The Grates - "Burn Bridges"

Going through your life is like brushing your waist-length hair in front of a mirror. Each year is a stroke of the brush, they mostly start at the root and work their way out to the ends. Some are spent working out a knot, but that's not the point I'm making. This song feels so familiar, like I've lived this enjoyment before, this hot summer-starting leaping enjoyment. The familiarity is so strong that I get nervous that I'm somehow being unoriginal by enjoying this song, as if I ought not to enjoy the same kind of thing twice, or perhaps that I ought to outgrow old tastes for something more...old? Anyway, that's silly, I'm just working over my same old taste, I'm combing through it, but it's still the same head of hair. And that decided, I can admit loud and clear and proud wild; this song is amazing. It's huge, it gallops, it jumps up and down in one place, jumps up and down and up and down.

[This is a rip from the MySpace]
[Buy old stuff]

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Also: The Montreal Fringe Festival is going on right now. There are a bunch of interesting shows going on, lots to see, but if I had to recommend something to you, I have a few in mind. There's an improvised one featuring Sean Michaels called "Argument With A Dolphin", and there are two featuring me, one called "Blastback Babyzap", in which I have merely a cameo, and one called "Telegrams", which is a rotating program of short films, in which a film I made is included. The links provide showtimes etc because there's too much information to list in this tangent. If you live in Montreal, do consider it.