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I haven’t listened

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to this Sloan album (smeared) in ages, and I was always uncomfortable with the pseudo-patriotism surrounding the band. I mean, I know they’re nice guys and talented and all, but I’d sort of let them slip from my radar. But this early album – it’s uneven, for sure, but songs like I am the Cancer and 500 Up are really really great power pop.

Two things happening

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this weekend.

  • I’m doing the bulk of my move. I’m doing the furniture and stuff with some friends next week, but this weekend I’m going to behave like a drone and shuttle all my books and the other contents of my apartment that can fit in my car over to the new place.
  • The St-Laurent Street Festival is on. In my neighbourhood, this is a big highlight. We marvel and feel superior that, twice each summer, they close down the main North-South street for about 10 blocks. For 4 days straight. So people can have fun. Really, it’s just a bunch of the local businesses selling junk off folding tables, and every bar and resto sets up on the street. Very much fun, and very “Montreal”. Today I bought socks (the street sale is also known as the socks and underwear sale) and two classic CDs – the Jayhawks first and Sloan’s first, Smeared. A classic of Canadian east coast pop that somehow I’d lost along the way. Oh, and I had a beer with a couple friends I bumped into and an oyster and a shot with some other friends I met.

Uh, maybe the law?

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I usually like Declan McCullagh, but this might be the biggest joke of a story I’ve read in ages. I mean, you might as well speculate that some kid named Michael Stewart bullied Judge Jackson when he was a kid, giving him an uncontrollable fear and hatred of anything known by the initials “MS”.

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