You're my invitation to...

Okay so I just wanted to post some pictures I found, that I thought were beautiful. Look at those shorts with those shoes. Woo!

Then I uploaded a song too. Happiness.

Raining through my sunshine...

1. Manners are love in a cool climate. © Quentin Crisp

2. It's been days of rain in Toronto. I keep thinking of running away to sunnier climates. Oh Nassau my happy home, when shall I come to thee? Thy joys when will I see? Donate some money to me.

3. Culture up your self.

Art for sale on the interwebs:

http://www.preysone.com/prints/
http://www.alifolio.com/
http://www.thumbtackpress.com/

Do they know it's Hallowe'en?

An all-star cast of rock stars get together to record a wicked Hallowe'en Track. The kicker in it? They are supporting the United Nation Children's Fund while doing it. That's kinda ill.

Artist's include:

Arcade Fire's Win & Regine	Redd Kross' Steve McDonald
Beck	R.E.M.'s Joey Waronker
Buck 65	Rilo Kiley's Jenny & Black
David Cross	Roky Erickson
Devendra Banhart	Sloan's Chris Murphy
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark	Smoosh's Asya & Chloe
Feist	Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore
Gino Washington	Sparks' Russel Mael
Les Savy Fav's Syd Butler	Subtitle
Islands' J'aime	Sum 41's Stevo
Malcolm Mclaren	Tagaq
Peaches	That Dog's Anna Waronker
Postal Service's Jimmy Tamborello	Wolf Parade's Dan & Spencer
	Yeah Yeah Yeah's KarenO

NICE!

In other news, GLTSS has launched a new issue.

L.A.M.B. Royal Elastics

Sometimes I bump into something that makes me say: whoa. So I slow down. And this line of shoes did that to me. It would have been suffice to just knock out a gold shoe. That gold was enough for me. But I had some time to kill and I started looking at these shoes more thoroughly. The detailing is amazing. AMAZING. Interesting leathers, rubbers, tiny little print in gold ink, and stitching all over. I also quite enjoy how the designers have flipped the typical Rasta lion in to an innocent lamb. Smooth.

The kicker for me, is that L.A.M.B. is owned by Gwen Stefani. Damn. And Damn nice.

Good Vibrations

I have 2 Roy Ayers tracks for you today. Both are from 1976 when Roy Ayers & Ubiquity recorded Vibrations. Both tracks make Mondays a little brighter.

Better Days
Come Out and Play

lookey luke

My little nephew is better than yours. It was a happy Thanksgiving this 2005. How do I say thank you?

(We) don't know how to think in a box.

The reason Roc-A-Fella was successful was because we didn't know protocol. We won because we didn't know anything. So I think there's a need for a certain ignorance in the music business because it means you're going to try something new. What could a book teach me about that? © S. Carter

A look in to Shawn Carter's 9 to 5 is just what I need on this late Thanksgiving Monday.

Give thanks!!

everyone's gotta have a dream...

I saw a movie last night that touched me. A movie has to be on some upper level dynamic to touch me. I'm usually entertained by movies, but being touched is a rare treat for I. Hustle & Flow is a fairly simple story of redemption but the plot has twists that make you enjoy every little frame of film. I'm calling it a classic. Would I lie to you?

P.S. That smile up there (that beautiful one, not mine dummy) belongs to Julia; she hangs out with me on the street, on the beach, you know, we do this and that together.

P.P.S. That pablum was random. 5 cans of it just sitting around waiting for some baby's mommy. Thinking about it now, I should have grabbed it because my 10 month old nephew Luke is flying in to Toronto today with his Mom and Dad. Woo!

it's party time, it's excellent