happy monday

Dogs = awesome. Dogs sleeping on donkeys = awesomest.

happy friday

Sweet jebus....

valentino

Diane Birch's "Valentino" video is just adorable.

english seaside dress

Some leggings and a super cute pair of great flats? This dress could get a pregnant belly through a summer too no?

carnival tank

I think this Carnival Tank would look super adorable over a big pregnant belly don't you?

hot Bunny Radio Playlist for April 22nd

CKLU 96.7 FM

6-8pm (18:00 - 20:00)

* denotes Canadian talent

italics denotes a new release

CLICK HERE FOR PODCASTY GOODNESS OF TONIGHT'S SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!

• Emmylou Harris -- Amarillo -- Elite Hotel (VINYL)
• Neil Young -- Tell Me Why -- Live at Massey Hall 1971 *
• Thievery Corporation -- Treasures -- The Mirror Conspiracy
• Joel Plaskett -- Demons -- Three *
• Justin Rutledge -- Be A Man -- The Early Widows
• Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues -- Amazing Grace -- Dark Was the Night
• Hawksley Workman -- You Are Too Beautiful -- Treeful of Starling *
• The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Torture -- Acme
• Wilco -- You Are My Face -- Sky Blue Sky
• Nathan Lawr & the Minotaurs -- Make Yourself That Moment -- A Sea of Tiny Lights (VINYL) *
• You Say Party! We Say Die! -- Glory -- XXXX *
• George Harrison -- Learning How to Love You -- Thirty Three & 1/3 (VINYL)
• Dave Reachill -- I'll Take the Road -- The Dave Reachill EP *
• Scarlett Johannson & Pete Yorn -- Search Your Heart -- The Break Up
• Radiohead -- Thinking About You -- Pablo Honey (VINYL)
• Feist -- Sea Lion Woman -- The Reminder *
• Loose Fur -- The Ruling Class -- Born Again in the USA
• Ted Leo & The Pharmacists -- Gimme the Wire -- The Brutalist Bricks
• The Vinaigrettes -- P.S I Hate You -- Atta Boy Girl *
• Kinnie Starr -- High Heels -- A Different Day *
• The Fratellis -- Whistle For The Choir -- Costello Music
• Plants and Animals -- American Idol -- La La Land *
• Jenny Whitely -- Soda Machine - Jenny Whitely *
• The Statues -- Attention! -- New People Make Us Nervous *
• Jenny Omnichord -- All Our Little Bows -- All Our Little Bones *
• Link Wray -- The Swag -- Rumble!
• David Myles -- Out of Love -- Turn Time Off *
• Elliott Smith -- Let's Get Lost -- From A Basement on a Hill
• Sally Seltmann -- 5 Stars -- Heart That's Pounding
• Regina Spektor -- Us -- (500) Days of Summer OSR

Notes this week:

• hmmm......feeling very non-chatty tonight....
• Farewell Nathan Lawr!! Sudbury's favourite adopted son! Take good care of him Guelph!
• Dave Reachill eh? I like. Very pretty.
• Radiohead for a very old friend I don't speak to anymore who lost his father today.
• Pretty jazzed about seeing Plants and Animals this summer!
• I do love me some Jenny Whitely....
• Attention Europe!!! Eyes open for Sudbury's favourite punk band The Statues! Soon to be seen in a bar near you!
• Man that David Myles sure can write a song....
• Songs like "Let's Get Lost" make me really mad at Elliott Smith for killing himself. Big jerk...

happy earth day

Hope we all walked to work today!!

*Earth Day cake pops via Vanilla & Lace*

kitchen envy

Abby says this is her dream kitchen but in actuality, it's MY dream kitchen I think. I detest the idea of uniform cabinets and relish the idea of a kitchen that looks pieced together with amazing vintage finds. White subway tile which has been long discussed on this blog as one of my favourite looks combined with all the rich woods and mismatched over-sized lighting? I'm dying of kitchen jealousy.....

roasted broccoli

Saw this recipe for roasted broccoli over at The Amateur Gourmet and I couldn't get home fast enough to make it. Turns out it's actually Ina Garten's recipe (which explains the insane deliciousness of it). If you're like me you likely have your tried and true way of making broccoli and while I'm certainly not abandoning that method any time soon (cuz it's super yummy) this is certainly a nice change. I never think to roast broccoli until caramelized and turns out it's also a great use for broccoli that may be a bit past it's prime since it doesn't matter how crisp it is if you're just gonna roast it at a high temperature.

This recipe is super worth the try -- it's dead simple and tasty beyond tasty.

Click here for the how-to!!

boy stuff for girls

So Marc and I have always been of the mindset that any baby of ours would wear whatever was cute -- none of this only pink or blue nonsense. I've been randomly buying cute baby stuff for about a year now -- totally disregarding if I was in the boy or girl section of the store. And you know what? I'm totally cool with that. Even now that we know we're having a girl I'm still window-shopping in the boy section. Yesterday I bought a super adorable little sleeper that has caterpillars all over it from the boys section cuz I thought it was just too cute to pass up.

