These are a few that, of late, have survived my (rather perpetual) culling. They’ll probably end up on the next few scraps discs.

• Angels Of Light – Rose Of Los Angeles
• Beatles – Ob La Di, Ob La Da
• Charlemagne – August Evenings
• Falconhawk – Olympia
• Jem – 24
• LCD Soundsystem – Yeah (stupid version)
• Nellie McKay – David
• Oneida – Ceasar’s Column
• Pearl Jam – Drifting
• Shangri-Las – The Train From Kansas City
• Shearwater – Whipping Boy
• Shins – Kissing The Lipless
• Shins – New Slang
• Stars – Elevator Love Letter
• Vines – Ride
• White Stripes – Let’s Shake Hands
• White Stripes – Lord Send Me An Angel
• Yo La Tengo – Nuclear War

Scraps 41

1. Crispy Ambulance – Loupgarou
2. Arco Flute Foundation – The Mean Egyptian
3. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Richter Scale Madness (peel sessions)
4. Auburn Lull – Stockard Drive
5. Bellrays – Blues For Godzilla
6. Hem – Half An Acre
7. Biffy Clyro – 27
8. Paul O’Reilly – Birds Don’t Sing
9. Chameleons – Indiana
10. Our Lady Peace – Superman’s Dead
11. Dandy Warhols – Rooster
12. Seafood – Desert Stretched Before The Sun
13. Mudhoney – Make it Now Again
14. Polara – Is This It
15. Tami Hart – I Don’t Care
16. Six By Seven – Eat Junk Become Junk
17. Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Miles Away
19. Interpol – NYC

Scraps 42

1. Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows
2. A Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran
3. Dandy Warhols – Head
4. Sonic Youth – The Empty Page
5. Sloan – In The Mood
6. Menthol – Danger, Rock Science
7. Hot Snakes – Bye Nancy Boy
8. Smiths – How Soon Is Now
9. Mclusky – To Hell with Good Intentions
10. Nate Ruth – I Won’t Be Long
11. St. Thomas – Cornerman
12. White Stripes – Hand Springs
13. Tami Hart – I’m The Girl
14. Crystal Method – Renegades Of Funk
15. Tegan and Sara – I Hear Noises
16. Thirdimension – Other Side of Town
17. Tyondai Braxton – Raise Yr Arms & Cross Them
18. Turn-Ons – Love Ruined Us
19. Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
20. Joseph Kilna MacKenzie – Sgt. MacKenzie

Scraps 43

1. Cave In – Big Riff
2. Dandy Warhols – Lance
3. Emm Gryner – Wisdom Bus
4. Everybody Uh Oh – Champaign’s Too Bright
5. Guided By Voices – Teenage FBI
6. Hot Snakes – Paid in Cigarettes
7. Interpol – PDA
8. Jack Johnson & Ben Harper – Flake
9. John Fogerty – The Old Man Down The Road
10. Low – In Metal
11. Muse – House Of The Rising Sun
12. Nirvana – You Know You’re Right
13. Primal Scream – Loaded
14. Queens Of The Stone Age – You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
15. Sam Roberts – Brother Down
16. Sonic Youth – Disconnection Notice
17. Sundays – Wild Horses
18. White Stripes – Jolene

Scraps 44

1. Mike Watt – Against The 70’S
2. Audioslave – Cochise
3. Bronx – False Alarm
4. Cave In – New Moon
5. Coldplay – 1.36
6. Emm Gryner – Serenade
7. Homunculus – Here and There
8. Jimmy Eat World – Firestarter
9. Johnny Cash – Hurt
10. Matt Pond PA – Fairlee
11. Max Nasty Private Dick – Every Part of Nothing
12. Missy Elliott – Work It
13. Mudhoney – Between Me & You Kid
14. Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
15. Oneida – Each One Teach One
16. Pattern – She’s A Libra
17. Pixies – No. 13 Baby
18. Plus-Tech Squeeze Box – Early Riser
19. Primal Scream – Deep Hit Of Morning Sun
20. Slowreader – Every Part of Nothing
21. Yume Bitsu – Sharp, Twisted

