I’m supposed to be at a friend’s house for a barbeque right now, but whatever I had for lunch has made the idea of eating anything very unappealing. Really, the only thing getting me through the shaky afternoon at work was — once again — the Frightened Rabbit album. While the whole thing’s fantastic, I tend to really fall hard for one song at a time. First it was “Floating In The Forth,” then “The Modern Leper,” then “Good Arms vs. Bad Arms.” Today it was “Keep Yourself Warm”* but I can already tell my next favourite is going to be “The Twist.”

Once I got home and called in my bbq regrets, all I had the energy for was to do a couple of computer-based errands, including downloading a bunch of music: A Silver Mt. Zion‘s 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons, Sigur Ros‘ Hvarf-Heim, last year’s Frightened Rabbit album Sing The Greys, and the special tenth anniversary edition of Mogwai‘s Young Team. Ye olde eMusic subscription got a workout tonight.

However, just as my energy was flagging, I’ve been dealt a blow that will surely relegate me, bummed and queasy, to the couch for the rest of the evening: the Led-Zep-in-Toronto rumours appear to be groundless. Crapmonkey.

* Not only is this song excellent, I suspect it’s the only song ever recorded to feature the words “choo-choo train” while also including five instances of the word “fucking.” Suck it, Raffi.

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