Am I going to get dirty looks from the other moms whose baby girls are decked out in nothing but pink from head to toe??? Is the idea of a little baby girl wearing a shirt with a truck on it really that offensive???

hot Bunny Radio Playlist for April 15th

CKLU 96.7 FM

6-8pm (18:00 - 20:00)

* denotes Canadian talent

italics denotes a new release

CLICK HERE FOR PODCASTY GOODNESS OF TONIGHT'S SHOW!!!!!!!!

• Royal City -- Can't You -- Little Heart's Ease *
• Operation Makeout -- You and Me Geometry -- Team Mint Volume 2 *
• Young Rival -- Just Can't Stay Here -- Young Rival *
• Plumtree -- Scott Pilgrim -- Predicts the Future *
• Dr. Dog -- I Only Wear Blue -- Shame, Shame
• Parkas -- My Life of Crime -- Now This is Fighting *
• Dressy Bessy -- There's A Girl -- Sound Go Round
• David Myles -- People Don't Change -- Turn Time Off *
• Rosie Flores and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts -- I Ain't Got You -- Girl of the Century
• Ben Kweller -- In Other Words -- Sha Sha
• Caitlin Rose -- Shotgun Wedding -- Dead Flowers EP
• The Lemonheads -- Rule of Three -- The Lemonheads
• Billy and the Lost Boys -- Between the Lines -- Breaking Down the Barrier That Break Down Your Music *
• The Deadly Snakes -- High Prices Going Down -- Porcella *
• The High Dials -- The House Where Trouble Sleeps -- Fields in Glass *
• Blake Babies -- Rain - earwig
• Plants and Animals -- Kon Tiki -- La La Land
• The Jayhawks -- Settled Down Like Rain -- Hollywood Town Hall
• Neko Case -- Rolling Stone -- A Tribute to "Nashville"
• John Southworth -- Same Old, Same Old -- Sedona, Arizona
• Huevos Rancheros -- Rocket to Nowhere -- Endsville!
• Patrick Watson -- Fireweed -- Wooden Arms *
• Melissa McClelland -- I Blame You -- Victoria Day *
• Shotgun Jimmie -- Unlimited -- Paint It Pink *
• Julie Doiron & Wooden Stars -- Sweeter -- Julie Doiron & Wooden Stars *
• The Swell Season -- In These Arms -- Strict Joy
• Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down -- She's Fantastic -- Phantom Punch
• The Frenetics -- The Feeling She Deserves -- Grey Veins to the Parking Lot *
• Destroyer -- Introducing Angels -- Trouble in Dreams *
• Jason Bajada -- Home's Still Your Bones -- Loveshit
• Beth Orton -- Carmella -- Daybreaker
• Monsters of Folk -- Whole Lotta Losin' -- Monsters of Folk
• Sally Seltmann -- Harmony to my Heartbeat -- Heart That's Pounding

Notes this week:

• Yup, I'm still digging that Dr. Dog despite their awful name...
• David Myles -- lyrics are really really great, produced by Joel Plaskett!
• New Plants & Animals makes Tara a happy girl....
• Sallt Seltmann - otherwise known as New Buffalo and "the other girl" that wrote Feist's "1,2,3,4" song. Good stuff....

baby cowgirl

So this is the big news I suppose -- after a year of nothing but uphill battles and losses, it seems there is now a tiny girl renting out space in my belly!! Likely explains all the ruffley dresses I've been eyeing lately...

Due in September which means a long hot summer for this girl!! But on the plus side, that also means I can spend my entire summer in long flowy summer dresses which also means I get to shop for said long flowy summer dresses. All good things....

napping puppy

I love how moving out of the water bowl is never an option for him.

Hot Bunny Radio Playlist for April 8th

CKLU 96.7 FM
6-8pm (18:00 - 20:00)

* denotes Canadian talent
italics denotes a new release

CLICK HERE FOR PODCASTY GOODNESS OF TONIGHT'S SHOW!!!!!!