Scraps 45

1. Eminem – White America
2. Crispy Ambulance – Re-Animator
3. Centaur – Thimbles
4. Coldplay – Ran Away
5. Emm Gryner – Straight To Hell
6. Electric Soft Parade – Holes In The Wall
7. Jann Arden – Will You Remember Me
8. Violent Femmes – American Music
9. Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus
10. Oma Yang – No Backdoor To Heaven, Just A Front Door To Hell
11. Spencer Davis Group – Gimme Some Lovin’
12. Pattern – Fragile Awareness
13. Primal Scream – Shull X
14. Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK
15. Yume Bitsu – The Frigid, Frigid, Frigid Body of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg

Scraps 36

1. Constantines – Hyacinth Blues
2. Screaming Trees – Where The Twain Shall Meet
3. Dandy Warhols – CCR
4. Earth – Divine and Bright
5. 20 Minute Loop – Jubilation
6. Elbow – Stumble
7. Bob Mould – Doubleface
8. Hayseed Dixie – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
9. Martin Tielli – The Bridge
10. Exit – Lonely Man’s Wallet
11. Super Furry Animals – Wherever I Lay My Phone
12. New Wet Kojak – Sophia Loren
13. Oceansize – Catalyst
14. Midtown – Susanne
15. Go Back Snowball – Radical Girl
16. Staind – Outside
17. Steve Earle – Breed
18. Vue – Child For You
19. Skiptrace – Don’t Support The Band
20. Pixies – Silver
21. Tugboat Annie – More

Scraps 37

1. Andrew WK – She Is Beautiful
2. Bob Mould – Come On Strong
3. 54-40 – Baby Ran
4. Ben Harper – Strawberry Fields Forever
5. Charlatans UK – Sproston Green
6. Bonnie Prince Billy – Song For The New Breed
7. Limp – Atom Bomb
8. Ruby Blue – Stand Together
9. Buffalo Tom – Enemy
10. Pretty Girls Make Graves – Speakers Push The Air
11. Dandy Warhols – Country Leaver (sounds eclectic mix)
12. Mountain Goats – Going to Port Washington
13. Sleater-Kinney – Maraca
14. Eddie Vedder – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
15. High – Take Your Time
16. Keith Welsh – Baby Blue Blanket
17. Smashing Pumpkins – Purr Snickety
18. Oceansize – Size Of An Ocean
19. Rheostatics – Satan Is The Whistler
20. Heather Nova – We Can Work It Out
21. Constantines – Hyacinth

Scraps 38

1. Danko Jones – Samuel Sin
2. 54-40 – Radio Luv Song
3. Fugazi – Life and Limb
4. Joe Satriani – Friends
5. Catheters – I Fall Easy
6. Royal City – Bad Luck
7. Cato Salsa Experience – So, The Circus Is Back In Town
8. Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
9. Gerbils – A Song of Love
10. Jeff Buckley – Satisfied Mind
11. Manic Street Preachers – Found That Soul
12. Long Winters – Scent of Lime
13. Morel – Cabaret Part 2
14. Pixies – Oh My Golly
15. Ryan Adams – Nobody Girl
16. REM – Pop Song 89
17. Sick Anchors – Whole Again
18. Tricky Woo – Ring Sweet Mercy
19. Mansun – Chad Who Loved Me

Scraps 39

1. Danko Jones – My Love Is Bold
2. Andrew WK – I Get Wet
3. Joe Satriani – Rubina’s Blue Sky Happiness
4. Manic Street Preachers – So Why So Sad
5. Tragically Hip – Ahead By A Century
6. Morel – Over
7. Pixies – River Euphrates
8. Royal City – Under A Hollow Tree
9. REM – Draggin The Line
10. Mansun – Taxloss
11. Ryan Adams – Touch, Feel & Lose
12. Rye Coalition – One Daughter Hotter Than One Thousand Suns
13. Steve Earle – Tom Dooley
14. Jeff Buckley – Yard of Blonde Girls
15. Dandy Warhols – Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
16. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Scraps 40

