“PetaPixel is selling a Photographers Rights Gray Card, a set of white balance cards with US photography guidelines on the back that you can wear around your neck while shooting to show to anyone who challenges your legal right to photograph something.”
I’ve been thinking about this list a lot and it always sort of gets put aside as Bands I Like. And today the list popped up again after I finally was able to get my hands on the new The Limousines single: Internet Killed the Video Star (iTunes Link). I keep this running playlist called Geek Chic going in iTunes on the MacBook Pro, one of the only playlists that isn’t a Smart Playlist. It is strongly influenced by the fact that I am still a Montreal Rocker, yet it’s also very very geeky. Loads of songs have technological links or the band themselves are just plain geeks.
So here is this week’s playlist. If you think I’m obviously missing out on some super geeky band like say: They Must be Giants. Comment below, reblog your own list or @reply me on Twitter @JohnnyCanuck
Internet Killed the Video Star • The Limousines
Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul • Gorillaz
Henrietta • The Fratellis
Valerie • The Zutons
Everyday I Love You Less And Less • Kaiser Chiefs
Pork And Beans • Weezer
Buck Rogers • Feeder
One Week • Barenaked Ladies
Dig • Incubus
Me Plus One • Kasabian
Crazy In Love • The Magic Numbers
Mon Réal • Bran Van 3000
Neighborhood #2 (Laika) • The Arcade Fire
Ursuline • Malajube
Help I’m Alive • Metric
September • Pomplamoose
Panic Switch • Silversun Pickups
Paranoid Android • Radiohead
Don’t Panic • Coldplay
Code Monkey • Jonathan Coulton
Van Halen • Nerf Herder
Propaganda For A Comic Strip • Danielson
Feel Good Inc. • Editors
Get your freak on • KT Tunstall
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough • Manic Street Preachers
Drinking In L.A. • Bran Van 3000
Praise You • Fatboy Slim
Steal My Sunshine • Len
All The Old Showstoppers • The New Pornographers
Underdog • Audio Adrenaline
Orange Crush • R.E.M
Wish You Were Here • Radio Head
Pump It Up • Elvis Costello & The Attractions
I’m An Astronaut • Snow Patrol
You’re So Pretty, We’re So Pretty • The Charlatans
Toronto bike riders can celebrate a “first” today: the City has converted two car parking spots into parking for a minimum of 16 bikes.
I hate Toronto, not just the Leafs or the Jays… I truly hate the fact that Toronto thinks it’s the center of our Great White Northern Universe. I have to agree that any efforts to improve green initiatives are good ones, but seriously: ONLY TWO parking spaces? Montreal has bike lanes, more lamp post and parking meters with special bike lock brackets. Hell we even have communal: Bixi bike à la Gay Paris and Amsterdam. Toronto set aside two fracking parking spaces for a total of 24 bikes. and all of a sudden we are supposed to forget about the G20 million dollar lake and the ensuing riots…
Did you log in yesterday expecting to see read a whole slew of National Pride inspiring Canuckisms? Well, sorry about that.
You see, I actually spent the whole day without the MacBook and only using the iPhone to coordinate meet-ups with friends and family. For the record I think it should be a crime of treason to send any kind of work email on Canada’s Birthday and yet I received 4… all of which could easily have been sent today or even Monday. Trust me, there is nothing cool about boasting that you are at work on Canada Day, the inly message that is conveyed is that you are a douche with nothing better to do then remind others who are enjoying themselves of this painfully obvious fact.
Do me a favour will you, This week-end get yourself some cold Moosehead or Moslon Canadian and sit on your deck and Chill the Phoque Out.