• Otis Redding -- My Girl -- Live in Europe (VINYL)
• Joel Plaskett -- It's Catching On -- Down at the Khyber *
• The Beatles -- All You Need is Love -- 1967- 1970
• Whiskeytown -- My Hometown -- Pneumonia
• Frank Black -- Don't Ya Rile Em -- Frank Black
• Dr. Dog -- Station -- Shame, Shame
• M Ward (and Zooey Deschanel) -- Rave On -- Hold Time
• Curtis Mayfield -- Between You Baby and Me -- The Very Best of Curtis Mayfield
• Billy Bragg & Wilco -- Secrets of the Sea -- Mermaid Avenue Vol.2
• Guided By Voices -- Little Whirl -- Alien Lanes
• Neko Case -- Andy -- Canadian Amp (VINYL)
• The Statues -- Electric Fences -- New People Make Us Nervous *
• Big Star -- Stroke It Noel -- Third/ Sister Lovers
• The Replacements -- I Don't Know -- Nothing For All
• Tanya Donelly -- RIver Girls -- This Hungry Life
• The KInks -- A Well Respected Man -- The Kinks Greatest Hits!! (VINYL)
• Yeasayer -- Strange Reunions -- Odd Blood
• Dead Man's Bones -- Werewolf Head -- Dead Man's Bones
• Immaculate Machine -- Small Talk -- Fables *
• Young Rival -- Got What You Need -- Young Rival *
• Johnny Thunders -- London Boys -- So Alone
• Buddy Holly -- Tell Me How -- Buddy Holly & the Crickets (VINYL)
• Sex Pistols -- No Feelings -- Never Mind the Bollocks
• New York Dolls -- Private World -- New York Dolls
• Patsy Cline - Heartaches -- The Patsy Cline Story (VINYL)
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -- Breathless -- The Lyre of Orpheus
• The Faces -- Ooh La La -- Rushmore OSR
• Ted Leo & the Pharmacists -- One Polaroid A Day - The Brutalist Bricks
• The Wooden Sky -- Oh My God (It Still Means A Lot To Me) -- If I Don't Come Home, You'll Know I'm Gone *
• Aretha Franklin -- Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby) -- Young, Gifted and Black (VINYL)
• Caitlin Rose -- Answer in One of These Bottles -- Dead Flowers
• Link Wray -- Dixie-Doodle -- Rumble!
• The Weakerthans -- (Past Due) -- Reconstruction Site *
• Elvis Costello -- No Dancing - My Aim Is True (VINYL)
• The John Henrys -- Little One -- White Linen *

Notes this week:

• If Otis doesn't fix this awful day for you, well then I give up;
• All You Need is Love also will make you happy in the slush;
• Played Dr. Dog knowing nothing at all about it. The verdict? I am liking it a lot so far!!
• Neko Case's cover of Andy is just ridiculous in its perfection;
• Did a tiny little Malcolm McLaren memorial set;
• I freaking LOVE that Nick Cave song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Yup, still love this Wooden Sky record - fingers crossed for summer festival appearances!
• My latest love is this Caitlin Rose EP....

Hot Bunny Radio Playlist for April 1st

CKLU 96.7fm

6-8pm (18:00 - 20:00)

* denotes Canadian talent

italics denotes a new release

CLICK HERE FOR PODCASTY GOODNESS OF TONIGHT'S SHOW!!!!!

• Tom Waits -- Wrong Side of the Road -- Blue Valentine (VINYL)
• Camera Obscura -- You Told A Lie -- My Maudlin Career
• Kevin Drew -- Backed Out on the.... -- Spirit If *
• The John Henrys -- Hit the Floor -- White Linen *
• The Clash -- Spanish Bombs -- London Calling
• Al Green -- Look What You Done For Me -- I'm Still in Love With You (VINYL)
• The Queers -- I Only Drink Bud -- Don't Back Down *
• Stars -- What I'm Trying to Say -- Set Yourself on Fire *
• The Replacements -- Colour Me Impressed -- Hootenanny
• Yukon Blonde -- Rather Be With You -- Yukon Blonde *
• Bonnie Raitt -- Everybody's Cryin Mercy -- Takin My Time (VINYL)
• Juliana Hatfield -- Only Love Can Break Your Heart -- Gold Stars
• Teenage Fanclub -- December -- Bandwagonesque
• Romi Mayes & the Temporarily Employed -- Mama Ain't No Fool -- The Living Room Sessions Volume 1 *
• John Doe & the Sadies -- Help Me Make It Through The Night -- Country Club
• Pavement -- Cut Your Hair -- Quarantine The Past
• Cat Power -- Aretha, Sing One For Me -- Jukebox
• Echo & the Bunnymen -- Bring on the Dancing Horses -- Songs to Learn & Sing
• The Raveonettes -- The Love Gang -- Chain Gang of Love
• Ted Leo & the Pharmacists -- Even Heroes Have to Die -- The Brutalist Bricks
• The National -- So Far Around the Bend -- Dark Was the Night
• The Who -- Shakin' All Over -- Live at Leeds (VINYL)
• Neko Case -- We've Never Met -- Furnace Room Lullaby
• Royal City -- My Brother is the Meatman -- Alone at the Microphone *
• Social Distortion -- Angel's Wings -- Sex, Love and Rock n Roll
• Jason Collett -- Long May You Love -- Rat a Tat Tat *
• Bob Dylan -- Gates of Eden -- The Bootleg Series - Volume 6, Bob Dylan Live 1964

NOTES THIS WEEK:

• Tom Waits sure is handsome on the cover of Blue Valentine...
• Had to play a lying song on April Fool's Day I suppose....
• Man do I ever need a song like Spanish Bombs on a great sunny day like today...
• Also needed on a sunny day? Al Green....
• Al Green to The Queers -- that's gotta be the best transition ever!
• This new Yukon Blonde record sounds a bit Big Star-y...
• In case you didn't know, I can TOTALLY sing like 1970's Bonnie Raitt...
• What is it about Teenage Fanclub's "Bandwagonesque" that makes me feel all summery and great???
• I got's me Pavement tickets for June!! Eeeeep!
• New Ted Leo = toes tapping.