m Very Grateful, M. A. L.
CBC Radio 3 Podcast #302 - Canada’s Most Mysterious Musicians
“Guest Host Torquil Campbell, outspoken frontman of Stars, shares his list of the country’s most mysterious geniuses. Intrigued? We thought so!.”
Listen and Download here: http://r3.ca/0IVl
Readings to think about:
1. Your life integrated into a game.
As previously shared by @nataliayanchak
Happy everything to everyone. You are never alone. Yours always, The Dears. ♥♥♥♥♥♥
One of Canada’s daily newspapers has some very lovely writers! The National Posts’ Best Albums of 2011
I’m not sure why we even need to classify them as “bloggers,” they are just people with opinions and computers. Making them, essentially, just people. Much like you and I. Anyway, the year’s end is upon us, a time of reflection, regret, anticipation, hope. I too have had my moments of reflection; the year has been tumultuous and yet somehow I have never been so at ease and confident in the future. So blah, blah: enough of that. Here’s what I really came here for: CELEBRATE THE BLOGGER!
The Music Fix: Albums of 2011 Degeneration Street love.
This is Fake DIY: Best of the past 9 years. Apparently we existed in 2005.
Roger Ravager: CHOCOLAT #5 DEGENERATION STREET DE THE DEARS.
Review
Hugh Robertson: The Dears - Degeneration Street. Review
Risky Fuel: Aaron’s Top 10 Albums of 2000 End of a Hollywood Bedtine Story love(!)
If you made it this far then you truly are a hero. Who, other than myself, cares to read such detail and scrutiny about a single band? In fact, why do I? I know the answer: I just want to be loved. I want The Dears to belong to you.
♥ Natalia
“Life may be a sinking ship, but let your raised fist be the last thing to go under.” - mrlayerz, comment on “Degeneration Street” on Amazon.com.
Well, that made my day. Also, said album squeezed into Amazon.com list of “100 Outstanding 2011 Albums you May Have Missed.” And when I say squeezed in, I mean it: Number 93, baby! I’m not the greatest fan of “year-end lists” as I look forward to yet another season of neglect.
Anyway. Get on with it. Lift your skinny fists. ♥ Natalia
GIven the task of reviewing any two albums for an animal-themed issue of Mexico’s El Fanzine, Natalia shares her thoughts on Blur’s “Parklife” and Elvis Costello’s “Armed Forces.” Animal theme is drawn from the cover art. Click here to read El Fanzine (in Spanish & English).
Where fan makes mixtape of music they like, includes track by The Dears.
KINGSTON, ON: Book launch for “Lost in the Plot” by Lorraine Carpenter. Click here for full event info.
MONTREAL, QC: Do 1 Thing benefit concert at Bain Mathieu. Acoustic performance by Murray. Click here for full event info.
Something real for you to watch while you’re waiting it out. “Saviour” video by Christopher Mills.
Click here to see and, ideally, add The Dears to your circles on Google+!
Did we ever talk about this? It is, in internet terms, ancient history (almost a year old): the Indie Rock Poster Book, another endeavour for charity, but that contains a drawing by Norwich-based illustrator Gemma Correll, inspired by the track “Lost in the Plot.”
Paste Magazine decribes: “The ‘edge of panic’ that Correll illustrates in this poster is closely tied to the escalating intensity of The Dear’s ‘Lost in the Plot.’ ‘Leave me in the middle of the ocean/ I can walk the rest of the way/ and I promise not to cry anymore.’”
Poor cat.
