Music is my boyfriend.

Thanks to my Canadian friend, to whom I owe like seven CDs (and WILL send out. I swear.), I have discovered the wonder that is the Hidden Cameras.

It happened like this:

I'm not sure when, but my Canadian friend sent me Ecce Homo by the Hidden Cameras, and when I uploaded iTuned on my newish work computer and had to redo all my music due to a crash on the previous newish work computer (faulty hard drive. let's not go there. it was depressing and i lost around 20 gigs of music) and found the stack of CDs that I had brought to work from my Canadian friend. They were mostly Canadian. Just so you know. Anyhow, I put them all on iTunes and hadn't really listened to them due to a slight obsession with a recording of a Britt Daniel (not Canadian) show and a mix CD that I made for my friend DK.

So, I had these albums on my computer, but unlistened to. Okay? Are you following this truly complex story? Hopefully so....

Fast forward about a month to Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning:

My brother gives me a rough mix of his band's (American, not Canadian) studio session at Electrical Audio. We drive around and listen to some songs. It sounds great. Steve Albini did an amazing job, of course (I have a strange obsession with Albini, FYI). We have discussions about Albini. Fun times.

Wednesday: I put the disc on my iTunes. Cleverly, I label the CD "EA Sessions: Steve Albini Mix". Well, that's not really clever on my part because that is what Drew had written on the disc, but let's pretend that it was me. I listen to the whole thing with headphones. Still sounds great. I'm pleased with it - I can only imagine how the band feels.

My iTunes is organized by album title, because that is how I like it. If I didn't have it that way, then for some reason, Stripped by Christina Aguilera does not play in the correct order. I am 100% serious as to why it is organized that way and perhaps I should not blow my snobby facade by admitting to that, but I cannot lie and now you know. So, album title sort. After EA sessions ends, I hear this little ditty come on and I'm like, "what the eff is this?" because I've not listened to it before. I look, and it is The Hidden Cameras Ecce Homo and it is great. They're Canadian.

I've been listening to that interspersed with MeP's studio sessions on and off since then and things have been good.

That is my long story.

Lessons learned:

I like Christina Aguilera.
Steve Albini is my favorite recorder.
My brother's band is good.
Canadian music is good.
The Hidden Cameras are good.

Word count.
Canadian: 9. Including that one.

it's official...

...or something.

The news that we learned at a little cafe in NoPo has been written about in Pitchfork:

Janet Weiss Joins the Jicks.


pfft. I knew that like 25 days ago, and I'm not even with it anymore. What's with the delay Pitchfork?

":D"