This sounds like it would be peak for driving around at night in the city.
Personally, I do actually prefer the Brie Larson vocal version. I can see why is has the most listens, although much of that is probably boosted from the movie itself and the new highly popular Scott Pilgrim Takes Off netflix anime which also features the song.
I really like their song "The Old Apartment". I'm about to move back to my hometown soon and I'm gonna be commuting past a few places I used to live in or grew up around, and it really encapsulates the surreal feeling of seeing people living in a place that used to be yours, changing it, and that weird unreasonable sense of feeling like you should still have ownership over it.
Just heard the news about Brian Wilson, really sad but what a life well lived. RIP.
Looks great! The dovetails look really clean too. I'd probably line the inside with a nice red felt to dampen any noise when placing items, probably jewelry, into the box. And just for a extra bit of pizzazz. A wood burned makers mark or tidy initials somewhere would be a nice touch too, emphasize that "hey, a skilled person made this, this wasn't shot out of a mass factory"
Stuff like that makes me a little worrisome about my ambitions to one day move to Quebec/Montreal. I despise fearmongering and blind hatred, but you find that everywhere nowadays.
To quote a bit of Gandalf, I hope to be a person who gifts many small acts of kindness and love to keep the darkness at bay. Wherever I find myself. It is one of my biggest motivators to work on my French, so I can connect better with more people of Canada. The jump in pay and jobs exclusive for bilingual folks helps too though!
I've got mixed feelings about this. On one hand I mostly like the idea of the Quebec social contract, the whole "democracy, the French language, gender equality, and secularism" bit.
But how would this be fairly enforced? What would make a person gender equality-y enough? Or pro-democratic enough? I think the secularism is the most egregious. I'm secular myself, but I don't think its morally right to try to take that away from other people, so long as their beliefs don't hurt others.
It really does read as targeting a particular religous/cultural ethnic group :(
It is, I just updated the body text to give context! The entire album is covers of famous songs but in Inuktitut, one of the more common Inuit languages of Canada.
I think the translation work and singing is outstanding, and its a little surreal hearing music that is so familiar to me being sung in a completely different & non-romanic origin language.
Wow this guy is really good. Listening to some of his other songs and he really knows how to make a catchy beat.
As a person trying to learn more French, his songs are actually much easier to listen to due to his singing style. Other French Canadians songs I've listened to really blur the words together. Les Colocs for example, I just cannot understand what they are saying even when I'm following along with the lyrics.
Same! I think the only song/album I don't like is his You Want It Darker (2016), but I feel like such a jerk for not liking it because that is his last album before he died in the same year.
Oh I had no idea something like album.link or song.link existed. I'm going to update the sidebar to recommend this as the ideal way to share songs/albums.
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Allegedly the song was never meant to be released until the Scott Pilgrim movie wanted an original Metric song to put in there. They drug it out of the reject pile, polished it up, and now it is their most notable song. Funny how it works like that sometimes.