1. Eminem – Without Me
2. Sideways – Oblivion
3. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Baudelaire (peel sessions)
4. Dandy Warhols – Hey Check Hey
5. Dirty Vegas – Days Go By [radio edit]
6. REM – You Are The Everything
7. Jason Loewenstein – Casserole
8. INK – Haptics-Geometrics
9. Kiss – Getaway
10. Maquiladora – Ritual Of Hearts
11. Led Zeppelin – In The Evening
12. Parlour – The Living Beginning
13. Our Lady Peace – Clumsy
14. Saloon – Le Weekend
15. Ryan Adams – Rosalie Come And Go
16. Aberdeen – Sink or Float
17. Smashing Pumpkins – Muzzle

Another package arrived late last week, containing the following goodies: Schindler’s List on DVD, On Avery Island by Neutral Milk Hotel and Final Straw by Snow Patrol. Snow Patrol, incidentally, plays Lee’s Palace later this month.

The lyrics quoted above (from the beloved Rheostatics song “Jesus Was Once A Teenager Too”) have new relevance to me, now that I’ve finished reading Lamb by Christopher Moore. I bought it ages ago then left it on a shelf; after much prodding by my friend Jenn, I gave it a go. It took me a while to get through (all books do; I get sidetracked too easily by my news/information junkie-dom…I feel the need to read the entire Globe and Mail, several websites, dozens of news feeds, a handful of email newsletters and at least part of one magazine every day) but it picked up nicely about 1/3 of the way through. It’s funny and, depending on your religious fervour, slightly blasphemous…both big pluses for me. On the downside, I won’t be able to watch The Passion Of The Christ now, because I’ll be expecting to hear Jesus say, “Look, a seagull!” in Aramaic…

Next up: A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius. Someone gave this to me a long time ago, but it became the book du jour, so I didn’t want to suffer the Lord Of The Rings (see also: Oprah-book-club) syndrome of being the umpteenth person on any given subway car reading the same book.

Remind me never to go near the Andes. Having read Alive and watched the movie, and after watching Touching The Void yesterday, I’m convinced that any trip into the Andes will result in me dying/eating someone/falling from a cliff/enduring horrible pain/hearing Boney M in my head. Et cetera.

The movie was an odd mix of documentary and filmed re-creation, but it helps give you context, especially well into the ordeal when things start to go a little wonky.

Got me some Hot Docs tickets this past weekend. It kicked ass last year — where else can you see 5 good festival movies for $30 each? not at the TIFF, that’s for sure — and I expect it to do the same this year. Details about each of the 5 docs will be posted, beginning late this month.

Just watched MuchMusic’s special on Cobain. Stroumboulopoulos did — as usual — a kickass segment, pointing out the greater significance what was happening in music at the time that Nevermind came out. I’d never really thought about it, but Jaysus, look at some of the CDs that I own that came out in 1991!

• My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)
• Nirvana (Nevermind)
• The Pixies (Trompe Le Monde)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
• Screaming Trees (Uncle Anesthesia)
• Smashing Pumpkins (Gish)
• Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger)
• Matthew Sweet (Girlfriend)
• Temple Of The Dog (Temple Of The Dog)
• The Tragically Hip (Road Apples)
• U2 (Achtung Baby)

Not to mention 1992:

• Alice In Chains (Dirt)
• Blind Melon (Blind Melon)
• Lemonheads (It’s A Shame About Ray)
• Mudhoney (Piece Of Cake)
• Nine Inch Nails (Broken)
• Nirvana (Incesticide)
• Pearl Jam (Ten)
• Rage Against The Machine (Rage Against The Machine)
• REM (Automatic For The People)
• Rheostatics (Whale Music)
• Screaming Trees (Sweet Oblivion)
• Singles (Soundtrack)
• Sloan (Smeared)
• Sonic Youth (Dirty)
• Sugar (Copper Blue)
• The Tragically Hip (Fully Completely)
• Roger Waters (Amused To Death)

Or 1993:

• Big Sugar (Five Hundred Pounds)
• Juliana Hatfield (Become What You Are)
• James (Laid)
• McLachlan, Sarah (Fumbling Toward Ecstasy)
• Nirvana (In Utero)
• Pearl Jam (Vs.)
• Liz Phair (Exile In Guyville)
• Porno For Pyros (Porno For Pyros)
• Sebadoh (Bubble And Scrape)
• Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
• Tool (Undertow)
• Yo La Tengo (Painful)

Watch the segment. Like the man says, let’s get the fuck rid of Britney.

Scraps 31

1. Lenny Kravitz – My Love
2. Beth Orton – Best Bit
3. Folk Implosion – Barricade
4. Tori Amos – Strange Little Girl
5. Fugazi – Brendan #1
6. John Mellencamp – Lonely Old Night
7. Nine Inch Nails – Wish (thirlwell mix)
8. Jesus And Mary Chain – Guitarman
9. Live – Simple Creed
10. Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
11. Meg Lee Chin – Heavy Scene (radio mix)
12. Massive Attack – Five Man Army
13. Tia Carrere – Ballroom Blitz
14. Placebo – Slave To The Wage
15. Etta James – At Last
16. Reverend Horton Heat – Wiggle Stick
17. Bruce Springsteen – Vigilante Man
18. Sleater-Kinney – Tapping

Scraps 32

1. Eels – Novacaine For The Soul
2. Atari Teenage Riot – Fuck All
3. Beth Orton – Touch Me With Your Love
4. Collective Soul – Shine
5. Chris Isaak – Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
6. Folk Implosion – Insinuation
7. Garbage – ‘Til The Day I Die
8. Skip James – Devil Got My Woman
9. International Noise Conspiracy – The Reproduction Of Death
10. Massive Attack – Safe From Harm
11. Jesus And Mary Chain – Reverence
12. Versus – Shangri La
13. Manic Street Preachers – Removables
14. Weezer – The Sweater Song
15. Meg Lee Chin – Thing (critter fish mix)
16. Sleater-Kinney – The Day You Went Away
17. Sigur Ros – Bium Bium Bambalo

Scraps 33

1. Les Savy Fav – Tragic Monsters
2. Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
3. Dandy Warhols – Godless (Massive Attack remix)
4. Brendon Canty & Jerry Busher – Semi Detached
5. Collective Soul – Gel
6. Sigur Ros – Danarfregnir Og Jarparfarir
7. Helium – Leon’s Space Song
8. Eels – Rags To Rags
9. Joydrop – Sometimes I Want To Die
10. Gorillaz – Ghost Train
11. Tweaker – Linoleum
12. Pulley – The Ocean Song
13. Zero 7 – I Have Seen
14. Mogwai – Xmas Steps

Scraps 34

1. Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
2. Bardo Pond – Highlands
3. By Divine Right – Supernatural
4. Econoline Crush – May I Go
5. JJ72 – Not Like You
6. Fin Fang Foom – Play Dead
7. Mark Lanegan – Low
8. Skating Club – Denver
9. New End Original – Lukewarm
10. Fugazi – Strangelight
11. Timeout Drawer – The Gift They’d Pick If The Choice Were Theirs
12. Visitor Jim – Success Of A Cynic
13. Country Joe MacDonald – The Man From Athabaska
14. Lamb – Gabriel
15. Zero 7 – Give It Away

Scraps 35

1. Damien Jurado – Paperwings
2. Alison Krauss – Wild Bill Jones
3. Buzzcocks – What Do I Get
4. Buddy Guy – Tramp
5. Shiner – Play Dead
6. Cannibal Ox – Iron Galaxy
7. Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So
8. Burnt Sienna – Deuce Deuce
9. Sum 41 – Fat Lip
10. Oceansize – Amputee
11. Gillian Welch – My First Lover
12. Tricky Woo – Liberty Drawl
13. Pixies – I Bleed
14. Chris Thomas King – John Law Burned Down The Liquor Sto’
15. Rheostatics – P.I.N.
16. Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
17. Primitives – Crash
18. Kiss – Then She Kissed Me
19. Unwound – Corpse Pose

File-sharers donated $1500 (in one day!) to Doctors Without Borders in return for downloading the new Wilco album, at the behest of Jeff Tweedy.

from Pitchfork: Wilco Ask File-Traders for Donations